Table of Contents
543 relations: A-Mei, Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Ace of Base, Aden, Airbus A300, Aircraft, Aldershot, Alex Comfort, Alexei Shirov, Amstel, Amsterdam, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Andes, Andrea Feldman, Andrei Tupolev, Angela Davis, Anthony Barber, Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, Antonio Segni, Anwar Sadat, Apollo 16, Apollo 17, Apollo asteroid, Apollo program, Archbishop of Canterbury, Ari Behn, Arturo Gatti, Asta Nielsen, Australian Labor Party, Avalanche, Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, Bangladesh, Belfast, Ben Affleck, Ben Chifley, Ben Gurion Airport, Benin, Big Show, Billie Joe Armstrong, Billy Snedden, Biological warfare, Biological Weapons Convention, Birendra of Nepal, Black September Organization, Bloody Friday (1972), Bloody Sunday (1972), Boris Spassky, Boyz II Men, Brandon deWilde, Brazil, ... Expand index (493 more) »
A-Mei
Kulilay Amit, Han Chinese name Chang Hui-mei, better known by her stage name A-Mei (born 9 August 1972), is a Taiwanese singer and record producer of Puyuma descent.
See 1972 and A-Mei
Aboriginal Tent Embassy
The Aboriginal Tent Embassy is a permanent protest occupation site as a focus for representing the political rights of Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islander people.
See 1972 and Aboriginal Tent Embassy
Ace of Base
Ace of Base is a Swedish pop group, formed in 1987, originally consisting of siblings Jonas, Linn, and Jenny Berggren, with Ulf Ekberg.
Aden
Aden (Old South Arabian: 𐩲𐩵𐩬) is a port city located in Yemen in the southern part of the Arabian peninsula, positioned near the eastern approach to the Red Sea.
See 1972 and Aden
Airbus A300
The Airbus A300 is Airbus's first production aircraft and the world's first twin-engine, double-aisle wide-body airliner, developed and manufactured by Airbus from 1971 to 2007.
Aircraft
An aircraft (aircraft) is a vehicle that is able to fly by gaining support from the air.
Aldershot
Aldershot is a town in the Rushmoor district, Hampshire, England.
Alex Comfort
Alexander Comfort (10 February 1920 – 26 March 2000) was a British scientist and physician known best for his nonfiction sex manual, The Joy of Sex (1972).
Alexei Shirov
Alexei Shirov (Aleksejs Širovs; born 4 July 1972) is a Latvian and Spanish chess player.
Amstel
The Amstel is a river in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands.
See 1972 and Amstel
Amsterdam
Amsterdam (literally, "The Dam on the River Amstel") is the capital and most populated city of the Netherlands.
Anastasio Somoza Debayle
Anastasio "Tachito" Somoza Debayle (5 December 1925 – 17 September 1980) was the 53rd President of Nicaragua from 1967 to 1972 and again from 1974 to 1979.
See 1972 and Anastasio Somoza Debayle
Andes
The Andes, Andes Mountains or Andean Mountain Range are the longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America.
See 1972 and Andes
Andrea Feldman
Andrea Feldman (April 1, 1948 – August 8, 1972) was an American actress and Warhol superstar.
Andrei Tupolev
Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev (Андрей Николаевич Туполев; – 23 December 1972) was a Russian and later Soviet aeronautical engineer known for his pioneering aircraft designs as the director of the Tupolev Design Bureau.
Angela Davis
Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American Marxist and feminist political activist, philosopher, academic, and author; she is a professor emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Anthony Barber
Anthony Perrinott Lysberg Barber, Baron Barber, (4 July 1920 – 16 December 2005) was a British Conservative politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1970 to 1974.
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, also known as the ABM Treaty or ABMT, was an arms control treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union on the limitation of the anti-ballistic missile (ABM) systems used in defending areas against ballistic missile-delivered nuclear weapons.
See 1972 and Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
Antonio Segni
Antonio Segni (2 February 1891 – 1 December 1972) was an Italian politician and statesman who served as the president of Italy from May 1962 to December 1964, and as the prime minister of Italy in two distinct terms between 1955 and 1960.
Anwar Sadat
Muhammad Anwar es-Sadat (25 December 1918 – 6 October 1981) was an Egyptian politician and military officer who served as the third president of Egypt, from 15 October 1970 until his assassination by fundamentalist army officers on 6 October 1981.
Apollo 16
Apollo 16 (April 1627, 1972) was the tenth crewed mission in the United States Apollo space program, administered by NASA, and the fifth and penultimate to land on the Moon.
Apollo 17
Apollo 17 (December 7–19, 1972) was the eleventh and final mission of NASA's Apollo program, the sixth and most recent time humans have set foot on the Moon or traveled beyond low Earth orbit.
Apollo asteroid
The Apollo asteroids are a group of near-Earth asteroids named after 1862 Apollo, discovered by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth in the 1930s.
Apollo program
The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which succeeded in preparing and landing the first men on the Moon from 1968 to 1972.
Archbishop of Canterbury
The archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and a principal leader of the Church of England, the ceremonial head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury.
See 1972 and Archbishop of Canterbury
Ari Behn
Ari Mikael Behn (or; 30 September 1972 – 25 December 2019) was a Norwegian author, playwright, and visual artist, best known for his marriage to Princess Märtha Louise of Norway from 2002 to 2017.
Arturo Gatti
Arturo Gatti (April 15, 1972 – July 11, 2009) was a Canadian professional boxer who competed from 1991 to 2007.
Asta Nielsen
Asta Sofie Amalie Nielsen (11 September 1881 – 24 May 1972) was a Danish silent film actress who was one of the most popular leading ladies of the 1910s and one of the first international movie stars.
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party (ALP), also known simply as Labor or the Labor Party, is the major centre-left political party in Australia and one of two major parties in Australian politics, along with the centre-right Liberal Party of Australia.
See 1972 and Australian Labor Party
Avalanche
An avalanche is a rapid flow of snow down a slope, such as a hill or mountain.
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson (13 May 1894 – 15 September 1972) was the second president of Iceland, from 1952 to 1968.
See 1972 and Ásgeir Ásgeirsson
Bangladesh
Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia.
Belfast
Belfast (from Béal Feirste) is the capital city and principal port of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan and connected to the open sea through Belfast Lough and the North Channel.
See 1972 and Belfast
Ben Affleck
Benjamin Géza Affleck (born August 15, 1972) is an American actor and filmmaker.
Ben Chifley
Joseph Benedict Chifley (22 September 1885 – 13 June 1951) was an Australian politician and train driver who served as the 16th prime minister of Australia from 1945 to 1949.
Ben Gurion Airport
Ben Gurion International Airport, commonly known by the Hebrew-language acronym (נתב״ג|rtl.
See 1972 and Ben Gurion Airport
Benin
Benin (Bénin, Benɛ, Benen), officially the Republic of Benin (République du Bénin), and also known as Dahomey, is a country in West Africa.
See 1972 and Benin
Big Show
Paul Donald Wight II (born February 8, 1972) is an American professional wrestler and actor.
Billie Joe Armstrong
Billie Joe Armstrong (born February 17, 1972) is an American musician and actor.
See 1972 and Billie Joe Armstrong
Billy Snedden
Sir Billy Mackie Snedden, (31 December 1926 – 27 June 1987) was an Australian politician who served as the leader of the Liberal Party from 1972 to 1975.
Biological warfare
Biological warfare, also known as germ warfare, is the use of biological toxins or infectious agents such as bacteria, viruses, insects, and fungi with the intent to kill, harm or incapacitate humans, animals or plants as an act of war.
See 1972 and Biological warfare
Biological Weapons Convention
The Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), or Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC), is a disarmament treaty that effectively bans biological and toxin weapons by prohibiting their development, production, acquisition, transfer, stockpiling and use.
See 1972 and Biological Weapons Convention
Birendra of Nepal
Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev (श्री ५ महाराजाधिराज वीरेन्द्र वीर विक्रम शाह देव), (28 December 1945 – 1 June 2001) was the tenth King of Nepal from 1972 until his assassination in 2001.
See 1972 and Birendra of Nepal
Black September Organization
The Black September Organization (BSO) (translit) was a Palestinian militant organization founded in 1970.
See 1972 and Black September Organization
Bloody Friday (1972)
Bloody Friday is the name given to the bombings by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) in Belfast, Northern Ireland on 21 July 1972, during the Troubles.
See 1972 and Bloody Friday (1972)
Bloody Sunday (1972)
Bloody Sunday, or the Bogside Massacre, was a massacre on 30 January 1972 when British soldiers shot 26 unarmed civilians during a protest march in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland.
See 1972 and Bloody Sunday (1972)
Boris Spassky
Boris Vasilievich Spassky (Borís Vasíl'yevich Spásskiy; born January 30, 1937) is a Russian chess grandmaster who was the tenth World Chess Champion, holding the title from 1969 to 1972.
Boyz II Men
Boyz II Men (pronounced boys to men) is an American vocal harmony group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, best known for emotional ballads and a cappella harmonies.
Brandon deWilde
Andre Brandon deWilde (April 9, 1942 – July 6, 1972) was an American theater, film, and television actor.
Brazil
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.
See 1972 and Brazil
British European Airways Flight 548
British European Airways Flight 548 was a scheduled passenger flight from London Heathrow to Brussels that crashed near Staines, England, shortly after take-off on 18 June 1972, killing all 118 people on board.
See 1972 and British European Airways Flight 548
Burlesque
A burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects.
Busta Rhymes
Trevor George Smith Jr. (born May 20, 1972), known professionally as Busta Rhymes, is an American rapper and actor.
C. Rajagopalachari
Chakravarti Rajagopalachari BR (10 December 1878 – 25 December 1972), popularly known as Rajaji or C.R., also known as Mootharignar Rajaji (Rajaji, the Scholar Emeritus), was an Indian statesman, writer, lawyer, and Indian independence activist.
See 1972 and C. Rajagopalachari
Cameron Diaz
Cameron Michelle Diaz (born August 30, 1972) is an American actress.
Canada men's national ice hockey team
The Canada men's national ice hockey team (popularly known as Team Canada; Équipe Canada) is the ice hockey team representing Canada internationally.
See 1972 and Canada men's national ice hockey team
Canberra
Canberra is the capital city of Australia.
Cape Canaveral
Cape Canaveral (Cabo Cañaveral) is a cape in Brevard County, Florida, in the United States, near the center of the state's Atlantic coast.
