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Events on the year of 1972 in history

Events
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01 Jan 1972 "Company" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 690 performances
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01 Jan 1972 "On the Town" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 65 performances
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01 Jan 1972 "Promises Promises" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 1281 performances
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01 Jan 1972 KDSD TV channel 16 in Aberdeen, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting
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02 Jan 1972 "Rothschilds" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 505 performances
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02 Jan 1972 Mariner 9 begins mapping Mars
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02 Jan 1972 Miami Dolphins beat Baltimore Colts 21-0 in AFC championship game
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04 Jan 1972 Rose Heilbron becomes the first female judge to sit at the Old Bailey in London, England.
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05 Jan 1972 Largest crowd at Cleveland Arena (Cavs vs. Lakers - 11,178)
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05 Jan 1972 NASA announces development of space shuttle
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05 Jan 1972 New York City transit fare rises from 30 cents to 35 cents
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05 Jan 1972 President Nixon signs a bill for NASA to begin research on manned shuttle
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05 Jan 1972 West-Pakistani sheik Mujib ur-Rahman freed
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05 Jan 1972 United States President Richard Nixon orders the development of a Space Shuttle program.
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06 Jan 1972 US male Figure Skating championship won by Kenneth Shelley
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06 Jan 1972 Vladimir Bukovski is exiled from USSR
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07 Jan 1972 LA Lakers chalk up 33rd consecutive win (NBA record)
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07 Jan 1972 Lewis F Powell Jr becomes a Supreme Court Justice
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07 Jan 1972 William Hubbs Rehnquist, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
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08 Jan 1972 NCAA announces freshman can play on teams starting in fall
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09 Jan 1972 Passenger ship Queen Elizabeth destroyed by fire
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10 Jan 1972 Triple album set "Concert for Bangladesh" released in the UK
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10 Jan 1972 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.
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10 Jan 1972 Sheik Mujib ur-Rahman arrives in Dacca, East-Pakistan
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10 Jan 1972 Los Angeles Lakers 33 straight win streak snapped, losing to Bucks 120-104
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11 Jan 1972 East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh.
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11 Jan 1972 Abu Sayeed Chudhury becomes president & sheik Mujib ur-Rahman premier
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11 Jan 1972 East-Pakistan becomes independent state of Bangladesh
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12 Jan 1972 Tigers sign a lease to build a $126M domed stadium (doesn't happen)
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13 Jan 1972 Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana are ousted in a bloodless military coup by Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheampong.
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13 Jan 1972 Former umpire, now housewife Bernice Gera wins her suit against baseball, initiated on March 15, 1971 to be allowed to umpire
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14 Jan 1972 "Sanford & Son" starring Redd Foxx premieres on NBC TV
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14 Jan 1972 Queen Margrethe II of Denmark ascends the throne, the first Queen of Denmark since 1412 and the first Danish monarch not named Frederick or Christian since 1513.
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14 Jan 1972 WMAW TV channel 14 in Meridian, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting
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15 Jan 1972 Heavyweight Joe Frazier KOs Terry Daniels
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16 Jan 1972 Super Bowl VI Dallas Cowboys-24, Miami-3 in New Orleans; Super Bowl MVP Roger Staubach, Dallas, Quarterback
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16 Jan 1972 Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes European all-round lady skating champ
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17 Jan 1972 Section of Memphis' Highway 51 South renamed Elvis Presley Blvd
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19 Jan 1972 Sandy Koufax, Yogi Berra, & Early Wynn elected to Hall of Fame
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20 Jan 1972 Pakistan launched its Nuclear weapons program few weeks after its defeat in Bangladesh Liberation War and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
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21 Jan 1972 Assam's North East Frontier Agency becomes Arunachal Pradesh territory
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21 Jan 1972 Manipur, Meghalaya & Tripura become separate states of Indian union
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21 Jan 1972 Mizoram, formerly part of Assam, creates an Indian union territory
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21 Jan 1972 Belgium government of Eyskens-Cools forms
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22 Jan 1972 "Emergency" with Robert Fuller premieres on NBC TV
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22 Jan 1972 22nd NBA All-Star Game West beats East 112-110 at Los Angeles
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23 Jan 1972 2nd AFC-NFC pro bowl, AFC wins 26-13
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23 Jan 1972 Bootlegger sells wood alcohol to wedding party-100 die-New Delhi
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23 Jan 1972 Ard Schenk becomes European all-round skating champ
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23 Jan 1972 Entire population of Istanbul under 24 hour house arrest
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23 Jan 1972 NFL Pro Bowl AFC beats NFC 26-13
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24 Jan 1972 Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II.
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24 Jan 1972 WRIP (now WDSI) TV channel 61 in Chattanooga TN (IND) 1st broadcast
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25 Jan 1972 7' Ohio State center Luke Witte is stomped in face during a brawl in a game with Minnesota
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25 Jan 1972 25th NHL All-Star Game East beats West 3-2 at Minnesota
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26 Jan 1972 Stewardess Vesna Vulovic survives 10,160m fall without parachute
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28 Jan 1972 Oral Roberts' Eddie Woods grabs 30 rebounds for 2nd consecutive game
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29 Jan 1972 5th ABA All-Star Game East 142 beats West 115 at Louisville
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30 Jan 1972 Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.
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30 Jan 1972 The Troubles: Bloody Sunday: British Paratroopers open fire on and kill fourteen unarmed civil rights/anti-internment marchers in Derry, Northern Ireland.
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30 Jan 1972 Bloody Sunday British soldiers shoot on catholics in Londonderry, 13 die
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31 Jan 1972 Military coup ousts civilian government of Ghana
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31 Jan 1972 US launches HEOS A-2 for interplanetary observations (396/244,998)
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31 Jan 1972 Aretha Franklin sings at Mahalia Jackson's funeral
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31 Jan 1972 Birenda, becomes leader of Nepal
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01 Feb 1972 1st scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) introduced ($395)
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01 Feb 1972 Wings release "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" in the UK
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01 Feb 1972 Kuala Lumpur becomes a city by a royal charter granted by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
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02 Feb 1972 Lefty Gomez, Ross Youngs and William Harridge selected for Hall of Fame
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02 Feb 1972 The British embassy in Dublin is destroyed in protest at Bloody Sunday.
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03 Feb 1972 11th Winter Olympic games opens in Sapporo, Japan (1st in Asia)
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03 Feb 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.
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04 Feb 1972 6th round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks ends in Vienna Austria
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04 Feb 1972 Sen Strom Thurmond suggests John Lennon be deported
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05 Feb 1972 "Another Puff" by Jerry Reed peaks at #65
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05 Feb 1972 Bob Douglas is 1st black elected to Basketball Hall of Fame
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05 Feb 1972 US airlines begin mandatory inspection of passengers and baggage
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05 Feb 1972 Bob Douglas becomes the first African American elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
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08 Feb 1972 Josh Gibson and Buck Leonard selected to Hall of Fame
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10 Feb 1972 BBC bans "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" by Wings
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10 Feb 1972 Ras al Khaima joins the United Arab Emirates
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13 Feb 1972 "1776" closes at 46th St. Theater NYC after 1,217 performances
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13 Feb 1972 "Grease" opens on Broadway
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13 Feb 1972 "Grease" opens on Broadway
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13 Feb 1972 11th Winter Olympics games close at Sapporo, Japan
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14 Feb 1972 John andYoko co-host "Mike Douglas Show" for entire week
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14 Feb 1972 John & Yoko co-host "Mike Douglas Show" for entire week
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14 Feb 1972 Luna 20 (Russia) launched to orbit & soft landing on Moon
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15 Feb 1972 José María Velasco Ibarra, serving as President of Ecuador for the fifth time, is overthrown by the military for the fourth time.
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15 Feb 1972 Sound recordings are granted U.S. federal copyright protection for the first time.
