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Year '''1972''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCMLXXII]]''') was a [[leap year starting on Saturday]] (link will display full calendar) of the [[Gregorian calendar]].
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==Events of 1972==
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===January===
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* [[January 2]] - [[Pierre Hotel Robbery]]: Six men rob the [[safety deposit box]]es of [[The Pierre Hotel]] in [[New York City]] of at least $4 million.
* [[January 4]]
**<!--January 4-->[[Rose Heilbron]] becomes the first woman judge at the [[Old Bailey]] in [[London]].
**<!--January 4-->[[Kurt Waldheim]] becomes the [[Secretary General of the United Nations]].
* [[January 5]] - U.S. President [[Richard Nixon]] orders the development of a [[space shuttle]] program.
* [[January 7]] - An Iberian Airlines passenger plane crashes into a 250-meter peak on the island of Ibiza; 104 dead.
* [[January 9]]
**<!--January 9-->[[Howard Hughes]] speaks by telephone to denounce [[Clifford Irving]]'s supposed biography of him.
**<!--January 9-->[[RMS Queen Elizabeth]] is destroyed by fire in [[Hong Kong]] harbor.
* [[January 11]] - East Pakistan wins independence with the name [[Bangladesh]].
* [[January 13]] - Prime Minister of [[Ghana]] [[Kofi Abrefa Busia]] is overthrown in a military coup.
* [[January 14]] - King [[Frederick IX of Denmark]] dies; he's succeeded by his daughter Queen [[Margaret II of Denmark]].
* [[January 16]] - The [[Dallas Cowboys]] defeat the [[Miami Dolphins]], 24 - 3 in [[Super Bowl VI]].
* [[January 19]] - The [[Libertarian]] enclave [[Republic of Minerva|Minerva]] on a platform in the [[Pacific Ocean|South Pacific]], sponsored by the [[Phoenix Foundation]], declares [[independence]]. Soon neighboring [[Tonga]] annexes the area and dismantles the platform.
* [[January 23]] - A [[New Delhi]] [[moonshine|bootlegger]] sells [[wood alcohol]] to a [[wedding]] party - 100 dead.
* [[January 24]] - [[Japan]]ese soldier [[Shoichi Yokoi]] is discovered in [[Guam]]. He had spent 28 years in the jungle.
* [[January 25]] - [[Shirley Chisholm]], the first [[African American]] Congresswoman, announces her candidacy for President.
* [[January 26]]
**<!--January 26-->[[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavian]] air stewardress [[Vesna Vulovic]] is the only survivor when her plane crashes in [[Czechoslovakia]]. She survives after falling 10,160 meters in the tail section of the aircraft.
**<!--January 26-->The [[Aboriginal Tent Embassy]] is set up on the lawn of [[Parliament House, Canberra|Parliament House]] in [[Canberra]].
* [[January 28]] - [[Richard Chanfray]] claims he is the [[Count of St Germain]] on French television.
* [[January 30]]
**<!--January 30-->[[Bloody Sunday (1972)|Bloody Sunday]]: [[British Army]] kills 13 unarmed [[Roman Catholic]]/[[Nationalist]] civil rights marchers in [[Derry]], [[Northern Ireland]].
**<!--January 30-->[[Pakistan]] withdraws from the [[Commonwealth of Nations]].
* [[January 31]] - King [[Birendra of Nepal|Birendra]] succeeds his father as King of [[Nepal]].
===February===
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* [[February 1]] - First scientific hand-held calculator ([[HP-35]]) is introduced (price $395).
* [[February 2]]
**<!--February 2-->A bomb explodes at the British Yacht Club in [[West Berlin]]. The only casualty is Irwin Beelitz, a German boat builder.
**<!--February 2-->The German militant group [[Movement 2 June]] announces its support of the [[Irish Republican Army]].
**<!--February 2-->Anti-[[United Kingdom|British]] riots throughout [[Ireland]] take place. The British Embassy in [[Dublin]] is burned to the ground, as are several British-owned businesses.
* [[February 3]]-[[February 13]] - The [[1972 Winter Olympics]] were held in [[Sapporo]], [[Japan]].
* [[February 4]] - ''[[Mariner 9]]'' sends pictures from [[Mars (planet)|Mars]].
* [[February 5]]
**<!--February 5-->U.S. airlines begin mandatory inspection of passengers and baggage.
**<!--February 5-->[[Bob Douglas]] becomes the first [[African American]] elected to the [[Basketball Hall of Fame]].
* [[February 9]] - The British government declares a [[state of emergency]] over a miners' strike.
* [[February 15]]
**<!--February 15-->President of [[Ecuador]] [[José María Velasco Ibarra]] is deposed for the fourth time.
**<!--February 15-->[[Sound recording and reproduction|Phonorecord]]s are granted U.S. Federal [[copyright]] protection for the first time.
* [[February 17]] - [[Volkswagen Beetle]] sales exceed those of the [[Ford Model-T]] when the 15,007,034th Beetle is produced.
* [[February 18]] - The [[California Supreme Court]] voids the state's [[death penalty]], commuting all death sentences to life in prison.
* [[February 19]] - A stand off five [[Japanese United Red Army]] and many Japanese police, riot controller begin taking the 31 years-old wife has hostarged lodge house at [[Karuizawa]], [[Japan]], where continue to ten days.
* [[February 21]] - The [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] unmanned [[Spacecraft|spaceship]] ''[[Luna 20]]'' lands on the [[Moon]].
* [[February 21]]-[[February 28]] - U.S. President [[Richard M. Nixon]] makes an unprecedented [[Nixon visit to China 1972|8-day visit]] to the [[People's Republic of China]] and meets with [[Mao Zedong]].
* [[February 22]] - [[1972 Aldershot bombing|Aldershot bombing]] - an [[Official IRA]] bomb kills 7 in [[Aldershot]], [[England]].
* [[February 23]]
**<!--February 23-->[[Angela Davis]] is released from jail. A [[Caruthers, California]] farmer, Rodger McAfee, helps her make bail.
**<!--February 23-->A [[Lufthansa]] plane is hijacked and taken to [[Aden]]. Passengers are released after a ransom of 16 million [[German mark]]s is agreed.
* [[February 24]] - North Vietnamese negotiators walk out of the Paris Peace Talks to protest U.S. air raids.
* [[February 26]]
**<!--February 26-->A [[Buffalo Creek flood|coal sludge spill]] kills 125 people in [[Buffalo Creek]], [[West Virginia]].
**<!--February 26-->''[[Luna 20]]'' comes back to Earth with a cargo of moon rocks.
* [[February 28]] - In [[Karuizawa]], [[Japan]], the Japanese authorities attempt to rescue a female hostage ends with a standoff between five Japanese United Red Army and the authorities, in which two policemen are killed and 12 injured.
===March===
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* [[March 1]]
**<!--March 1-->The Thai province [[Yasothon province|Yasothon]] is created after being split off from the [[Ubon Ratchathani Province]].
**<!--March 1-->The [[Club of Rome]] publishes its report ''[[Limits to Growth]]''.
* [[March 2]]
**<!--March 2-->The ''[[Pioneer 10]]'' spacecraft is launched from [[Cape Kennedy]], to be the first man-made satellite to leave the solar system.
**<!--March 2-->[[Jean-Bedel Bokassa]] becomes President of the [[Central African Republic]].
* [[March 3]] - Sculpted figures of [[Jefferson Davis]], [[Robert E. Lee]], and [[Stonewall Jackson]] are completed at [[Stone Mountain]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]].
* [[March 4]] - [[Libya]] and the [[Soviet Union]] sign a cooperation treaty.
* [[March 5]] - Greek composer [[Mikis Theodorakis]] leaves the [[Greek Communist Party]].
* [[March 13]]
**<!--March 13-->The [[United Kingdom]] and the [[People's Republic of China]] elevate diplomatic exchanges to the ambassadorial level after 22 years.
**<!--March 13-->[[Clifford Irving]] admits to a [[New York]] court that he had fabricated [[Howard Hughes]]' "autobiography".
* [[March 16]] - The first building of the [[Pruitt-Igoe]] housing development is destroyed.
