Historical Events in 1972 (Part 2)

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• Mar 22 Yankees trade Danny Cater to the Red Sox for Sparky Lyle
• Mar 23 Geoge Harrison and Friends' "The Concert for Bangladesh" concert film, directed by Saul Swimmer released in the US
• Mar 23 NY Yankees agree to continue playing ball in the Bronx

• Mar 24 Great Britain imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland
• Mar 25 America's LP "America" goes #1

• Mar 25 UCLA wins its 6th consecutive national basketball title
• Mar 26 LA Lakers break NBA wins record by winning 69 of 82 games (69-13), record will stand for 24 years
• Mar 26 William Whitelaw appointed as the first Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
• Mar 27 Adolph Rupp retires after 42 years of coaching University of Kentucky
• Mar 27 Ulster Vanguard organise industrial strike against the imposition of direct rule on Northern Ireland by Westminster
• Mar 27 Venera 8 launches to explore Venus
• Mar 27 Wyoming officially names "Curt Gowdy State Park", in honor of the nationally recognized broadcaster

• Mar 28 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan

• Mar 30 North Vietnam launches a major conventional offensive against South Vietnam
• Mar 30 Northern Ireland's Government and Parliament dissolved by the British Government and 'direct rule' from Westminster is introduced
• Mar 30 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

• Mar 31 Official Beatles Fan Club closes down
• Apr 1 30,000 attend Mar Y Sol rock concert, Vega Baja, Puerto Rico
• Apr 1 MLB players stage first ever collective strike; play resumes (13/4/72) when owners and players agree to $500,000 increase in pension fund payments

• Apr 4 1st electric power plant fueled by garbage begins operating
• Apr 5 Mets trade Ken Singleton to Expos for Rusty Staub
• Apr 5 The regular MLB season fails to open due to a player strike for the first time in history; 86 games are lost before the labor dispute settled
• Apr 6 Egypt drops diplomatic relations with Jordan
• Apr 6 The Scarman Tribunal Report, an inquiry into the causes of violence during the summer of 1969 in N Ireland, is published, finding that the Royal Ulster Constabulary had been seriously at fault
• Apr 7 Three members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) die in a premature bomb explosion in Belfast
• Apr 8 Alvin Kallicharran scores 100* in his 1st Test Cricket innings v NZ
• Apr 9 New Zealand cricket opening batsmen Glenn Turner (259) & Terry Jarvis (187) make 387 partnership in 4th Test v WI in Georgetown, Guyana
• Apr 9 USSR & Iraq sign friendship treaty
• Apr 10 20 days after he was kidnapped in Buenos Aires, Oberdan Sallustro is executed by communist guerrillas

• Apr 10 7.0 earthquake kills 1/5 of population of Iranian province of Fars
• Apr 10 The US, USSR and 70 other nations agree to ban biological weapons at the Biological Weapons Convention
• Apr 10 Two British soldiers are killed in a bomb attack in Derry
• Apr 11 Benjamin Hooks named to Federal Communications Commission (FCC), 1st African-American to serve
• Apr 11 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• Apr 13 1st baseball players' strike ends after 13 days
• Apr 14 The Provisional Irish Republican Army explodes twenty-four bombs in towns and cities across Northern Ireland
• Apr 15 A member of the British Army is shot dead by the Official IRA in the Divis area of Belfast.
• Apr 15 A member of the Official Irish Republican Army is shot dead by British soldiers at Joy Street in the Markets area of Belfast close to his home

• Apr 16 Apollo 16 launched; 5th manned lunar landing (Decartes Highlands)
• Apr 16 Chicago Cubs rookie pitcher Burt Hooton hurls a 4-0 no-hitter against the Philadelphia Phillies at Wrigley Field, Chicago
• Apr 16 Two British soldiers are shot dead by the Official Irish Republican Army (OIRA) in separate incidents in Derry
• Apr 16 Two giant pandas arrive in US from China
• Apr 17 Kiteman attempting to throw out 1st ball in Phillie Vet crashes into centerfield seats
• Apr 17 Revised Dutch constitution proclaimed
• Apr 18 The Widgery Report on 'Bloody Sunday' in Northern Ireland is published, causing outrage among the people of Derry who call it the "Widgery Whitewash"
• Apr 19 Bangladesh becomes a member of the British Commonwealth

• Apr 19 Hungary revises its constitution to declare itself a socialist state
• Apr 19 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Apr 20 Kallicharran scores his 2nd Test century in his 2nd Test Cricket
• Apr 20 NASA Apollo 16's John Young & Charles Duke land on the moon with Boeing Lunar Rover #2

• Apr 21 John Young & Charles Duke explore the moon as part of NASA mission Apollo 16
• Apr 21 Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 4 (Copernicus) launched
• Apr 22 An 11-year-old boy killed by a rubber bullet fired by the British Army in Belfast; he was the first to die from a rubber bullet impact
• Apr 22 NASA Apollo 16 astronauts John Young & Charles Duke ride the Lunar Rover on the moon
• Apr 23 26th Tony Awards: "Sticks and Bones" (play) & "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" (musical) win
• Apr 23 Apollo 16 astronauts explore the moon's surface
• Apr 23 The Sunday Times Insight Team publish their account of the events of 'Bloody Sunday'
• Apr 25 Hans-Werner Grosse glides 907.7 miles (1,461 km) in an AS-W-12
• Apr 27 Apollo 16 returns to Earth after lunar exploration, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean 350 km (189 nmi) southeast of the island of Kiritimati