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15 Feb 1972 Bill Torrey becomes 1st Islander General Manager
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15 Feb 1972 Dimitrios Papadopoulos becomes metropolitan of Imbros/Tenedos
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15 Feb 1972 President Velasco Ibarra of Ecuador deposed for 4th time
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16 Feb 1972 German mass murderers "Three of Breda" freed
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16 Feb 1972 1st NBA to score 30,000 points (Wilt Chamberlain in 940 games)
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16 Feb 1972 Test Cricket debut of Lawrence Rowe West Indies vs New Zealand Kingston, 214 & 100
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16 Feb 1972 Wilt Chamberlain hit 30,000 point mark during a game with Phoenix Suns
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17 Feb 1972 Cumulative sales of the Volkswagen Beetle exceed those of the Ford Model T.
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17 Feb 1972 President Nixon leaves Washington DC for China
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17 Feb 1972 British Parliament votes to join European Common Market
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18 Feb 1972 The California Supreme Court in the case of People v. Anderson, (6 Cal.3d 628) invalidates the state's death penalty and commutes the sentences of all death row inmates to life imprisonment.
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18 Feb 1972 John & Yoko end a week of co-hosting Mike Douglas Show
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18 Feb 1972 California Supreme Court abolishes death penalty
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18 Feb 1972 Giulio Andreotti sworn in as premier of Italy
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19 Feb 1972 The Asama-Sansō hostage standoff begins in Japan.
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19 Feb 1972 Glenn Turner carries his bat for 223 vs West Indies at Kingston
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20 Feb 1972 1st time Cleveland Cavaliers beat the New York Knicks (111-109)
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20 Feb 1972 Ard Schenk becomes world champion skater
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20 Feb 1972 Sicco Mansholt becomes chairman of European Committee
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21 Feb 1972 The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon.
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21 Feb 1972 United States President Richard Nixon visits the People's Republic of China to normalize Sino-American relations.
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21 Feb 1972 Richard Nixon becomes 1st US President to visit China
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21 Feb 1972 Michael Weller's "Moonchildren" premieres in New York NY
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22 Feb 1972 The Official Irish Republican Army detonates a car bomb at Aldershot barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others.
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22 Feb 1972 Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani becomes Amir & Prime Minister of Qatar
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22 Feb 1972 President Nixon, meets with Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai in Beijing
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25 Feb 1972 Paul McCartney releases "Give Ireland back to the Irish" single
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25 Feb 1972 Lopsided trade, Cards trade Steve Carlton to Phillies for Rick Wise
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26 Feb 1972 Dam break in WV kills 107
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26 Feb 1972 The Buffalo Creek Flood caused by a burst dam kills 125 in West Virginia.
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26 Feb 1972 Slag heap dam collapses above Buffalo Creek WV, kills 125
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27 Feb 1972 President Nixon & Chinese Premier Chou En-lai issued Shanghai Communique
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28 Feb 1972 Last broadcast of "M*A*S*H" on NBC-TV
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28 Feb 1972 Sino-American relations: The United States and People's Republic of China sign the Shanghai Communiqué.
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28 Feb 1972 George Harrison is involved in a minor car accident
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28 Feb 1972 President Richard Nixon ends historic week-long visit to China
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29 Feb 1972 Jack Anderson discloses Dita Beard (ITT) memo indicating antitrust charges were dropped for $400,000 contribution to the Republican Party
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29 Feb 1972 Vietnam War: Vietnamization – South Korea withdraws 11,000 of its 48,000 troops from Vietnam.
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29 Feb 1972 Hank Aaron becomes 1st baseball player to sign for $200,000 a year
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01 Mar 1972 Club of Rome publishes report "Boundaries on the Growth"
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01 Mar 1972 KHMA TV channel 11 in Houma, LA (IND) begins broadcasting
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01 Mar 1972 Wilt Chamberlain is 1st NBA player to score 30,000 points
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01 Mar 1972 The Thai province of Yasothon is created after being split off from the Ubon Ratchathani Province.
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02 Mar 1972 Pioneer 10 launched for Jupiter flyby
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02 Mar 1972 The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.
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03 Mar 1972 Sculpted figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E Lee, and Stonewall Jackson are completed at Stone Mountain, Georgia
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03 Mar 1972 Mohawk Airlines Flight 405 crashes as a result of a control malfunction and insufficient training in emergency procedures.
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04 Mar 1972 Erhard Keller (Germany) skates world record 1000m (1:18.5)
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04 Mar 1972 Last train run between Penrith to Keswick UK
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04 Mar 1972 Libya and the USSR signs cooperation treaty
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05 Mar 1972 Greek Composer Mikis Theodorakis leaves communist party
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06 Mar 1972 Keswick to Penrith railway officially closes
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08 Mar 1972 1st airship flown over Britain in 20 years (Europa)
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08 Mar 1972 1st flight of the Goodyear blimp
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09 Mar 1972 Players on White Sox vote 31-0 in favor of a strike, if necessary
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10 Mar 1972 1st black US political convention opens (Gary Indiana)
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10 Mar 1972 General Lon Nol becomes President & prince Sirik Matak premier of Cambodia
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10 Mar 1972 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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11 Mar 1972 "Inner City" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 97 performances
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12 Mar 1972 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Lady Eve Golf Open
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12 Mar 1972 NHL great Gordie Howe retires after 26 seasons
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14 Mar 1972 Italian publisher and former partisan Giangiacomo Feltrinelli is killed by an explosion near Segrate.
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14 Mar 1972 NBA's Cincinnati Royals announce they are moving to Kansas City
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15 Mar 1972 Assassination attempt on Governor George Wallace of Alabama
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15 Mar 1972 Danish airliner hit mountain in Sheikdom of Oman killing 112
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15 Mar 1972 NASA selects 3 part configuration for Space Shuttle
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16 Mar 1972 John & Yoko are served with deportation papers
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17 Mar 1972 Ringo releases "Back off Bugaloo" in the UK
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17 Mar 1972 Ringo releases "Back off Bugaloo" in UK
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18 Mar 1972 AIAW 1st basketball championship, Immaculata beats West Chester State 52-48
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18 Mar 1972 Cornell NCAA hockey team shut out for 1st time in 225 games (Boston University)
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18 Mar 1972 Memphis' Larry Miller sets ABA record of 67 points in a game
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18 Mar 1972 People's Rebublic of China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor People's Rebublic of China
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19 Mar 1972 "To Live Another Summer" closes at Helen Hayes NYC after 173 performances
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19 Mar 1972 Carol Mann wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
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19 Mar 1972 India & Bangladesh sign friendship treaty
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19 Mar 1972 Los Angeles Lakers beat Golden State Warriors, 162-99, by then record 63 points
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20 Mar 1972 The Troubles: The first Provisional IRA car bombing in Belfast kills seven people and injures 148 others in Northern Ireland.
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20 Mar 1972 19 mountain climbers killed on Japan's Mount Fuji during an avalanche
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20 Mar 1972 Sicco L. Mansholt succeeds Franco M. Malfatti as chairman of European Committee
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21 Mar 1972 US Supreme Court rules states can't require 1-year residency to vote
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22 Mar 1972 "Selling of the President" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 5 performances
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22 Mar 1972 In Eisenstadt v. Baird, the United States Supreme Court decides that unmarried persons have the right to possess contraceptives.
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22 Mar 1972 The United States Congress sends the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification.
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22 Mar 1972 Congress approves Equal Rights Amendment (never ratified)
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22 Mar 1972 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar named NBA MVP
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22 Mar 1972 Nick Mileti purchases Cleveland Indians for $9 million
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22 Mar 1972 Yankees trade Danny Cater to the Red Sox for Sparky Lyle
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23 Mar 1972 Evil Knievel breaks 93 bones after successfully clearing 35 cars
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23 Mar 1972 New York Yankees agree to continue playing ball in the Bronx
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24 Mar 1972 The United Kingdom imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland.
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24 Mar 1972 Great Britain imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland
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25 Mar 1972 "Selling of the President" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 5 performances
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25 Mar 1972 UCLA wins its 6th consecutive national basketball title
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25 Mar 1972 34th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Florida 81-76; UCLA's 6th consecutive national basketball title
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25 Mar 1972 America's LP "America" goes #1
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25 Mar 1972 Bobby Hull becomes the 2nd NHLer to score 600 goals
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26 Mar 1972 "Only Fools Are Sad" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 144 performances
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26 Mar 1972 Betsy Cullen wins LPGA Sears Women's World Golf Classic
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26 Mar 1972 Los Angeles Lakers broke NBA record by winning 69 of 82 games (69-13)
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27 Mar 1972 Adolph Rupp retires after 42 years of coaching University of Kentucky
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27 Mar 1972 Venera 8 launched to Venus
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28 Mar 1972 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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28 Mar 1972 Wilt Chamberlain plays his last pro basketball game
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30 Mar 1972 "Funny Thing Happened..." opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 156 performances
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30 Mar 1972 Vietnam War: The Easter Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam.
