Timeline Friday 8 October 1937

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Friday 8 October 1937

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Events on Friday 8 October 1937 1

1937 Parsley Massacre Dominican troops kill Haitians along the border On the orders of dictator Rafael Trujillo, Dominican soldiers killed thousands of Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent in the border regions. Estimates of the dead range from several thousand to about twenty thousand.

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