* [[March 19]] - [[India]] and [[Bangladesh]] sign a friendship [[treaty]].
* [[March 22]] - The 92nd [[U.S. Congress]] votes to send the proposed [[Equal Rights Amendment]] to the states for ratification.
* [[March 24]]
**<!--March 24-->''[[The Godfather]]'' is released in cinemas in the [[USA]].
**<!--March 24-->The [[United Kingdom|British]] government announces the prorogation of the [[Parliament of Northern Ireland]] and the introduction of '[[Direct Rule]]' of [[Northern Ireland]], after the [[Unionist (Ireland)|Unionist]] government refuses to cede security powers.
* [[March 26]] - An [[avalanche]] on [[Mount Fuji]] kills 19 climbers.
* [[March 30]] - [[Vietnam War]]: The [[Easter Offensive]] begins after [[North Vietnam]]ese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of [[South Vietnam]].
===April===
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*[[April 7]] - [[Vietnam War]] veteran [[Richard McCoy, Jr.]] hijacks a [[United Airlines]] jet and extorts $500,000 – he is later captured.
* [[April 10]] - The U.S. and the Soviet Union join some 70 nations in signing the [[Biological Weapons Convention]], an agreement to ban [[biological warfare]].
* [[April 10]] - A 7.0 [[Richter magnitude scale|Richter scale]] [[earthquake]] kills 5,000 people in the [[Iran]]ian province of [[Fars]].
* [[April 10]] - The 44th Annual Academy Awards are held at the [[Dorothy Chandler Pavilion]] in Los Angeles.
* [[April 13]] - 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]].
* [[April 16]] - ''[[Apollo 16]]'' ([[John Young (astronaut)|John Young]], [[Ken Mattingly]], [[Charlie Duke]]) is launched. During the mission, the astronauts achieve a [[lunar rover]] speed record of 18 km/h.
* [[April 16]] - [[Vietnam War]]: Nguyen Hue offensive - Prompted by the [[North Vietnam]]ese offensive, the [[United States]] resumes bombing of [[Hanoi]] and [[Haiphong]].
* [[April 22]] - Sylvia Cook and [[John Fairfax]] finish rowing across the [[Pacific]].
* [[April 27]] - A no-confidence vote against [[Chancellor of Germany|German Chancellor]] [[Willy Brandt]] fails under obscure circumstances.
* [[April 29]] - The fourth anniversary of the Broadway musical ''[[Hair (musical)|Hair]]'' is celebrated with a free concert at a Central Park bandshell, followed by dinner at the Four Seasons. There, 13 [[Black Panther Party|Black Panther]] protesters and the show's co-author, [[Jim Rado]], are arrested for disturbing the peace and marijuana use.
===May===
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* May
**<!--May-->Burundian Genocide against [[Hutu]] begins. More than 500,000 Hutus die.
**<!--May-->The [[Magnavox Odyssey]] video game system is released, thus marking the dawn of the video game age.
* [[May 2]] - Fire in a [[silver]] mine in [[Idaho]], [[United States]] kills 91.
* [[May 5]] - An [[Alitalia]] [[DC-8]] crashes west of [[Palermo]], [[Sicily]] (115 dead).
* [[May 7]] - [[Italian general elections, 1972|General elections]] are held in [[Italy]].
* [[May 8]] - U.S. President [[Richard Nixon]] orders the mining of [[Haiphong]] Harbor in [[Vietnam]].
* [[May 13]] - Fire in a nightclub atop the Sennichi department store in [[Osaka]], [[Japan]], leaves 115 dead.
* [[May 15]] - Governor [[George C. Wallace]] of [[Alabama]] is shot by [[Arthur Herman Bremer]] at a [[Laurel, Maryland]] political rally.
* [[May 16]] - The first financial derivatives exchange, the [[International Monetary Market]] (IMM) opens on the [[Chicago Mercantile Exchange]].
* [[May 18]] - Four troopers of both [[Special Air Service|SAS]] and [[Special Boat Service|SBS]] are parachuted onto the ''[[RMS Queen Elizabeth 2]]'', 1,000 miles off Britain in the Atlantic, after a bomb threat and ransom demand, which turns out to be bogus.
* [[May 19]] - Three out of 6 bombs explode in the [[Axel Springer AG|Springer Press]] building in [[Hamburg]], [[Germany]], injuring 17 (the [[Red Army Faction]] claims responsibility).
* [[May 21]] - In [[Rome]], [[Laszlo Toth]] attacks [[Michelangelo]]'s "[[Pietà]]" statue with a sledgehammer, shouting that he is [[Jesus Christ]].
* [[May 22]] - [[Ceylon]] becomes the republic of [[Sri Lanka]] under prime minister [[Sirimavo Bandaranaike]], when its new [[constitution]] is ratified.
* [[May 23]] - Tamil United Front (now known as [[Tamil United Liberation Front]], a pro-[[Tamil people|Tamil]] organization, is founded.
* [[May 24]]
**<!--May 24-->[[Rangers F.C.|Rangers]] lift the [[Cup Winners Cup]], defeating [[FC Dinamo Moscow|Dynamo Moscow]] in the [[1972 Cup Winners Cup final|final]] at the [[Nou Camp]]. Their supporters cause a [[riot]], with the team banned from defending the trophy the following season.
**<!--May 24-->A [[Red Army Faction|RAF]] bomb explodes in the [[Campbell Barracks]] of the U.S. Army Supreme European Command in [[Heidelberg]], [[West Germany]]. Three U.S. soldiers (Clyde Bonner, Ronald Woodard and Charles Peck) are killed.
* [[May 26]]
**<!--May 26-->[[Richard Nixon]] and [[Leonid Brezhnev]] sign the [[SALT I treaty]] in [[Moscow]], as well as the [[Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty]] and other agreements.
**<!--May 26-->First failed attempt at [[Watergate first break-in]]: the "Ameritas dinner" at the Watergate.
**<!--May 26-->[[Wernher von Braun]] retires from [[NASA]], frustrated by the agency's unwillingness to pursue a manned trans-orbital space program.
**<!--May 26-->[[Willandra National Park]] is established in [[Australia]].
* [[May 27]] - Second failed attempt at [[Watergate first break-in]].
* [[May 28]] - [[Watergate first break-in]].
* [[May 30]] - [[The Angry Brigade]] goes on trial in the [[United Kingdom]].
* [[May 30]] - Three [[Japanese Red Army]] members kill 24 and injure 100 in [[Lod Airport]], [[Israel]].
===June===
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* June - [[Iraq]] [[nationalization|nationalizes]] the [[Iraq Petroleum Company]].
* [[June 2]] - [[Andreas Baader]], [[Jan-Carl Raspe]], [[Holger Meins]] and some other members of [[Red Army Faction]] are arrested in [[Frankfurt am Main]] after a shootout.
* [[June 3]] - [[Sally Priesand]] becomes the first female U.S. rabbi.
* [[June 4]] - [[Angela Davis]] is found not guilty of murder.
* [[June 9]] - The [[Black Hills flood]], kills 238 in [[South Dakota]], USA.
* [[June 14]]-[[June 23]] - [[Hurricane Agnes]] kills 117 on the U.S. East Coast.
* [[June 15]] - [[Ulrike Meinhof]] and [[Gerhard Müller]] of [[Red Army Faction]] are arrested in a teacher's apartment in [[Langenhagen]], West Germany.
* [[June 15]]-[[June 18]] - The first U.S. [[Libertarian Party (United States)|Libertarian Party]] National Convention is held in Denver, [[Colorado]].
* [[June 16]] - 108 die as two passenger trains hit debris of a collapsed railway tunnel near [[Soissons]], [[France]].
* [[June 17]]
**<!--June 17-->[[Watergate scandal]]: Five [[White House]] operatives are arrested for burglarizing the offices of the [[Democratic National Committee]].
**<!--June 17-->The [[United States]] returns [[Okinawa]], occupied and governed since the [[WW-II]] [[Battle of Okinawa]], back to the government of [[Japan]].
