1972 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1972?
- February 3, 1972 – The first day of the seven-day 1972 Iran blizzard, which would kill at least 4,000 people, making it the deadliest snowstorm in history.
- February 15, 1972 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Rat in Chinese astrology.
- February 17, 1972 – Sales of the Volkswagen Beetle exceed those of the Ford Model-T.
- March 24, 1972 – The United Kingdom imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland.
- April 10, 1972 – Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967, American B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam.
- April 13, 1972 – Vietnam War: The Battle of An Lộc begins.
- 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 26, 1972 – The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
- June 8, 1972 – Vietnam War: Associated Press photographer Nick Ut takes his Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of a naked 9-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc running down a road after being burned by napalm.
- June 20, 1972 – Watergate scandal: An 18½-minute gap appears in the tape recording of the conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and his advisers regarding the recent arrests of his operatives while breaking into the Watergate complex.
- August 22, 1972 – Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies.
- September 10, 1972 – The United States suffers its first loss of an international basketball game in a disputed match against the Soviet Union at Munich, Germany.
- September 23, 1972 – Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos announces over television and radio the implementation of martial law.
- November 10, 1972 – Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham, Alabama is hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After two days, the plane lands in Havana, Cuba, where the hijackers are jailed by Fidel Castro.
- November 23, 1972 – The Soviet Union makes its final attempt at successfully launching N-1 Rocket. The launch is a failure and the rocket is destroyed.
- November 29, 1972 – Atari announces the release of Pong, the first commercially successful video game.
- December 23, 1972 – A 6.5 magnitude earthquake strikes the Nicaraguan capital of Managua killing more than 10,000.
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