Notable Historical Events - 1972
1972 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
"Company" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 690 performances |
Jan 1 |
"On the Town" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 65 performances |
Jan 1 |
"Promises Promises" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 1281 perfs |
Jan 1 |
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC |
Jan 1 |
International Book Year begins |
Jan 1 |
KDSD TV channel 16 in Aberdeen, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Jan 1 |
Policewomen are enlisted as full members of South African Police Force for the first time. |
Jan 2 |
"Rothschilds" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 505 perfs |
Jan 2 |
Dallas Cowboys beat SF '49ers 14-3 in NFC championship game |
Jan 2 |
Mariner 9 begins mapping Mars |
Jan 2 |
Miami Dolphins beat Balt Colts 21-0 in AFC championship game |
Jan 2 |
Anti-internment rally in Belfast, North Ireland |
Jan 3 |
The Irish Republican Army (IRA) explodes a bomb in Callender Street, Belfast, which injures over 60 people |
Jan 4 |
Rose Heilbron becomes the first female judge to sit at the Old Bailey in London. |
Jan 5 |
Largest crowd at Cleveland Arena (Cavs vs Lakers-11,178) |
Jan 5 |
NYC transit fare rises from 30 cents to 35 cents |
Jan 5 |
US President Nixon signs a bill for NASA to begin research on a manned space shuttle |
Jan 5 |
West-Pakistani sheik Mujib ur-Rahman freed |
Jan 6 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn |
Jan 6 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Kenneth Shelley |
Jan 6 |
Vladimir Bukovski is exiled from USSR |
Jan 7 |
Iberian Airlines crashes into 800ft peak on island of Ibiza, 104 die |
Jan 7 |
LA Lakers chalk up 33rd consecutive win (NBA record) |
Jan 7 |
Lewis F Powell Jr becomes a Supreme Court Justice |
Jan 7 |
William Hubbs Rehnquist, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice |
Jan 7 |
LA Lakers 33 straight win streak snapped, losing to Bucks 120-104 |
Jan 8 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch' 15th Symphony, premieres in Moscow |
Jan 8 |
NCAA announces freshman can play on teams starting in fall |
Jan 9 |
Billionaire Howard Hughes says Clifford Irving's bio is a fake |
Jan 9 |
Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational |
Jan 9 |
Retired passenger liner Queen Elizabeth destroyed by fire in Hong Kong harbour |
Jan 10 |
Sheik Mujib ur-Rahman arrives in Dacca, East-Pakistan |
Jan 10 |
Triple album set "Concert for Bangladesh" released in UK |
Jan 11 |
East-Pakistan becomes independent state of Bangladesh |
Jan 11 |
Abu Sayeed Chudhury becomes president & sheik Mujib ur-Rahman premier |
Jan 12 |
Tigers sign a lease to build a $126M domed stadium (doesn't happen) |
Jan 13 |
Former umpire, now housewife Bernice Gera wins her suit against baseball, initiated on March 15, 1971 to be allowed to umpire |
Jan 14 |
"Sanford & Son" starring Redd Foxx premieres on NBC TV |
Jan 14 |
WMAH TV channel 19 in Biloxi, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Jan 14 |
WMAU TV channel 17 in Bude, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Jan 14 |
WMAW TV channel 14 in Meridian, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Jan 15 |
Heavyweight Joe Frazier KOs Terry Daniels |
Jan 16 |
Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes European all-round lady skating champ |
Jan 16 |
Super Bowl VI: Dallas Cowboys-24, Miami-3 in New Orleans Super Bowl MVP: Roger Staubach, Dallas, QB |
Jan 17 |
Section of Memphis' Highway 51 South renamed Elvis Presley Blvd |
Jan 17 |
Seven men who were held as internees escape from the prison ship HMS Maidstone in Belfast Lough, North Ireland |
Jan 18 |
Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Brian Faulkner bans all parades and marches in Northern Ireland until the end of the year |
Jan 19 |
Sandy Koufax, Yogi Berra, & Early Wynn elected to Hall of Fame |
Jan 20 |
Six oil exporting countries conclude meetings with Western oil companies; an agreement is reached to raise the posted price of crude by 8.49 percent to offset the loss in value of oil concessions attributable to the decline in value of the US. dollar |