Car bomb
A car bomb, bus bomb, van bomb, lorry bomb, or truck bomb, also known as a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED), is an improvised explosive device designed to be detonated in an automobile or other vehicles.
Carl W. Stalling
Carl William Stalling (November 10, 1891 – November 29, 1972) was an American composer, voice actor and arranger for music in animated films.
Caruthers, California
Caruthers is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fresno County, California, United States.
See 1972 and Caruthers, California
Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global and is one of the company's three flagship subsidiaries, along with namesake Paramount Pictures and MTV.
See 1972 and CBS
Cecil Day-Lewis
Cecil Day-Lewis (or Day Lewis; 27 April 1904 – 22 May 1972), often written as C. Day-Lewis, was an Anglo-Irish poet and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1968 until his death in 1972.
Central African Republic
The Central African Republic (CAR), formerly known as Ubangi-Shari, is a landlocked country in Central Africa.
See 1972 and Central African Republic
Chancellor of Austria
The chancellor of Austria, officially the federal chancellor the Republic of Austria, is the head of government of the Republic of Austria.
See 1972 and Chancellor of Austria
Chancellor of the Exchequer
The chancellor of the exchequer, often abbreviated to Chancellor, is a senior minister of the Crown within the Government of the United Kingdom, and head of Treasury.
See 1972 and Chancellor of the Exchequer
Charles Atlas
Charles Atlas (born Angelo Siciliano; October 30, 1892December 24, 1972) was an American bodybuilder best remembered as the developer of a bodybuilding method and its associated exercise program which spawned a landmark advertising campaign featuring his name and likeness; it has been described as one of the longest-lasting and most memorable ad campaigns of all time.
Charles Duke
Charles Moss Duke Jr. (born October 3, 1935) is an American former astronaut, United States Air Force (USAF) officer and test pilot.
Charlie Haas
Charles Doyle Haas II (born March 27, 1972) is an American professional and former amateur wrestler.
Chess
Chess is a board game for two players.
See 1972 and Chess
Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America.
See 1972 and Chile
Christian B. Anfinsen
Christian Boehmer Anfinsen Jr. (March 26, 1916 – May 14, 1995) was an American biochemist.
See 1972 and Christian B. Anfinsen
Cincinnati Reds
The Cincinnati Reds are an American professional baseball team based in Cincinnati.
Club of Rome
The Club of Rome is a nonprofit, informal organization of intellectuals and business leaders whose goal is a critical discussion of pressing global issues.
Clyde McPhatter
Clyde Lensley McPhatter (November 15, 1932 – June 13, 1972) was an American rhythm and blues, soul, and rock and roll singer.
CNN
Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.
See 1972 and CNN
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.
Colorado
Colorado (other variants) is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.
Common (rapper)
Lonnie Rashid Lynn (born March 14, 1972), known professionally as Common (formerly known as Common Sense), is an American rapper and actor from Chicago, Illinois.
Communist Party of Greece
The Communist Party of Greece (Κομμουνιστικό Κόμμα Ελλάδας, Kommounistikó Kómma Elládas, KKE) is a Marxist–Leninist political party in Greece.
See 1972 and Communist Party of Greece
Congregationalism
Congregationalism (also Congregationalist churches or Congregational churches) is a Reformed (Calvinist) tradition of Protestant Christianity in which churches practice congregational government.
See 1972 and Congregationalism
Constitution
A constitution is the aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, organization or other type of entity, and commonly determines how that entity is to be governed.
County Londonderry
County Londonderry (Ulster-Scots: Coontie Lunnonderrie), also known as County Derry (Contae Dhoire), is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, one of the thirty-two counties of Ireland and one of the nine counties of Ulster.
See 1972 and County Londonderry
Curtis Mayfield
Curtis Lee Mayfield (June 3, 1942 – December 26, 1999) was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer, and one of the most influential musicians behind soul and politically conscious African-American music.
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia (Czech and Československo, Česko-Slovensko) was a landlocked state in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary.
D-Von Dudley
Devon Hughes (born August 1, 1972) is an American professional wrestler.
Daniel Alfredsson
Daniel Alfredsson (born 11 December 1972), nicknamed "Alfie", is a Swedish-Canadian former professional ice hockey player and Assistant Coach for the Ottawa Senators.
See 1972 and Daniel Alfredsson
Darren Hayes
Darren Stanley Hayes (born 8 May 1972) is an Australian singer, songwriter, music producer and composer.
Dave Williams (singer)
David Wayne Williams (February 29, 1972 – August 14, 2002) was an American singer best known as the original lead vocalist for the rock band Drowning Pool.
See 1972 and Dave Williams (singer)
December 31
It is known by a collection of names including: Saint Sylvester's Day, New Year's Eve or Old Year’s Day/Night, as the following day is New Year's Day.
Democratic National Committee
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is the principal committee of the United States Democratic Party.
See 1972 and Democratic National Committee
Democratic National Convention
The Democratic National Convention (DNC) is a series of presidential nominating conventions held every four years since 1832 by the United States Democratic Party.
See 1972 and Democratic National Convention
Denise Lewis
Dame Denise Rosemarie Lewis (born 27 August 1972) is a British sports presenter, sports administrator and former track and field athlete, who specialised in the heptathlon.
Derry
Derry, officially Londonderry, is the largest city in County Londonderry, the second-largest in Northern Ireland and the fifth-largest on the island of Ireland.
See 1972 and Derry
Devin Townsend
Devin Garrett Townsend (born May 5, 1972) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer.
Dita Von Teese
Heather Renée Sweet (born September 28, 1972), known professionally as Dita Von Teese, is an American vedette, burlesque dancer, model, and businesswoman.
DNA
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a polymer composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix.
See 1972 and DNA
Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic is a North American country on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north.
See 1972 and Dominican Republic
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion is one of the halls in the Los Angeles Music Center, which is one of the largest performing arts centers in the United States.
See 1972 and Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Douglas DC-8
The Douglas DC-8 (sometimes McDonnell Douglas DC-8) is an early long-range narrow-body jetliner designed and produced by the American Douglas Aircraft Company.
Dow Jones Industrial Average
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), Dow Jones, or simply the Dow, is a stock market index of 30 prominent companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States.
See 1972 and Dow Jones Industrial Average
Dublin
Dublin is the capital of the Republic of Ireland and also the largest city by size on the island of Ireland.
See 1972 and Dublin
Dwayne Johnson
Dwayne Douglas Johnson (born May 2, 1972), also known by his ring name the Rock, is an American actor, professional wrestler, and businessman.
E. Howard Hunt
Everette Howard Hunt Jr. (October 9, 1918 – January 23, 2007) was an American intelligence officer and author.
Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.
See 1972 and Earth
East Berlin
East Berlin (Ost-Berlin) was the partially recognised capital of East Germany (GDR) from 1949 to 1990.
East Germany
East Germany (Ostdeutschland), officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR; Deutsche Demokratische Republik,, DDR), was a country in Central Europe from its formation on 7 October 1949 until its reunification with West Germany on 3 October 1990.
Easter Offensive
The Easter Offensive, also known as the 1972 spring–summer offensive (Chiến dịch Xuân–Hè 1972) by North Vietnam, or the Red Fiery Summer (Mùa hè đỏ lửa) as romanticized in South Vietnamese literature, was a military campaign conducted by the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN, the regular army of North Vietnam) against the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN, the regular army of South Vietnam) and the United States military between 30 March and 22 October 1972, during the Vietnam War.
Eastern Air Lines
Eastern Air Lines (also colloquially known as Eastern) was a major airline in the United States that operated from 1926 to 1991.
See 1972 and Eastern Air Lines
Eastern Air Lines Flight 401
Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 was a scheduled flight from New York JFK to Miami.
See 1972 and Eastern Air Lines Flight 401
Ecuador
Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west.
See 1972 and Ecuador
Eddy Merckx
Édouard Louis Joseph, Baron Merckx (born 17 June 1945), known as Eddy Merckx, is a Belgian former professional road and track cyclist racer who is the most successful rider in the history of competitive cycling.
Edmund Wilson
Edmund Wilson Jr. (May 8, 1895 – June 12, 1972) was an American writer, literary critic and journalist.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (11 May 1930 – 6 August 2002) was a Dutch computer scientist, programmer, software engineer, mathematician, and science essayist.
See 1972 and Edsger W. Dijkstra
Edward Calvin Kendall
Edward Calvin Kendall (March 8, 1886 – May 4, 1972) was an American biochemist.
See 1972 and Edward Calvin Kendall
Elizabeth Berkley
Elizabeth Berkley is an American actress.
See 1972 and Elizabeth Berkley
Elvis Stojko
Elvis Stojko, (born March 22, 1972) is a Canadian figure skater.
Emerson Fittipaldi
Emerson Fittipaldi (born 12 December 1946) is a Brazilian former automobile racing driver who won both the Formula One World Championship and the Indianapolis 500 twice each and the CART championship once.
See 1972 and Emerson Fittipaldi
Encyclopædia Britannica
The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
See 1972 and Encyclopædia Britannica
Ephemeris time
The term ephemeris time (often abbreviated ET) can in principle refer to time in association with any ephemeris (itinerary of the trajectory of an astronomical object).
Equal Rights Amendment
The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would, if added, explicitly prohibit sex discrimination.
See 1972 and Equal Rights Amendment
Erhard Milch
Erhard Milch (30 March 1892 – 25 January 1972) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (field marshal) who oversaw the development of the German air force (Luftwaffe) as part of the re-armament of Nazi Germany (1933-1945) following World War I (1914-1918).
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski
Erich Julius Eberhard von dem Bach-Zelewski (born Erich Julius Eberhard von Zelewski; 1 March 1899 – 8 March 1972) was a high-ranking SS commander of Nazi Germany of Kashubian-Polish origin.
See 1972 and Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski
Ernst von Salomon
Ernst von Salomon (25 September 1902 – 9 August 1972) was a German novelist and screenwriter.
See 1972 and Ernst von Salomon
European Economic Community
The European Economic Community (EEC) was a regional organisation created by the Treaty of Rome of 1957,Today the largely rewritten treaty continues in force as the Treaty on the functioning of the European Union, as renamed by the Lisbon Treaty.
See 1972 and European Economic Community
Eurovision Song Contest
The Eurovision Song Contest (Concours Eurovision de la chanson), often known simply as Eurovision, is an international song competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union.
