October 1972 in History

Events in History

Oct 6 Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Jack Lynch closes the Sinn Féin office in Dublin

Oct 10 3 members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) die in a premature explosion in a house in Balkan Street, Lower Falls, Belfast
Oct 11 Panama adopts constitution
Oct 11 Prison uprising at Washington, D.C. jail
Oct 11 World Hockey Association officially debuts as the Alberta Oilers defeat the Ottawa Nationals, 7-4 at the Ottawa Civic Centre
Oct 12 46 sailors injured in race riot on American aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk
Oct 12 Billy Harris failed in 1st Islander penalty shot
Oct 12 Mariner 9 takes pictures of Martian north pole
Oct 13 Aeroflot Il-62 crashes in large pond outside Moscow, 176 die
Oct 13 Uruguay to Chile plane crashes in Andes Mountains, (passengers eat crash victims to survive, 16 of 45 rescued 2 months later)
Oct 14 North Irish Loyalist paramilitaries raid Headquarters of the 10 Ulster Defence Regiment in Belfast and stole rifles and ammunition
Oct 16 2 members of the Official Irish Republican Army are shot dead by the British Army in County Tyrone
Oct 16 A Protestant youth member (15) of the Ulster Defence Association, and a UDA member (26) are run over by British Army vehicles during riots in east Belfast
Oct 17 Bob Randall's "6 Rooms Riv Vu," premieres in NYC
Oct 17 The Ulster Defence Association open fire on the British Army in several areas of Belfast
Oct 19 Ulster Vanguard leader William Craig speaks at a meeting of right-wing Members of Parliament at Westminster: "We are prepared to come out and shoot and kill"

Oct 20 John Betjeman is appointed British Poet Laureate by Queen Elizabeth II

Oct 20 Queen Juliana visits Yugoslavia
Oct 23 Access credit cards introduced in Great Britain
Oct 23 Loyalist paramilitaries carry out raid on an Ulster Defence Regiment
Oct 24 2 Catholic men are found dead at a farm at Aughinahinch, near Newtownbbutler, County Fermanagh - British soldiers carry out the killings
Oct 25 Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to Kenneth J Arrow & John R Hicks

Oct 26 Edwin Land introduces the first truly instant camera the Polaroid SX-70 camera at an event in Miami, Florida

Oct 26 Guided tours of the former prison at Alcatraz by the National Park Service begin

Oct 26 Henry Kissinger declares "Peace is at hand" in Vietnam

Oct 27 Golden Gate National Recreation Area created
Oct 27 OPEC approves plan providing for 25 percent government ownership of all Western oil interests operating within Kuwait, Qatar, Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia
Oct 30 Loyalist paramilitaries carry out a raid on Royal Ulster Constabulary station in County Derry, and steal 4 British Army Sterling sub-machine Guns
Oct 30 The Northern Ireland Office issues a discussion document 'The Future of Northern Ireland'; the paper states Britain's commitment to the union as long as the majority of people wish to remain part of the United Kingdom
Oct 30 Worst US rail accident in 14 years; 45 die in Chicago, llinois
Oct 31 2 Catholic children (6 and 4) playing on the street are killed in a Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF) car bomb attack on a bar in Ship Street, Belfast

Oct 5 Thomas Roberts, American news anchor, born in Towson, Maryland
Oct 13 Prince Jaime, Count of Bardi, third child of Princess Irene of the Netherlands and Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma, born in Nijmegen, Netherlands
Oct 13 Princess Margarita Maria Beatriz of Bourbon-Parma, Countess of Colorno, daughter of Princess Irene of the Netherlands and Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma, born in Nijmegen, Netherlands
Oct 18 James Stream Thurmond Jr, son of US senator Strom Thurmond
Oct 20 Brian Schatz, American politician (Senator-D-Hawaii 2012-), born in Ann Arbor, Michigan
Oct 21 Evhen Tsybulenko, Ukrainian professor of international law
Oct 24 Scott Peterson, American murderer, born in San Diego, California
Oct 24 Susan Barnett, Miss Pennsylvania 1996 and news anchor, born in Levittown, Pennsylvania
Oct 25 Esther Duflo, French American economist (2019 Nobel Prize for Economics), born in Paris
Oct 26 Hamdi Ulukaya, Kurdish founder and CEO of Chobani, born in Erzincan, Turkey
Oct 29 Takafumi Horie, Japanese entrepreneur (Livedoor), born in Yame, Japan

Oct 1 British paleoanthropologist and archaeologist (Olduvai Gorge; 1964 Richard Hooper Medal), dies at 68

Oct 5 Ivan Yefremov, Russian paleontologist (originator of the concept of taphonomy) and author (Andromeda Nebula), dies at 64
Oct 9 Giuseppe Capogrossi, Italian painter (Roman School), dies at 72
Oct 16 (Thomas) Hale Boggs, American politician (US Representative from Louisiana, 1947-73), presumed killed in a plane crash at 58
Oct 17 George, Crown Prince of Serbia, eldest son of King Peter I, dies at 85
Oct 20 Harlow Shapley, American astronomer (Sun's position in galaxy), dies at 86
Oct 22 Kurt Edzard, German sculptor (nudist/portraits), dies at 82
Oct 25 Norman Norell [Levinson], US fashion designer, dies at 72