Jan 21 |
Assam's North East Frontier Agency becomes Arunachal Pradesh terr |
Jan 21 |
Belgian government of Eyskens-Cools forms |
Jan 21 |
Manipur, Meghalaya & Tripura become separate states of Indian union |
Jan 21 |
Mizoram, formerly part of Assam, creates an Indian union territory |
Jan 21 |
Tripura becomes a full-fledged state in India. |
Jan 22 |
"Emergency" with Robert Fuller premieres on NBC TV |
Jan 22 |
22nd NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 112-110 at LA |
Jan 22 |
An anti-internment march is held at Magilligan strand, County Derry; as the march nears the internment camp it is stopped by members of the Green Jackets and the Parachute Regiment of the British Army, who used barbed wire to close off the beach |
Jan 23 |
2nd AFC-NFC pro bowl, AFC wins 26-13 |
Jan 23 |
Ard Schenk becomes European all-round skating champ |
Jan 23 |
Bootlegger sells wood alcohol to wedding party-100 die-New Delhi |
Jan 23 |
Entire population of Istanbul under 24 hour house arrest |
Jan 23 |
NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 26-13 |
Jan 24 |
WRIP (now WDSI) TV channel 61 in Chattanooga, TN (IND) 1st broadcast |
Jan 24 |
Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II. |
Jan 25 |
25th NHL All-Star Game: East beats West 3-2 at Minnesota |
Jan 25 |
7' Ohio State center Luke Witte is stomped in face during a brawl in a game with Minnesota |
Jan 26 |
Air stewardess Vesna Vulovic survives 10,160m fall without parachute |
Jan 27 |
Two Royal Ulster Constabulary officers are shot dead in an attack on their patrol car in the Creggan Road, Derry |
Jan 27 |
The British Army and the Irish Republican Army engage in gun battles near County Armagh; British troops fire over 1,000 rounds of amunition |
Jan 28 |
Oral Roberts' Eddie Woods grabs 30 rebounds for 2nd consecutive game |
Jan 28 |
The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association place "special emphasis on the necessity for a peaceful incident-free day" at the next march on 30 January in an effort to avoid violence |
Jan 29 |
5th ABA All-Star Game: East 142 beats West 115 at Louisville |
Jan 30 |
'Bloody Sunday': 27 unarmed civilians are shot (of whom 14 were killed) by the British Army during a civil rights march in Derry; this is the highest death toll from a single shooting incident during 'the Troubles' |
Jan 30 |
Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth |
Jan 31 |
Aretha Franklin sings at Mahalia Jackson's funeral |
Jan 31 |
Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev becomes 11th King of Nepal |
Jan 31 |
Military coup ousts civilian government of Ghana |
Jan 31 |
US launches HEOS A-2 for interplanetary observations (396/244,998) |
Jan 31 |
British Home Secretary Reginald Maudling makes statement to the House of Commons on the events of 'Bloody Sunday' "The Army returned the fire directed at them with aimed shots and inflicted a number of casualties on those who were attacking them with firearms and with bombs" |
Feb 1 |
1st scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) introduced ($395) |
Feb 1 |
Wings release "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" in UK |
Feb 1 |
Kuala Lumpur becomes a city by a royal charter granted by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia. |
Feb 1 |
British Prime Minister Edward Heath announces the appointment of Lord Chief Justice Lord Widgery to undertake an inquiry into the 13 deaths on 'Bloody Sunday' (30 January 1972) |
Feb 1 |
The Ministry of Defence also issues a detailed account of the British Army's version of events during 'Bloody Sunday' |
Feb 2 |
Lefty Gomez, Ross Youngs & William Harridge selected for Hall of Fame |
Feb 2 |
Tom Stoppard's "Jumpers," premieres in London |
Feb 2 |
Funerals of eleven of those killed on Bloody Sunday: in Dublin, over 30,000 march to the British Embassy, carrying thirteen replica coffins and black flags; they attack the Embassy with stones and bottles, then petrol bombs eventually burning it to the ground |
Feb 3 |