See 1972 and Eurovision Song Contest
Eurovision Song Contest 1972
The Eurovision Song Contest 1972 was the 17th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest.
See 1972 and Eurovision Song Contest 1972
Everglades
The Everglades is a natural region of flooded grasslands in the southern portion of the U.S. state of Florida, comprising the southern half of a large drainage basin within the Neotropical realm.
Extravehicular activity
Extravehicular activity (EVA) is any activity done by an astronaut in outer space outside a spacecraft.
See 1972 and Extravehicular activity
Ezra Pound
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a collaborator in Fascist Italy and the Salò Republic during World War II.
Fairchild Aircraft
Fairchild was an American aircraft and aerospace manufacturing company based at various times in Farmingdale, New York; Hagerstown, Maryland; and San Antonio, Texas.
See 1972 and Fairchild Aircraft
Fars province
Fars province (استان فارس) is one of the 31 provinces of Iran.
February 14
It is observed in most countries as Valentine's Day.
February 29
February 29 is a leap day (or "leap year day")—an intercalary date added periodically to create leap years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency.
See 1972 and Federal Bureau of Investigation
Ferde Grofé
Ferdinand Rudolph von Grofé, known as Ferde Grofé (March 27, 1892 April 3, 1972) (pronounced) was an American composer, arranger, pianist, and instrumentalist.
Ferdinand Marcos
--> Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos Sr. (September 11, 1917 – September 28, 1989) was a Filipino politician, dictator and kleptocrat who served as the tenth president of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986.
Flying ace
A flying ace, fighter ace or air ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during aerial combat.
Ford Model T
The Ford Model T is an automobile that was produced by the Ford Motor Company from October 1, 1908, to May 26, 1927.
Formula One
Formula One, commonly known as Formula 1 or F1, is the highest class of international racing for open-wheel single-seater formula racing cars sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA).
Francis Chichester
Sir Francis Charles Chichester KBE (17 September 1901 – 26 August 1972) was a British businessman, pioneering aviator and solo sailor.
See 1972 and Francis Chichester
Frank Tashlin
Frank Tashlin (born Francis Fredrick von Taschlein, February 19, 1913 – May 5, 1972), also known as Tish Tash and Frank Tash, was an American animator and filmmaker.
Franz Halder
Franz Halder (30 June 1884 – 2 April 1972) was a German general and the chief of staff of the Army High Command (OKH) in Nazi Germany from 1938 until September 1942.
Frederik IX
Frederik IX (Christian Frederik Franz Michael Carl Valdemar Georg; 11 March 1899 – 14 January 1972) was King of Denmark from 1947 to 1972.
Fredric Brown
Fredric Brown (October 29, 1906 – March 11, 1972) was an American science fiction, fantasy, and mystery writer.
Gabrielle Union
Gabrielle Monique Union-Wade (Union; born October 29, 1972) is an American actress.
Geeta Dutt
Geeta Dutt (born Geeta Ghosh Roy Chowdhuri; 23 November 1930 – 20 July 1972) was an Indian classical and playback singer.
Gene Cernan
Eugene Andrew Cernan (March 14, 1934 – January 16, 2017) was an American astronaut, naval aviator, electrical engineer, aeronautical engineer, and fighter pilot.
Geoffrey Fisher
Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Baron Fisher of Lambeth, (5 May 1887 – 15 September 1972) was an English Anglican priest, and 99th Archbishop of Canterbury, serving from 1945 to 1961.
Georg von Békésy
Georg von Békésy (Békésy György,; 3 June 1899 – 13 June 1972) was a Hungarian-American biophysicist.
George McGovern
George Stanley McGovern (July 19, 1922 – October 21, 2012) was an American politician and historian who was a U.S. representative and three-term U.S. senator from South Dakota, and the Democratic Party presidential nominee in the 1972 presidential election.
George Sanders
George Henry Sanders (3 July 1906 – 25 April 1972) was a British actor and singer whose career spanned over 40 years.
Georges Pompidou
Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou (5 July 19112 April 1974) was a French politician who served as President of France from 1969 to his death in 1974.
Gerald Edelman
Gerald Maurice Edelman (July 1, 1929 – May 17, 2014) was an American biologist who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work with Rodney Robert Porter on the immune system.
Geri Halliwell
Geraldine Estelle Halliwell-Horner (née Halliwell; born 6 August 1972) is an English singer, songwriter, television personality, author, and actress.
Germany national football team
The Germany national football team (Deutsche Fußballnationalmannschaft) represents Germany in men's international football and played its first match in 1908.
See 1972 and Germany national football team
Ghada Shouaa
Ghada Shouaa (غادة شعاع; born September 10, 1972) is a retired Syrian heptathlete.
Ghana
Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa.
See 1972 and Ghana
Ghassan Kanafani
Ghassan Fayiz Kanafani (غسان فايز كنفاني; 8 April 1936 – 8 July 1972) was a prominent Palestinian author and politician, considered to be a leading novelist of his generation and one of the Arab world's leading Palestinian writers.
Gisela Richter
Gisela Marie Augusta Richter (14 or 15 August 1882 – 24 December 1972) was a British-American classical archaeologist and art historian.
Goran Višnjić
Goran Višnjić (born 9 September 1972) is a Croatian-American actor who has appeared in American and British films and television productions.
Gough Whitlam
Edward Gough Whitlam (11 July 191621 October 2014) was the 21st prime minister of Australia, serving from 1972 to 1975.
Governor of Oklahoma
The governor of Oklahoma is the head of government of the U.S. state of Oklahoma.
See 1972 and Governor of Oklahoma
Governor of South Carolina
The governor of South Carolina is the head of government of South Carolina.
See 1972 and Governor of South Carolina
Governor-General of India
The governor-general of India (1833 to 1950, from 1858 to 1947 the viceroy and governor-general of India, commonly shortened to viceroy of India) was the representative of the monarch of the United Kingdom in their capacity as the Emperor/Empress of India and after Indian independence in 1947, the representative of the Monarch of India.
See 1972 and Governor-General of India
Graham Hill
Norman Graham Hill (15 February 1929 – 29 November 1975) was a British racing driver and team owner, who was the Formula One World Champion twice, winning in and as well as being runner-up on three occasions (1963, 1964 and 1965).
Grant Hill
Grant Henry Hill (born October 5, 1972) is an American professional basketball executive and former player who is a co-owner of the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and a part-owner of Orlando City SC of Major League Soccer (MLS) and Orlando Pride of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL).
Green Day
Green Day is an American rock band formed in Rodeo, California in 1987 by lead vocalist and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong and bassist and backing vocalist Mike Dirnt, with drummer Tré Cool joining in 1990.
Greenpeace
Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning network, founded in Canada in 1971 by a group of environmental activists.
Greg Page (musician)
Gregory John Page, (born 16 January 1972) is an Australian singer, musician and actor.
See 1972 and Greg Page (musician)
Gretchen Mol
Gretchen Mol (born November 8, 1972) is an American actress.
Guam
Guam (Guåhan) is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States in the Micronesia subregion of the western Pacific Ocean.
See 1972 and Guam
Gwyneth Paltrow
Gwyneth Kate Paltrow (born September 27, 1972) is an American actress and businesswoman.
H. R. Haldeman
Harry Robbins "Bob" Haldeman (October 27, 1926 – November 12, 1993) was an American political aide and businessman, best known for his service as White House Chief of Staff to President Richard Nixon and his consequent involvement in the Watergate scandal.
Haiphong
Haiphong (Hải Phòng) is the third-largest city in Vietnam and is the principal port city of the Red River Delta.
Hair (musical)
Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado and music by Galt MacDermot.
Hanoi
Hanoi (Hà Nội) is the capital and second-most populous city of Vietnam.
See 1972 and Hanoi
Harlow Shapley
Harlow Shapley (November 2, 1885 – October 20, 1972) was an American scientist, head of the Harvard College Observatory (1921–1952), and political activist during the latter New Deal and Fair Deal.
Harrison Schmitt
Harrison Hagan "Jack" Schmitt (born July 3, 1935) is an American geologist, former NASA astronaut, university professor, former U.S. senator from New Mexico, and the most recent living person—and only person without a background in military aviation—to have walked on the Moon.
Hassan II of Morocco
Hassan II (translit; 9 July 1929 – 23 July 1999) was King of Morocco from 1961 until his death in 1999.
See 1972 and Hassan II of Morocco
Havergal Brian
William Havergal Brian (29 January 187628 November 1972) was a prominent 20th-century English composer, librettist, and church organist.
Heathrow Airport
Heathrow Airport, called London Airport until 1966, is the main international airport serving London, the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
Heinrich Böll
Heinrich Theodor Böll (21 December 1917 – 16 July 1985) was a German writer.
Heinrich Lübke
Karl Heinrich Lübke (14 October 1894 – 6 April 1972) was a German politician, who served as president of West Germany from 1959 to 1969.
Henri Coandă
Henri Marie Coandă (7 June 1886 – 25 November 1972)Flight 1973 was a Romanian inventor, aerodynamics pioneer, and builder of an experimental aircraft, the Coandă-1910, which never flew.
Henry Kissinger
Henry Alfred Kissinger (May 27, 1923November 29, 2023) was an American diplomat and political scientist who served as the United States secretary of state from 1973 to 1977 and national security advisor from 1969 to 1975, in the presidential administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.
Hermann Maier
Hermann Maier (born 7 December 1972) is an Austrian former World Cup champion alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist.
Home Secretary
The secretary of state for the Home Department, more commonly known as the Home Secretary, is a senior minister of the Crown in the Government of the United Kingdom and the head of the Home Office.
Hostage
A hostage is a person seized by an abductor in order to compel another party, one which places a high value on the liberty, well-being and safety of the person seized—such as a relative, employer, law enforcement, or government—to act, or refrain from acting, in a certain way, often under threat of serious physical harm or death to the hostage(s) after expiration of an ultimatum.
See 1972 and Hostage
HP-35
The HP-35 was Hewlett-Packard's first pocket calculator and the world's first scientific pocket calculator: a calculator with trigonometric and exponential functions.
See 1972 and HP-35
Human cannibalism
Human cannibalism is the act or practice of humans eating the flesh or internal organs of other human beings.
See 1972 and Human cannibalism
Hurricane Agnes
Hurricane Agnes was the costliest hurricane to hit the United States at the time, causing an estimated $2.1 billion in damage.