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30 Mar 1972 "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 156 performances
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30 Mar 1972 North Vietnamese troops enter South Vietnam
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30 Mar 1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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31 Mar 1972 Official Beatles Fan Club closes down
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01 Apr 1972 30,000 attend Mar Y Sol rock concert, Vega Baja, Puerto Rico
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01 Apr 1972 Major league baseball players stages 1st collective strike
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02 Apr 1972 44th Academy Awards - "French Connection, " G Hackman and Jane Fonda win
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02 Apr 1972 Prime Minister Begin visits Cairo
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02 Apr 1972 Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s.
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04 Apr 1972 1st electric power plant fueled by garbage begins operating
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05 Apr 1972 Baseball season is delayed due to a strike
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05 Apr 1972 Mets trade Ken Singleton to Expos for Rusty Staub
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06 Apr 1972 Egypt drops diplomatic relations with Jordan
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06 Apr 1972 Vietnam War: Easter Offensive: American forces begin sustained air strikes and naval bombardments.
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09 Apr 1972 "Sugar" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 506 performances
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09 Apr 1972 36th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 286
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09 Apr 1972 USSR and Iraq sign friendship treaty
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10 Apr 1972 Seventy-four nations sign the Biological Weapons Convention, the first multilateral disarmament treaty banning the production of biological weapons.
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10 Apr 1972 Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967, American B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam.
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10 Apr 1972 Tombs containing bamboo slips, among them Sun Tzu's Art of War and Sun Bin's lost military treatise, are accidentally discovered by construction workers in Shandong.
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10 Apr 1972 Twenty days after he is kidnapped in Buenos Aires, Oberdan Sallustro is murdered by communist guerrillas.
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10 Apr 1972 7.0 earthquake kills 1/5 of population of Iranian province of Fars
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10 Apr 1972 US, USSR & 70 other nations agree to ban biological weapons
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11 Apr 1972 First edition of the BBC comedy panel game I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue is broadcast, one of the longest-running British radio shows in history.
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11 Apr 1972 Benjamin L Hooks, named to the FCC
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11 Apr 1972 USSR performs underground nuclear test
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13 Apr 1972 Vietnam War: The Battle of An Lộc begins.
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13 Apr 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.
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13 Apr 1972 1st baseball players' strike ends after 13 days
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14 Apr 1972 "That's Entertainment" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 4 performances
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15 Apr 1972 Barbra Streisand, James Taylor, Carole King & Quincy Jones perform at a benefit for George McGovern for President
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16 Apr 1972 2 giants pandas arrive in US, from China
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16 Apr 1972 China sends 2 giant pandas to US
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16 Apr 1972 Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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16 Apr 1972 2 giants pandas (Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing) arrive in the US, from China
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16 Apr 1972 Apollo 16 launched; 5th manned lunar landing (Decartes Highlands)
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16 Apr 1972 Chicago Cub Burt Hooton no-hits Phillies, 1-0
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16 Apr 1972 "That's Entertainment" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 4 performances
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16 Apr 1972 1st Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Jane Blalock
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17 Apr 1972 Kiteman attempting to throw out 1st ball in Phillies' Veterans Stadium crashes into the centerfield seats
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17 Apr 1972 1st Boston Women's Marathon won by Nina Kuscsik of New York in 3:10:26
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17 Apr 1972 76th Boston Marathon won by Olavi Suomalainen of Finland in 2:15:39
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17 Apr 1972 Revised Dutch constitution proclaimed
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18 Apr 1972 "Lost in the Stars" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 39 performances
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19 Apr 1972 Bangladesh becomes a member of British Commonwealth
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19 Apr 1972 Hungary revises constitution
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19 Apr 1972 Micki Grant's musical "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" opens at Playhouse NYC for 1,065 performances
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19 Apr 1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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20 Apr 1972 Apollo 16, commanded by John Young, lands on the moon.
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20 Apr 1972 Apollo 16's Young & Duke land on Moon with Boeing Lunar Rover #2
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20 Apr 1972 Kallicharran scores his 2nd Test century in his 2nd Test Cricket
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21 Apr 1972 John Young and Charles Duke explores Moon (Apollo 16)
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21 Apr 1972 Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 4 (Copernicus) launched
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22 Apr 1972 Vietnam War: Increased American bombing in Vietnam prompts anti-war protests in Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco.
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22 Apr 1972 Apollo astronauts John Young & Charles Duke ride on the Moon
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23 Apr 1972 26th Tony Awards: Sticks and Bones and 2 Gentlemen of Verona win
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23 Apr 1972 Apollo 16 astronauts explore Moon surface
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23 Apr 1972 Betty Burfeind wins LPGA Birmingham Centennital Golf Classic
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25 Apr 1972 Vietnam War: Nguyen Hue Offensive: The North Vietnamese 320th Division forces 5,000 South Vietnamese troops to retreat and traps about 2,500 others northwest of Kontum.
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25 Apr 1972 Hans-Werner Grosse glides 907.7 miles (1,461 km) in an AS-W-12
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27 Apr 1972 New York City Mayor John Lindsey appeals that John Lennon not be deported
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27 Apr 1972 Apollo 16 returns to Earth
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28 Apr 1972 The courts awarded the Kentucky Derby prize money to 2nd place winner because the winner was given drugs before the race
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30 Apr 1972 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Alamo Ladies Golf Open
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01 May 1972 "Different Times" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 24 performances
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01 May 1972 North Vietnamese troops occupy Quang Tri Activities Committee
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01 May 1972 Pulitzer prize awarded to Wallace Stegner (Angle of Repose)
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02 May 1972 Electrical fire in Sunshine Silver mine. 126 die (Kellogg Idaho)
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02 May 1972 Lieutenant General Vernon A Walters, USA, becomes Deputy Director of CIA
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02 May 1972 In the early morning hours a fire breaks out at the Sunshine Mine located between Kellogg and Wallace, ID, killing 91 workers.
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04 May 1972 Vietcong forms revolutionary government in Quang Tri South Vietnam
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04 May 1972 The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to "Greenpeace Foundation".
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05 May 1972 Alitalia DC-8 crashes west of Palermo Sicily; killing 115
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05 May 1972 Alitalia Flight 112 crashes into Mount Longa near Palermo, Sicily, killing all 115 aboard, making it the deadliest single-aircraft disaster in Italy.
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06 May 1972 98th Kentucky Derby: Ron Turcotte aboard Riva Ridge wins in 2:01.8
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06 May 1972 Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan and Hüseyin İnan are executed in Ankara for attempting to overthrow the Constitutional order.
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07 May 1972 26th NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat the New York Knicks, 4 games to 1
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07 May 1972 Betty Burfeindt wins Sealy LPGA Golf Classic
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08 May 1972 Sabena aircraft at Lod International, Tel Aviv, captured by Palestinians
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08 May 1972 Four Black September terrorists hijack Sabena Flight 571. Israeli Sayeret Matkal commandos recapture the plane the following day.
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08 May 1972 Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard 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.
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10 May 1972 First flight of the Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II (a.k.a. "Warthog").
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10 May 1972 Overloaded South Korean bus plunges into reservoir, killing 77
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10 May 1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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11 May 1972 Giants trade Willie Mays to Mets for pitcher Charlie Williams and cash
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11 May 1972 Stanley Cup: Boston Bruins beat the New York Rangers, 4 games to 2
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11 May 1972 John Lennon says his phone is tapped by the FBI on Dick Cavett Show
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11 May 1972 San Francisco Giants trade Willie Mays to New York Mets for pitcher Charlie Williams & cash
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11 May 1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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12 May 1972 Paul McCartney andWings release "Mary Had a Little Lamb"
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12 May 1972 Milwaukee Brewers beat Minnesota Twins, 4-3, in 22 innings (completed 5/13)
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12 May 1972 Paul McCartney & Wings release "Mary Had a Little Lamb"
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13 May 1972 The Troubles: A car bombing outside a crowded pub in Belfast sparks a two-day gun battle involving the Provisional IRA, Ulster Volunteer Force and British Army. Seven people are killed and over 66 injured.
