Date in year · 1973 · The 1970s
December 1, 1973
On December 1, 1973, papua New Guinea gains self-government from Australia. The year's #1 song was "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" by Tony Orlando and Dawn. Bokeem Woodbine, Akon, Charlotta Sörenstam would arrive in the same year.
Featured · December 1, 1973
Papua New Guinea gains self-government from Australia.
Papua New Guinea (PNG), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia. It has a land border with Indonesia to the west and maritime borders with Australia to the south and the Solomon Islands to the east. Its capital is Port Moresby.
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Around 1973
The year in brief
1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1973rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 973rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 73rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1970s decade.
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What happened
On December 1, 1973
- 1973 — Papua New Guinea gains self-government from Australia.
Elsewhere that year
Other moments from 1973
The class of 1973
Others born in 1973
BW Bokeem Woodbine 1973– American actor
A Akon 1973– Senegalese-American singer, rapper and songwriter
CS Charlotta Sörenstam 1973– Swedish golfer
TC Teddy Cobeña 1973– Spanish-Ecuadorian expressionist and representational sculptor
DB Derrick Brooks 1973– American football player HG Haile Gebrselassie 1973– Ethiopian runner
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