Hutu
The Hutu, also known as the Abahutu, are a Bantu ethnic or social group which is native to the African Great Lakes region.
See 1972 and Hutu
Ibiza
Ibiza (Eivissa,; see below) is a Spanish island in the Mediterranean Sea off the eastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula.
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Iceland
Iceland (Ísland) is a Nordic island country between the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe.
See 1972 and Iceland
Idaho
Idaho is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.
See 1972 and Idaho
Idi Amin
Idi Amin Dada Oumee (30 May 192816 August 2003) was a Ugandan military officer and politician who served as the third president of Uganda from 1971 to 1979.
Igor Sikorsky
Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky (translit, Ihor Ivanovych Sikorskyi; 25 May 1889 – 26 October 1972)Fortier, Rénald.
Ilyushin
The public joint stock company Ilyushin Aviation Complex, operating as Ilyushin (Илью́шин) or as Ilyushin Design Bureau, is a former Soviet and now a Russian aircraft manufacturer and design bureau, founded in 1933 by Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyushin.
Imelda Marcos
Imelda Romuáldez Marcos (born Imelda Remedios Visitación Trinidad Romuáldez; July 2, 1929) is a Filipino politician who was First Lady of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986, wielding significant political power after her husband Ferdinand Marcos placed the country under martial law in September 1972.
Indo-Pakistani war of 1971
The Indo-Pakistani war of 1971, also known as the third India-Pakistan war, was a military confrontation between India and Pakistan that occurred during the Bangladesh Liberation War in East Pakistan from 3 December 1971 until the Pakistani capitulation in Dhaka on 16 December 1971.
See 1972 and Indo-Pakistani war of 1971
International Olympic Committee
The International Olympic Committee (IOC; Comité international olympique, CIO) is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland.
See 1972 and International Olympic Committee
International waters
The terms international waters or transboundary waters apply where any of the following types of bodies of water (or their drainage basins) transcend international boundaries: oceans, large marine ecosystems, enclosed or semi-enclosed regional seas and estuaries, rivers, lakes, groundwater systems (aquifers), and wetlands.
See 1972 and International waters
Irene van Dyk
Irene van Dyk (née Viljoen; born 21 June 1972) is a South African-born New Zealand netball player.
Irish nationalism
Irish nationalism is a nationalist political movement which, in its broadest sense, asserts that the people of Ireland should govern Ireland as a sovereign state.
See 1972 and Irish nationalism
Isabel Jewell
Isabel Jewell (July 19, 1907 – April 5, 1972) was an American actress, who rose to prominence in the 1930s and early 1940s.
Ivan Yefremov
Ivan Antonovich (Antipovich) Yefremov, sometimes Efremov (Ива́н Анто́нович (Анти́пович) Ефре́мов; 23 April 1908 – 5 October 1972) was a Soviet paleontologist, science-fiction author and social thinker.
J. Edgar Hoover
John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was an American law-enforcement administrator who served as the final Director of the Bureau of Investigation (BOI) and the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Jackie Robinson
Jack Roosevelt Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era.
James F. Byrnes
James Francis Byrnes (May 2, 1882 – April 9, 1972) was an American judge and politician from South Carolina.
James Rado
James Alexander Radomski (January 23, 1932 – June 21, 2022), known professionally as James Rado, was an American actor, playwright, director, and composer, best known as the co-author, along with Gerome Ragni, of the 1967 musical Hair.
January 1
January 1 is the first day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar; 364 days remain until the end of the year (365 in leap years).
Japanese Red Army
The was a militant communist organization active from 1971 to 2001.
See 1972 and Japanese Red Army
Jaromír Jágr
Jaromír Jágr (born 15 February 1972) is a Czech professional ice hockey right winger and owner of Rytíři Kladno of the Czech Extraliga (ELH).
Jean-Bédel Bokassa
Jean-Bédel Bokassa (22 February 1921 – 3 November 1996) was a Central African political and military leader.
See 1972 and Jean-Bédel Bokassa
Jennie Garth
Jennifer Eve "Jennie" Garth (born April 3, 1972) is an American actress.
Jeremy London
Jeremy Michael London (born November 7, 1972) is an American actor.
Jessie Royce Landis
Jessie Royce Landis (born Jessie Medbury; November 25, 1896 – February 2, 1972) was an American actress.
See 1972 and Jessie Royce Landis
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck (འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོ་ འཇིགས་མེད་རྡོ་རྗེ་དབང་ཕྱུག་མཆོག་,; 2 May 1928 – 21 July 1972) was the 3rd Druk Gyalpo of Bhutan.
See 1972 and Jigme Dorji Wangchuck
Jigme Singye Wangchuck
Jigme Singye Wangchuck (འཇིགས་མེད་སེང་གེ་དབང་ཕྱུག་,; born 11 November 1955) is a member of the House of Wangchuck who was the king of Bhutan (Druk Gyalpo) from 1972 until his abdication in 2006.
See 1972 and Jigme Singye Wangchuck
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink
Jerrel Floyd "Jimmy" Hasselbaink (born 27 March 1972) is a Dutch professional football manager and former player.
See 1972 and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink
Joan Baez
Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and activist.
John Bardeen
John Bardeen; May 23, 1908 – January 30, 1991) was an American physicist and electrical engineer. He is the only person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor; and again in 1972 with Leon N. Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for a fundamental theory of conventional superconductivity known as the BCS theory.
John Grierson
John Grierson (26 April 1898 – 19 February 1972) was a pioneering Scottish documentary maker, often considered the father of British and Canadian documentary film.
John Hicks
Sir John Richard Hicks (8 April 1904 – 20 May 1989) was a British economist.
John Robert Schrieffer
John Robert Schrieffer (May 31, 1931 – July 27, 2019) was an American physicist who, with John Bardeen and Leon Cooper, was a recipient of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics for developing the BCS theory, the first successful quantum theory of superconductivity.
See 1972 and John Robert Schrieffer
John Young (astronaut)
John Watts Young (September 24, 1930 – January 5, 2018) was an American astronaut, naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and aeronautical engineer.
See 1972 and John Young (astronaut)
Jonny Lee Miller
Jonny Lee Miller (born 15 November 1972) is an English actor.
José María Velasco Ibarra
José María Velasco Ibarra (19 March 1893 – 30 March 1979) was an Ecuadorian politician.
See 1972 and José María Velasco Ibarra
Joseph Fielding Smith
Joseph Fielding Smith Jr. (July 19, 1876 – July 2, 1972) was an American religious leader and writer who served as the tenth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1970 until his death in 1972.
See 1972 and Joseph Fielding Smith
Joseph Paul-Boncour
Augustin Alfred Joseph Paul-Boncour (4 August 1873 – 28 March 1972) was a French politician and diplomat of the Third Republic.
See 1972 and Joseph Paul-Boncour
Josh Duhamel
Joshua David Duhamel (born November 14, 1972) is an American actor.
Jude Law
David Jude Heyworth Law (born 29 December 1972) is an English actor.
Judith Godrèche
Judith Godrèche (born 23 March 1972) is a French actress and author.
July 2
This date marks the halfway point of the year.
See 1972 and July 2
Karel Poborský
Karel Poborský (born 30 March 1972) is a Czech former professional footballer who played as a winger.
Karl Urban
Karl-Heinz Urban (born 7 June 1972) is a New Zealand actor.
Kelly Slater
Robert Kelly Slater (born February 11, 1972) is an American professional surfer, best known for being crowned World Surf League champion a record 11 times.
Ken Mattingly
Thomas Kenneth Mattingly II (March 17, 1936 – October 31, 2023) was an American aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, rear admiral in the United States Navy, and astronaut who flew on Apollo 16 and Space Shuttle STS-4 and STS-51-C missions.
Kenneth Arrow
Kenneth Joseph Arrow (August 23, 1921 – February 21, 2017) was an American economist, mathematician, writer, and political theorist.
Keyshawn Johnson
Joseph Keyshawn Johnson (born July 22, 1972) is an American former football wide receiver who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 11 seasons.
Kurt Waldheim
Kurt Josef Waldheim (21 December 1918 – 14 June 2007) was an Austrian politician and diplomat.
Kwame Nkrumah
Francis Kwame Nkrumah (21 September 1909 – 27 April 1972) was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary.
La Santé Prison
La Santé Prison (named after its location on the Rue de la Santé) (Maison d'arrêt de la Santé or Prison de la Santé) is a prison operated by the French Prison Service of the Ministry of Justice located in the east of the Montparnasse district of the 14th arrondissement in southern Paris, France at 42 Rue de la Santé.
Landsat 1
Landsat 1 (LS-1), formerly named ERTS-A and ERTS-1, was the first satellite of the United States' Landsat program.
Lê Đức Thọ
Lê Đức Thọ (English: Lay-Duhk-Toh; 14 October 1911 – 13 October 1990), born Phan Đình Khải in Nam Dinh Province, was a Vietnamese revolutionary general, diplomat, and politician.
Leap second
A leap second is a one-second adjustment that is occasionally applied to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), to accommodate the difference between precise time (International Atomic Time (TAI), as measured by atomic clocks) and imprecise observed solar time (UT1), which varies due to irregularities and long-term slowdown in the Earth's rotation.
Lee Morgan
Edward Lee Morgan (July 10, 1938 – February 19, 1972) was an American jazz trumpeter and composer.
Leo G. Carroll
Leo Gratten Carroll (25 October 1886 – 16 October 1972) was an English actor.
Leon Cooper
Leon N. Cooper (born February 28, 1930) is an American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate who, with John Bardeen and John Robert Schrieffer, developed the BCS theory of superconductivity.
Leonid Brezhnev
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (19 December 1906– 10 November 1982) was a Soviet politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death in 1982, and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (head of state) from 1960 to 1964 and again from 1977 to 1982.
Leonor Varela
Leonor Magdalena Varela Palma (born 29 December 1972) is a Chilean born actress.
Leslie Mann
Leslie Jean Mann (born March 26, 1972) is an American actress.
Letter bomb
A letter bomb is an explosive device sent via the postal service, and designed with the intention to injure or kill the recipient when opened.
Liam Gallagher
William John Paul Gallagher (born 21 September 1972) is an English singer and songwriter who achieved fame as the lead vocalist of the rock band Oasis from 1991 to 2009.