11th Winter Olympic games opens in Sapporo, Japan (1st in Asia) |
Feb 3 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Feb 4 |
6th round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks ends in Vienna Austria |
Feb 4 |
Senator Strom Thurmond suggests John Lennon be deported |
Feb 5 |
"Another Puff" by Jerry Reed peaks at #65 |
Feb 5 |
Bob Douglas is 1st African American elected to Basketball Hall of Fame |
Feb 5 |
US airlines begin mandatory inspection of passengers & baggage |
Feb 5 |
Two IRA members are killed when a bomb they were planting exploded prematurely |
Feb 6 |
A Civil Rights march is held in Newry, County Down; there is a very large turn-out for the march with many people attending to protest at the killings in Derry the previous Sunday |
Feb 8 |
Josh Gibson & Buck Leonard selected to Hall of Fame |
Feb 9 |
Brit government declares state of emergency after month-long miners' strike |
Feb 9 |
William Craig, who had been Northern Ireland Minister for Home Affairs, launches 'Ulster Vanguard' as an umbrella movement for the right-ring of Unionism |
Feb 10 |
BBC bans "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" by Wings |
Feb 10 |
Ras al Khaima joins United Arab Emirates |
Feb 10 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Feb 10 |
Two British soldiers are killed in a land mine attack near Cullyhanna, County Armagh; An IRA member is shot dead during an exchange of gunfire with RUC officers |
Feb 13 |
"1776" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 1,217 performances |
Feb 13 |
"Grease" opens on Broadway |
Feb 13 |
11th Winter Olympic games close at Sapporo, Japan |
Feb 14 |
John & Yoko co-host "Mike Douglas Show" for entire week |
Feb 14 |
Luna 20 (Russia) launched to orbit & soft landing on Moon |
Feb 14 |
CBS "Late Movie" premieres |
Feb 14 |
Lord Widgery arrives in Coleraine, where the 'Bloody Sunday' (30 January 1972) Tribunal was to be based, and holds a preliminary hearing |
Feb 15 |
Bill Torrey becomes 1st Islander General Manager |
Feb 15 |
Dimitrios Papadopoulos becomes metropolitan of Imbros/Tenedos |
Feb 15 |
Pres Velasco Ibarra of Ecuador deposed for 4th time |
Feb 15 |
Sound recordings are granted U.S. federal copyright protection for the first time. |
Feb 16 |
German mass murderers "Three of Breda" freed |
Feb 16 |
Test Cricket debut of Lawrence Rowe WI v NZ Kingston, 214 & 100 |
Feb 16 |
Wilt Chamberlain hit 30,000 point mark during a game with Phoenix Suns |
Feb 17 |
British Parliament votes to join European Common Market |
Feb 17 |
President Nixon leaves Washington DC for China |
Feb 17 |
Sales of the Volkswagen Beetle model exceed those of Ford Model-T. |
Feb 18 |
California Supreme Court abolishes death penalty |
Feb 18 |
Giulio Andreotti sworn in as premier of Italy |
Feb 18 |
John & Yoko end a week of co-hosting Mike Douglas Show |
Feb 19 |
Glenn Turner carries his bat for 223* v WI at Kingston |
Feb 19 |
The Asama-Sanso hostage standoff begins in Japan. |
Feb 20 |
1st time Cleveland Cavaliers beat NY Knicks (111-109) |
Feb 20 |
Ard Schenk becomes world champ skater |
Feb 20 |
Sicco Mansholt becomes chairman of European Committee |
Feb 21 |
Michael Weller's "Moonchildren," premieres in NYC |
Feb 21 |
Richard Nixon becomes 1st US president to visit China |
Feb 21 |
The first session of the Widgery Tribunal, investigating the events of 'Bloody Sunday' (30 January 1972), is held in Coleraine, County Derry |
Feb 22 |
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani becomes Amir & Prime Minister of Qatar |
Feb 22 |
President Nixon, meets with Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai in Beijing |
Feb 22 |
Aldershot bombing: seven people killed by an Official IRA car bomb at Aldershot Barracks in England; thought to be in retaliation for Bloody Sunday |
Feb 22 |
The Official Irish Republican Army explodes a bomb at Aldershot military barracks, the headquarters of the Parachute Regiment, killing seven people |
Feb 25 |
Lopsided trade, Cards trade Steve Carlton to Phillies for Rick Wise |
Feb 25 |
Paul McCartney releases "Give Ireland back to the Irish" single |
Feb 25 |
