1972 Calendar
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1972 Historical Event(s)
February 15, 1972
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Rat in Chinese astrology.
February 18, 1972
– The California Supreme Court in the case of People v. Anderson, 6 Cal.3d 628 invalidates the state’s death penalty and commutes the sentences of all death row inmates to life imprisonment.
February 21, 1972
– The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon.
April 2, 1972
– Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s.
May 2, 1972
– In the early morning hours a fire broke out at the Sunshine mine located between Kellogg and Wallace, ID, killing 91 workers.
June 11, 1972
– The Eltham Well Hall rail crash, caused by an intoxicated train driver, kills six people and injures 126.
June 16, 1972
– The largest single-site hydro-electric power project in Canada is inaugurated at Churchill Falls, Labrador.
September 10, 1972
– The United States suffers its first loss of an international basketball game in a disputed match against the Soviet Union at Munich, Germany.
December 16, 1972
– Vijay Diwas: (Victory Day) is commemorated every 16 December in India as it marks its military victory over Pakistan in 1971 during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
December 18, 1972
– Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will engage North Vietnam in Operation Linebacker II, a series of Christmas bombings, after peace talks collapsed with North Vietnam on the 13th.
Who Were Born On 1972?
January 16, 1972
– Yuri Drozdov, Russian footballer
February 9, 1972
– Crispin Freeman, American voice actor
February 14, 1972
– Big Daddy V, American professional wrestler
March 22, 1972
– Elvis Stojko, Canadian figure skater
April 22, 1972
– Sabine Appelmans, Belgian tennis player
June 9, 1972
– Matt Horsley, Australian football player
June 16, 1972
– Ann Shoket, American magazine editor
August 18, 1972
– Keiko Yamada, Japanese singer
November 28, 1972
– Jesper Strömblad, Swedish guitarist (In Flames)
December 9, 1972
– Fabrice Santoro, Tahitian-born French tennis player