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13 May 1972 Faulty electrical wiring ignites a fire underneath the Playtown Cabaret in Osaka, Japan. Blocked exits and non-functional elevators lead to 118 fatalities, with many victims leaping to their deaths.
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13 May 1972 115 die in nightclub atop 7-story Sennichi department store (Osaka Japan)
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13 May 1972 Milwaukee Brewers beat Minnesota Twins, 4-3, in 22 innings (started 5/12)
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14 May 1972 24th Emmy Awards: All in the Family, Carrol O'Conner & Jean Stapleton
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14 May 1972 In Willie Mays 1st game as a New York Met his homer beats the San Fransisco Giants, 5-4
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15 May 1972 "Hard Job Being God" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 6 performances
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15 May 1972 George Wallace shot and left paralyzed by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, Maryland
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15 May 1972 In Laurel, Maryland, Arthur Bremer shoots and paralyzes Alabama Governor George Wallace while he is campaigning to become President.
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15 May 1972 Okinawa, under U.S. military governance since its conquest in 1945, reverts to Japanese control.
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15 May 1972 Bus plunges into Nile River killing 50 pilgrims (Minia Egypt)
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15 May 1972 Ryukyu Island & Daito Island returned to Japan after 27 years of US control
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16 May 1972 "Don't Play Us Cheap" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 164 performances
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16 May 1972 Greg Luzinski's 500' homerun hits the Liberty Bell monument in Philadelphia's Veteran Stadium
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16 May 1972 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Suzuki Golf Internationale
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17 May 1972 Netherlands and China PR exchange ambassadors
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17 May 1972 Netherlands & China People's Republic exchange ambassadors
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17 May 1972 Tottenham Hotspur wins 1st UEFA Cup in London
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18 May 1972 "Me & The Chimp, " last airs on CBS-TV
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18 May 1972 "Me & The Chimp" last airs on CBS-TV
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18 May 1972 John Sebastian makes 63 consecutive free throws while blindfolded
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19 May 1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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19 May 1972 WMAV TV channel 18 in Oxford MS (PBS) begins broadcasting
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20 May 1972 "Different Times" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 24 performances
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20 May 1972 "Hard Job Being God" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 6 performances
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20 May 1972 5th ABA Championship: Indiana Pacers beat the New York Nets, 4 games to 2
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20 May 1972 Cameroon adopts its constitution
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20 May 1972 98th Preakness: Eldon Nelson aboard Bee Bee Bee wins in 1:55.6
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20 May 1972 Republic of Cameroon declared as constitution is ratified
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21 May 1972 "Heathen!" opens and closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 1 performance
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21 May 1972 "Lost in the Stars" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 39 performances
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21 May 1972 Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal, the mentally disturbed Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth.
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21 May 1972 Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational
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22 May 1972 Ceylon adopts a new constitution, thus becoming a Republic, changes its name to Sri Lanka, and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
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22 May 1972 Ceylon becomes Republic of Sri Lanka as its constitution is ratified
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22 May 1972 Ton Sijbrands becomes world checker champion
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22 May 1972 US President Nixon begins visit Moscow
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24 May 1972 Glasgow Rangers wins 12th Europe Cup II at Barcelona
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24 May 1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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25 May 1972 Heavyweight Joe Frazier KOs Ron Stander
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26 May 1972 Willandra National Park is established in Australia.
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26 May 1972 The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
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26 May 1972 Joe Frazier TKOs Ron Stander in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
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26 May 1972 Nixon & Brezhnev signs SALT accord
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27 May 1972 "Applause" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 900 performances
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27 May 1972 "Jimmy Castor Bunch's Troglodyte" (Cave Man) hits #6
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28 May 1972 White House "plumbers" break into Democratic National HQ at Watergate
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29 May 1972 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
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30 May 1972 The Angry Brigade goes on trial over a series of 25 bombings throughout the United Kingdom.
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30 May 1972 In Tel Aviv, Israel, members of the Japanese Red Army carry out the Lod Airport massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others.
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30 May 1972 3 Japanese PFL terrorists kill 24, wound 72 at Tel Aviv's Lod International Airport
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31 May 1972 Ajax wins Europe Cup 1 in Rotterdam
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01 Jun 1972 Tswanaland becomes Bophuthatswana in South Africa
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01 Jun 1972 West German police arrest RAF-leader Andreas Baader
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03 Jun 1972 "Hot Rod Lincoln, " by Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen hits #9
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03 Jun 1972 1st female US rabbi installed, Sally J Priesand at 25
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03 Jun 1972 Sally J Priesand becomes 1st female US rabbi
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03 Jun 1972 Yanks score 8 times in 13th beating White Sox 18-10
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04 Jun 1972 Angela Davis, black activist, acquitted of killing a white guard
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04 Jun 1972 Carol Mann wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
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04 Jun 1972 Record 8 shutouts pitched in 16 major league games (AL=5, NL=3)
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05 Jun 1972 "If You Had Wings" opens
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05 Jun 1972 UN Conference on Human Environment opens in Stockholm
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05 Jun 1972 Yugoslav President Tito visits USSR
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06 Jun 1972 David Bowie releases "Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust"
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06 Jun 1972 Gold hits record $60 an ounce in London
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06 Jun 1972 US bombs Haiphong, North-Vietnam; 1000s killed
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07 Jun 1972 "Grease" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 3,388 performances
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07 Jun 1972 German Chancellor Willy Brandt visits Israel
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07 Jun 1972 Hsan Hua, Zen teacher, conducted 1st ordination ceremony in America
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08 Jun 1972 Padres draft Dave Roberts #1, Indians draft Rick Manning #2
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08 Jun 1972 Vietnam War: The 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.
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09 Jun 1972 14" of rain in 6 hours bursts Rapid City SD dam, drowns 237
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09 Jun 1972 1st all-nite grad parties
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09 Jun 1972 Bruce Springsteen signs a record deal with Columbia
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09 Jun 1972 Severe rainfall causes a dam in the Black Hills of South Dakota to burst, creating a flood that kills 238 people and causes $160 million in damage.
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10 Jun 1972 104th Belmont: Ron Turcotte aboard Riva Ridge wins in 2:28
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10 Jun 1972 Hank Aaron's grandslammer (14) ties him for NL lead with Gil Hodges &
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11 Jun 1972 18th LPGA Championship won by Kathy Ahern
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11 Jun 1972 KPAT-AM in Berkeley CA returns from KRE
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12 Jun 1972 The fast food restaurant chain Popeyes is founded in Arabi, Louisiana.
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12 Jun 1972 John Lennon's political "Sometime in NYC" released including "Woman is the Nigger of the World" "Attica State" & "Luck of the Irish"
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13 Jun 1972 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2604
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14 Jun 1972 Hurricane Agnes kills 117
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15 Jun 1972 West German police arrested RAF leader Ulrike Meinhof
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15 Jun 1972 Red Army Faction co-founder Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen.
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15 Jun 1972 Rock fall inside Vierzy Tunnel (France) causes 2 train crash; 107 die
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16 Jun 1972 The largest single-site hydroelectric power project in Canada is inaugurated at Churchill Falls Generating Station.
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17 Jun 1972 "Long Haired Lover From Liverpool" by Little Jimmy Osmond peaks at #38
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17 Jun 1972 Chile President Allende forms new government
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17 Jun 1972 Looking Glass releases "Brandy"
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17 Jun 1972 Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives are arrested for burgling the offices of the Democratic National Committee, in an attempt by some members of the Republican party to illegally wiretap the opposition.
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17 Jun 1972 5 arrested for burglarizing Democratic Party HQ at Watergate
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17 Jun 1972 Looking Glass releases "Brandy"
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18 Jun 1972 72nd US Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 290 at Pebble Beach, California
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18 Jun 1972 West Germany wins soccer world championship
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18 Jun 1972 Staines air disaster: 118 are killed when a BEA H.S. Trident crashes two minutes after take off from London Heathrow Airport.
