1972 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1972?
- 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.
- February 29, 1972 – Hank Aaron becomes the first player in the history of Major League Baseball to sign a $200,000 contract.
- March 1, 1972 – The Thai province of Yasothon is created after being split off from the Ubon Ratchathani province.
- March 24, 1972 – The United Kingdom imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland.
- April 10, 1972 – 20 days after he is kidnapped in Buenos Aires, Oberdan Sallustro is executed by communist guerrillas.
- April 13, 1972 – The Universal Postal Union decides to recognize the People’s Republic of China as the only legitimate Chinese representative, effectively expelling the Republic of China administering Taiwan.
- 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 30, 1972 – In Tel Aviv, Israel members of the Japanese Red Army carry out the Lod Airport Massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others.
- June 16, 1972 – The largest single-site hydro-electric power project in Canada is inaugurated at Churchill Falls, Labrador.
- July 24, 1972 – Bugojno group is caught by Yugoslav security forces.
- September 5, 1972 – Munich Massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called “Black September” attack and take hostage 11 Israel athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. 2 die in the attack and 9 die the following day.
- September 11, 1972 – The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit system has its opening day of passenger service.
- September 19, 1972 – A parcel bomb sent to Israeli Embassy in London kills one diplomat.
- September 23, 1972 – Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos announces over television and radio the implementation of martial law.
- October 11, 1972 – A race riot occurs on the United States Navy aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off the coast of Vietnam during Operation Linebacker.
- October 22, 1972 – Vietnam War: In Saigon, Henry Kissinger and South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu meet to discuss a proposed cease-fire that had been worked out between Americans and North Vietnamese in Paris.
- November 28, 1972 – Last executions in Paris, of the Clairvaux Mutineers, Roger Bontems and Claude Buffet, guillotined at La Sante Prison. (Bontems had been found innocent of murder by the court, but as Buffet’s accomplice is condemned to death anyway.) The chief executioner is Andre Obrecht.
- 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 30, 1972 – Vietnam War: The United States halts heavy bombing of North Vietnam.
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