The Republic of Upper Volta is Renamed Burkina Faso:
The West African country was first created in 1958 as a self-governing French colony. It gained its independence from the French in 1960. Between then and 1983, several coups dotted its political landscape.
The Coup in Upper Volta:
A military coup in Upper Volta installed Thomas Sankara, a captain in the Upper Volta Army as its president.
Anne Frank is captured:
Victim of the Holocaust, 14-year old Frank and her family were captured and arrested by the Germans from their hiding place in Amsterdam.
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44th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate
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80th United States Attorney General
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The Queen Mother
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