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18 Jun 1972 BEA Trident crashes after takeoff from Heathrow killing 118
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19 Jun 1972 40,000 pilots strike against naval officer
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20 Jun 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.
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22 Jun 1972 "Man of La Mancha" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 140 performances
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23 Jun 1972 President Nixon signs act barring sex discrimination in college sports
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23 Jun 1972 Watergate Scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate break-ins.
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23 Jun 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.
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23 Jun 1972 Hurricane Agnes is costliest natural disaster in American history
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23 Jun 1972 Nixon & Haldeman agree to use CIA to cover up Watergate
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24 Jun 1972 "Troglodyte (Cave Man)" by Jimmy Castor Bunch peaks at #6
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24 Jun 1972 Wake Island becomes unincorporated territory of US (US Air Force)
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24 Jun 1972 Yvonne Braitwaite Burke becomes 1st Black Chair of Democratic Convention
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25 Jun 1972 Berenice Gera becomes 1st female umpire in pro baseball
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26 Jun 1972 IRA proclaims resistant in North-Ireland
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29 Jun 1972 Supreme Court rules (5-4) that Death Penalty is cruel and unusual
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29 Jun 1972 The United States Supreme Court rules in the case Furman v. Georgia that arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
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29 Jun 1972 Supreme Court-death penalty usually was "cruel & unusual punishment"
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29 Jun 1972 USSR launches Prognoz 2 into earth orbit (549/200,000 km)
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30 Jun 1972 The first leap second is added to the UTC time system.
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30 Jun 1972 1st leap second day; also 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985
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30 Jun 1972 Cincinnati Reds are 11 games back in NL, & go on to win the pennant
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01 Jul 1972 Ms. magazine begins publishing
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01 Jul 1972 The first Gay Pride march in England takes place.
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02 Jul 1972 "Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 3242 performances
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02 Jul 1972 Bob Seagren pole vaults world record 5.63m
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02 Jul 1972 India and Pakistan sign peace accord
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05 Jul 1972 Pierre Messmer appointed French Premier
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07 Jul 1972 1st women FBI members sworn in (Susan Lynn Roley and Joanne E Pierce)
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07 Jul 1972 79th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats Goolagong (63 63)
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07 Jul 1972 Dutch Minister of Agt decides to ignore soft drug usage
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08 Jul 1972 English Prince Richard marries Birgitte of Deurs (Henriksen)
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08 Jul 1972 US sells grain to USSR for $750 million
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09 Jul 1972 1st tour of Paul McCartney andWings (France)
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09 Jul 1972 86th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: S Smith beats I Nastase (46 63 63 46 75)
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09 Jul 1972 Kathy Ahern wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic
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09 Jul 1972 The Troubles: In Belfast, British Army snipers shoot five civilians dead in the Springhill Massacre.
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10 Jul 1972 Democratic convention opens in Miami Beach Florida (McGovern)
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10 Jul 1972 Herd of stampeding elephants kills 24, Chandka Forest India
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11 Jul 1972 The first game of the World Chess Championship 1972 between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky starts.
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12 Jul 1972 Democrats nominated George McGovern for President in Miami Florida
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13 Jul 1972 C Torres discovers asteroid #3050 Carrera
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13 Jul 1972 LA Rams (Irsay) & Baltimore Colts (Rosenbloom) swap owners
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13 Jul 1972 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2112 Ulyanov
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14 Jul 1972 Jean Westwood is 1st woman chosen to head Democratic National Committee
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14 Jul 1972 Plate ump and catcher in a game are brothers. Bill Haller is ump and Tom Haller is Tigers catcher, Kansas City Royals win 1-0
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14 Jul 1972 L Zhuravleva discovers asteroids #1959 Karbyshev & #2423 Ibarruri
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15 Jul 1972 101st British Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots 278 at Muirfield Gullane
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15 Jul 1972 Lee Trevino wins his 2nd consecutive golf's British Open
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16 Jul 1972 Dimitrios Papadopoulos becomes 269th patriarch of Constantinople
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16 Jul 1972 Smokey Robinson and Miracles final live performance
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17 Jul 1972 1st 2 women begin training as FBI agents at Quantico
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18 Jul 1972 Egypt President Sadat throws 20,000 Russian military aids out
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18 Jul 1972 Mike Procter 8-73 with hat-trick, plus 51 and 102, Gloucs vs. Essex
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18 Jul 1972 200,000 attend Mt Pocono rock festival in Penns
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19 Jul 1972 Dhofar Rebellion: British SAS units help the Omani government against Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman rebels in the Battle of Mirbat.
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21 Jul 1972 27.5 cm rainfall at Fort Ripley, Minnesota (state record)
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21 Jul 1972 Bloody Friday: 22 IRA-bombs explode in Belfast
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21 Jul 1972 Dodgers release and end career of pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm
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21 Jul 1972 The Troubles: Bloody Friday – the Provisional IRA detonate 22 bombs in central Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom in the space of 80 minutes, killing nine and injuring 130.
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21 Jul 1972 2 passenger trains collide head-on killing 76 (Seville, Spain)
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21 Jul 1972 In New York, 57 murders occur in 24 hours
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22 Jul 1972 10.84" (27.53 cm) of rainfall, Fort Ripley, Mn (state 24-hr record)
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22 Jul 1972 Venera 8 makes soft landing on Venus
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23 Jul 1972 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Raleigh Golf Classic
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23 Jul 1972 The United States launches Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite.
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23 Jul 1972 1st Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS) is launched
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23 Jul 1972 Eddy Merckx (Belgium) wins his 4th consecutive Tour de France
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24 Jul 1972 Bugojno group is caught by Yugoslav security forces.
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24 Jul 1972 Jigme Singye Wangchuk becomes king of Bhutan at 16
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25 Jul 1972 43rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-3 at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium
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25 Jul 1972 All star MVP: Joe Morgan (Cin Reds)
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25 Jul 1972 US health officials concede blacks were used as guinea pigs in 40 year syphilis experiment
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25 Jul 1972 NL beats AL 4-3 in 43rd All Star Game (Fulton County Stad, Atlanta)
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25 Jul 1972 US health officials concede blacks were used as guinea pigs in
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27 Jul 1972 NHL star Maurice "Rocket" Richard signs with WHL Quebec Nordiques
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28 Jul 1972 39th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Dallas 20, All Stars 7 (54,162)
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30 Jul 1972 Jan Ferraris wins LPGA Lady Pepsi Golf Open
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31 Jul 1972 Dick Allen is 7th to hit 2 inside-the-park homers in a game
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31 Jul 1972 The Troubles: In Operation Motorman, the British Army re-takes the urban no-go areas of Northern Ireland. It is the biggest British military operation since the Suez Crisis of 1956, and the biggest in Ireland since the Irish War of Independence. Later that day, nine civilians are killed by car bombs in the village of Claudy.
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31 Jul 1972 Chic White Sox Dick Allen hits 2 inside-the-park-homers in Minn
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31 Jul 1972 Thomas Eagleton withdraws as Democratic VP candidate
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01 Aug 1972 1st article exposing Wategate scandal (Bernstein-Woodward)
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01 Aug 1972 Nate Colbert of SD Padres hits record tying 5 HRs in a double header
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02 Aug 1972 Gold hits record $70 an ounce in London
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03 Aug 1972 British Premier Heath proclaims emergency crisis due to harbor strike
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03 Aug 1972 Chozen-ji / International Zen Dojo founded by Omori Sogen Roshi, in Hawaii
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03 Aug 1972 The United States Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
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04 Aug 1972 Arthur Bremer jailed for 63 years for shooting Alabama Gov Wallace
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05 Aug 1972 Detroit shortstop Ed Brinkman errors ends record streak of 72 games and 331 total chances without a miscue
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05 Aug 1972 Moody Blues release "Nights in White Satin"
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05 Aug 1972 Uganda President Idi Amin throws out all 80,000 Asians
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06 Aug 1972 Garry Player wins PGA golf tournament
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06 Aug 1972 Hank Aaron hits 660th and 661st HRs for Braves (record for 1 team)
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06 Aug 1972 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Knoxville Ladies Golf Classic
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07 Aug 1972 Hall of Fame inducts Berra, Sandy Koufax, Lefty Gomez and Early Wynn
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08 Aug 1972 New York Yanks sign 30-year lease to play in remodeled Yankee Stadium
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09 Aug 1972 Rockwell receives NASA contract to construct Space Shuttle
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10 Aug 1972 1 million kg heavy meteorite grazes atmosphere above Canada
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10 Aug 1972 Paul and Linda McCartney are arrested in Sweden on drug possession
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11 Aug 1972 "Cheech & Chong Day" in San Antonio, Texas
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11 Aug 1972 Vietnam War: The last United States ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam.
