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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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