**<!--June 17-->[[Chile]]an president [[Salvador Allende]] forms a new government.
* [[June 18]]
**<!--June 18-->A [[British European Airways]] [[Hawker Siddeley Trident|Trident 1]] jet airliner crashes alongside the busy [[A30 road|A30]] Staines bypass, killing all 118 passengers and crew.
**<!--June 18-->[[Germany national football team|West Germany]] beats the [[USSR national football team|Soviet Union]] 3-0 to win [[1972 European Football Championship|Euro 72]].
* [[June 23]] - [[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|C.I.A.]] to obstruct the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|F.B.I.]]'s investigation into the [[Watergate burglaries|Watergate]] break-ins.
* [[June 26]] - [[Nolan Bushnell]] and [[Ted Dabney]] co-found [[Atari]].
* [[June 28]] - U.S. President [[Richard Nixon]] announces that no new draftees will be sent to [[Vietnam]].
* [[June 29]] - ''[[Furman v. Georgia]]'': The [[Supreme Court of the United States]] rules that the [[Capital punishment|death penalty]] is unconstitutional.
===July===
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* July - U.S. actress [[Jane Fonda]] tours [[North Vietnam]], during which she is photographed sitting on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun.
* [[July 1]]
**<!--July 1-->The Canadian ketch ''[[Greenpeace#Moruroa Atoll and the Vega|Vega]]'', flying the Greenpeace III banner, collides with the French naval minesweeper ''La Paimpolaise'' while in [[international waters]] to protest French nuclear weapon [[Moruroa|tests]] in the [[Oceania|South Pacific]].
**<!--July 1-->The [[Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms]] becomes independent from the [[U.S. Internal Revenue Service|IRS]].
* [[July 2]] - Following [[Pakistan]]'s surrender to [[India]] in the [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1971]], both nations sign the historic [[Simla Agreement]], agreeing to settle their disputes bilaterally.
* [[July 4]] - The first [[Rainbow Gathering]] is held in [[Colorado]].
* [[July 8]] - The U.S. sells [[cereal|grain]] to the Soviet Union for $750 million.
* [[July 10]] - A [[stampede]] of elephants kills 24 people in the Chandka Forest in India.
* [[July 10]]-[[July 14]] - The [[Democratic National Convention]] meets in [[Miami Beach]]. Senator [[George McGovern]], who backs the immediate and complete withdrawal of U.S. troops from [[South Vietnam]], is nominated for President. He names fellow Senator [[Thomas Eagleton]] as his running mate.
* [[July 15]] - The [[Pruitt-Igoe]] housing development is demolished in [[Saint Louis, Missouri]].
* [[July 18]] - [[Staines air disaster]] - 118 killed as plane crashes 2 minutes after take off from [[London Heathrow Airport]]
* [[July 18]] - [[Anwar Sadat]] expels 20,000 Soviet advisors from [[Egypt]].
* [[July 21]]
**<!--July 21-->[[Bloody Friday (1972)|Bloody Friday]]: 22 bombs planted by the [[Provisional IRA]] explode in [[Belfast]], [[Northern Ireland]]; 9 people are killed and 130 seriously injured.
**<!--July 21-->Comedian [[George Carlin]] is arrested by [[Milwaukee, Wisconsin]] police for public [[obscenity]], for reciting his “Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television” at [[Summerfest]].
**<!--July 21-->Collision between two trains near [[Sevilla]], [[Spain]] kills 76 people.
* [[July 23]] - The [[United States]] launches [[Landsat 1]], the first Earth-resources [[satellite]].
* [[July 25]] - U.S. health officials admit that blacks were used as guinea pigs in the [[Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male]].
* [[July 29]] - A national dock strike begins in Britain.
===August===
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* [[August 1]] - U.S. Senator [[Thomas Eagleton]], the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, withdraws from the race after revealing he was once treated for mental illness. He was eventually replaced by [[Sargent Shriver]].
* [[August 4]]
**<!--August 4-->[[Arthur Bremer]] is jailed for 63 years for shooting [[George Wallace]].
**<!--August 4-->Dictator [[Idi Amin]] declares that [[Uganda]] will expel 50,000 Asians with British passports to Britain within three months.
**<!--August 4-->Huge [[Solar Flare]] knocks out cable lines in U.S. One of the largest flares ever recorded. Event begins with appearance of sunspot on Aug 2, Aug 4 flare kicks off high levels of activity until Aug 10, 1972.
* [[August 10]] - A brilliant, daytime [[Impact event|meteor]] skips off the [[Earth|Earth's]] atmosphere due to an [[Apollo asteroid]] streaking over the western [[United states|US]] into [[Canada]].<ref>[http://www.astrosociety.org/pubs/mercury/9806/impact.html Observation of Meteoroid Impacts by Space-Based Sensors] astrosociety.org, 1998, 'Apollo asteroid about ten meters in diameter'</ref>
* [[August 12]] - The last U.S. ground troops are withdrawn from Vietnam.
* [[August 14]] - An [[East Germany|East German]] [[Ilyushin]] airliner crashes near [[Berlin|East Berlin]] killing all 156 onboard.
* [[August 16]] - The [[Royal Moroccan Air Force]] mistakenly fires upon, but fails to bring down, [[Hassan II of Morocco]]'s plane while he is traveling back to [[Rabat]].
* [[August 21]] - The [[Republican National Convention]] in [[Miami Beach]], [[Florida]] renominates U.S. President [[Richard Nixon]] and Vice President [[Spiro Agnew]] for a second term.
* [[August 22]]
**<!--August 22-->[[John Wojtowicz]], 27, and Sal Naturile, 18, hold several Chase Manhattan Bank employees hostage for 17 hours in Flatbush, Brooklyn, N.Y.
**<!--August 22-->[[Jane Fonda]] makes an antiwar broadcast from a hotel room in [[Hanoi]].
* [[August 26]]-[[September 11]] - The [[1972 Summer Olympics]] are held in [[Munich]], [[West Germany]].
===September===
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* [[September 1]] - [[Bobby Fischer]] defeats [[Boris Spassky]] in a [[chess]] match at [[Reykjavík]], Iceland, becoming the first American chess champion (see [[World Chess Championship 1972|Match of the Century]]).
* [[September 4]] - The first episode of [[The Price Is Right]] is hosted on [[CBS]] by [[Bob Barker]]. Gambit and The Joker's Wild also premiere.
* [[September 5]]-[[September 6]] - [[Munich Massacre]]: Eleven [[Israel]]i athletes at the [[1972 Summer Olympics]] in [[Munich]] are murdered after 8 members of the [[Arab]] [[terrorism|terrorist]] group [[Black September (group)|Black September]] invade the Olympic Village; 5 guerillas and 1 policeman are also killed in a failed [[hostage]] rescue.
* [[September 14]] - West Germany and Poland renew diplomatic relations.
* [[September 17]] - [[Uganda]] announces that there are [[Tanzania]]n troops in its territory.
* [[September 18]] - [[São Paulo Metro]] is inaugurated in [[Brazil]].
* [[September 19]] - A [[parcel bomb]] sent to the [[Israel]]i Embassy in [[London]] kills 1 diplomat.
* [[September 21]] - [[Philippines|Philippine]] [[President of the Philippines|president]] [[Ferdinand Marcos]] issues [[Proclamation No. 1081]]<ref>[http://www.lawphil.net/executive/proc/proc_1081_1972.html Full Text - Proclamation 1081]</ref> placing the entire country under [[martial law]].
* [[September 24]] - An [[F-86]] fighter aircraft leaving an air show at [[Sacramento Executive Airport]] fails to become airborne and crashes into a Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor, killing 12 children and 11 adults.<ref name="titleCrash at Farrells">{{cite web |url=http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/Sabrejet_crash_site.htm |title=Crash at Farrell's |accessdate=2008-03-16 |format= |work=}}</ref>
* [[September 25]] - [[Norwegian EC referendum, 1972]]: Norway rejects membership in the European Economic Community.
* [[September 27]] - The [[Joint Communique of the Government of Japan and the Government of the People's Republic of China]] is signed in [[Beijing]].