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11 Aug 1972 "Cheech & Chong Day" in San Antonio Texas
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12 Aug 1972 "Funny Thing Happened..." closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 156 performances
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12 Aug 1972 "Oh! Calcutta!" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 1316 performances
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12 Aug 1972 Last American combat ground troops leave Vietnam
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13 Aug 1972 Dutch KRO-TV transmits 440th and last "Bonanza"
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13 Aug 1972 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Pabst Ladies Golf Classic
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14 Aug 1972 Bloody Sunday: British soldiers fire into crowd, kill 13
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14 Aug 1972 An East German Ilyushin Il-62 crashes during takeoff from East Berlin, killing 156.
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14 Aug 1972 East German Aeroflot Illyushin 62 crashes near Moscow, killing 156
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16 Aug 1972 54th PGA Championship: Gary Player shoots a 281 at Oakland Hills, Michigan
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16 Aug 1972 Philip Potter appointed Secretary General of World council of Churches
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16 Aug 1972 In an unsuccessful coup d'état attempt, the Royal Moroccan Air Force fires upon Hassan II of Morocco's plane while he is traveling back to Rabat.
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17 Aug 1972 Phillies Steve Carlton wins his 15th straight game
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18 Aug 1972 Police fine Paul & Linda McCartney $800 in Sweden cannabis possession
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20 Aug 1972 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open
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21 Aug 1972 British harbor strike ends
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21 Aug 1972 Grace Slick maced by police when a band official called cops, pigs
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21 Aug 1972 1st hot air balloon flight over the Alps
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21 Aug 1972 Republican convention opens in Miami Beach
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21 Aug 1972 US orbiting astronomy observatory Copernicus launched
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22 Aug 1972 International Olympic Committee exspells Rhodesia
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23 Aug 1972 Republican Convention (Miami Beach, Florida) renominates VP Agnew but not unanimous-1 vote went to NBC newsman David Brinkley)
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24 Aug 1972 Dennis Amiss scores 1st one-day int century, 103 vs. Australia
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24 Aug 1972 8th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 2-1
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24 Aug 1972 Gordie Howe & Jean Beliveau inducted in Hockey Hall of Fame
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26 Aug 1972 20th Olympic games open at Munich German FR
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26 Aug 1972 Leo Durocher replaces Harry Walker as manager of Astros
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26 Aug 1972 New York Cosmos beat St. Louis Stars, 2-1 to win NASL championship
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26 Aug 1972 Summer Olympics open in Munich, West Germany
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27 Aug 1972 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
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27 Aug 1972 US bombs Haiphong North Vietnam
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30 Aug 1972 John Lennon andYoko Ono perform at Madison Square Garden
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31 Aug 1972 Lasse Viren runs Olympic / world record 10,000m (27:38.4)
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31 Aug 1972 Olga Korbut, USSR, wins olympic gold medal in gymnastics
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01 Sep 1972 Bobby Fischer (US) defeats Boris Spassky (USSR) for world chess title
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01 Sep 1972 Egypt and Libya form federation
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01 Sep 1972 In Reykjavík, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky to become the world chess champion.
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02 Sep 1972 Chicago White Sox Milt Pappas no-hits SD Padres, 1-0
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02 Sep 1972 Renate Stecher runs 100m European female record (11.07 seconds)
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04 Sep 1972 US swimmer Mark Spitz becomes 1st athlete to win 7 olympic gold medals
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04 Sep 1972 Mark Spitz becomes the first competitor to win seven medals at a single Olympic Games.
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05 Sep 1972 11 Israeli athletes are slain at Munich Olympics by Black Sept
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05 Sep 1972 Chemical spill with fog sickens hundreds in Meuse Valley Belgium
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05 Sep 1972 Palestinian terrorists kill 11 Israelis at 1972 Munich Olympics
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05 Sep 1972 Munich massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attacks and takes hostage 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. Two die in the attack and nine die the following day.
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06 Sep 1972 Summer Olympics resume in Munich Germany after massacre
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06 Sep 1972 Munich massacre: Nine Israel athletes taken hostage at the Munich Olympic Games by the Palestinian "Black September" terrorist group die (as did a German policeman) at the hands of the kidnappers during a failed rescue attempt. Two other Israeli athletes were slain in the initial attack the previous day.
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08 Sep 1972 Chicago Cub Ferguson Jenkins wins his 20th game for 6th straight year
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09 Sep 1972 86th US Womens Tennis: Billie Jean M King beats K Melville (63 75)
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09 Sep 1972 Terry Anne Meeuwsen (Wisc), 23, crowned 45th Miss America 1973
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09 Sep 1972 In Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park, a Cave Research Foundation exploration and mapping team discovers a link between the Mammoth and Flint Ridge cave systems, making it the longest known cave passageway in the world.
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10 Sep 1972 20th Olympic games close at Munich, German FR
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10 Sep 1972 92nd US Mens Tennis: Ilie Nastase beats Arthur Ashe (36 63 67 64 63)
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10 Sep 1972 Frank Shorter wins 17th Olympic marathon (2:12:19.8)
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10 Sep 1972 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
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10 Sep 1972 WKAR TV channel 23 in East Lansing, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting
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10 Sep 1972 The United States suffers its first loss of an international basketball game in a disputed match against the Soviet Union at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany.
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10 Sep 1972 Emerson Fittipaldi is youngest to win an auto race World Championship
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10 Sep 1972 US Men's olympic basketball teams 1st lose, 51-50 to USSR (disputed)
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11 Sep 1972 The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit system begins passenger service.
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11 Sep 1972 BART begins service with a 26-mi (42-km) line from Oakland to Fremont
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12 Sep 1972 Ciod War: Icelandic gunboats sink 2 British trawlers in North Sea
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12 Sep 1972 Lord Michael Killanin succeeds Avery Brundage as head of Olympics
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13 Sep 1972 1st TV broadcast of "Waltons" on CBS
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14 Sep 1972 "Waltons" TV program premieres
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14 Sep 1972 West Germany and Poland establish diplomatic relations
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14 Sep 1972 "Waltons" TV program premiers
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15 Sep 1972 WMAO TV channel 23 in Greenwood, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting
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15 Sep 1972 A Scandinavian Airlines System domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm is hijacked and flown to Malmö-Bulltofta Airport.
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16 Sep 1972 Penny Marshall appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Fly Unfriendly Skies"
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16 Sep 1972 1st TV series about mixed marriage-Bridgit Loves Bernie
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17 Sep 1972 "M*A*S*H, " premieres on NBC TV
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17 Sep 1972 BART begins passenger service in San Francisco
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17 Sep 1972 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Quality First Golf Classic
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17 Sep 1972 Tanzania troops march in to Uganda
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17 Sep 1972 "M*A*S*H," premiers on TV
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18 Sep 1972 1st black NL umpire (Art Williams-Los Angeles vs San Diego)
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19 Sep 1972 A parcel bomb sent to Israeli Embassy in London kills one diplomat.
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20 Sep 1972 Police find cannabis growing on Paul & Linda McCartney's farm
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21 Sep 1972 Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos signs Proclamation № 1081, placing the entire country under martial law and marking the beginning of his authoritarian rule.
