Events Date 1972 November | History by KabAstro

Sports History

Nov 2 Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Steve Carlton is unanimously selected National League Cy Young Award winner; wins 27 games for Phillies, who as a team win only 59 games

Nov 2 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
Nov 4 "I Can See Clearly Now" single by Johnny Nash begins a 3-week run on the top of the charts
Nov 4 Bangladesh adopts constitution
Nov 4 Kings score 3 goals within 45 seconds against Islanders
Nov 5 Vice-President of Sinn Féin Maire Drumm is arrested in the Republic of Ireland

Biden to Senate

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

46th US President, Vice President and Senator Joe Biden

Nixon Defeats McGovern

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

Politician and Presidential Candidate George McGovern

Event of Interest

Nov 8 Stock Exchange Tower, the new 26-story home of the London Stock Exchange opened by Queen Elizabeth II

Queen of the United Kingdom Elizabeth II

Nov 9 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Nov 11 Dow Jones Index moves above 1,000 for 1st time
Nov 11 Rugby League World Cup, Stade de Gerland, Lyon, France: Australia and Great Britain draw 10-10; Great Britain awarded the Trophy
Nov 11 US Army turns over Long Bihn base to South Vietnamese army

Petty Wins a Fourth

Nov 12 22nd NASCAR Sprint Cup: Richard Petty wins

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
Nov 15 White Sox Dick Allen wins AL MVP
Nov 16 "Dear Oscar" opens at Playhouse Theater NYC for 5 performances
Nov 16 Elektra Records releases "No Secrets', the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Carly Simon; her commercial breakthrough spends 5 weeks at top of US charts and contains the hit singles "You're So Vain" and "The Right Thing to Do"
Nov 19 "Ambassador" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 9 performances
Nov 19 "Dear Oscar" closes at Playhouse Theater NYC after 5 performances
Nov 19 Gershwin Theater (Uris) opens at 1633 Broadway NYC
Nov 19 KFIZ TV channel 34 in Fond du Lac, WI suspends broadcasting
Nov 19 Leader of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) Seán MacStiofáin is arrested in Dublin

Willy Brandt

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 21 Red Sox Carlton Fisk wins AL Rookie of Year, Mets Jon Matlack wins NL
Nov 22 Belgium government of Eyskens resigns
Nov 22 In Pittsburgh, Penguins set NHL record for scoring fastest 5 goals (2:07) in 10-4 win over St. Louis Blues
Nov 22 Philadelphia Flyers beat New York Islanders and start them on 15 game winless streak
Nov 22 US ends 22 year travel ban to China

Lynch Approves Attlee Paper

Nov 24 Taoiseach Jack Lynch meets with British PM Edward Heath in London to give Irish approval to Attlee's paper saying new arrangements should be 'acceptable to and accepted by the Republic of Ireland'

Nov 24 USSR performs underground nuclear test
Nov 25 "Ambassador" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 9 performances
Nov 26 Bomb explosion at the Film Centre Cinema, in O’Connell Bridge House in Dublin, Ireland
Nov 26 NFL NY Giant placekicker Péte Gogolák scores team record 8 PAT (points after touchdown) in 62-10 win over Philadelphia Eagles at Yankee Stadium, NYC
Nov 27 Pierre Trudeau forms Canadian government
Nov 27 Yanks trade Ellis, Torres & Spikes to Indians for Nettles & Moses
Nov 28 2 members of the IRA are killed in a premature bomb explosion in the Bogside area of Derry
Nov 28 Galt MacDermot and Christopher Gore's futuristic rock musical "Via Galactica" opens at Uris Theater, NYC; runs for 7 performances