Liberal Party of Australia
The Liberal Party of Australia is a centre-right political party in Australia.
See 1972 and Liberal Party of Australia
Lilian Thuram
Ruddy Lilian Thuram-Ulien (born 1 January 1972) is a French former professional footballer who played as a defender.
Lionel Penrose
Lionel Sharples Penrose, FRS (11 June 1898 – 12 May 1972) was an English psychiatrist, medical geneticist, paediatrician, mathematician and chess theorist, who carried out pioneering work on the genetics of intellectual disability.
Lisa Leslie
Lisa Deshaun Leslie (born July 7, 1972) is an American former professional basketball player.
List of ambassadors of the United States to the United Nations
The United States ambassador to the United Nations is the leader of the U.S. delegation, the U.S. Mission to the United Nations.
See 1972 and List of ambassadors of the United States to the United Nations
Lockheed L-1011 TriStar
The Lockheed L-1011 TriStar (pronounced "El-ten-eleven") is an American medium-to-long-range, wide-body trijet airliner built by the Lockheed Corporation.
See 1972 and Lockheed L-1011 TriStar
Lod Airport massacre
The Lod Airport massacre was a terrorist attack that occurred on 30 May 1972.
See 1972 and Lod Airport massacre
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.
See 1972 and Los Angeles Times
Louella Parsons
Louella Rose Oettinger, (August 6, 1881 – December 9, 1972) known professionally as Louella Parsons, was an American gossip columnist and a screenwriter.
Louis Leakey
Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey (7 August 1903 – 1 October 1972) was a Kenyan-British palaeoanthropologist and archaeologist whose work was important in demonstrating that humans evolved in Africa, particularly through discoveries made at Olduvai Gorge with his wife, fellow palaeoanthropologist Mary Leakey.
Ludwig von Bertalanffy
Karl Ludwig von Bertalanffy (19 September 1901 – 12 June 1972) was an Austrian biologist known as one of the founders of general systems theory (GST).
See 1972 and Ludwig von Bertalanffy
Luna 20
Luna 20 was the second of three successful Soviet lunar sample return missions.
See 1972 and Luna 20
Lunar Roving Vehicle
The Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) is a battery-powered four-wheeled rover used on the Moon in the last three missions of the American Apollo program (15, 16, and 17) during 1971 and 1972.
See 1972 and Lunar Roving Vehicle
Luxembourg
Luxembourg (Lëtzebuerg; Luxemburg; Luxembourg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is a small landlocked country in Western Europe.
M. C. Escher
Maurits Cornelis Escher (17 June 1898 – 27 March 1972) was a Dutch graphic artist who made woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints, many of which were inspired by mathematics.
Mahalia Jackson
Mahalia Jackson (born Mahala Jackson; October 26, 1911 – January 27, 1972) was an American gospel singer, widely considered one of the most influential vocalists of the 20th century.
Mahendra of Nepal
Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev (महेन्द्र वीर विक्रम शाह देव), (11 June 1920 – 31 January 1972) was the ninth King of Nepal from 13 March 1955 until his death in 1972, which was due to a heart attack, as told in an interview by his personal physician Dr.
See 1972 and Mahendra of Nepal
Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league and the highest level of organized baseball in the United States and Canada.
See 1972 and Major League Baseball
Managua
Managua is the capital and largest city of Nicaragua, and one of the largest cities in Central America.
See 1972 and Managua
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese politician, Marxist theorist, military strategist, poet, and revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
Margaret Rutherford
Dame Margaret Taylor Rutherford, (11 May 1892 – 22 May 1972) was an English actress of stage, film and television.
See 1972 and Margaret Rutherford
Margrethe II
Margrethe II (Margrethe Alexandrine Þórhildur Ingrid, born 16 April 1940) is a member of the Danish royal family who reigned as Queen of Denmark from 14 January 1972 until her abdication on 14 January 2024.
Maria Goeppert Mayer
Maria Goeppert Mayer (June 28, 1906 – February 20, 1972) was a German-born American theoretical physicist, and Nobel laureate in Physics for proposing the nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus.
See 1972 and Maria Goeppert Mayer
Maria Mutola
Maria de Lurdes Mutola (born 27 October 1972) is a retired female track and field athlete from Mozambique who specialised in the 800 metres running event.
Marianne Moore
Marianne Craig Moore (November 15, 1887 – February 5, 1972) was an American modernist poet, critic, translator, and editor.
Mariner 9
Mariner 9 (Mariner Mars '71 / Mariner-I) was a robotic spacecraft that contributed greatly to the exploration of Mars and was part of the NASA Mariner program.
Mark Hoppus
Mark Allan Hoppus (born March 15, 1972) is an American musician and record producer.
Mark Owen
Mark Owen (born 27 January 1974) is an English singer and songwriter best known for being a member of pop group and band Take That; as of 2019, the group have sold 14 million albums and 11.4 million singles in the UK.
Marlon Wayans
Marlon Lamont Wayans (born July 23, 1972) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer.
Martin Bormann
Martin Ludwig Bormann (17 June 1900 – 2 May 1945) was a German Nazi Party official and head of the Nazi Party Chancellery, private secretary to Adolf Hitler, and a war criminal.
Martin Brodeur
Martin Pierre Brodeur (born May 6, 1972) is a Canadian–American former professional ice hockey goaltender and current team executive.
Mathieu Kérékou
Mathieu Kérékou (2 September 1933 – 14 October 2015) was a Beninese politician who served as president of the People's Republic of Benin from 1972 to 1991 and the Republic of Benin from 1996 to 2006.
Maurice Chevalier
Maurice Auguste Chevalier (12 September 1888 – 1 January 1972) was a French singer, actor, and entertainer.
See 1972 and Maurice Chevalier
Max Fleischer
Max Fleischer (born Majer Fleischer; July 19, 1883 – September 25, 1972) was a Polish-American animator and studio owner.
Maya Rudolph
Maya Rudolph (born July 27, 1972) is an American actress and comedian.
McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle
The McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle is an American twin-engine, all-weather fighter aircraft designed by McDonnell Douglas (now part of Boeing).
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McLaren
McLaren Racing Limited is a British motor racing team based at the McLaren Technology Centre in Woking, Surrey, England.
See 1972 and McLaren
Methanol
Methanol (also called methyl alcohol and wood spirit, amongst other names) is an organic chemical compound and the simplest aliphatic alcohol, with the chemical formula (a methyl group linked to a hydroxyl group, often abbreviated as MeOH).
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an encyclopedic art museum in New York City.
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Mia Hamm
Mariel Margaret "Mia" Hamm (born March 17, 1972) is an American former professional soccer player, two-time Olympic gold medalist and two-time FIFA Women's World Cup champion.
Miami Beach, Florida
Miami Beach is a coastal resort city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States.
See 1972 and Miami Beach, Florida
Michael Chang
Michael Te-pei Chang (born February 22, 1972) is an American former professional tennis player and coach.
Michael Rosenbaum
Michael Rosenbaum (born July 11, 1972) is an American actor and podcaster.
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Michelangelo
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), known mononymously as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance.
Mike Dirnt
Michael Ryan Pritchard (born May 4, 1972), better known by his stage name Mike Dirnt, is an American rock musician who is the co-founder, bassist, backing vocalist, and occasional lead vocalist of Green Day.
Mikis Theodorakis
Michail "Mikis" Theodorakis (Μιχαήλ "Μίκης" Θεοδωράκης; 29 July 1925 – 2 September 2021) was a Greek composer and lyricist credited with over 1,000 works.
See 1972 and Mikis Theodorakis
Miriam Hopkins
Ellen Miriam Hopkins (October 18, 1902 – October 9, 1972) was an American actress known for her versatility.
Molecular biology
Molecular biology is a branch of biology that seeks to understand the molecular basis of biological activity in and between cells, including biomolecular synthesis, modification, mechanisms, and interactions.
See 1972 and Molecular biology
Monza
Monza (Monça, locally Monscia; Modoetia) is a city and comune (municipality) on the River Lambro, a tributary of the River Po, in the Lombardy region of Italy, about north-northeast of Milan.
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Moon
The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite.
See 1972 and Moon
Moonshine
Moonshine is high-proof liquor, traditionally made or distributed illegally.
Moruroa
Moruroa (Mururoa, Mururura), also historically known as Aopuni, is an atoll which forms part of the Tuamotu Archipelago in French Polynesia in the southern Pacific Ocean.
See 1972 and Moruroa
Mount Fuji
is an active stratovolcano located on the Japanese island of Honshu, with a summit elevation of.
Munich
Munich (München) is the capital and most populous city of the Free State of Bavaria, Germany.
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Munich massacre
The Munich massacre was a terrorist attack carried out during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, by eight members of the Palestinian militant organization Black September.
Muttiah Muralitharan
Deshabandu Muttiah Muralitharan (born 1972) is a Sri Lankan cricket coach, businessman and former professional cricketer.
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Napalm
Napalm is an incendiary mixture of a gelling agent and a volatile petrochemical (usually gasoline or diesel fuel).
See 1972 and Napalm
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia, also known as The Nationals or The Nats, is a centre-right, agrarian political party in Australia.
See 1972 and National Party of Australia
Nepal
Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia.
See 1972 and Nepal
Newry
Newry is a city in Northern Ireland, standing on the Clanrye river in counties Down and Armagh.
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Nick Ut
Huỳnh Công Út, known professionally as Nick Ut (born March 29, 1951), is a Vietnamese-American photographer who worked for the Associated Press in Los Angeles.
See 1972 and Nick Ut
Nippon Professional Baseball
is a professional baseball league and the highest level of baseball in Japan.
See 1972 and Nippon Professional Baseball
Nobel Prize in Physics
The Nobel Prize in Physics (Nobelpriset i fysik) is an annual award given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for those who have made the most outstanding contributions to mankind in the field of physics.
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin) is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine.
See 1972 and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
North American F-86 Sabre
The North American F-86 Sabre, sometimes called the Sabrejet, is a transonic jet fighter aircraft.
See 1972 and North American F-86 Sabre
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann; Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland that is variously described as a country, province or region.
Ntare V of Burundi
Ntare V of Burundi (born Charles Ndizeye; 2 December 1947 – 29 April 1972) was the last king (mwami) of Burundi, reigning from July to November 1966.
See 1972 and Ntare V of Burundi
Nuclear weapon
A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion.
