1972 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1972?
- January 11, 1972 – East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh.
- February 15, 1972 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Rat in Chinese astrology.
- February 19, 1972 – The Asama-Sansō hostage standoff begins in Japan.
- February 22, 1972 – The Official Irish Republican Army detonates a car bomb at Aldershot barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others.
- March 3, 1972 – Mohawk Airlines Flight 405 crashes as a result of a control malfunction and insufficient training in emergency procedures.
- March 14, 1972 – Italian publisher and former partisan Giangiacomo Feltrinelli is killed by an explosion near Segrate.
- April 20, 1972 – Apollo 16, commanded by John Young, lands on the moon.
- May 8, 1972 – Vietnam War – U.S. President Richard M. Nixon announces his order to place mines in major North Vietnamese ports in order to stem the flow of weapons and other goods to that nation.
- May 21, 1972 – Michelangelo’s Pietà in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal, the mentally disturbed Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth.
- May 26, 1972 – Willandra National Park is established in Australia.
- June 16, 1972 – The largest single-site hydro-electric power project in Canada is inaugurated at Churchill Falls, Labrador.
- June 23, 1972 – Title IX of the United States Civil Rights Act of 1964 is amended to prohibit sexual discrimination to any educational program receiving federal funds.
- August 3, 1972 – The United States Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
- August 11, 1972 – Vietnam War: the last United States ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam.
- September 6, 1972 – Munich Massacre: 9 Israel athletes taken hostage at the Munich Olympic Games by the Palestinian “Black September” terrorist group died (as did a German policeman) at the hands of the kidnappers during a failed rescue attempt. 2 other Israeli athletes are slain in the initial attack the previous day.
- September 23, 1972 – Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos announces over television and radio the implementation of martial law.
- October 10, 1972 – The 1972 Chicago commuter rail crash, killing 48, occurs due to foggy conditions. The accident’s response pushes for changes in Chicago commuter rail, such as brightly colored ends on the cars.
- October 11, 1972 – A race riot occurs on the United States Navy aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off the coast of Vietnam during Operation Linebacker.
- December 19, 1972 – Apollo program: The last manned lunar flight, Apollo 17, crewed by Eugene Cernan, Ron Evans and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth.
- December 26, 1972 – Vietnam War: As part of Operation Linebacker II, 120 American B-52 Stratofortress bombers attacked Hanoi, including 78 launched from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, the largest single combat launch in Strategic Air Command history.
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