November 1972 in History

Events in History

Election of Interest

Nov 7 Attorney Joe Biden is elected to the US Senate, representing the state of Delaware after defeating longtime incumbent J. Caleb Boggs by just over 3,000 votes; Biden would win re-election 6 times

Election of Interest

Nov 7 Incumbent President Richard Nixon is re-elected, defeating Democrat candidate George McGovern in a landslide by winning 49 states

Nov 9 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Nov 11 Dow Jones Index moves above 1,000 for 1st time
Nov 11 US Army turns over Long Bihn base to South Vietnamese army
Nov 12 Charity concert for United Crusade (now United Way) in San Diego, California attracts nearly 52,000; performers include: J. Geils Band, Jesse Colin Young, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Foghat, and Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show
Nov 14 Dow Jones closes above 1,000 for 1st time (1003.16)
Nov 15 Circle-in the-Square Theater opens at 1633 Broadway NYC
Nov 15 Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 48 launched to study gamma rays

Event of Interest

Nov 16 British Prime Minister Edward Heath warns against a Unilateral Declaration of Independence

Nov 19 Gershwin Theater (Uris) opens at 1633 Broadway NYC
Nov 19 Leader of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) Seán MacStiofáin is arrested in Dublin

Election of Interest

Nov 19 Willy Brandt's SPD wins West German election

Nov 20 2 British soldiers are killed in a booby trap bomb in Cullyhanna, County Armagh
Nov 22 Belgium government of Eyskens resigns
Nov 22 US ends 22 year travel ban to China
Nov 24 Taoiseach Jack Lynch met with British Prime Minister Edward Heath in London to give Irish approval to Attlee's paper that said new arrangements should be 'acceptable to and accepted by the Republic of Ireland'
Nov 24 USSR performs underground nuclear test
Nov 27 Pierre Trudeau forms Canadian government
Nov 28 2 members of the IRA are killed in a premature bomb explosion in the Bogside area of Derry
Nov 30 Illegal fireworks factory explodes killing 15 in Rome, Italy

Birthdays in History

Nov 4 Jeff Kaplan, American game designer (World of Warcraft), born in New Jersey
Nov 7 Mike Goldman, Australian media personality (Big Brother Australia), born in Brisbane, Australia
Nov 9 Doug Russell, American radio personality, born in Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Nov 20 Sheema Kalbasi, Iranian born poet, born in Tehran, Iran
Nov 25 Alessandro Michele, Italian fashion designer (Gucci), born in Rome, Italy

Deaths in History

Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

Nov 1 American poet (The Cantos), critic and fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II, dies at 87

Nov 14 Martin Dies, Jr., American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas), dies at 71
Nov 25 Hans Scharoun, German architect (Berlin Philharmonic), dies at 79
Nov 25 Henri Coandă, Romanian aerodynamics pioneer, dies at 86
Nov 26 R. P. Keigwin, English academic, dies at 89
Nov 30 Neil H McElroy, soap manufacturer/minister of Defense (1957-59), dies