* [[September 28]] - The [[Canadian national men's hockey team]] defeats the [[Soviet national ice hockey team]] in game eight of the 1972 [[Summit Series]] (La Série du Siècle), 6-5, to win the series 4-3-1.
* [[September 29]] - [[Sino-Japanese relations]]: [[Japan]] normalizes diplomatic relations with the [[People's Republic of China]] after breaking official ties with the [[Republic of China]] (Taiwan).
===October===
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* [[October 1]] - The first publication reporting the production of a recombinant [[DNA]] molecule, marks the birth of modern [[molecular biology]] methodology.
:: Jackson, David A.; Symons, Robert H.; and Berg, Paul. (1972). [http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/69/10/2904 Biochemical Method for Inserting New Genetic Information into DNA of Simian Virus 40: Circular SV40 DNA Molecules Containing Lambda Phage Genes and the Galactose Operon of Escherichia coli]. ''Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA)'' '''69'''(10), 2904-2909.
* [[October 2]] - [[Denmark]] joins the [[European Community]]. The [[Faroe Islands]] stay out.
* [[October 5]] - The [[United Reformed Church]] is founded out of the [[Congregational church|Congregational]] and [[Presbyterian]] Churches.
* [[October 6]] - A [[train crash]] in [[Saltillo]], [[Mexico]] kills 208 people.
* [[October 8]] - [[R. Sargent Shriver]] is chosen to replace [[Thomas Eagleton]] as the U.S. vice-presidential nominee of the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]].
* [[October 12]] - On the way to the [[Gulf of Tonkin]], a [[Race (classification of human beings)|racial]] brawl involving more than 100 sailors breaks out aboard the [[United States Navy]] aircraft carrier [[USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63)|USS ''Kitty Hawk'']]. Nearly 50 sailors are injured.
* [[October 13]] - [[Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571]]: A [[Fairchild Aircraft|Fairchild FH-227D]] passenger [[aircraft]] transporting a [[rugby union]] team crashes at about 14,000' in the [[Andes]] mountain range, near the Argentina/Chile border. Sixteen of the survivors are found alive [[December 20]] but they have had to resort to [[cannibalism]] to survive.
* [[October 16]]
**<!--October 16-->A plane carrying U.S. Congressman [[Hale Boggs]] of Louisiana and 3 other men vanishes in Alaska. The wreckage has never been found, despite a massive search at the time.
**<!--October 16-->Rioting [[Maze Prison]] inmates cause a fire that destroys most of the camp.
* [[October 17]] - Queen [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom]] visits [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]].
* [[October 25]]
**<!--October 25-->The first female [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agents are hired.
**<!--October 25-->Belgian [[Eddy Merckx]] sets a new world [[hour record]] in [[cycling]] in [[Mexico City]].
* [[October 26]] - Following a visit to [[South Vietnam]], [[U.S. National Security Advisor]] [[Henry Kissinger]] suggests that "peace is at hand."
* [[October 28]] - The first flight of the [[Airbus A300]], the first airliner built by Airbus
* [[October 29]] - The [[Black September (group)|Black September]] group hijacks a [[Lufthansa]] [[Boeing 727]] over [[Turkey]], and demands the release of 3 of their comrades still held for the massacre of [[Israel]]i [[Sportsperson|athlete]]s at the [[Olympic games]].
* [[October 30]]
**<!--October 30-->U.S. President [[Richard Nixon]] approves legislation to increase [[Social Security (United States)|Social Security]] spending by US$5.3 billion.
**<!--October 30-->A [[Metra Electric|commuter train]] collision in [[Chicago]] kills 45, injures hundreds.
===November===
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[[Image:1972_Electoral_Map.png|thumb|right|200px|Nixon's landslide victory in the electoral college during the [[U.S. presidential election, 1972|1972 Election]] .]]
* November - At a scientific meeting in [[Honolulu]], [[Herbert Boyer]] and [[Stanley N. Cohen]] conceive the concept of [[recombinant DNA]]. They publish their results in November 1973 in [[PNAS]]. Separately in 1972, [[Paul Berg]] also recombines DNA in a test tube. Recombinant DNA technology has dramatically changed the field of biological sciences, especially [[biotechnology]], and opened the door to [[genetically modified organisms]].
* [[November 5]] - A group of Amerindians occupies the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
* [[November 7]] - [[U.S. presidential election, 1972]]: [[United States Republican Party|Republican]] incumbent [[Richard Nixon]] defeats [[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]] Senator [[George McGovern]] in a landslide (the election had the lowest voter turnout since 1948, with only 55 percent of the electorate voting).
* [[November 11]] - [[Vietnam War]]: [[Vietnamization]] - The [[United States Army]] turns over the massive Long Binh military base to [[South Vietnam]].
* [[November 14]] - The [[Dow Jones Industrial Average]] closes above 1,000 (1,003.16) for the first time.
* [[November 16]] - The [[United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization]] adopts the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage [http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=182].
* [[November 19]] - [[Seán Mac Stíofáin]], a leader of the [[Provisional Irish Republican Army]], is arrested in [[Dublin]] after giving an interview to [[Radio Telefís Éireann|RTÉ]].
* [[November 22]] - [[Vietnam War]]: The [[United States]] loses its first [[B-52 Stratofortress]] of the war.
* [[November 29]] - [[Atari Games|Atari]] kicks off the first generation of [[video games]] with the release of their seminal [[arcade game|arcade]] version of ''[[Pong]]'', the first game to achieve commercial success.
* [[November 30]]
**<!--November 30-->Vietnam War: [[White House]] Press Secretary [[Ron Ziegler]] tells the press that there will be no more public announcements concerning [[United States]] troop withdrawals from [[Vietnam]] due to the fact that troop levels are now down to 27,000.
**<!--November 30-->[[Cod War#The Second Cod War|Cod War]]: [[United Kingdom|British]] [[Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs|Foreign Secretary]] Sir [[Alec Douglas-Home]] says that [[Royal Navy]] ships would be stationed to protect British trawlers off [[Iceland]].
===December===
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* [[December 2]] - [[Edward Gough Whitlam]] becomes the first [[Australian Labor Party|Labor Party]] [[Prime Minister of Australia]] for 23 years. He is famously sworn in on the election night and his first action using executive power is to withdraw all Australian personnel from the [[Vietnam War]].
* [[December 7]]
**<!--December 7-->''[[Apollo 17]]'' ([[Gene Cernan]], [[Ronald Evans]], [[Harrison Schmitt]]), the last manned mission to the [[Moon]] to date, is launched.
**<!--December 7-->[[Provisional Irish Republican Army]] kidnaps [[Jean McConville]] in [[Belfast]].
**<!--December 7-->[[Imelda Marcos]] is stabbed and seriously wounded by an assailant; her bodyguards shoot him.
* [[December 8]]
**<!--December 8-->[[United Airlines]] [[Boeing 737]] from [[Washington Reagan National Airport|Washington National]] to [[Chicago Midway Airport|Chicago Midway]] crashes short of the runway, killing 43 of 61 onboard and 2 on the ground.
**<!--December 8-->Over $10,000 cash is found in the purse of [[Watergate scandal|Watergate]] conspirator [[Howard Hunt]]'s wife.
**<!--December 8-->[[International Human Rights Day]] is proclaimed by the [[United Nations]].
* [[December 11]] - [[Apollo 17]] lands on the [[Moon]].
* [[December 15]] - The Commonwealth of [[Australia]] ordains equal pay for women.
* [[December 16]]
**<!--December 16-->The [[Constitution of Bangladesh]] comes into effect.
**<!--December 16-->[[Portugal|Portuguese]] army kills 400 Africans in [[Tete]], [[Mozambique]].
* [[December 19]] - [[Apollo program]]: ''[[Apollo 17]]'' returns to [[Earth]], concluding the program of lunar exploration.
