Events
DateEvent
1972 Hans Erich Apostel Died
1972 May Aufderheide Died
1972 Troy Banarzi Was Born
1972 Seth Bingham Died
1972 Margaret Allison Bonds Died
1972 Steven Bryant Was Born
1972 Robert Casadesus Died
1972 Erwin Dressel Died
1972 Ulvi Cemal Erkin Died
1972 Gabriela Lena Frank Was Born
1972 Rudolf Friml Died
1972 Ferde Grofé Died
1972 Margaret Ruthven Lang Died
1972 René Leibowitz Died
1972 Oscar Levant Died
1972 Juan Carlos Paz Died
1972 Kevin Puts Was Born
December 19 1972 André Ristic Was Born
1972 Friedrich Schröder Died
1972 Jeroen Tel Was Born
1972 Stefan Wolpe Died
1972 Havergal Brian Died
1972 Hiba Kawas Was Born
January 04 1972 Rose Heilbron Becomes First Female Judge, London
January 05 1972 President Nixon Orders Space Shuttle Development Progran
January 10 1972 Sheikh Rahman Returns To Bangladesh After Prison
January 11 1972 East Pakistan Renames Itself Bangladesh
January 13 1972 Military Coup In Ghana
January 14 1972 Queen Margrethe Ascends The Throne
January 20 1972 Pakistan Nuclear Weapons Program Begun
January 24 1972 Yokoi Has Hid In Guam Jungle Since WWII
January 30 1972 British Paratroopers Kill Civilians In Demonstrations
January 30 1972 Pakistan Withdraws From The Commonwealth
February 01 1972 Kaular Lumpur Becomes A City
February 02 1972 British Embassy Destroyed At Bloody Sunday
February 03 1972 Seven Day Blizzard Of 1972 In Iran, Kills 4,000 People
February 05 1972 Douglas To Basketball Hall Of Fame
February 15 1972 Sound Recordings Granted U.S. Copyright Protection
February 15 1972 5x Pres Ibarra, Ecuador, Overthrown 4thX By Military
February 17 1972 Sales Of Volkswagen Surpass Model T
February 18 1972 Death Penalty Unconstitutional In California; Life Imprisonment
February 19 1972 Asama-sanso Hostage Standoff Begins
February 21 1972 US President Nixon Visits China
February 21 1972 Soviet Unmanned Luna 20 Moon Landing
February 22 1972 The IRA Destroy Barracks At Alderahot, Killing Seven
February 26 1972 Buffalo Creek Dam Busts Killing 125
February 28 1972 U.S., China Sign Shanghai Communique
February 29 1972 South Korea Pulls 11,000 Troops From Vietnam
March 01 1972 Yasothon Is Created Splot Off From Ratchathani Province
March 02 1972 Pioneer 10 Launched From Cape Canaveral
March 03 1972 Mohawk Airlines Flight 405 Crashes
March 14 1972 Italy: Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Killed In Explosion
March 20 1972 Northern Ireland IRA Car Bombing Kills 7
March 22 1972 Congress Sends ERA Out For Ratification
March 22 1972 U.S. Supreme Court Grants Right To Contraceptives
March 24 1972 Northern Ireland Under UK's Direct Rule
March 30 1972 North Vietnamese Soldiers Cross (DMZ), Starting Easter Offensive
April 02 1972 Charlie Chaplin Returns To The US
April 06 1972 Vietnam Easter Offiensive: American Air Stikes
April 10 1972 Buenos Aires: Sallustro Murdered By Communist Guerillas
April 10 1972 Chinese Workers Discover Ancient Texts
April 10 1972 B-52 Bombers Begin Bombing North Vietnam
April 10 1972 Nations Agree To Ban Biological Weapons
April 11 1972 First Edition Of The BBC Comedy Panel Game
April 13 1972 The Battle Of An Lộc Begins
April 13 1972 People's Republic Of China Legitimate Representative
April 16 1972 Apollo 16 Launched From Cape Canaveral
April 20 1972 Apollo 16 Lands On The Moon
April 22 1972 Bombings Lead To Increases In Homefront Protests
April 25 1972 North Vietnamese Division Forces Troop Retreats
May 02 1972 House Fire Breaks Out At Mine
May 04 1972 Don't Make A Wave Renamed Greenpeace Foundation
May 05 1972 Deadliest Air Disaster In Italian History Claims 115
May 06 1972 Three Executed In Ankara
May 08 1972 Nixon Announces Order To Place Mines In N. Vietnam
May 08 1972 Black September Terrorists Hijack Sabena Flight
May 10 1972 First Flight Of A-10 Thunderbolt II
May 13 1972 Fire At Playtown Cabaret In Japan Kills 118
May 13 1972 The Troubles: Car Bombing Sparks Gun Battle
May 15 1972 Okinawa Reverts To Japanese Control From U.S
May 15 1972 Maryland: Bremer Shoots, Paralyzes George Wallace
May 21 1972 Laszlo Toth, A Lunatic, Damages A Major Artwork In Rome
May 22 1972 Ceylon Adopts Constitution, Becomes Sri Lanka