Attempted assassination of Minister of State for Home Affairs John Taylor who is shot a number of times (the Official Irish Republican Army later claimed responsibility) |
Feb 26 |
Slag heap dam collapses above Buffalo Creek West Virginia, kills 125 |
Feb 27 |
Pres Nixon & Chinese Premier Chou En-lai issued Shanghai Communique |
Feb 28 |
George Harrison is involved in a minor car accident |
Feb 28 |
Pres Richard Nixon ends historic week-long visit to China |
Feb 28 |
The Asama-Sanso incident ends in Japan. |
Feb 29 |
Hank Aaron becomes 1st baseball player to sign for $200,000 a year |
Feb 29 |
Jack Anderson discloses Dita Beard (ITT) memo indicating antitrust charges were dropped for $400,000 contribution to Republican Party |
Mar 1 |
Club of Rome publishes report "Boundaries on the Growth" |
Mar 1 |
David Rabe's "Sticks & Bones," premieres in NYC |
Mar 1 |
KHMA TV channel 11 in Houma, LA (IND) begins broadcasting |
Mar 1 |
Wilt Chamberlain is 1st NBA player to score 30,000 points |
Mar 1 |
Two Catholic teenagers were shot dead by the Royal Ulster Constabulary while 'joy riding' in a stolen car in Belfast |
Mar 2 |
Jean-Bédell Bokassa appoints himself pres for life of Cent African Rep |
Mar 2 |
Pioneer 10 launched for Jupiter flyby |
Mar 3 |
Sculpted figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, & Stonewall Jackson are completed at Stone Mountain Georgia |
Mar 4 |
Erhard Keller (Germany) skates world record 1000m (1:18.5) |
Mar 4 |
Last train run between Penrith to Keswick UK |
Mar 4 |
Libya & USSR signs cooperation treaty |
Mar 4 |
Abercorn Restaurant bombing: a bomb explodes in a crowded restaurant in Belfast, killing two civilians and wounding 130 |
Mar 5 |
Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis leaves communist party |
Mar 6 |
Jack Nicklaus, passes Arnold Palmer as golf's all-time money winner |
Mar 6 |
Keswick to Penrith railway officially closes |
Mar 8 |
1st airship flown over Britain in 20 years (Europa) |
Mar 8 |
1st flight of the Goodyear blimp |
Mar 9 |
Players on White Sox vote 31-0 in favor of a strike, if necessary |
Mar 9 |
Four members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) die in a premature explosion at a house in Clonard Street, Lower Falls, Belfast |
Mar 10 |
1st black US political convention opens (Gary Indiana) |
Mar 10 |
Gen Lon Nol becomes pres & prince Sirik Matak premier of Cambodia |
Mar 10 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Mar 11 |
"Inner City" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 97 performances |
Mar 11 |
OPEC threatens "appropriate sanctions" against companies that "fail to comply with . . . any action taken by a Member Country in accordance with [OPEC] decisions." |
Mar 12 |
Judy Rankin wins LPGA Lady Eve Golf Open |
Mar 12 |
NHL great Gordie Howe retires after 26 seasons |
Mar 14 |
NBA's Cincinnati Royals announce they are moving to KC |
Mar 14 |
Two IRA members shot dead by British soldiers in the Bogside area of Derry |
Mar 15 |
Danish airliner hit mountain in Sheikdom of Oman killing 112 |
Mar 15 |
NASA selects 3 part configuration for Space Shuttle |
Mar 15 |
"The Godfather", starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino, premieres in New York |
Mar 15 |
Two British soldiers killed when attempting to defuse a bomb in Belfast; an RUC officer iskilled in an IRA attack in Coalisland, County Tyrone |
Mar 16 |
John & Yoko are served with deportation papers |
Mar 17 |
Ringo releases "Back off Bugaloo" in UK |
Mar 18 |
AIAW 1st basketball champs, Immaculata beats West Chester State 52-48 |
Mar 18 |
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC |
Mar 18 |
Cornell NCAA hockey team shut out for 1st time in 225 games (Boston U) |
Mar 18 |
Memphis' Larry Miller sets ABA record of 67 pts in a game |
Mar 18 |
Ulster Vanguard hold a rally of 60,000 people in Belfast; William Craig tells the crowd: "if and when the politicians fail us, it may be our job to liquidate the enemy" |
Mar 19 |
"To Live Another Summer" closes at Helen Hayes NYC after 173 perfs |
Mar 19 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic |
Mar 19 |
India & Bangladesh sign friendship treaty |