* [[December 21]]
**<!--December 21-->[[East Germany]] and [[West Germany]] recognize each other.
**<!--December 21-->[[ZANLA]] troopers attack Altera Farm in north-east [[Rhodesia]].
* [[December 22]]
**<!--December 22-->Two small earthquakes are felt at about 9:30 and 10:15 local time in [[Managua]], [[Nicaragua]].
**<!--December 22-->Australia establishes diplomatic relations with China and West Germany.
**<!--December 22-->A peace delegation that includes singer-activist [[Joan Baez]] and human rights attorney [[Telford Taylor]] visit [[Hanoi]] to deliver Christmas mail to American [[prisoners of war]]; they will be caught in the [[Operation Linebacker II|Christmas bombing of North Vietnam]].
* [[December 23]]
**<!--December 23-->A 6.25 [[Richter magnitude scale|Richter scale]] [[1972 Nicaragua earthquake|earthquake]] in [[Nicaragua]] kills 5,000-12,000 people in the capital, [[Managua]]; President [[Somoza]] will later be accused of pocketing millions of dollars worth of [[foreign aid]] intended for relief.
**<!--December 23-->The Pittsburgh Steelers win their first ever post-season [[NFL]] game, defeating the Oakland Raiders 13-7, on a last second play that would become known as The [[Immaculate Reception]].
* [[December 24]] - Prime minister of [[Sweden]], [[Olof Palme]] compares the American bombings of North [[Vietnam]] to [[Nazism|Nazi]] massacres. The US breaks diplomatic contact with Sweden.
* [[December 25]] - The [[Operation Linebacker II|Christmas bombing of North Vietnam]] causes widespread criticism of the U.S. and President [[Richard Nixon]].
* [[December 26]] - Former [[President of the United States|United States President]] [[Harry S. Truman]] dies in [[Kansas City, Missouri]].
* [[December 28]] - The bones of [[Martin Bormann]] are identified in Berlin.
* [[December 29]] - An Eastern Air Lines Lockheed L-1011 crashes into the [[Everglades]] in Florida, killing 101 of 163 onboard.
* [[December 31]] - [[Roberto Clemente]] dies in a plane crash off the coast of [[Puerto Rico]] while en route to deliver aid to Nicaraguan earthquake victims.
===Undated===
* Designated ''International Year of the Book'' by [[UNESCO]].
* The [[1972 outbreak of smallpox in Yugoslavia|last major epidemic of smallpox in Europe]] breaks out in [[Yugoslavia]].
* The [[United Kingdom]] begin to train [[Special Air Service]] for anti-terrorist duties.
* The "tea house" Mellow Yellow opens on the [[Amstel|Amstel River]] in [[Amsterdam]], pioneering the legal sale of [[Cannabis (drug)|cannabis]] in the [[Netherlands]].
* First women admitted to [[Dartmouth College]].
* [[Colombia]]n looters find [[Ciudad Perdida]] but keep it a secret until government reveals it [[1975]].
* The [[Yellow River]] dries up for the first time in known history.
* The [[Somali alphabet]] is developed for the [[Somali language]].
* Worship of Norse gods officially approved in [[Iceland]].
* Women are allowed to compete in the [[Boston Marathon]] for the first time.
* The [[Cod War#The Second Cod War|Second Cod War]] between the [[United Kingdom]] and [[Iceland]].
* First use of the term [[Hadean]].
===Ongoing===
* [[Cold War]]
* [[Israeli-Palestinian conflict]]
* [[The Troubles]]
* [[Vietnam War]]
==Births==
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===January-February===
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* [[January 1]] - [[Lilian Thuram]], French football player
* [[January 2]] - [[Taye Diggs]], American actor
* [[January 3]] - [[Yoon Chan]], South Korean actor
* [[January 4]] - [[Brad Zavisha]], Canadian ice hockey player
* [[January 7]] - [[Donald Brashear]], American ice hockey player
* [[January 11]] - [[Amanda Peet]], American actress
* [[January 12]] - [[Espen Knutsen]], Norwegian hockey player
* [[January 13]] - [[Nicole Eggert]], American actress
* [[January 16]]
**<!--January 16-->[[Ruben Bagger]], Danish soccer player
**<!--January 16-->[[Richard T. Jones]], American actor
**<!--January 16-->[[Greg Page]], Australian actor
* [[January 17]]
**<!--January 17-->[[Ken Hirai]], Japanese singer and songwriter
**<!--January 17-->[[Lil Jon]], American rapper/producer
* [[January 18]] - [[Mike Lieberthal]], American baseball player
* [[January 19]]
**<!--January 19-->[[Drea de Matteo]], American actress
**<!--January 19-->[[Angham]], Egyptian singer, record producer and actress
* [[January 21]] - [[Billel Dziri]], Algerian footballer
* [[January 22]] - [[Romi Paku]], [[seiyu]] (voice actress)
* [[January 23]] - [[Ewen Bremner]], Scottish actor
* [[January 23]] - [[Marcel Wouda]], Dutch swimmer
* [[January 26]] - [[Christopher Boykin]], rapper
* [[January 27]]
**<!--January 27-->[[Guillermo Díaz (Jimmy Kimmel Live)|Guillermo Díaz]], Mexican American talk show personality ([[Jimmy Kimmel Live|Jimmy Kimmel]])
**<!--January 27-->[[Mark Owen]], British singer and [[Take That]] member
**<!--January 27-->[[Keith Wood]], Irish rugby player
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* [[February 2]] - [[Klára Dobrev]], wife of Hungarian Prime Minister [[Ferenc Gyurcsány]]
* [[February 4]] - [[Giovanni Silva De Oliveira]], Brazilian footballer
* [[February 5]]
**<!--February 5-->[[Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark]]
**<!--February 5-->[[Koriki Chōshū]], Japanese comedian
* [[February 7]]
**<!--February 7-->[[Alex Bassi]], American race car driver
**<!--February 7-->[[Robyn Lively]], American actress
* [[February 8]] - [[Paul Wight|Big Show]], American professional wrestler
* [[February 11]]
**<!--February 11-->[[Craig Jones]], American samplist and keyboardist ([[Slipknot (band)|Slipknot]])
**<!--February 11-->[[Steve McManaman]], British footballer
* [[February 14]]
**<!--February 14-->[[Drew Bledsoe]], American football player
**<!--February 14-->[[Nelson Frazier, Jr.|Big Daddy V]], American professional wrestler
* [[February 15]] - [[Jaromír Jágr]], Czech hockey player
* [[February 16]]
**<!--February 16--> [[Taylor Hawkins]], a member of the band [[Foo Fighters]]
**<!--February 16--> [[Jerome Bettis]], American football player
* [[February 17]]
**<!--February 17-->[[Billie Joe Armstrong]], American musician and lead singer ([[Green Day]])
**<!--February 17-->[[Yuki Isoya]], Japanese singer
**<!--February 17-->[[Philippe Candeloro]], French figure skater
* [[February 19]] - [[Malky Mackay]], Scottish footballer
* [[February 21]] - [[Seo Taiji]], Korean musician
* [[February 22]] - [[Michael Chang]], American tennis player
* [[February 24]] - [[Richard Chelimo]], Kenyan athlete (d. [[2001]])
* [[February 28]] - [[Rory Cochrane]], American Actor
* [[February 29]] - [[Antonio Sabato Jr.]], Italian actor
===March-April===
* [[March 3]] - [[Darren Anderton]], English footballer
* [[March 4]]
**<!--March 4-->[[Pae Gil-Su]], North Korean gymnast
**<!--March 4-->[[Ivy Queen]], American composer and singer
**<!--March 4-->[[Jos Verstappen]], Dutch race car driver
**<!--March 4-->[[Alison Wheeler]], British singer ([[The Beautiful South]])
* [[March 6]]
**<!--March 6-->[[Terry Murphy (snooker player)|Terry Murphy]], Northern Irish snooker player
**<!--March 6-->[[Shaquille O'Neal]], American basketball player
**<!--March 6-->[[Jaret Reddick]], American musician ([[Bowling for Soup]])
* [[March 8]] - [[Angie Hart]], Australian pop singer
* [[March 9]] - [[Spencer Howson]], Australian radio announcer
* [[March 10]]
**<!--March 10-->[[Takashi Fujii]] (Matthew Minami), Japanese television performer
**<!--March 10-->[[Matt Kenseth]], American race car driver
* [[March 15]] - [[Mark Hoppus]], American musician ([[blink-182]])
* [[March 17]] - [[Mia Hamm]], American soccer player
* [[March 18]] - [[Dane Cook]], American comedian
* [[March 20]] - [[Alexander Kapranos]], British singer and guitarist ([[Franz Ferdinand (band)|Franz Ferdinand]])
