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Papua New Guinea: The Struggle for Development (1997) Gash, Noel. A pictorial history of New Guinea (1975) Golson, Jack. 50,000 years of New Guinea history (1966) Griffin, James. Papua New Guinea: A political history (1979) Knauft, Bruce M. South Coast New Guinea Cultures: History, Comparison, Dialectic (1993) excerpt and text search; McCosker ...
Panama was member of Gran Colombia until 1903. The 1903 separation from Colombia is celebrated as an official holiday day on 3 November. Papua New Guinea: Independence Day: 16 September: 1975 Australia: Effective date of the Papua New Guinea Independence Act 1975 Paraguay: Independence Day: 14 and 15 May: 1811 Spanish Empire [69] Peru ...
Papua New Guinea 1 December 1973: Self-governing territory 16 September 1975: Independence from Australia Samoa 1 January 1962: Independence from New Zealand Solomon Islands 2 January 1976: Self-government granted by the United Kingdom 7 July 1978: Independence from the United Kingdom Tonga 4 July 1970: Independence from the United Kingdom 4 ...
On 13 December 1971 the name of the territory was changed to Papua New Guinea. [2] Under Australian Minister for External Territories Andrew Peacock , the territory adopted self-government in 1972. 1972 elections saw the formation of a ministry headed by Chief Minister Michael Somare , who pledged to lead PNG to self-government and then to ...
The first annual commemoration of Independence Day happened on July 4, 1777, in Philadelphia. John Adams, a Founding Father and the second president of the United States, strongly believed ...
The referendum question was a choice between greater autonomy within Papua New Guinea and full independence for Bougainville, and voters voted overwhelmingly (98.31%) for independence. [46] Negotiations between the Bougainville government and national Papua New Guinea on a path to Bougainville independence began after the referendum, and are ...
4 February: 1948: Gained independence as the Dominion of Ceylon. Renamed Sri Lanka in 1972 upon being declared a republic. Sudan: 1 January: 1956 South Sudan gained independence from Sudan on 9 July 2011. Tanganyika: 9 December: 1961: Tanganyika became independent on 9 December 1961. It joined with Zanzibar on 25 April 1964 to form Tanzania ...
Yet the day he was praising was July 2, the day independence was declared by the Second Continental Congress, not July 4. Yes, folks, we Americans are doing it wrong by celebrating Independence ...