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21 Sep 1972 Marcos declares martial law in the Philippines
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22 Sep 1972 Dictator Idi Amin throws 8,000 Asians out of Uganda
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23 Sep 1972 Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law
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23 Sep 1972 President Marcos ends emergency crisis in Philippines
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24 Sep 1972 Jack Tatum, Oakland, returns a fumble 104 yards vs. Green Bay (rec)
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24 Sep 1972 New York Jet Joe Namath passes for 6 touchdowns vs. Baltimore Colt (44-34)
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24 Sep 1972 Japan Airlines Flight 472, operated Douglas DC-8-53 landed at Juhu Aerodrome instead of Santacruz Airport in Bombay, India.
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24 Sep 1972 Antique F86 Sabrejet fails to takeoff at air show, kills 22
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25 Sep 1972 Dutch air force drives away Russian Tupolev-bomber
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25 Sep 1972 KAVT (now KSMQ) TV channel 15 in Austin, MN (PBS) begins broadcasting
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25 Sep 1972 Norway votes to join common market
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25 Sep 1972 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open
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25 Sep 1972 In a referendum, the people of Norway reject membership of the European Community.
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26 Sep 1972 Norway rejects membership in European Common Market
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26 Sep 1972 American Museum of Immigration dedicated
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27 Sep 1972 1st game at Nassau Coliseum, Rangers beat Islanders 6-4 (exhibition)
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28 Sep 1972 David Bowie sells out his 1st show in New York Carnegie Hall
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28 Sep 1972 Paul Henderson scores the series-winning goal for Canada in the final minute of the final game of the ice hockey Summit Series between Canada and the Soviet Union.
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28 Sep 1972 Japan & Communist China agree to re-establish diplomatic relations
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29 Sep 1972 China–Japan relations: Japan establishes diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China.
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30 Sep 1972 Roberto Clemente, is 11th to get 3,000 hits
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30 Sep 1972 Roberto Clemente records the 3,000th and final hit of his career.
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30 Sep 1972 Passenger train derails killing 48 (Rust Stasie South Africa)
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01 Oct 1972 1st games of World Hockey Association
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01 Oct 1972 3rd NYC Marathon won by Sheldon Karlin in 2:27:52
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01 Oct 1972 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Portland Ladies Golf Classic
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02 Oct 1972 "From Israel with Love" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 8 performances
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02 Oct 1972 Aeroflot Il-18 crashes near Black Sea resort of Sochi, kills 105
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02 Oct 1972 Bill Stoneman of Montreal pitches his 2nd no-hitter, beating Mets, 7-0
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02 Oct 1972 Danish population votes for European Common Market membership
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02 Oct 1972 Ron Johnson becomes 1st New York Giant to score 4 TDs (vs. Philadelphia)
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03 Oct 1972 Baltimore Roric Harrison is last AL pitcher to homer until interleague play 25 years later
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03 Oct 1972 Indians set a team record for lowest team batting average .234
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03 Oct 1972 Spaceflight 71-2 launched; 1st flexible substrate photovoltaic flown
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04 Oct 1972 Ted Williams manages his final game as Rangers lose to Royals, 4-0
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05 Oct 1972 Herbert Mullin 1st kills, to prevent earthquakes
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06 Oct 1972 22-car train carrying 2,000 pilgrims derails, kills 208 in Mexico
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07 Oct 1972 1st season game at Nassau Coliseum, Flames-3, Islanders-2
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08 Oct 1972 "From Israel with Love" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 8 performances
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08 Oct 1972 Harold Carmichael begins NFL streak of 127 consecutive game receptions
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08 Oct 1972 Lerrin LaGrow Campy, who had been hit by a pitch, is fined and suspended
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09 Oct 1972 "Dude" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 16 performances
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10 Oct 1972 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Heritage Village Golf Open
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11 Oct 1972 Panama adopts constitution
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11 Oct 1972 Reads beat Pirates in NLCS
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11 Oct 1972 A race riot occurs on the United States Navy aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off the coast of Vietnam during Operation Linebacker.
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11 Oct 1972 Prison uprising at Washington DC jail
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12 Oct 1972 "Hurry, Harry" opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 2 performances
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12 Oct 1972 46 sailors injured in race riot on aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk
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12 Oct 1972 Billy Harris failed in 1st Islander penalty shot
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12 Oct 1972 Mariner 9 takes pictures of Martian north pole
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13 Oct 1972 "Hurry, Harry" closes at Ritz Theater NYC after 2 performances
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13 Oct 1972 Argentine Fairchild crashes in Andesgebergte (rugby team eats crash victims to survive)
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13 Oct 1972 Commish Bowie Kuhn allows Bert Campaneris to play in World Series
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13 Oct 1972 Uruguay to Chile plane crashes in Andes Mountain, (12 of 23 rescue)
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13 Oct 1972 An Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-62 crashes outside Moscow killing 174.
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13 Oct 1972 Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashes in the Andes mountains, near the border between Argentina and Chile. By December 23, 1972, only 16 out of 45 people lived long enough to be rescued.
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13 Oct 1972 Aeroflot Il-62 crashes in large pond outside Moscow, 176 die
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14 Oct 1972 Oakland A Gene Tenace is 1st to homer in 1st 2 World Series at bats
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15 Oct 1972 61st Davis Cup: USA beats Romania in Bucharest (3-2)
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15 Oct 1972 Omni in Atlanta opens - Hawks beat the New York Knicks 109-101
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16 Oct 1972 "Pacific Paradise" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 5 performances
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16 Oct 1972 Creedence Clearwater Revival breaks up
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17 Oct 1972 1st time Islanders shut-out-5-0 vs Penguins
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19 Oct 1972 "Mother Earth" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 12 performances
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20 Oct 1972 Queen Juliana visits Yugoslavia
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21 Oct 1972 "Dude" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 16 performances
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21 Oct 1972 "Man of La Mancha" closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 140 performances
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21 Oct 1972 "Pacific Paradise" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 5 performances
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22 Oct 1972 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA GAC Golf Classic
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22 Oct 1972 Vietnam War: In Saigon, Henry Kissinger and South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu meet to discuss a proposed cease-fire that had been worked out between Americans and North Vietnamese in Paris.
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22 Oct 1972 Oakland A's 1st championship; beat Reds, 4 games to 3 in 69th World Series
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23 Oct 1972 "Pippin" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 1944 performances
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23 Oct 1972 Access credit cards introduced in Great Britain
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23 Oct 1972 WNJS TV channel 23 in Camden, New Jersey (PBS) begins broadcasting
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23 Oct 1972 Operation Linebacker, a US bombing campaign against North Vietnam in response to its Easter Offensive, ends after five months.
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25 Oct 1972 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Kenneth J Arrow and John R Hicks
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25 Oct 1972 Eddy Merckx (Belgium) covers 30 miles, 1,258 yards in 1 hr
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26 Oct 1972 Henry Kissinger declares "Peace is at hand" in Vietnam
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26 Oct 1972 Guided tours of Alcatraz (by Park Service) begin
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27 Oct 1972 Golden Gate National Recreation Area created
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28 Oct 1972 "Mother Earth" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 12 performances
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29 Oct 1972 Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open
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29 Oct 1972 The three surviving perpetrators of the Munich massacre are released from prison in exchange for the hostages of hijacked Lufthansa Flight 615.
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29 Oct 1972 Don Cockroft of Cleveland Browns kicks 57-yard field goal
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30 Oct 1972 45 die in a train crash in Chicago, Illinois
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30 Oct 1972 A collision between two commuter trains in Chicago kills 45 and injures 332.