• May 1 North Vietnamese troops occupy Quang Tri Activities Committee
• May 1 Pulitzer prize awarded to Wallace Stegner for his novel Angle of Repose
• May 1 Radio's Mutual Black Network premieres
• May 2 126 killed in an electrical fire in Sunshine Silver mine, Kellogg, Idaho
• May 2 General Vernon A. Walters, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA
• May 2 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• May 4 "The Don't Make A Wave Committee," a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to the "Greenpeace Foundation"
• May 4 Vietcong forms revolutionary government in Quang Tri, South Vietnam
• May 5 Alitalia DC-8 crashes west of Palermo Sicily; killing 115
• May 6 Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan and Hüseyin İnan are executed in Ankara for attempting to overthrow the Constitutional order
• May 8 Sabena aircraft at Lod International Airport, Tel Aviv, captured by Palestinians
• May 10 An Irish Republican Army bomb starts a fire that destroys the Belfast Co-operative store
• May 10 Overloaded South Korean bus plunges into reservoir, killing 77
• May 10 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

• May 11 John Lennon says his phone is tapped by FBI on "The Dick Cavett Show"
• May 11 Stanley Cup Final, Madison Square Garden, NYC: Wayne Cashman scores twice as Boston Bruins beat NY Rangers, 3-0 to take title, 4-2
• May 11 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• May 12 Milwaukee Brewers beat Minnesota Twins, 4-3, in 22 innings (completed 5/13)

• May 13 115 die in nightclub atop 7-story Sennichi department store (Osaka Japan)
• May 13 Battle at Springmartin: following a loyalist car bombing of a Catholic-owned pub in the Ballymurphy area of Belfast, clashes erupt between PIRA, UVF and British Army
• May 13 Milwaukee Brewers beat Minnesota Twins, 4-3, in 22 innings (started 5/12)
• May 14 24th Emmy Awards: "All in the Family", Carrol O'Conner & Jean Stapleton win
• May 14 A 13-year old Catholic girl is shot dead by Loyalist paramilitaries in Ballymurphy, Belfast
• May 14 In Willie Mays' 1st game as New York Met, his homer beats San Francisco Giants, 5-4 (his former team of over 20 years), at Shea Stadium, New York

• May 15 Bus plunges into Nile River killing 50 pilgrims in Minia, Egypt
• May 15 Ryukyu Is & Daito Is returned to Japan after 27 yrs of US control
• May 15 The island of Okinawa, under U.S. military governance since its conquest in 1945, reverts to Japanese control.
• May 16 Phillies' Greg Luzinski's 500' HR hits Liberty Bell monument in Philadelphia Veteran's Stadium
• May 17 Netherlands & People's Republic of China exchange ambassadors
• May 17 The Irish Republican Army (IRA) fires on workers leaving the Mackies engineering works in west Belfast (Although the factory was sited in a Catholic area it had an almost entirely Protestant workforce)
• May 18 "Me and The Chimp" an American TV sitcom last airs on CBS in the US
• May 18 American basketball player John Sebastian makes 63 consecutive free throws while blindfolded
• May 18 American pop rock band Looking Glass release their single "Brandy"
• May 19 25th Cannes Film Festival: "The Working Class Goes to Heaven" directed by Elio Petri and "The Mattei Affair" directed by Francesco Rosi jointly awarded the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film
• May 19 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• May 19 WMAV TV channel 18 in Oxford, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting
• May 20 Republic of Cameroon declared as its constitution is ratified

• May 21 The Official Irish Republican Army (OIRA) kidnaps and shoots dead William Best (19), a soldier in the Royal Irish Rangers stationed in Germany whilst on leave at home
• 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 Joe Frazier TKOs Ron Stander in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
• 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 27 Jimmy Castor Bunch's "Troglodyte (Cave Man)" hits #6
• 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 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Southern Pines CC: Sandra Palmer wins first of 2 majors by a massive 10 strokes from Judy Rankin and Mickey Wright
• 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 "Hot Rod Lincoln" by Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen hits #9
• 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 7 Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey's musical "Grease" starring Barry Bostwick, Carole Demas, and Adrienne Barbeau, opens at Broadhurst Theater, NYC; runs for 3,388 performances
• Jun 7 Pirate's Gene Alley bases-loaded walk, beats Padres 1-0 in 18th

• Jun 9 14" of rain in 6 hrs bursts dam in Rapid City, South Dakota; 237 people drown

• 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 10 "Too Young" single released by Donny Osmond
• Jun 10 Elvis Presley records a live album at NYC's Madison Square Garden

• 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 12 Apple Records releases John Lennon and Yoko Ono's political album "Sometime in NYC" in US; includes studio recordings of songs "Woman is the Nigger of the World", "Attica State" and "Luck of the Irish"; and some live tracks from 1971 concert with Frank Zappa
• 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 "Long Haired Lover From Liverpool" single by Little Jimmy Osmond peaks at #38
• 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 Bernice Gera becomes first female umpire in US pro baseball, Geneva Senators and Auburn Twins in Geneva, New York
• Jun 23 Hurricane Agnes becomes America's costliest natural disaster, affecting 15 states, with 119 deaths and $3 billion in damage

• Jun 23 US President Nixon signs act barring sex discrimination in college sports
• Jun 24 Single "Troglodyte (Cave Man)" by Jimmy Castor Bunch peaks at #6
• Jun 24 South African runner Danie Malan sets a new 1,000m world record 2:16.0 in Munich, Germany
• 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 Australian swing bowler Bob Massie takes 16 wickets (8-84 & 8-53) on Test cricket debut in 2nd Test vs England at Lord's
• 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

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