* [[March 21]] - [[Chris Candido]], American professional wrestler (d. [[2005]])
* [[March 22]]
**<!--March 22-->[[Shawn Bradley]], American basketball player
**<!--March 22-->[[Elvis Stojko]], Canadian figure skater
**<!--March 22-->[[Cory Lidle]], American baseball player (d.[[2006]])
* [[March 23]]
**<!--March 23-->[[Joe Calzaghe]], Welsh boxer
**<!--March 23-->[[Judith Godrèche]], French actress
* [[March 27]]
**<!--March 27-->[[Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink]], Dutch footballer
**<!--March 27-->[[Charlie Haas]], American professional wrestler
* [[March 28]] - [[Nick Frost]], English comedian actor
* [[March 30]] - [[Karel Poborsky]], Czech Republic football player
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* [[April 3]] - [[Jennie Garth]], American actress
* [[April 5]]
**<!--April 5-->[[Krista Allen]], American actress
**<!--April 5-->[[Junko Takeuchi]], Japanese voice actress
* [[April 8]] - [[Paul Gray (Slipknot)|Paul Gray]], American bassist ([[Slipknot (band)|Slipknot]])
* [[April 11]] - [[Jason Varitek]], American baseball player
* [[April 12]]
**<!--April 12-->[[Şebnem Ferah]], Turkish singer and song-writer
**<!--April 12-->[[NiCole Robinson (actor)|NiCole Robinson]], American actress
* [[April 13]]
** [[Mariusz Czerkawski]], Polish ice hockey player
** [[Aaron Lewis]], American nu metal musician ([[Staind]])
* [[April 17]]
**<!--April 17-->[[Tony Boselli]], American football player
**<!--April 17-->[[Jennifer Garner]], American actress
**<!--April 17-->[[Muttiah Muralitharan]], Sri Lankan cricketer
**<!--April 17-->[[Terran Sandwith]], Canadian ice hockey player
* [[April 19]] - [[Rivaldo]], Brazilian footballer
* [[April 20]]
**<!--April 20-->[[Carmen Electra]], American actress and singer
**<!--April 20-->[[Le Huynh Đuc]], Vietnamese footballer
* [[April 24]] - [[Chipper Jones]], American baseball player
* [[April 28]] - [[Joseph Bruce|Violent J]], American rapper
* [[April 29]] - [[Roman Dirge]], American artist, writer and cartoonist
===May-June===
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* [[May 2]]
**<!--May 2-->[[The Rock (entertainer)|The Rock]], American professional wrestler and actor
**<!--May 2-->[[Paul Adcock]], English footballer
* [[May 4]] - [[Mike Dirnt]], American musician ([[Green Day]])
* [[May 5]] - [[James Cracknell]], British Olympic winning rower
* [[May 7]] - [[Felix da Housecat]], House music DJ and record producer
* [[May 8]] - [[Darren Hayes]], Australian musician
* [[May 10]] - [[Radosław Majdan]], Polish goalkeeper
* [[May 19]] - [[Jenny Berggren]], Swedish singer ([[Ace of Base]])
* [[May 20]]
**<!--May 20-->[[Busta Rhymes]], American musician and actor
**<!--May 20-->[[Andreas Lundstedt]], Swedish singer ([[Alcazar]]) and actor
* [[May 21]] - [[The Notorious B.I.G.]], American musician (d. [[1997]])
* [[May 23]] - [[Rubens Barrichello]], Brazilian race car driver
* [[May 28]] - [[Michael Boogerd]], Dutch cyclist
* [[May 30]] - [[Manny Ramírez]], Dominican baseball player
* [[May 31]] - [[Dave Roberts]], [[Major League Baseball]] player
* [[June 2]] - [[Wayne Brady]], American comedian
* [[June 4]]
**<!--June 4-->[[Derian Hatcher]], American ice hockey player
**<!--June 4-->[[Debra Stephenson]], English actress
* [[June 5]]
**<!--June 5-->[[Pavel Kotla]], Polish conductor
**<!--June 5-->[[Mike Bucci]], American professional wrestler
* [[June 6]] - [[Cristina Scabbia]], Italian singer
* [[June 7]] - [[Karl Urban]], New Zealand actor
* [[June 10]] - [[Steven Fischer]], American film producer and director
* [[June 14]] - [[Matthias Ettrich]], German computer scientist
* [[June 15]]
**<!--June 15-->[[Andy Pettitte]], American baseball player
**<!--June 15-->[[James Morris]], boxer, rapper
* [[June 17]] - [[Iztok Čop]], Slovenian rower
* [[June 19]] - [[Brian McBride]], American soccer player
* [[June 21]]
**<!--June 21-->[[Irene van Dyk]], South African-born netball player
**<!--June 21-->[[Christopher Matthews (musician)|Christopher Matthews]], English musician
* [[June 22]] - [[Miguel Del Toro]], Mexican baseball player
* [[June 23]] - [[Zinedine Zidane]], French footballer
* [[June 24]]
**<!--June 24-->[[Robbie McEwen]], Australian professional road bicycle racer
**<!--June 24-->[[Denis Zvegelj]], Slovenian rower
* [[June 25]] - [[Carlos Delgado]], Puerto Rican baseball player
* [[June 25]] - [[Mike Kroeger]], Canadian bass guitarist ([[Nickelback]])
* [[June 28]] - [[John Heidenreich]], American professional wrestler
* [[June 29]] - [[Samantha Smith]], American activist (d. [[1985]])
* [[June 29]] - [[Nawal Al Zoghbi]], Lebanese singer
===July-August===
* [[July 3]] - [[Asha Gill]], British-born television host
* [[July 4]] - [[Craig Spearman]], New Zealand cricketer
* [[July 6]] - [[Mark Gasser]], British concert pianist
* [[July 7]] - [[Lisa Leslie]], American basketball player
* [[July 8]] - [[Sourav Ganguly]], Indian cricketer
* [[July 13]] - [[Sean Waltman]], American professional wrestler
* [[July 24]] - [[Rev. Jen Miller]], American actress, painter and poet
* [[July 27]] - [[Jill Arrington]], American football reporter
* [[July 28]] - [[Elizabeth Berkley]], American actress
* [[July 29]] - [[Anssi Kela]], Finnish rock musician
* [[July 31]] - [[Tami Stronach]], former actress
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* [[August 1]]
**<!--August 1-->[[Devon Hughes]], American professional wrestler
**<!--August 1-->[[Tanya Reid]], Canadian actress
* [[August 2]] - [[Kelly Richardson]], Canadian contemporary artist
* [[August 3]] - [[Patrik Isaksson]], Swedish singer and songwriter
* [[August 6]] - [[Geri Halliwell]], British musician ([[Spice Girls]])
* [[August 7]] - [[Sarah Cawood]], British television presenter
* [[August 9]] - [[A-Mei]], Taiwanese singer
* [[August 10]] - [[Angie Harmon]], American actress
* [[August 11]] - [[Jonathon Prandi]], American model and actor
* [[August 12]] - [[Demir Demirkan]], Turkish rock musician and songwriter
* [[August 12]] - [[Del tha Funkee Homosapien]], American hip-hop artist
* [[August 13]] - [[Kevin Plank]], American entrepreneur ([[Under Armour]])
* [[August 14]] - [[Ed O'Bannon]], American basketball player
* [[August 15]] - [[Ben Affleck]], American actor
* [[August 16]] - [[Emily Robison]], American country music performer ([[Dixie Chicks]])
* [[August 18]] - [[Leo Ku]], Hong Kong actor and singer
* [[August 19]] - [[Sammi Cheng]], Hong Kong singer and actress
* [[August 22]] - [[Jonathan Coachman]], World Wrestling Entertainment announcer
* [[August 25]] - [[Marvin Harrison]], American football player
* [[August 27]] - [[Jimmy Pop]], American musician ([[Bloodhound Gang]])
* [[August 28]] - [[Jay Witasick]], Major League Baseball player
* [[August 30]]
**<!--August 30-->[[Cameron Diaz]], American actress
**<!--August 30-->[[Pavel Nedvěd]], Czech footballer
* [[August 31]] - [[Chris Tucker]], American comedian
===September-October===
* [[September 2]] - [[Sergei Zholtok]], Latvian hockey player (d. [[2004]])
* [[September 6]] - [[Dylan Bruno]], American actor ([[Numb3rs]])
* [[September 8]]
**<!--September 8-->[[Os du Randt]], South African rugby player
**<!--September 8-->[[Lisa Kennedy Montgomery]], American disc jockey and political satirist
**<!--September 8-->[[Tomokazu Seki]], Japanese [[seiyu]] (voice actor)
* [[September 10]]
**<!--September 10-->[[Ghada Shouaa]], Syrian athlete
**<!--September 10-->[[Rio Tahara]], Japanese snowboarder
* [[September 12]]
**<!--September 12-->[[Budi Putra]], Indonesian journalist, writer and blogger
**<!--September 12-->[[Jason Statham]], British actor
* [[September 17]] - [[Bobby Lee]], American comedian
* [[September 19]] - [[Jim Druckenmiller]], National Football League quarterback
* [[September 21]]
