July 1972 in History

Events in History

Ms. Vol 1, No. 1

Jul 1 Feminist magazine "Ms" founded by Gloria Steinem publishes its first regular issue with Wonder Woman on the cover

Jul 1 The first Gay Pride march in England takes place.
Jul 2 India and Pakistan sign Simla Agreement peace accord
Jul 2 Two Catholic civilians are shot and killed in Belfast by Loyalist paramilitaries, probably the Ulster Defence Association (UDA)
Jul 3 The Ulster Defence Association and the British Army come into conflict about a 'no-go' area at Ainsworth Avenue, Belfast
Jul 3 Themba Sono is forced to resign as president of South African Student Organisation (SASO)
Jul 4 The Royal Ulster Constabulary forward a file about the killings on 'Bloody Sunday' (30 January 1972) to the Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland
Jul 5 Pierre Messmer appointed French premier
Jul 5 Two Protestant brothers are found shot dead outside of Belfast (speculation that they were killed by Loyalists because they had Catholic girlfriends)
Jul 7 1st women FBI members sworn in (Susan Lynn Roley & Joanne E Pierce)
Jul 7 7 people are killed in separate incidents across Northern Ireland
Jul 7 Dutch Minister of Agt decides to ignore soft drug usage

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Jul 7 Secret Talks Between IRA and British Government: Gerry Adams is part of a delegation to London for talks with the British Government

Jul 8 US sells grain to USSR for $750 million

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Jul 9 Kwame Nkrumah is re-buried in Nkroful in his native Ghana

Jul 9 Springhill Massacre: British snipers shoot dead five Catholic civilians and wounded two others in Springhill, Belfast
Jul 9 The ceasefire between the Provisional IRA and the British Army comes to an end
Jul 9 USSR performs underground nuclear test
Jul 10 Democratic convention opens in Miami Beach Florida (McGovern)
Jul 10 Herd of stampeding elephants kills 24, Chandka Forest India
Jul 12 Democrats nominated George McGovern for US president in Miami, Florida
Jul 12 Twelve years after the banning of the ANC and Pan Africanist Congress, a new political movement, the Black People Convention is formed after a three day long conference in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Jul 13 A series of gun-battles and shootings erupt across Belfast between the Provisional Irish Republican Army and British Army soldiers
Jul 14 Jean Westwood is 1st woman chosen to head Democratic National Committee
Jul 14 USSR performs underground nuclear Test
Jul 16 Dimitrios Papadopoulos becomes 269th patriarch of Constantinople
Jul 17 1st 2 women begin training as FBI agents at Quantico
Jul 18 200,000 attend Mt Pocono rock festival in Penns

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Jul 18 Egyptian president Anwar Sadat throws out 20,000 Russian military aides

President of Egypt and Nobel Laureate Anwar Sadat

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Jul 18 Leader of the British Labour Party Harold Wilson holds meeting with representatives of the Irish Republican Army

Jul 18 Mike Procter 8-73 with hat-trick, plus 51 and 102, Gloucs v Essex
Jul 18 The 100th British soldier to die in the Northern Ireland "troubles" is shot by a sniper in Belfast
Jul 20 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
Jul 21 10.83 inches (27.5 cm) rainfall at Fort Ripley, Minnesota (state record, until 2007)
Jul 21 2 passenger trains collide head-on killing 76 (Seville, Spain)
Jul 21 Bloody Friday: within the space of seventy-five minutes, the Provisional Irish Republican Army explode twenty-two bombs in Belfast; six civilians, two British Army soldiers and one UDA volunteer were killed, 130 injured
Jul 21 In New York 57 murders occur in 24 hours
Jul 22 10.84" (27.53 cm) of rainfall, Fort Ripley, Mn (state 24-hr record)
Jul 22 2 Catholics are abducted, beaten, and shot dead in a Loyalist area of Belfast
Jul 22 Venera 8 makes soft landing on Venus
Jul 23 1st Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS) is launched to document global land use change as a joint NASA / USGS program (later renamed Landsat 1) [1]
Jul 24 Bugojno group is caught by Yugoslav security forces.
Jul 24 Jigme Singye Wangchuk becomes king of Bhutan at 16
Jul 25 US health officials concede African American were used as guinea pigs in 40 year syphilis experiment
Jul 26 Rockwell receives NASA contract to construct Space Shuttle
Jul 27 The F-15 Eagle flies for the first time.
Jul 29 France performs nuclear Test at Mururoa atoll
Jul 31 Claudy bombing: nine civilians were killed when three car bombs exploded in County Londonderry, North Ireland; no group has since claimed responsibility
Jul 31 Operation Motorman: the British Army use 12,000 soldiers supported by tanks and bulldozers to re-take the "no-go areas" controlled by the Provisional Irish Republican Army
Jul 31 Thomas Eagleton withdraws as Democratic VP candidate

Birthdays in History

Jul 2 Darren Shan, Irish children's author
Jul 6 D-Styles, American scratch DJ, born in the Philippines
Jul 6 Daniel Andrews, Australian politician (Premier of Victoria 2014-), born in Williamstown, Australia
Jul 20 Erik Ullenhag, Swedish jurist and politician
Jul 20 Stéphane Bancel, French pharmaceutical executive (CEO of Moderna), born in Marseille, France
Jul 22 Andrew Holness, Jamaican politician (Prime Minister of Jamaica 2016-), born in Spanish Town, Jamaica
Jul 22 Seth Fisher, American comic book artist and penciller (d. 2006)
Jul 24 Jen Miller [Reverent Jen], American performance artist, born in Silver Spring, Maryland

Weddings in History

Jul 8 English Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester (28) weds Danish college sweetheart Birgitte of Deurs Henriksen (26) at St Andrew's Church, Barnwell, Northamptonshire, England

Richard Branson

Jul 22 British magazine publisher, record shop owner and future business magnate Richard Branson (22) weds Kristen Tomassi; divorce in 1979

Deaths in History

Jul 2 Joseph Fielding Smith Jr., 10th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons), dies at 95
Jul 7 Athenagoras, 268th patriarch of Constantinople, dies
Jul 7 King Talal of Jordan (b. 1909)
Jul 19 Hezekiah M. Washburn, American Presbyterian Congo missionary, dies at 88
Jul 19 Sally Benson, American writer (Meet Me In St. Louis), dies at 74
Jul 21 Jigme Dori Wangchuck, King of Bhutan (1952-72), dies of a heart condition at 45
Jul 27 Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, Austrian-Japanese politician, dies at 77
Jul 28 Charu Majumdar, Indian revolutionary leader, dies in custody at 53
Jul 31 Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian politician (Prime Minister of Belgium, Secretary-General of NATO, 1957-61), dies at 73