1972

The year 1972 (MCMLXXII) of the Gregorian Calendar began on Saturday and ended on Sunday. The Lunar Calendar marked Chinese New Yearon February 15 of this year, marking the beginning of the Year of the Rat.

1972 saw a great deal of violence worldwide. Attempts to establish peace in Vietnam failed; Northern Vietnam had proposed a compromise that it would no longer seek the disestablishment of the South Vietnam government if Communist troops were allowed to stay in South Vietnam. The U.S. agreed to the compromise, and declared that peace was eminent in the area. However, when Nixon was re-elected to office, the decision was overturned and the military strikes resumed.http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/

The 1972 Summer Olympics were marred by tragedy, when the Black Septmeber PLO group broke past security at the Olympic Village, and killed two coaches, before taking nine hostages. The takeover ended in the killing of the hostages and the commandos as they attempted to flee.http://www.inthe70s.com/generated/time1972.shtml

January 1972

Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth after learning that Commonwealth members will recognize Bangladesh.
British paratroopers, in Northern Ireland, shoot and kill thirteen unarmed demonstrators at a civil rights march

February 1972

First hand-held calculator goes on the market for $395
The British Embassy in Dublin, Ireland is burned down in response to an incident in Derry
California finds the death penalty to be cruel and unusual, and commutes all death row inmates' sentences to life in prison

March 1972

Libya signed a cooperation treaty with the Soviet Union
Britain closed Northern Ireland's parliament and declares it will rule there directly for one year.
North Vietnamese troops attack a base in the south. Their biggest operation in four years.

April 1972

April 20: Apollo Program: Apollo 16 becomes the fifth manned lunar lander to touch down on the Moon.

April 16 1972

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April 16: Apollo Program: Apollo 16 takes off on a mission to the Moon.

May 1972

Governor Wallace of Alabama is shot, while campainging for the Presidency in Laurel, Maryland
Republican Party affiliates attempt to break into Democratic Party headquarters, in an effort to find evidence that the Democrats had received Cuban funding

June 1972

June 7: The musical "Grease" opened on Broadway
June 18: Trident jetliner crashes after takeoff from Heathrow Airport in London, killing 118 people
June 23: President Richard Nixon and White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman discussed a plan to use the CIA to obstruct the FBI's Watergate investigation.

July 1972

Senator George McGovern won the Democratic Part nomination for the Presidency.

August 1972

President Nixon withdraws the remaining U.S. units from Vietnam.

September 1972

King Hassan of Morocco is fired upon while flying in his private 727

September 1972

1972: During 1972 Munich Olympics, American, Mark Spitz became the first Olympian to win 7 gold medals.

October 1972

The first female FBI agents were hired

November 1972

November 14: The Dow Jones Industrial Average rises above 1,000 for the first time in history.

December 1972

December 7: Apollo 17 launched in Florida. It would be the final moon mission in part with the Apollo Program.
December 22: Chilean rescue teams reached the 14 remaining survivors of a plane that had crashed in the mountain 2 months prior. The crash victims, most of which were Rugby players resorted to Cannibalism to stay alive, in 1993 a film was made about their ordeal.