Events in History in 1972 (Part 2)

Events 201 - 400 of 478

• May 22 Ceylon becomes Republic of Sri Lanka as its constitution is ratified
• May 22 Over 400 women in Derry attack the offices of Official Sinn Féin in Derry, North Ireland, following the shooting of William Best by the Official Irish Republican Army

• May 22 Ton Sijbrands becomes world checkers champion
• May 22 US President Nixon begins visit to Moscow
• May 24 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• May 25 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• May 26 In the Republic of Ireland, the Special Criminal Court is re-instituted to deal with crimes arising out of the Northern Ireland conflict; as part of the measures trial by jury is suspended
• May 26 The British state-owned travel firm Thomas Cook & Son is sold to a consortium of private businesses headed by the Midland Bank
• May 26 The Irish Republican Army (IRA) plant a bomb in Oxford Street, Belfast, killing a 64 year old woman
• May 26 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

• May 28 Four Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and four civilians killed when a bomb they were preparing exploded prematurely at a house in Belfast
• May 28 White House "plumbers" first break in at the Democratic National Headquarters and install listening devices at Watergate Complex in Washington, D.C.
• May 29 The Official IRA announce a ceasefire
• May 30 3 Japanese PFL terrorists kills 24, wound 72 at Tel Aviv's Lod Intl airport
• May 30 The Angry Brigade goes on trial over a series of 25 bombings throughout Britain.
• Jun 1 Iraq nationalizes Iraq Petroleum Company's (IPC) concession owned by British Petroleum, Royal Dutch-Shell, Compagnie Francaise des Petroles, Mobil and Standard Oil of New Jersey
• Jun 1 Tswanaland becomes Bophuthatswana in South Africa

• Jun 2 Two British soldiers die in an IRA land mine attack near Rosslea, County Fermanagh
• Jun 3 1st female US rabbi installed, Sally J Priesand at 25
• Jun 4 Angela Davis, African American activist, acquitted of killing a white guard
• Jun 5 "If You Had Wings" ride opens at Walt Disney World
• Jun 5 UN Conference on Human Environment opens in Stockholm

• Jun 6 Explosion at world's largest coal mine kills 427 (Wankie, Rhodesia)
• Jun 6 Gold hits record $60 an ounce in London
• Jun 6 US bombs Haiphong, North-Vietnam; 1000s killed
• Jun 7 Hsan Hua, Zen teacher, conducted 1st ordination ceremony in America

• Jun 9 14" of rain in 6 hrs burst Rapid City SD dam, drowns 237
• Jun 9 In a show of support for Iraq, OPEC moves to prevent companies whose interests were nationalized in Iraq from increasing production elsewhere
• Jun 11 31°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland, Ohio in June
• Jun 11 Gun battle between Loyalist and Republican paramilitaries break out in the Oldpark area of Belfast
• Jun 11 KPAT-AM in Berkeley, California returns to original call letters KRE, marking 50 years since first on-air broadcxast
• Jun 13 The Irish Republican Army invites British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Willie Whitelaw to 'Free Derry'; Whitelaw rejects offer and reaffirms his policy to not "let part of the United Kingdom ... default from the rule of law"
• Jun 14 Members of the NI Social Democratic and Labour Party hold a meeting with representatives of the Irish Republican Army in Derry; the IRA representatives outline their conditions for talks with the British Government
• Jun 14 Tropical storm (later hurricane) Agnes forms over Yucatán Peninsula
• Jun 15 Rock fall inside Vierzy Tunnel (France) causes 2 train crash; 107 die
• Jun 15 The Social Democratic and Labour Party meet Secretary of State for Northern Ireland W Whitelaw, to present the IRA's conditions for a meeting
• Jun 15 West German police arrested RAF leader Ulrike Meinhof
• Jun 16 The largest single-site hydro-electric power project in Canada starts at Churchill Falls, Labrador
• Jun 17 9 firefighters are killed in the Hotel Vendome fire in Boston