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30 Oct 1972 Worst US rail accident in 14 years; 45 die in Chicago
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31 Oct 1972 Gaylord Perry wins AL Cy Young award
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01 Nov 1972 1st gay theme TV movie - "That Certain Summer"
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01 Nov 1972 Germaoin Gagnon scores 1st Islander hat trick
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02 Nov 1972 Construction begins on Kingdome, Seattle
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04 Nov 1972 Bangladesh adopts constitution
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04 Nov 1972 Kings score 3 goals within 45 seconds against Islanders
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05 Nov 1972 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Lady Errol Golf Classic
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07 Nov 1972 President Nixon (R) re-elected defeating George McGovern (D)
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11 Nov 1972 Dow Jones Index moves above 1,000 for 1st time
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11 Nov 1972 US Army turns over Long Bihn base to South Vietnamese army
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14 Nov 1972 Dow Jones closes above 1,000 for 1st time (1003.16)
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15 Nov 1972 Circle-in the-Square Theater opens at 1633 Broadway, New York City
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15 Nov 1972 White Sox Dick Allen wins AL MVP
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15 Nov 1972 Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 48 launched to study gamma rays
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16 Nov 1972 "Dear Oscar" opens at Playhouse Theater NYC for 5 performances
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19 Nov 1972 "Ambassador" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 9 performances
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19 Nov 1972 "Dear Oscar" closes at Playhouse Theater NYC after 5 performances
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19 Nov 1972 Gershwin Theater (Uris) opens at 1633 Broadway, New York City
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19 Nov 1972 KFIZ TV channel 34 in Fond du Lac, WI suspends broadcasting
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19 Nov 1972 Willy Brandts SPD wins West German election
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21 Nov 1972 Red Sox Carlton Fisk wins AL Rookie of Year, Mets Jon Matlack wins NL
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22 Nov 1972 US ends 22 year travel ban to China
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22 Nov 1972 Flyers start Islanders on 15 game winless streak
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22 Nov 1972 Pittsburgh Penguins set NHL record for scoring fastest 5 goals (2m7s)
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25 Nov 1972 "Ambassador" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 9 performances
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26 Nov 1972 Pete Gogolak scores New York Giant record 8 points after a touchdown
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27 Nov 1972 Pierre Trudeau forms Canadian government
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27 Nov 1972 Yanks trade Ellis, Torres and Spikes to Indians for Nettles and Moses
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28 Nov 1972 "Via Galactica" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 7 performances
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28 Nov 1972 Last executions in Paris: Claude Buffet and Roger Bontems are guillotined at La Santé Prison. The chief executioner is André Obrecht. (Bontems had been found innocent of murder, but as Buffet's accomplice was condemned to death anyway)
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28 Nov 1972 Los Angeles Dodgers trade Frank Robinson to California Angels
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29 Nov 1972 Atari announces the release of Pong, the first commercially successful video game.
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30 Nov 1972 BBC bans Wings "Hi, Hi, Hi"
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30 Nov 1972 Vietnam War: White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler tells the press that there will be no more public announcements concerning American troop withdrawals from Vietnam due to the fact that troop levels are now down to 27,000.
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30 Nov 1972 BBC bans Wings "Hi, Hi, Hi"
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30 Nov 1972 Illegal fireworks factory explodes killing 15 (Rome Italy)
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01 Dec 1972 Wings release "Hi, Hi, Hi" in the UK
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02 Dec 1972 "December Giant" largest sinkhole in US collapses (Alabama)
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02 Dec 1972 "Via Galactica" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 7 performances
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02 Dec 1972 60th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats Saskatchewan, 13-10
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02 Dec 1972 In 1 of their worst trades Yanks get Rich McKinney for Stan Bahnsen
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03 Dec 1972 Convair 990A charter crashes in Tenerife Canary Island, 155 die
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05 Dec 1972 38th Heisman Trophy Award: Johnny Rodgers, Nebraska (FL)
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05 Dec 1972 Australia Labour party wins parliamentary election
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05 Dec 1972 Joseph A Walkers "River Niger, " premieres in New York City
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07 Dec 1972 Apollo 17 (US), final manned lunar landing mission, launched
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07 Dec 1972 Imelda Marcos survives an assassination attempt using a bolo knife against her.
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07 Dec 1972 Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, is launched. The crew takes the photograph known as The Blue Marble as they leave the Earth.
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08 Dec 1972 United Airlines Flight 553, a Boeing 737, crashes after aborting its landing attempt at Chicago Midway International Airport, killing 45. The crash is the first-ever loss of a Boeing 737.
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10 Dec 1972 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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11 Dec 1972 Apollo 17 becomes the sixth and last Apollo mission to land on the Moon.
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11 Dec 1972 Astronauts Cernan & Harrison become 11th & 12th on the Moon
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11 Dec 1972 Jet's Don Maynard becomes all time pro reception leader (632)
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13 Dec 1972 Apollo program: Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt begin the third and final extra-vehicular activity (EVA) or "Moonwalk" of Apollo 17. To date they are the last humans to set foot on the Moon.
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14 Dec 1972 Apollo program: Eugene Cernan is the last person to walk on the moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and final extra-vehicular activity (EVA) of the Apollo 17 mission.
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14 Dec 1972 Eugene Cernan & Harrison Schmitt leave the Moon
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14 Dec 1972 Willy Brandt re-elected West German chancellor
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16 Dec 1972 Bangladesh Constitution goes into effect
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16 Dec 1972 Miami Dolphins become 1st undefeated NFL team (14-0-0)
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17 Dec 1972 New line of control agreed to in Kashmir between India & Pakistan
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17 Dec 1972 WGVC (now WUCX) TV channel 35 in Grand Rapids MI (PBS) 1st broadcast
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18 Dec 1972 Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will engage North Vietnam in Operation Linebacker II, a series of Christmas bombings, after peace talks collapsed with North Vietnam on the 13th.
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18 Dec 1972 US begins its heaviest bombing of North Vietnam
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19 Dec 1972 Apollo program: The last manned lunar flight, Apollo 17, crewed by Eugene Cernan, Ron Evans and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth.
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19 Dec 1972 Apollo 17 (last of Apollo Moon landing series) returns to Earth
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20 Dec 1972 Neil Simons "Sunshine Boys, " premieres in New York City
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20 Dec 1972 Neil Simons "Sunshine Boys" premieres in New York NY
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21 Dec 1972 Soviet Union signs a separate peace with East Germany
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22 Dec 1972 6.25 earthquake strikes Managua Nicaragua, 12,000+ killed
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23 Dec 1972 "Immaculate Reception" Steelers turns around a 7-6 defeat with a last second touchdown reception against Raiders to win 13-7
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23 Dec 1972 A 6.5 magnitude earthquake strikes the Nicaraguan capital of Managua killing more than 10,000.
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23 Dec 1972 The 16 survivors of the Andes flight disaster are rescued after 73 days, having survived by cannibalism.
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23 Dec 1972 16 plane crash survivors rescued after 70 days, survived by cannibalism
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23 Dec 1972 Islanders end 15 games winless streak
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23 Dec 1972 6.25 Earthquake destroys central Managua Nicaragua, 10,000 die
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23 Dec 1972 Chandrasekhar takes 8-79 India vs England at Delhi
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25 Dec 1972 England beats India by six wickets in the 1st Test Cricket at Delhi
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26 Dec 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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27 Dec 1972 "Purlie" opens at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 14 performances
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27 Dec 1972 Belgium recognizes German DR
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27 Dec 1972 Los Angeles Kings start Islanders on 12 game losing streak
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27 Dec 1972 New North Korean constitution comes into effect
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27 Dec 1972 Belgium recognizes German Democratic Republic
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28 Dec 1972 Kim Il-sung, already Prime Minister of North Korea and First Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, becomes the first President of North Korea.
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28 Dec 1972 Kim Il-song, becomes President of North Korea
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28 Dec 1972 Martin Bormann's skeleton found in Berlin (Hitlers deputy)
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29 Dec 1972 An Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 (a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar) crashes on approach to Miami International Airport, Florida, killing 101.
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29 Dec 1972 Eastern Tristar Jumbo Jet crashes near Everglades killing 101
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29 Dec 1972 Life magazine ceases publication
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29 Dec 1972 Test Cricket debut of Jeff Thomson & Max Walker vs Pakistan at MCG
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30 Dec 1972 Vietnam War: The United States halts heavy bombing of North Vietnam.
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30 Dec 1972 President Nixon halts bombing of North Vietnam & announces peace talks
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31 Dec 1972 Leap second day; also in 1973-79, 1987, 1998
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31 Dec 1972 Miami Dolphins beat Pittsburgh Steelers 21-7 in AFC championship game
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31 Dec 1972 Washington Redskins beat Dallas Cowboys 26-3 in NFC championship game
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31 Dec 1972 39th Sugar Bowl: Oklahoma 14 beats Penn State 0
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