Oakland Athletics
The Oakland Athletics (often referred to as the Oakland A's) are an American professional baseball team based in Oakland, California.
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Oasis (band)
Oasis were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1991.
Oceania
Oceania is a geographical region including Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.
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October
October is the tenth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
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Official Irish Republican Army
The Official Irish Republican Army or Official IRA (OIRA) was an Irish republican paramilitary group whose goal was to remove Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom and create a "workers' republic" encompassing all of Ireland.
See 1972 and Official Irish Republican Army
Olof Palme
Sven Olof Joachim Palme (30 January 1927 – 28 February 1986) was a Swedish politician and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1969 to 1976 and 1982 to 1986.
Operation Linebacker II
Operation Linebacker II, sometimes referred to as the Christmas bombings, was a strategic bombing campaign conducted by the United States against targets in North Vietnam from December 18 to December 29, 1972, during the Vietnam War.
See 1972 and Operation Linebacker II
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC; Munaẓẓamat at-Taʿāwun al-ʾIslāmī; Organisation de la coopération islamique), formerly the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, is an intergovernmental organization founded in 1969.
See 1972 and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
Osaka
is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan, and one of the three major cities of Japan (Tokyo-Osaka-Nagoya).
See 1972 and Osaka
Oscar Levant
Oscar Levant (December 27, 1906August 14, 1972) was an American concert pianist, composer, conductor, author, radio game show panelist, television talk show host, comedian, and actor.
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
See 1972 and Oxford University Press
Pacific League
The, or, or the, due to sponsorship reasons, is one of the two professional baseball leagues constituting Nippon Professional Baseball in Japan.
Pakistan
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia.
Palermo
Palermo (Palermu, locally also Paliemmu or Palèimmu) is a city in southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan province.
See 1972 and Palermo
Palestinians
Palestinians (al-Filasṭīniyyūn) or Palestinian people (label), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs (label), are an Arab ethnonational group native to Palestine.
Paramilitary
A paramilitary is a military that is not part of a country's official or legitimate armed forces.
Parliament House, Canberra
Parliament House, also referred to as Capital Hill or New Parliament House, is the meeting place of the Parliament of Australia, the legislative body of Australia's federal level of government.
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Pat Rafter
Patrick Michael Rafter (born 28 December 1972) is an Australian former world No. 1 tennis player.
Paul-Henri Spaak
Paul-Henri Charles Spaak (25 January 1899 – 31 July 1972) was an influential Belgian Socialist politician, diplomat and statesman who thrice served as the prime minister of Belgium and later as the second secretary general of NATO.
Pavel Nedvěd
Pavel Nedvěd (born 30 August 1972) is a Czech former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
People (magazine)
People is an American weekly magazine that specializes in celebrity news and human-interest stories.
See 1972 and People (magazine)
Phan Thi Kim Phuc
Phan Thị Kim Phúc (born April 6, 1963), referred to informally as the girl in the picture and the napalm girl, is a South Vietnamese-born Canadian woman best known as the nine-year-old child depicted in the Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph, titled "The Terror of War", taken at Trảng Bàng during the Vietnam War on June 8, 1972.
See 1972 and Phan Thi Kim Phuc
Philadelphia
Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.
Philippines
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.
Pietà (Michelangelo)
The Madonna della Pietà (1498–1499), otherwise known as La Pietà, is a marble sculpture of Jesus and Mary at Mount Golgotha representing the "Sixth Sorrow" of the Blessed Virgin Mary by Michelangelo Buonarroti, now in Saint Peter's Basilica, Vatican City.
See 1972 and Pietà (Michelangelo)
Pioneer 10
Pioneer 10 (originally designated Pioneer F) is a NASA space probe launched in 1972 that completed the first mission to the planet Jupiter.
Portuguese Mozambique
Portuguese Mozambique (Moçambique Portuguesa) or Portuguese East Africa (África Oriental Portuguesa) were the common terms by which Mozambique was designated during the period in which it was a Portuguese colony.
See 1972 and Portuguese Mozambique
Pound sterling
Sterling (ISO code: GBP) is the currency of the United Kingdom and nine of its associated territories.
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis OBE, FNA, FASc, FRS (29 June 1893– 28 June 1972) was an Indian scientist and statistician.
See 1972 and Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
Presbyterianism
Presbyterianism is a Reformed (Calvinist) Protestant tradition named for its form of church government by representative assemblies of elders.
Prescott Bush
Prescott Sheldon Bush Sr. (May 15, 1895 – October 8, 1972) was an American banker and Republican Party politician.
President of Germany
The president of Germany, officially titled the Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundespräsident der Bundesrepublik Deutschland),The official title within Germany is Bundespräsident, with der Bundesrepublik Deutschland being added in international correspondence; the official English title is President of the Federal Republic of Germany is the head of state of Germany.
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President of Ghana
The president of the Republic of Ghana is the elected head of state and head of government of Ghana, as well as commander-in-chief of the Ghana Armed Forces.
See 1972 and President of Ghana
President of Poland
The president of Poland (Prezydent RP), officially the president of the Republic of Poland (Prezydent Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej), is the head of state of the Republic of Poland.
See 1972 and President of Poland
President of the Philippines
The president of the Philippines (pangulo ng Pilipinas, sometimes referred to as presidente ng Pilipinas) is the head of state, head of government and chief executive of the Philippines.
See 1972 and President of the Philippines
President of the United States
The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.
See 1972 and President of the United States
Prime Minister of Australia
The prime minister of Australia is the head of government of the Commonwealth of Australia.
See 1972 and Prime Minister of Australia
Prime Minister of Belgium
The prime minister of Belgium (Eerste minister van België; Premier ministre de Belgique; Premierminister von Belgien) or the premier of Belgium is the head of the federal government of Belgium, and the most powerful person in Belgian politics.
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Prime Minister of Canada
The prime minister of Canada (premier ministre du Canada) is the head of government of Canada.
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Prime Minister of France
The prime minister of France (Premier ministre français), officially the prime minister of the French Republic, is the head of government of the French Republic and the leader of the Council of Ministers.
See 1972 and Prime Minister of France
Prime Minister of Italy
The prime minister of Italy, officially the president of the Council of Ministers (Presidente del Consiglio dei ministri), is the head of government of the Italian Republic.
See 1972 and Prime Minister of Italy
Prime Minister of Jamaica
The prime minister of Jamaica (Praim Minista a Jumieka) is Jamaica's head of government, currently Andrew Holness.
See 1972 and Prime Minister of Jamaica
Prime Minister of Singapore
The prime minister of Singapore is the head of government of Singapore.
See 1972 and Prime Minister of Singapore
Prime Minister of South Korea
The prime minister of the Republic of Korea is the deputy head of government and the second highest political office of South Korea who is appointed by the President of the Republic of Korea, with the National Assembly's approval.
See 1972 and Prime Minister of South Korea
Prime Minister of Sweden
The prime minister of Sweden (statsminister literally translates as "minister of state") is the head of government of the Kingdom of Sweden.
See 1972 and Prime Minister of Sweden
Prince William of Gloucester
Prince William of Gloucester (William Henry Andrew Frederick; 18 December 1941 – 28 August 1972) was a member of the British royal family.
See 1972 and Prince William of Gloucester
Prisoner of war
A prisoner of war (POW) is a person who is held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (often abbreviated PNAS or PNAS USA) is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary scientific journal.
See 1972 and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Provisional Irish Republican Army
The Provisional Irish Republican Army (Provisional IRA), officially known as the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and informally known as the Provos, was an Irish republican paramilitary force that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland, facilitate Irish reunification and bring about an independent republic encompassing all of Ireland.
See 1972 and Provisional Irish Republican Army
Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prizes are two dozen annual awards given by Columbia University in New York for achievements in the United States in "journalism, arts and letters." They were established in 1917 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher.
Queen Letizia of Spain
Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano (born 15 September 1972) is Queen of Spain as the wife of King Felipe VI.
See 1972 and Queen Letizia of Spain
Queen Mary of Denmark
Mary (born Mary Elizabeth Donaldson; 5 February 1972) is Queen of Denmark as the wife of King Frederik X. In 2000, Mary met Frederik (then Crown Prince of Denmark) while attending the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
See 1972 and Queen Mary of Denmark
Rabat
Rabat (also,; ar-Ribāṭ) is the capital city of Morocco and the country's seventh-largest city with an urban population of approximately 580,000 (2014) and a metropolitan population of over 1.2 million.
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Rabbi
A rabbi (רַבִּי|translit.
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Ralph Craig
Ralph Cook Craig (June 21, 1889 – July 21, 1972) was an American track and field athlete.
Rebecca Romijn
Rebecca Alie O'Connell (née Romijn;;, born November 6, 1972) is an American actress and former model.
René Mayer
René Mayer (4 May 189513 December 1972) was a French Radical politician of the Fourth Republic who served briefly as Prime Minister during 1953.
Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.
See 1972 and Republican Party (United States)
Reykjavík
Reykjavík is the capital and largest city of Iceland.
Rhodesia
Rhodesia (Rodizha), officially from 1970 the Republic of Rhodesia, was an unrecognised state in Southern Africa from 1965 to 1979.
Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 37th president of the United States from 1969 to 1974.
Rivaldo
Rivaldo Vítor Borba Ferreira (born 19 April 1972), known simply as Rivaldo, is a Brazilian former footballer who played mainly as an attacking midfielder but also as a second striker, and on occasion deployed as a wide midfielder or as a winger.
See 1972 and Rivaldo
RMS Queen Elizabeth
RMS Queen Elizabeth was an ocean liner operated by Cunard Line.
See 1972 and RMS Queen Elizabeth
Rob Thomas (musician)
Robert Kelly Thomas (born February 14, 1972) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician.
See 1972 and Rob Thomas (musician)
Roberto Clemente
Roberto Enrique Clemente Walker (August 18, 1934 – December 31, 1972) was a Puerto Rican professional baseball player who played 18 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates, primarily as a right fielder.
Ronald Evans (astronaut)
Ronald Ellwin Evans Jr. (November 10, 1933 – April 7, 1990) was an American electrical engineer, aeronautical engineer, officer and aviator in the United States Navy, and NASA astronaut.
See 1972 and Ronald Evans (astronaut)
Royal Society
The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences.
Rubens Barrichello
Rubens "Rubinho" Gonçalves Barrichello (born 23 May 1972) is a Brazilian professional racing driver currently competing in the Brazilian Stock Car Pro Series, driving the No.