• Jun 17 Five men arrested after trying to bug Democratic National Committee office in Watergate Complex, Washington
• Jun 18 3 members of the British Army are killed by an Irish Republican Army (IRA) bomb in a derelict house near Lurgan, County Down
• Jun 18 BEA Trident crashes after takeoff from Heathrow killing 118
• Jun 19 -29] Tropical storm Agnes upgraded to a hurricane, makes landfall in Panama City (would kill 128)
• Jun 19 A Catholic civilian is shot dead by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in the Cracked Cup Social Club, Belfast
• Jun 19 Hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers face flight delays and cancellations after pilots threaten to strike over hijack fears
• Jun 19 Secretary of State for Northern Ireland William Whitelaw concedes 'special category' status, or 'political status' for paramilitary prisoners in Northern Ireland
• Jun 20 Secret Meeting Between IRA and British Officials held
• Jun 22 The Irish Republican Army announce that it would call a ceasefire from 26 June 1972 provided that there is a "reciprocal response" from the security forces
• Jun 23 45 countries leave the Sterling Area, allowing their currencies to fluctuate independently of the British Pound
• Jun 23 Hurricane Agnes becomes America's costliest natural disaster, affecting 15 states, with 119 deaths and $3 billion in damage

• Jun 24 The Irish Republican Army (IRA) kill 3 British Army soldiers in a land mine attack near Dungiven, County Derry
• Jun 24 Wake Island becomes unincorporated territory of US (US Air Force)
• Jun 24 Yvonne Brathwaite Burke becomes 1st black chair of a Democratic convention
• Jun 26 The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) kill two British Army soldiers in separate attacks during the day and at midnight begins a "bi-lateral truce"
• Jun 29 Supreme Court rules (5-4) that death penalty is cruel & unusual
• Jun 29 USSR launches Prognoz 2 into earth orbit (549/200,000 km)
• Jun 30 One leap second is added to the UTC time system; also 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985
• Jun 30 Ulster Defence Association (UDA) begin to organise its own 'no-go' areas (this is a response to the continuation of Republican 'no-go' areas and fears about concessions to the IRA)

• 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

• Jul 8 US sells grain to USSR for $750 million

• 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

• 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 2 passenger trains collide head-on killing 76 (Seville, Spain)
• Jul 21 27.5 cm rainfall at Fort Ripley, Minnesota (state record)
• 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
• Aug 1 1st article exposing Watergate scandal by Bernstein and Woodward in "The Washington Post"
• Aug 2 Gold hits record $70 an ounce in London

• Aug 3 Chozen-ji/Intl Zen Dojo founded by Omori Sogen Roshi, in Hawaii
• Aug 3 US Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with the Soviet Union to limit the use of missile systems capable of defending against missile-delivered nuclear weapons
• Aug 4 Arthur Bremer jailed for 63 years for shooting Alabama Governor Wallace