May 26 1972 Willandra National Park Is Established
May 26 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missle Treaty Signed By US & USSR
May 30 1972 Angry Brigade On Trial Over Bombings
May 30 1972 Japanese Red Army Massacre Lod Airport
June 08 1972 Photographer Takes Picture Of Vietnamese Girl
June 09 1972 Dam Burst In South Dakota Kills 238
June 12 1972 Popeyes Fast Food Founded In Arabi, Louisiana
June 15 1972 Red Army Founder Meinhof Captured In Langenhagen
June 16 1972 Canada Inaugurates Its Largest Hydroelectric Plant At Churchill Falls
June 17 1972 Five Arrested In DNC Burglary
June 18 1972 118 Killed In Trident Crash
June 20 1972 Watergate Recording Gap Involving President Nixon
June 23 1972 Nixon And Haldeman Taped
June 23 1972 Civil Rights Act Prohibits Sexual Discrimination
June 29 1972 The Case Furman V. Georgia
June 30 1972 First Leap Second Added To UTC
July 01 1972 A Gay Pride March Takes Place
July 09 1972 British Kill Five During Springhill Massacre In Belfast
July 11 1972 First Fischer/Spassky Game At 1972 Chess Championship
July 19 1972 British Units Assist Omani Government
July 21 1972 IRA Detonates Bombs In Belfast, North Ireland
July 23 1972 U.S. Launches Landsat 1
July 24 1972 Yugoslav Security Forces Catch Bugojno Group
July 31 1972 British Overtake Ireland, Nine Civilians Killed
August 03 1972 The United States Ratifies The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
August 11 1972 Last US Ground Unit Leaves Vietnam
August 14 1972 East Berlin Ilyushin Il-62 Crash, Killing 156
August 16 1972 Air Force Fires Upon Hassan II
August 22 1972 Rhodesia Is Expelled By IOC
September 01 1972 Fischer Beats Spassky, Iceland
September 04 1972 Spitz Wins Seven Olympic Medals At Once
September 05 1972 Palestinian Terroists Kill 11 Israeli Olympians
September 06 1972 Palestinians Take Isralies Captive At Munich Games
September 09 1972 Flint Ridge Longest Cave Passageway
September 10 1972 U.S. Loses First International Basketball Game
September 11 1972 San Fran Transit System Begins Service
September 15 1972 Scandinavian Airlines Hijacked
September 19 1972 Bomb Sent To Israeli Embassy Kills One
September 21 1972 Marcos Used Proclamation 1081 To Take Power
September 24 1972 Japan Airlines Flight To India Diverted
September 25 1972 Norway Rejects Membership In EC
September 29 1972 Japan Establishes Relations With China
September 30 1972 Clemente: 3000th And Final Career Hit
October 11 1972 Race Riot On US Carrier Kitty Hawk
October 13 1972 174 Killed In Aeroflot Ilyushin-62 Crash
October 13 1972 Few Survive 1972 Andes Plane Crash
October 22 1972 U.S., Vietnamese In Cease-fire Negotiations
October 23 1972 U.S. Bombing Campaign Against North Vietnam Due To Easter Offensive
October 29 1972 Prisoners Exchanged For Lufthansa Flight 615 Hostages
October 30 1972 Trains Collide In Chicago, 45 Dead
November 08 1972 HBO Commemorates Launch With Classic 1971 Movie
November 10 1972 Alabama Flight Was Hijacked And Flown To Cuba
November 11 1972 US Long Binh Base To South Vietnam
November 21 1972 South Korean Voters Approve Park Chung-hee
November 23 1972 USSR Attempts Final Launching Of N1 Rocket
November 28 1972 Claude Buffet And Roger Bontems Are Prosecuted
November 29 1972 First Commercially Successful Video Game Is Pong
November 30 1972 Ziegler Announces No More Vietnam Troop Withdrawals
December 07 1972 Imelda Marcos Survives Assassination Attempt
December 07 1972 Last Apollo Moon Mission Launched
December 08 1972 Flight Crashes After Aborting Landing
December 11 1972 Apollo 17 - Last Apollo To Land On Moon
December 13 1972 Cernan And Schmitt Last Men On Moon
December 14 1972 Eugene Cernan Last To Walk On Moon
December 18 1972 Nixon Announces United States Will Attack North Vietnam
December 19 1972 Apollo 17 Returns - Last Manned Lunar Flight
December 23 1972 6.5 Managua Earthquake Kills Over 10,000
December 23 1972 16 Andes' Flight Survivors Rescued
December 26 1972 Largest U.S. Air Combat Launch Targets Vietnam
December 28 1972 North Korea Has First President
December 29 1972 Flight 401 Crashes On Approach To Airport
December 30 1972 U.S. Halts Heavy Bombing Of North Vietnam