See 1972 and Rubens Barrichello
Rudolf Friml
Charles Rudolf Friml.
Rugby union
Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union or more often just rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in England in the first half of the 19th century.
Rui Costa
Rui Manuel César Costa (born 29 March 1972) is a Portuguese former professional footballer who is the 34th president of sports club S.L. Benfica.
Salvador Allende
Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens (26 June 1908 – 11 September 1973) was a Chilean socialist politician who served as the 28th president of Chile from 1970 until his death in 1973.
Samantha Smith
Samantha Reed Smith (June 29, 1972 – August 25, 1985) was an American peace activist and child actress from Manchester, Maine, who became famous for her anti-war outreaches during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Sammi Cheng
Sammi Cheng Sau-man (born 19 August 1972) is a Hong Kong singer and actress.
Sandra Kim
Sandra Caldarone (born 15 October 1972), better known as Sandra Kim, is a Belgian singer of Italian descent who won the Eurovision Song Contest 1986 in Bergen, Norway.
Santo Domingo
Santo Domingo (meaning "Saint Dominic" but verbatim "Holy Sunday"), once known as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, known as Ciudad Trujillo between 1936 and 1961, is the capital and largest city of the Dominican Republic and the largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean by population.
Satellite
A satellite or artificial satellite is an object, typically a spacecraft, placed into orbit around a celestial body.
Saul Alinsky
Saul David Alinsky (January 30, 1909 – June 12, 1972) was an American community activist and political theorist.
São Paulo Metro
The São Paulo Metro (Metrô de São Paulo), commonly called the Metrô, is a rapid transit system that forms part of the urban railways that serves the city of São Paulo, alongside the São Paulo Metropolitan Trains Company (CPTM), both forming the largest metropolitan rail transport network of Latin America.
Schutzstaffel
The Schutzstaffel (SS; also stylised as ᛋᛋ with Armanen runes) was a major paramilitary organisation under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II.
Sean Waltman
Sean Michael Waltman (born July 13, 1972) is an American professional wrestler and martial artist.
Secretary-General of the United Nations
The secretary-general of the United Nations (UNSG or UNSECGEN) is the chief administrative officer of the United Nations and head of the United Nations Secretariat, one of the six principal organs of the United Nations.
See 1972 and Secretary-General of the United Nations
Seville
Seville (Sevilla) is the capital and largest city of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville.
See 1972 and Seville
Shandong
Shandong is a coastal province in East China.
Shaquille O'Neal
Shaquille Rashaun O'Neal (born March 6, 1972), known commonly as Shaq, is an American former professional basketball player who is a sports analyst on the television program Inside the NBA.
Shawn Bradley
Shawn Paul Bradley (born March 22, 1972) is a German-American former professional basketball player who played center for the Philadelphia 76ers, New Jersey Nets, and Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (17 March 1920 – 15 August 1975), popularly known by the honorific prefix Bangabandhu, was a Bangladeshi politician, revolutionary, statesman, activist and diarist.
See 1972 and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Shiraz Minwalla
Shiraz Naval Minwalla (born January 2, 1972) is an Indian theoretical physicist and string theorist.
Shoichi Yokoi
was a Japanese soldier who served as a sergeant in the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during the Second World War, and was one of the last three Japanese holdouts to be found after the end of hostilities in 1945.
Siad Barre
Mohammed Siad Barre (Maxamed Siyaad Barre, Osmanya script: 𐒑𐒖𐒄𐒖𐒑𐒗𐒆 𐒈𐒘𐒕𐒛𐒆 𐒁𐒖𐒇𐒇𐒗, محمد زياد بري Muhammad Siad Bariy; 6 October 1909 – 2 January 1995) was a Somali major general, politician and revolutionary who served as the third president of Somalia from 21 October 1969 to 26 January 1991.
Sicily
Sicily (Sicilia,; Sicilia,, officially Regione Siciliana) is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea, south of the Italian Peninsula in continental Europe and is one of the 20 regions of Italy.
See 1972 and Sicily
Sideshow
In North America, a sideshow is an extra, secondary production associated with a circus, carnival, fair, or other such attraction.
Silver
Silver is a chemical element; it has symbol Ag (derived from Proto-Indo-European ''*h₂erǵ'')) and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it exhibits the highest electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and reflectivity of any metal. The metal is found in the Earth's crust in the pure, free elemental form ("native silver"), as an alloy with gold and other metals, and in minerals such as argentite and chlorargyrite.
See 1972 and Silver
Simla Agreement
The Simla Agreement, also spelled Shimla Agreement, was a peace treaty signed between India and Pakistan on 2 July 1972 in Shimla, the capital city of the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Sirima Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike (සිරිමා රත්වත්තේ ඩයස් බණ්ඩාරනායක; சிறிமா ரத்வத்தே டயஸ் பண்டாரநாயக்கே; 17 April 1916 – 10 October 2000), commonly known as Sirimavo Bandaranaike, was a Sri Lankan politician.
See 1972 and Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (commonly abbreviated as SFRY or SFR Yugoslavia), commonly referred to as Socialist Yugoslavia or simply Yugoslavia, was a country in Central and Southeast Europe.
See 1972 and Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Soissons
Soissons is a commune in the northern French department of Aisne, in the region of Hauts-de-France.
Solar flare
A solar flare is a relatively intense, localized emission of electromagnetic radiation in the Sun's atmosphere.
Solar time
Solar time is a calculation of the passage of time based on the position of the Sun in the sky.
Somali Democratic Republic
The Somali Democratic Republic (Jamhuuriyadda Dimuqraadiya Soomaaliyeed; الجمهورية الديمقراطية الصومالية,; Repubblica Democratica Somala; was the name of the socialist totalitarian military government given to Somalia under President Major General Mohamed Siad Barre, after seizing power in a coup d'état on 21 October 1969.J.
See 1972 and Somali Democratic Republic
Soundarya
Sowmya Sathyanarayana (18 July 1976 – 17 April 2004), better known by her stage name Soundarya, was an Indian actress known for her works primarily in Telugu cinema.
Soundtrack
A soundtrack is a recorded audio signal accompanying and synchronised to the images of a book, drama, motion picture, radio program, television program, or video game; colloquially, a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film, video, or television presentation; or the physical area of a film that contains the synchronised recorded sound.
Sourav Ganguly
Sourav Chandidas Ganguly (natively spelled as Gangopadhyay; born 8 July 1972), also known as Dada (meaning "elder brother" in Bengali), is an Indian cricket commentator and former cricketer.
South Dakota
South Dakota (Sioux: Dakȟóta itókaga) is a landlocked state in the North Central region of the United States.
South Vietnam
South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam (RVN; Việt Nam Cộng hòa; VNCH, République du Viêt Nam), was a country in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975, the period when the southern portion of Vietnam was a member of the Western Bloc during part of the Cold War after the 1954 division of Vietnam.
Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
Spacecraft
A spacecraft is a vehicle that is designed to fly and operate in outer space.
Spice Girls
The Spice Girls were an English girl group formed in 1994, consisting of Mel B ("Scary Spice"); Melanie C ("Sporty Spice"); Emma Bunton ("Baby Spice"); Geri Halliwell ("Ginger Spice"); and Victoria Beckham ("Posh Spice").
Spiro Agnew
Spiro Theodore Agnew (November 9, 1918 – September 17, 1996) was the 39th vice president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1973.
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, historically known as Ceylon, and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia.
St. Peter's Basilica
The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican (Basilica Papale di San Pietro in Vaticano), or simply Saint Peter's Basilica (Basilica Sancti Petri; Basilica di San Pietro), is a church of the Italian High Renaissance located in Vatican City, an independent microstate enclaved within the city of Rome, Italy.
See 1972 and St. Peter's Basilica
States and union territories of India
India is a federal union comprising 28 states and 8 union territories, for a total of 36 entities.
See 1972 and States and union territories of India
Stefan Wolpe
Stefan Wolpe (25 August 1902, Berlin – 4 April 1972, New York City) was a German-born American composer.
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) were two rounds of bilateral conferences and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union.
See 1972 and Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
Summit Series
The Summit Series, Super Series 72, Canada–USSR Series (Superseriya SSSR — Kanada), or Series of the Century (Séries of the Century), was an eight-game ice hockey series between the Soviet Union and Canada, held in September 1972.
Sun Tzu
Sun Tzu (p) was a Chinese military general, strategist, philosopher, and writer who lived during the Eastern Zhou period (771–256 BC).
See 1972 and Sun Tzu
Super Fly (soundtrack)
Super Fly is the third studio album by American soul musician Curtis Mayfield, released on July 11, 1972 on Curtom Records.
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Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States.
See 1972 and Supreme Court of the United States
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia.
See 1972 and Taiwan
Take That
Take That are an English pop group formed in Manchester in 1990.
Takuya Kimura
is a Japanese actor, singer, and radio personality.
Talal of Jordan
Talal bin Abdullah (translit; 26 February 1909 – 7 July 1972) was King of Jordan from the assassination of his father, King Abdullah I, on 20 July 1951 until his forced abdication on 11 August 1952.
Tamil United Liberation Front
The Tamil United Liberation Front (translit, translit) is a political party in Sri Lanka.
See 1972 and Tamil United Liberation Front
Tamils
The Tamils, also known as the Tamilar, are a Dravidian ethnolinguistic group who natively speak the Tamil language and trace their ancestry mainly to India's southern state of Tamil Nadu, to the union territory of Puducherry, and to Sri Lanka.
See 1972 and Tamils
Tanzania
Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, (formerly Swahililand) is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region.
Tarkan (singer)
Tarkan Tevetoğlu (born 17 October 1972) is a German-born Turkish singer-songwriter.
Taylor Hawkins
Oliver Taylor Hawkins (February 17, 1972 – March 25, 2022) was an American musician who was best known as the drummer of the rock band Foo Fighters.
Tego Calderón
Tegui Calderón Rosario (born February 1, 1972) is a Puerto Rican rapper, singer and actor.
Terrestrial Time
Terrestrial Time (TT) is a modern astronomical time standard defined by the International Astronomical Union, primarily for time-measurements of astronomical observations made from the surface of Earth.
Terrorism
Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims.
Tete, Mozambique
Tete is the capital city of Tete Province in Mozambique.
Thandiwe Newton
Melanie Thandiwe Newton (born 6 November 1972), formerly credited as Thandie Newton, is a British actress.
