Historical Events in 1972 (Part 4)

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• 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 15 WMAO TV channel 23 in Greenwood, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting

• Sep 16 1st TV series about mixed marriage, "Bridget Loves Bernie" premieres
• Sep 17 BART begins passenger service in San Francisco
• Sep 17 Tanzania troops march in to Uganda

• Sep 18 1st black NL umpire is Art Williams for Los Angeles vs San Diego
• Sep 19 A parcel bomb sent to Israeli Embassy in London kills a 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 24 Jack Tatum, Oakland, sets NFL record with 104-yard fumble return, in a 20-14 win over Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field, Green Bay Wisconsin; record tied by Aeneas Williams of the Arizona Cardinals in 2000

• Sep 25 Dutch air force drives away Russian Tupolev-bomber
• Sep 25 KAVT (now KSMQ) TV channel 15 in Austin, MN (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 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 27 1st NHL exhibition game at Nassau Coliseum; NY Rangers beat NY Islanders, 6-4
• Sep 28 Canada defeats the USSR in the eighth and final game of the ice hockey Summit Series

• Sep 28 Japan & Communist China agree to re-establish diplomatic relations
• Sep 29 Japan & People's Republic of China begin diplomatic relations

• 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 Montreal Expos' pitcher Bill Stoneman no-hits the New York Mets, 7 - 0 at Parc Jarry; first MLB no-hitter ever pitched in Canada
• Oct 2 Ron Johnson becomes 1st NY Giant to score 4 TDs (vs Philadelphia)

• Oct 3 Roric Harrison homers as Baltimore beats Cleveland, 4-3; last AL pitcher to homer until MLB inter-league play 25 years later
• 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 7 First NY Islanders NHL game at Nassau Coliseum; Calgary Flames win, 3-2

• Oct 8 Harold Carmichael begins NFL streak of 127 consecutive game receptions

• Oct 8 International music revue "From Israel with Love" closes limited run at Palace Theater, NYC, after 8 performances
• Oct 8 MLB Detroit Tiger pitcher Lerrin LaGrow and Oakland A's shortstop Bert Campaneris, each fined and suspended when Campaneris flung his bat at the mound after getting hit by a pitch
• 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 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 15 Omni in Atlanta opens - Hawks beat NY Knicks 109-101
• 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 16 Rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival break up
• 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 23 Access credit cards introduced in Great Britain
• Oct 23 Loyalist paramilitaries carry out raid on an Ulster Defence Regiment
• Oct 23 WNJS TV channel 23 in Camden, NJ (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 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 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 29 Don Cockroft of Cleveland Browns kicks 57-yard field goal
• 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

• Nov 1 1st gay themed TV movie - "That Certain Summer"
• Nov 1 Germaoin Gagnon scores 1st Islander hat trick
• Nov 2 Construction begins on Kingdome, Seattle
• Nov 2 Government of the Republic of Ireland introduce a bill to remove the special position of the Catholic Church from the Irish Constitution
• 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

• Nov 8 Stock Exchange Tower, the new 26-story home of the London Stock Exchange opened by Queen 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 US Army turns over Long Bihn base to South Vietnamese army
• 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 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 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

• 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

• Nov 24 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 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 30 BBC bans Wings' "Hi, Hi, Hi"
• Nov 30 Illegal fireworks factory explodes killing 15 in Rome, Italy
• Dec 1 2 people killed and 127 injured when 2 car bombs explode in the centre of Dublin, Ireland
• Dec 1 Wings release "Hi, Hi, Hi" in UK
• Dec 2 "December Giant" largest sinkhole in US collapses (Alabama)

• Dec 2 USC tailback Anthony Davis becomes first to score 6 touchdowns against Notre Dame; in a 45-23 victory over the Fighting Irish Davis at the LA Coliseum he scores on runs of 1, 4, 5 & 8 yards and 2 kickoff returns
• Dec 3 Convair 990A charter crashes in Tenerife Canary Island, 155 die
• Dec 5 38th Heisman Trophy Award: Johnny Rodgers, Nebraska (FL)
• Dec 5 Australia Labour party wins parliamentary election
• Dec 5 Joseph A Walker's "River Niger" premieres in NYC

• Dec 8 United Airlines crashes at Chicago's Midway Airport killing 45
• Dec 10 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• Dec 11 American Astronauts Eugene Cernan & Harrison 'Jack" Schmitt, a become 11th & 12th people on the Moon
• Dec 11 New York Jets' Don Maynard becomes all time pro reception leader (632)

• Dec 14 Eugene Cernan & Harrison Schmitt leave the Moon
• Dec 16 Bangladesh Constitution goes into effect
• Dec 16 Miami Dolphins become 1st undefeated NFL team (14-0-0)
• Dec 17 New line of control agreed to in Kashmir between India & Pakistan
• Dec 17 WGVC (now WUCX) TV channel 35 in Grand Rapids, MI (PBS) 1st broadcast

• Dec 19 Apollo 17 (last of Apollo Moon landing series) returns to Earth, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean, southeast of Samoa

• Dec 20 Five civilians (four Catholics, one Protestant) killed in gun attack on the Top of the Hill Bar in Derry, North Ireland
• Dec 21 Soviet Union signs a separate peace with East Germany
• Dec 22 6.25 earthquake strikes Managua Nicaragua, 12,000+ killed
• Dec 23 "Immaculate Reception" Steelers turns around a 7-6 defeat with a last second touchdown reception against Raiders to win 13-7 [1]
• Dec 23 16 plane crash survivors rescued from Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 after 72 days on the Andean Mountains, after only surviving through cannibalism
• Dec 23 6.25 Earthquake destroys central Managua Nicaragua, 10,000 die
• Dec 23 B. S. Chandrasekhar takes 8-79 India v England at Delhi
• Dec 23 New York Islanders end 15 games winless streak

• Dec 27 Belgium recognizes German DR
• Dec 27 LA Kings start Islanders on 12 game losing streak
• Dec 27 New North Korean constitution comes into effect
• Dec 28 2 people are killed in a Loyalist bomb attack on the village of Belturbet, County Cavan, Republic of Ireland
• Dec 28 Kim Il-song becomes president of North Korea

• Dec 28 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• Dec 29 "Aguirre, the Wrath of God" film written and directed by Werner Herzog, starring Klaus Kinski premieres in West Germany
• Dec 29 Eastern Tristar Jumbo Jet crashes near Everglades killing 101
• Dec 29 Life magazine ceases publication
• Dec 29 President of Sinn Féin Ruairi O Bradaigh is arrested and held under new legislation in Republic of Ireland
• Dec 29 Test Cricket debut of Jeff Thomson and Max Walker v Pakistan at MCG
• Dec 30 US President Richard Nixon halts bombing of North Vietnam & announces peace talks
• Dec 31 Leap second day; also in 1973-79, 1987

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