Happy Birthday Upper Volta!

And who would have known were it not for my Linux Calendar....

Dec 10
Emily Dickenson born, 1830
Dec 10
Metric system established in France, 1799
Dec 10
Nobel Peace Prize awarded each year
Dec 10
Foundation of Worker's Party in Angola
Dec 10
Human Rights Day
Dec 10
Thai Constitution Day in Thailand
Dec 10
Wyoming Day in Wyoming
Dec 10
N'oubliez pas les Romaric !
Dec 10
Bonne fête aux Eulalie !
Dec 10
Aujourd'hui, c'est la St(e) Melchaide.
Dec 10
N'oubliez pas les Miltiade !
Dec 10
à la sainte Julie,
Le sole
il ne quitte pas son lit.
Dec 10
Friedensnobelpreis für Brandt, 1971
Dec 11
Independence Day in Upper Volta
Dec 11
Infomagic and Debian announce the botching of Debian 1.0, 1995
Dec 11
Bonne fête aux Daniel !
Dec 11
Aujourd'hui, c'est la St(e) Damase.
Dec 11
Kriegserklärung Deutschlands an die USA, 1941

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This is why the calendar is so quaint. These calendar lists were put together, in some cases, decades ago, and I don't think there is a system for maintaining them.

I doubt very much that Bukina Faso's independence day and Upper VOlta's independence day are the same. It's possible, I suppose... It would be interesting to look it up.