Anniversary of the 1966 Coup d'état in Burkina Faso
Anniversary of the 1966 Coup d'état in Burkina Faso is held on January 3. This event in the first decade of the month January is annual. 
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The 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état was an event which took place on 3 January 1966 in the Republic of Upper Volta (today Burkina Faso), when following large-scale popular unrest the military intervened against the government, forced President Maurice Yaméogo to resign, and replaced him with Lieutenant Colonel Sangoulé Lamizana. Lamizana would go on to rule until 1980, when yet another military coup d'état overthrew him. The 1966 coup would prove to be the first in a long line of Upper Voltan and later Burkinabé coups, both failed and successful such, and marked the beginning of half a century of military rule.
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Burkina Faso Republic Day on December 11 (the day when Upper Volta became an autonomous republic in the French Community in 1958);
Mother's Day in Albania on March 8 (also Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Burundi, Burkina Faso, Kosovo, Laos, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan);
Burkina Faso Revolution Day on August 4 (between 1992 and 2000, this day was considered a public holiday and was dedicated to the anniversary of the military coup in 1983. Perhaps not the last uprising and military coup took place in Burkina Faso on October 28, 2014);
Burkina Faso Independence Day on August 5
Anniversary of the 1987 Coup d'État in Burkina Faso on October 15