**<!--September 21-->[[Liam Gallagher]], British singer ([[Oasis (band)|Oasis]])
**<!--September 21-->[[Jon Kitna]], American football player
* [[September 22]] - [[Bob Sapp]], American boxer and kickboxer
* [[September 24]] - [[Karyn Bosnak]], American author
* [[September 27]] - [[Sylvia Crawley]], American basketball player
* [[September 28]]
**<!--September 28-->[[Gwyneth Paltrow]], American actress
**<!--September 28-->[[Dita Von Teese]], American [[burlesque]] artist
* [[September 30]]
**<!--September 30-->[[Ari Behn]], Norwegian author
**<!--September 30-->[[Shaan (singer)|Shaan]], Indian singer
* [[October 5]]
**<!--October 5-->[[Grant Hill (basketball)|Grant Hill]], American basketball player
**<!--October 5-->[[Aaron Guiel]], Canadian baseball player
* [[October 8]] - [[Tricia Vessey]], American actress
* [[October 9]] - [[Etan Patz]], disappeared school boy
* [[October 10]] - [[Jun Lana]], Filipino playwright and screenwriter
* [[October 11]] - [[Claudia Black]], Australian actress
* [[October 12]] - [[Mechele Linehan]], American murderer
* [[October 17]]
**<!--October 17-->[[Eminem]] American rapper and actor
**<!--October 17-->[[Wyclef Jean]], Haitian rapper
**<!--October 17-->[[Tarkan]], [[Turkey|Turkish]] singer
* [[October 21]]
**<!--October 21-->[[Masakazu Morita]], [[seiyu]] (voice actor)
**<!--October 21-->[[Evhen Tsybulenko]], Ukrainian professor of international law
* [[October 22]] - [[D'Lo Brown]], American professional wrestler
* [[October 24]]
**<!-- October 24 -->[[Kim Ji-soo]], South Korean actress
**<!-- October 24 -->[[Pat Williams (American football)|Pat Williams]], American football player
* [[October 27]]
**<!--October 27-->[[Lee Clark (footballer)|Lee Clark]], English footballer
**<!--October 27-->[[Elissa (singer)|Elissa]], Lebanese singer
**<!--October 27-->[[Evan Coyne Maloney]], American filmmaker
**<!--October 27-->[[Brad Radke]], American baseball player
**<!--October 27-->[[Marika Krook]], Finnish singer ([[Edea (musical group)|Edea]])
**<!--October 27-->[[Maria Mutola]], Mozambican athlete
* [[October 28]]
**<!--October 28-->[[Terrell Davis]], American football player
**<!--October 28-->[[Brad Paisley]], American country music performer
**<!--October 28-->[[Trista Rehn]], American television personality
* [[October 29]]
**<!--October 29-->[[Takafumi Horie]], Japanese entrepreneur ([[Livedoor]])
**<!--October 29-->[[Gabrielle Union]], American actress
**<!--October 29-->[[Tracee Ellis Ross]], American actress
* [[October 31]] - [[Matt Dawson]], English rugby player
===November-December===
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* [[November 1]] - [[Toni Collette]], Australian actress
* [[November 2]] - [[Vladimir Vorobiev]], Russian ice hockey player
* [[November 4]] - [[Luís Figo]], Portuguese footballer
* [[November 7]] - [[Danny Grewcock]], British rugby player
* [[November 6]] - [[Thandie Newton]], British actress
* [[November 9]]
**<!--November 9-->[[Doug Russell]], American radio personality
**<!--November 9-->[[Corin Tucker]], American musician
**<!--November 9-->[[Naomi Shindou]], Japanese [[seiyuu]]
* [[November 10]] - [[Shawn Green]], American baseball player
* [[November 13]] - [[Takuya Kimura]], Japanese actor
* [[November 14]]
**<!--November 14-->[[Matt Bloom]], American wrestler
**<!--November 14-->[[Josh Duhamel]], American actor, model
* [[November 23]] - [[Alf-Inge Håland]], Norwegian footballer
* [[November 28]] - [[Jesper Strömblad]], Swedish musician (In Flames)
* [[November 30]] - [[Christopher Fitzgerald (Actor)|Christopher Fitzgerald]], American stage actor
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* [[December 1]] - [[Norbert Wójtowicz]], Polish historian and theologian
* [[December 4]] - [[Nikki Tyler]], American actress
* [[December 7]] - [[Hermann Maier]], Austrian skier
* [[December 7]] - [[Tammy Lynn Sytch]], American wrestling valet and topless model
* [[December 9]] - [[Tre Cool]], American drummer ([[Green Day]])
* [[December 10]] - [[Brian Molko]], British singer ([[Placebo (band)|Placebo]])
* [[December 11]] - [[Daniel Alfredsson]], NHL hockey player
* [[December 12]] - [[Joel Cahen]], Israeli artist,
* [[December 13]] - [[Chris Grant]], Australian footballer
* [[December 14]] - [[Eric Anderson (actor)|Eric Anderson]], American musical theatre actor
* [[December 15]] - [[Rodney Harrison]], American football player
* [[December 16]]
**<!--December 16-->[[Ben Kowalewicz]], Lead singer of the Canadian band [[Billy Talent]]
**<!--December 16-->[[Angela Bloomfield]], New Zealand actress
* [[December 18]] - [[DJ Lethal]], member of [[Limp Bizkit]] and [[House of Pain]]
* [[December 19]]
**<!--December 19-->[[Alyssa Milano]], American actress
**<!--December 19-->[[Warren Sapp]], American football player
* [[December 22]] - [[Vanessa Paradis]], French singer and actress
* [[December 27]] - [[Colin Charvis]], Welsh rugby player
* [[December 28]] - [[Patrick Rafter]], Australian tennis player
* [[December 29]] - [[Jason Kreis]], American soccer player
* [[December 29]] - [[Jude Law]], British actor
* [[December 30]] - [[Kerry Collins]], American football player
* [[December 31]] - [[Joey McIntyre]], American actor and singer
==Deaths==
=== January - March ===
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* [[January 1]] - [[Maurice Chevalier]], French entertainer (surgical complications) (b. [[1888]])
* [[January 6]] - [[Chen Yi (communist)|Chen Yi]], Chinese communist military commander and politician (b. [[1901]])
* [[January 7]] - [[John Berryman]], American poet and scholar (b. [[1914]]); suicide
* [[January 8]] - [[Kenneth Patchen]], American poet and painter (b. [[1911]])
* [[January 10]] - [[Aksel Larsen]], Danish politician (b. [[1897]])
* [[January 14]] - King [[Frederick IX of Denmark]] (b. [[1899]])
* [[January 16]] - [[Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.]], American record producer and creator of [[Alvin and the Chipmunks]] (b. [[1919]])
* [[January 26]] - [[Mahalia Jackson]], American singer (b. [[1911]])
* [[February 11]] - [[Jan Wils]], Dutch architect (b. [[1891]])
* [[February 19]] - [[John Grierson]], Scottish documentary filmmaker (b. [[1898]])
* [[February 20]] - [[Maria Goeppert-Mayer]], German physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1906]])
* [[February 20]] - [[Walter Winchell]], American journalist (b. [[1897]])
* [[February 22]] - [[Tedd Pierce]], American animator (b. [[1906]])
* [[March 13]] - [[Tony Ray-Jones]], British photographer (b. [[1941]])
* [[March 21]] - [[David McCallum, Sr.]], British violinist and the father of [[David McCallum]] (b. [[1897]])
* [[March 24]] - [[Cristobal Balenciaga]], Spanish couturier (b. [[1895]])
* [[March 27]] - [[Sharkey Bonano]], American jazz musician (b. [[1904]])
* [[March 27]] - [[M. C. Escher]], Dutch artist (b. [[1898]])
* [[March 29]] - [[J. Arthur Rank]], British industrialist and film producer (b. [[1888]])
=== April - June ===
* [[April 2]] - [[Gil Hodges]], baseball player (b. [[1924]])
* [[April 3]] - [[Ferde Grofé]], American composer (b. [[1882]])
* [[April 4]] - [[Stefan Wolpe]], German-born composer (b. [[1902]])
* [[April 7]] - [[Abeid Karume]], President of Zanzibar (b. [[1905]]) (assassinated)
* [[April 8]] - [[Andrea Feldman]], American actress (suicide) (b. [[1948]])
* [[April 11]] - [[George H. Plympton]], American screenwriter (b. [[1889]])
* [[April 16]] - [[Yasunari Kawabata]], Japanese writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1899]])
* [[April 26]] - [[Fernando Amorsolo]], Filipino painter (b. [[1892]])
* [[May 2]] - [[J. Edgar Hoover]], American Federal Bureau of Investigation director (b. [[1895]])
*[[May 4]] - [[Edward Calvin Kendall]], American chemist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1886]])
* [[May 6 ]] - [[Deniz Gezmiş]],Turkish revolutionary (b. [[1947]]).
