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Upper Volta, now renamed Burkina Faso, declared its freedom from France on this day in 1960.

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The Reverend James Augustine Healy, the first Black Catholic Bishop in the U.S., died on this day in 1900.

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Harriet Tubman played many significant roles in her lifetime, including working for the United States Union Army. On this day in 1892, she received a pension from Congress recognizing her services as a spy, a nurse, and a scout during the Civil War.