The Art of War
The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the late Spring and Autumn period (roughly 5th century BC).
The Blue Marble
The Blue Marble is a photograph of Earth taken on December 7, 1972, from a distance of around from Earth's surface.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, informally known as the LDS Church or Mormon Church, is the largest Latter Day Saint denomination, tracing its roots to its founding by Joseph Smith during the Second Great Awakening.
See 1972 and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The Joy of Sex
The Joy of Sex is a 1972 illustrated sex manual by British author Alex Comfort.
The Limits to Growth
The Limits to Growth (often abbreviated LTG) is a 1972 report that discussed the possibility of exponential economic and population growth with finite supply of resources, studied by computer simulation.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
See 1972 and The New York Times
The Notorious B.I.G.
Christopher George Latore Wallace (May 21, 1972 – March 9, 1997), better known by his stage names The Notorious B.I.G. or Biggie Smalls, was an American rapper.
See 1972 and The Notorious B.I.G.
The Price Is Right
The Price Is Right is an American television game show where contestants compete by guessing the prices of merchandise to win cash and prizes.
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The Troubles
The Troubles (Na Trioblóidí) were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted for about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998.
The Wiggles
The Wiggles are an Australian children's music group formed in Sydney in 1991.
Thomas Alsgaard
Thomas Alsgaard (born 10 January 1972) is a Norwegian former professional cross-country skier.
Thomas Eagleton
Thomas Francis Eagleton (September 4, 1929 – March 4, 2007) was an American lawyer who served as a United States senator from Missouri from 1968 to 1987.
Timbaland
Timothy Zachery Mosley (born March 10, 1972), known professionally as Timbaland, is an American record producer, rapper, and singer.
Tonga
Tonga, officially the Kingdom of Tonga (Puleʻanga Fakatuʻi ʻo Tonga), is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania.
See 1972 and Tonga
Toni Collette
Toni Collette (born Collett; 1 November 1972) is an Australian actress.
Treasurer of Australia
The Treasurer of Australia, also known as the Federal Treasurer or more simply the Treasurer, is the minister of state of the Commonwealth of Australia charged with overseeing government revenue collection, federal expenditure and economic policy as the head of the Department of the Treasury.
See 1972 and Treasurer of Australia
Tripura
Tripura is a state in Northeast India.
See 1972 and Tripura
Tucson, Arizona
Tucson (Cuk Ṣon; Tucsón) is a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States, and is home to the University of Arizona.
Turing Award
The ACM A. M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for contributions of lasting and major technical importance to computer science.
Tuskegee Syphilis Study
The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male (informally referred to as the Tuskegee Experiment or Tuskegee Syphilis Study) was a study conducted between 1932 and 1972 by the United States Public Health Service (PHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on a group of nearly 400 African American men with syphilis.
See 1972 and Tuskegee Syphilis Study
TV Guide
TV Guide is an American digital media company that provides television program listings information as well as entertainment and television-related news.
UEFA Euro 1972
The 1972 UEFA European Football Championship final tournament was held in Belgium.
Uganda
Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa.
See 1972 and Uganda
United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.
United Nations Environment Programme
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is responsible for coordinating responses to environmental issues within the United Nations system.
See 1972 and United Nations Environment Programme
United Reformed Church
The United Reformed Church (URC) is a Protestant Christian church in the United Kingdom.
See 1972 and United Reformed Church
United States Army
The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces.
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United States Secretary of State
The United States secretary of state (SecState) is a member of the executive branch of the federal government and the head of the Department of State.
See 1972 and United States Secretary of State
Universal Postal Union
The Universal Postal Union (UPU, Union postale universelle) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) that coordinates postal policies among member nations and facilitates a uniform worldwide postal system.
See 1972 and Universal Postal Union
Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571
Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 was the chartered flight of a Fairchild FH-227D from Montevideo, Uruguay, to Santiago, Chile, that crashed in the Andes mountains on 13 October 1972.
See 1972 and Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571
Vanessa Paradis
Vanessa Chantal Paradis (born 22 December 1972) is a French singer, model and actress.
Vanity Fair (magazine)
Vanity Fair is an American monthly magazine of popular culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast in the United States.
See 1972 and Vanity Fair (magazine)
Vatican City
Vatican City, officially the Vatican City State (Stato della Città del Vaticano; Status Civitatis Vaticanae), is a landlocked sovereign country, city-state, microstate, and enclave within Rome, Italy.
Vesna Vulović
Vesna Vulović (Весна Вуловић,; 3 January 1950 – 23 December 2016) was a Serbian flight attendant who survived the highest fall without a parachute: or 33,338 feet.
Vicky Leandros
Vasiliki Papathanasiou (Βασιλική Παπαθανασίου,; born 23 August 1949), generally known as Vicky Leandros (ΒίκυΛέανδρος), is a Greek singer living in Germany.
Vietnam
Vietnam, officially the (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.
See 1972 and Vietnam
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.
Vietnamization
Vietnamization was a failed policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnamese forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops".
Volkswagen Beetle
The Volkswagen Beetle, officially the Volkswagen Type 1, is a small car produced by the German company Volkswagen from 1938 to 2003.
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Walter Winchell
Walter Winchell (April 7, 1897 – February 20, 1972) was a syndicated American newspaper gossip columnist and radio news commentator.
Watergate scandal
The Watergate scandal was a major political controversy in the United States during the presidency of Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1974, ultimately resulting in Nixon's resignation.
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Wayne Brady
Wayne Alphonso Brady (born June 2, 1972) is an American television host, comedian, actor, and singer.
West Berlin
West Berlin (Berlin (West) or West-Berlin) was a political enclave which comprised the western part of Berlin from 1948 until 1990, during the Cold War.
White House
The White House is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States.
Wide-body aircraft
Emirates A wide-body aircraft, also known as a twin-aisle aircraft and in the largest cases as a jumbo jet, is an airliner with a fuselage wide enough to accommodate two passenger aisles with seven or more seats abreast.
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Wil Wheaton
Richard William "Wil" Wheaton III (born July 29, 1972) is an American actor and writer.
Willandra National Park
The Willandra National Park is a protected national park that is located in the Far West region of New South Wales, in eastern Australia.
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William McMahon
Sir William McMahon (23 February 190831 March 1988) was an Australian politician who served as the 20th prime minister of Australia from 1971 to 1972.
Willy Brandt
Willy Brandt (born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm; 18 December 1913 – 8 October 1992) was a German politician and statesman who was leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) from 1964 to 1987 and served as the chancellor of West Germany from 1969 to 1974.
Wilson Kipketer
Wilson Kosgei Kipketer (born 12 December 1972) is a Danish former middle distance runner.
World Chess Championship 1972
The World Chess Championship 1972 was a match for the World Chess Championship between challenger Bobby Fischer of the United States and defending champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
Yasunari Kawabata
was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Japanese author to receive the award.
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Zinedine Zidane
Zinedine Yazid Zidane (Zineddin Lyazid Zidan; born 23 June 1972), popularly known as Zizou, is a French professional football manager and former player who played as an attacking midfielder.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (5 January 1928 – 4 April 1979) was a Pakistani barrister, politician, and statesman.
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1892
In Samoa, this was the only leap year spanned to 367 days as July 4 repeated. 1972 and 1892 are leap years in the Gregorian calendar.
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1900
As of March 1 (O.S. February 17), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 13 days until February 28 (O.S. February 15), 2100.
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1905
As the second year of the massive Russo-Japanese War begins, more than 100,000 die in the largest world battles of that era, and the war chaos leads to the 1905 Russian Revolution against Nicholas II of Russia (Shostakovich's 11th Symphony is subtitled The Year 1905 to commemorate this) and the start of Revolution in the Kingdom of Poland.
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1908
This is the longest year in either the Julian or Gregorian calendars, having a duration of 31622401.38 seconds of Terrestrial Time (or ephemeris time), measured according to the definition of mean solar time. 1972 and 1908 are leap years in the Gregorian calendar.
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1911
A notable ongoing event was the race for the South Pole.
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1916
Below, the events of the First World War have the "WWI" prefix. 1972 and 1916 are leap years in the Gregorian calendar.
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1918
The ceasefire that effectively ended the First World War took place on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of this year.
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1926
In Turkey, the year technically contained only 352 days.
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1929
This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression.
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1939
This year also marks the start of the Second World War, the largest and deadliest conflict in human history.
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1940
A calendar from 1940 according to the Gregorian calendar, factoring in the dates of Easter and related holidays, cannot be used again until the year 5280. 1972 and 1940 are leap years in the Gregorian calendar.
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1941
The Correlates of War project estimates this to be the deadliest year in human history in terms of conflict deaths, placing the death toll at 3.49 million.
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1942
The Uppsala Conflict Data Program project estimates this to be the deadliest year in human history in terms of conflict deaths, placing the death toll at 4.62 million.
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1944
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. 1972 and 1944 are leap years in the Gregorian calendar.
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1945
1945 marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan.
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1947
It was the first year of the Cold War, which would last until 1991, ending with the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
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1948 United States presidential election
The 1948 United States presidential election was the 41st quadrennial presidential election.
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1972 Summer Olympics
The 1972 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad and officially branded as Munich 1972 (München 1972), were an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972.
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1972 United States presidential election
The 1972 United States presidential election was the 47th quadrennial presidential election held on Tuesday, November 7, 1972.
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1972 Winter Olympics
The 1972 Winter Olympics, officially the and commonly known as Sapporo 1972 (札幌1972), were a winter multi-sport event held from February 3 to 13, 1972, in Sapporo, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan.
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1985
The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations.
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2 June Movement
The 2 June Movement (Bewegung 2.) was a West German anarchist militant group based in West Berlin.
2001
The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror.
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2002
After the September 11 attacks of the previous year, foreign policy and international relations were generally united in combating al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations.
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2004
2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). 1972 and 2004 are leap years in the Gregorian calendar.
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2006
2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification.
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2009
2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Johannes Kepler.
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2010
The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake.
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2017
2017 was designated as International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly.
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2019
This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year.
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2020
The year 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global social and economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, worldwide lockdowns, and the largest economic recession since the Great Depression in the 1930s. 1972 and 2020 are leap years in the Gregorian calendar.
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2022
The year saw the removal of nearly all COVID-19 restrictions and the reopening of international borders in most countries, while the global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines continued.
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