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June 21, 1973

On June 21, 1973, the Primer Congreso del Hombre Andino is inaugurated in Arica, Chile. 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.

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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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On June 21, 1973

  1. 1973 The Primer Congreso del Hombre Andino is inaugurated in Arica, Chile.

    Primer Congreso del Hombre Andino was an academic conference in northern Chile organized by the northern branch of the University of Chile in June 1973. Its subject was the Indigenous societies of the Andean world, be these modern, historical or archaeological. The conference was an important milestone in the development of Andean studies including Andean archaeology and for Chile it marked the maturation of academic studies carried out by scholars based in its northern cities.

  2. 1973 In its decision in Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller test for determining whether something is obscene and not protected speech under the U.S. constitution.

    1973 U.S. Supreme Court case on obscenity

    Miller v. S. S.

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Bokeem Woodbine 1973– American actor
Akon 1973– Senegalese-American singer, rapper and songwriter
Charlotta Sörenstam 1973– Swedish golfer
Teddy Cobeña 1973– Spanish-Ecuadorian expressionist and representational sculptor
Derrick Brooks 1973– American football player
Haile Gebrselassie 1973– Ethiopian runner

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