* [[May 13]] - [[Dan Blocker]], American actor (b. [[1928]])
* [[May 22]] - [[Cecil Day-Lewis]], English poet (b. [[1904]])
* [[May 22]] - [[Margaret Rutherford]], English actress (b. [[1892]])
* [[May 28]] - King [[Edward VIII of the United Kingdom]] (b. [[1894]])
* [[May 31]] - [[Walter Freeman]], American physician (b. [[1895]])
*[[June 13]] - [[Georg von Békésy]], Hungarian biophysicist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1899]])
*[[June 13]] - [[Stephanie von Hohenlohe]], Austrian-born German World War II spy (b. [[1891]])
*[[June 22]] - [[Vladimir Durković]], Serbian footballer (killed by a Swiss police officer) (b. [[1937]])
=== July - September ===
* [[July 2]] - [[Joseph Fielding Smith]], tenth president of [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (b. [[1876]])
* [[July 7]] - [[Talal of Jordan|King Talal]], [[King of Jordan]] (b. [[1909]])
* [[July 19]] - [[Hezekiah M. Washburn]], American missionary (b. [[1884]])
* [[July 21]] - [[Ralph Craig]], American athlete (b. [[1889]])
* [[July 28]] - [[Helen Traubel]], American soprano (b. [[1903]])
* [[August 5]] - [[Harry Hylton-Foster]], [[Speaker of the British House of Commons]] (b. [[1905]])
* [[August 11]] - [[Max Theiler]], South African virologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1899]])
* [[August 14]] - [[Oscar Levant]], American pianist and actor (b. [[1906]])
* [[August 28]] - [[Prince William of Gloucester]] (air crash) (b. [[1941]])
* [[September 5]] ([[Munich massacre]]):
**[[Yossef Romano]], Israeli weightlifter (b. [[1940]])
**[[Moshe Weinberg]], Israeil wrestling coach (b. [[1939]])
* [[September 6]] ([[Munich massacre]]):
**[[Luttif Afif]] and four other Palestinian terrorists
**[[David Mark Berger]], Israeli weightlifter (b. [[1944]])
**[[Ze'ev Friedman]], Israeli weightlifter (b. [[1944]])
**[[Yossef Gutfreund]], Israeli wrestling referee (b. [[1932]])
**[[Eliezer Halfin]], Israeli wrestler (b. [[1948]])
**[[Amitzur Shapira]], Israeli athletics coach (b. [[1932]])
**[[Kehat Shorr]], Israeli shooting coach (b. [[1919]])
**[[Mark Slavin]], Israeli wrestler (b. [[1954]])
**[[Andre Spitzer]], Israeli fencing coach (b. [[1945]])
**[[Yakov Springer]], Israeli weightlifting judge (b. c. 1921)
* [[September 15]] - [[Geoffrey Fisher]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] (b. [[1887]])
* [[September 19]] - [[Robert Casadesus]], French pianist (b. [[1899]])
* [[September 21]] - [[Henry de Montherlant]], French writer (b. [[1896]]); suicide
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* [[October 1]] - [[Louis Leakey]], British paleontologist (b. [[1903]])
* [[October 5]] - [[Ivan Yefremov]], Soviet paleontologist and science fiction author (b. [[1907]])
* [[October 9]] - [[Miriam Hopkins]], American actress (b. [[1902]])
* [[October 20]] - [[Harlow Shapley]], American astronomer (b. [[1885]])
* [[October 24]] - [[Jackie Robinson]], baseball player (b. [[1919]])
* [[October 26]] - [[Igor Sikorsky]], Russian aviation engineer (b. [[1889]])
* [[November 1]] - [[Ezra Pound]], American poet (b. [[1885]])
* [[November 5]] - [[Reginald Owen]], English actor (b. [[1887]])
* [[November 14]] - [[Martin Dies, Jr.]], American politician (b. [[1900]])
* [[November 25]] - [[Henri Coandă]], Romanian aerodynamics pioneer (b. [[1886]])
* [[November 28]] - [[Havergal Brian]], English composer (b. [[1876]])
* [[December 3]] - [[Bill Johnson (jazz musician)|Bill Johnson]], American musician (b. [[1872]])
* [[December 21]] - [[Paul Hausser]], Waffen SS general during WWII (b [[1880]])
* [[December 22]] - [[Jimmy Wallington]], American radio personality (b. [[1907]])
* [[December 24]]
** <!--[[December 24]] - -->[[Charles Atlas]], Italian-American [[strongman (strength athlete)|strongman]] and [[sideshow]] performer
** <!--[[December 24]] - -->[[Gisela Richter]], English art historian (b. [[1882]])
* [[December 26]] - [[Harry S. Truman]], 33rd [[President of the United States]] (heart failure) (b. [[1884]])
* [[December 27]] - [[Lester B. Pearson]] 14th [[Prime Minister of Canada]], recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (b. [[1897]])
* [[December 31]] - [[Roberto Clemente]], Puerto Rican [[Major League Baseball]] player (b. [[1934]])
==Nobel prizes==
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] - [[John Bardeen]], [[Leon Neil Cooper]], [[John Robert Schrieffer]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] - [[Christian B. Anfinsen]], [[Stanford Moore]], [[William H. Stein]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Physiology or Medicine]] - [[Gerald M. Edelman]], [[Rodney R. Porter]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] - [[Heinrich Boll|Heinrich Böll]]
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] - not awarded
* [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Economics]] - [[John Hicks]], [[Kenneth Arrow]]
== Ship events ==
* [[List of ship launches in 1972]]
* [[List of ship commissionings in 1972]]
* [[List of ship decommissionings in 1972]]
==Notes==
{{reflist}}
{{commonscat}}
==External links==
*[http://www.coinpage.com/1972-pictures.html 1972 Coin Pictures]
*[http://imdb.com/title/tt0106246/ 1993 movie 'Alive' at IMDB] 1993 movie 'Alive' at IMDB
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