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Volta


1984 Republic of Upper Volta becomes Bourkina Fasso (National Day)

1973 West African Economic Community formed (Benin, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Upper Volta)

1960 Burkina (formerly Upper Volta) declares independence from France

1960 Ivory Coast, Dahomey, Upper Volta and Niger declare independence

1958 Upper Volta (now Bourkina Fasso) gains autonomy from France

1915 Luigi Capuana, Sicilian author/critic (C'era una Volta), dies at 76

1827 Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist (made 1st battery), dies at 82

1745 Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta, inventor, battery

1743 Count Alessandro Volta, Como Italy, physicist


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