• Aug 9 There is widespread and severe rioting in Nationalist areas of Northern Ireland on the anniversary of the introduction of Internment
• Aug 10 1 million kg meteorite grazes atmosphere above Canada
• Aug 10 The Great Fireball, a rare daylight meteor seen from Utah, US to Alberta, Canada, passes 35 miles from Earth's surface
• Aug 11 "Cheech & Chong Day" in San Antonio Texas
• Aug 11 Two IRA members are killed when a bomb they were transporting exploded prematurely
• Aug 12 Last American combat ground troops leave Vietnam
• Aug 14 2 British soldiers are killed by an IRA booby trap bomb in Belfast
• Aug 14 A Catholic civilian is shot dead during an IRA attack on a British Army patrol in Belfast
• Aug 16 Morocco King Hassan II's B727 shot during failed coup attempt by General Mohamed Oufkir. Reportedly, King Hassan grabbed the radio and told the rebel pilots "Stop firing! The tyrant is dead!", fooling pilots to break off attack
• Aug 16 Philip Potter appointed sect-gen of World council of Churches
• Aug 16 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• Aug 20 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• Aug 21 1st hot air balloon flight over Alps
• Aug 21 British dock strike ends after dockers accept an amended Jones-Adlington Agreement
• Aug 21 Grace Slick maced by police when a band official called cops, pigs
• Aug 21 Republican convention opens in Miami Beach
• Aug 21 US orbiting astronomy observatory Copernicus launched
• Aug 22 IRA bomb explodes prematurely at a customs post at Newry, County Down - 9 people, including three members of the IRA and five Catholic civilians, are killed in the explosion
• Aug 23 4 civilians and 1 British soldier are injured in separate overnight shooting incidents in North Ireland
• Aug 24 Dennis Amiss scores 1st one-day int century, 103 v Australia
• Aug 26 NY Cosmos beat St Louis Stars, 2-1 to win NASL championship
• Aug 26 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• Aug 27 Operation Lion's Den: US Navy bombards Haiphong Harbor, North Vietnam from the sea, firing over 700 rounds in 33 minutes [1]
• Aug 28 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• Sep 1 Egypt & Libya form federation
• Sep 2 The headquarters of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) in Belfast is severely damaged by an IRA bomb
• Sep 2 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• Sep 4 Thieves steal 18 paintings from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in what was at the time the largest art theft in North America
• Sep 4 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• Sep 5 Chemical spill with fog sickens hundreds in Meuse Valley Belgium
• Sep 8 Jim Ryan (US) & Billy Fordjour (Ghana) collide & fall in qualifying competitions for 1,500m finals, ending Ryan's chances for gold
• Sep 9 Connection found between Mammoth Cave Ridge and Flint cave systems in Kentucky, joining 144 miles of passages - making it the world's longest known cave system (later mapped at 420 miles) [1]
• Sep 10 3 British soldiers are killed in a land mine attack near Dungannon, County Tyrone
• Sep 11 BART begins service with a 26-mi (42-km) line from Oakland to Fremont
• Sep 14 2 people are killed and 1 mortally wounded in a Ulster Volunteer Force bomb attack on the Imperial Hotel, Belfast
• Sep 14 Jason Miller's "That Championship Season," premieres in NYC
• Sep 14 West Germany & Poland establish diplomatic relations
• Sep 15 A magnitude 4.5 earthquake shakes Northern Illinois.
• Sep 15 An SAS domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm was hijacked and flown to Malmö-Bulltofta Airport.
• Sep 17 BART begins passenger service in San Francisco
• Sep 17 Tanzania troops march in to Uganda
• Sep 19 A parcel bomb sent to Israeli Embassy in London kills one diplomat.
• Sep 20 Libya acquires a 50 percent interest in two ENI oil concessions
• Sep 20 The Social Democratic and Labour Party issues a document entitled "Towards a New Ireland", proposing that the British and Irish governments should have joint sovereignty over Northern Ireland

• Sep 21 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• Sep 23 Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos announces state of emergency and declares martial law
• Sep 24 Antique F86 Sabrejet fails to takeoff at air show, kills 22
• Sep 25 Dutch air force drives away Russian Tupolev-bomber
• Sep 25 Norway votes to join European common market
• Sep 26 American Museum of Immigration dedicated
• Sep 26 Norway rejects membership in European Common Market
• Sep 28 Japan & Communist China agree to re-establish diplomatic relations
• Sep 29 Japan & People's Republic of China begin diplomatic relations
• Sep 29 Robert McNamara, former US Secretary of Defense, is almost thrown overboard on a ferry by an artist wanting to confront him on his role in escalating US involvement in the Vietnam war (no charges pressed)
• Sep 30 Passenger train derails killing 48 (Rust Stasie South Africa)
• Oct 2 Aeroflot Il-18 crashes near Black Sea resort of Sochi, kills 105
• Oct 2 Bill Stoneman of Montreal pitches his 2nd no-hitter, beating Mets, 7-0
• Oct 2 Danish population votes for membership of the European Common Market
• Oct 2 Ron Johnson becomes 1st NY Giant to score 4 TDs (vs Philadelphia)
• Oct 3 Spaceflight 71-2 launched; 1st flexible substrate photovoltaic flown
• Oct 3 USSR performs nuclear test
• Oct 5 Herbert Mullin 1st kills, claiming it was to prevent earthquakes
• Oct 6 22-car train carrying 2,000 pilgrims derails, kills 208 in Mexico

• 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

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