Mar 19 |
LA Lakers beat Golden State Warriors, 162-99, by then record 63 pts |
Mar 20 |
19 mountain climbers killed on Japan's Mount Fuji during an avalanche |
Mar 20 |
S Mansholt succeeds Malfatti as chairman of European Committee |
Mar 20 |
Donegall Street bombing: the Provisional Irish Republican Army detonate its first car bomb on Donegall Street in Belfast; four civilians, two RUC officers and a UDR soldier killed while 148 people were wounded |
Mar 21 |
US Supreme Court rules states can't require 1-yr residency to vote |
Mar 22 |
"Selling of the President" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 5 perfs |
Mar 22 |
Congress approves Equal Rights Amendment (never ratified) |
Mar 22 |
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar named NBA MVP |
Mar 22 |
Nick Mileti purchases Cleve Indians for $9 million |
Mar 22 |
Yankees trade Danny Cater to the Red Sox for Sparky Lyle |
Mar 23 |
Evel Knievel breaks 93 bones after successfully clearing 35 cars |
Mar 23 |
NY Yanks agree to continue playing ball in the Bronx |
Mar 24 |
Great Britain imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland |
Mar 25 |
"Selling of the President" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 5 perfs |
Mar 25 |
34th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Florida 81-76 |
Mar 25 |
America's LP "America" goes #1 |
Mar 25 |
Bobby Hull becomes the 2nd NHLer to score 600 goals |
Mar 25 |
UCLA wins its 6th consecutive national basketball title |
Mar 26 |
"Only Fools Are Sad" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 144 perfs |
Mar 26 |
Betsy Cullen wins LPGA Sears Women's World Golf Classic |
Mar 26 |
LA Lakers broke NBA record by winning 69 of 82 games (69-13) |
Mar 26 |
William Whitelaw appointed as the first Secretary of State for Northern Ireland |
Mar 27 |
Adolph Rupp retires after 42 years of coaching U of Kentucky |
Mar 27 |
Venera 8 launched to Venus |
Mar 27 |
Ulster Vanguard organise industrial strike against the imposition of direct rule on Northern Ireland by Westminster |
Mar 28 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Mar 28 |
Wilt Chamberlain plays his last pro basketball game |
Mar 30 |
"Funny Thing Happened..." opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 156 perfs |
Mar 30 |
North Vietnamese troops enter South Vietnam |
Mar 30 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Mar 30 |
Northern Ireland's Government and Parliament dissolved by the British Government and 'direct rule' from Westminster is introduced |
Mar 31 |
Official Beatles Fan Club closes down |
Apr 1 |
30,000 attend Mar Y Sol rock concert, Vega Baja, Puerto Rico |
Apr 1 |
Major league baseball players stages 1st collective strike |
Apr 2 |
44th Academy Awards - "French Connection", Gene Hackman & Jane Fonda win |
Apr 2 |
Prime Minister Begin visits Cairo |
Apr 2 |
Tennessee Williams' "Small Craft Warnings" premieres in NYC |
Apr 4 |
1st electric power plant fueled by garbage begins operating |
Apr 5 |
Baseball season is delayed due to a strike |
Apr 5 |
Mets trade Ken Singleton to Expos for Rusty Staub |
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 |
"Sugar" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 506 performances |
Apr 9 |
36th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 286 |
Apr 9 |
Glenn Turner (259) & Terry Jarvis make 387 opening cricket stand v WI |
Apr 9 |
USSR & Iraq sign friendship treaty |
Apr 10 |
7.0 earthquake kills 1/5 of population of Iranian province of Fars |
Apr 10 |
US, USSR & 70 other nations agree to ban biological weapons |
Apr 10 |
20 days after he was kidnapped in Buenos Aires, Oberdan Sallustro is executed by communist guerrillas. |
Apr 10 |
Two British soldiers are killed in a bomb attack in Derry |
Apr 11 |
Benjamin L Hooks, named to FCC |
Apr 11 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
Apr 13 |
1st baseball players' strike ends after 13 days |
Apr 14 |
"That's Entertainment" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 4 performances |
Apr 14 |
The Provisional Irish Republican Army explode twenty-four bombs in towns and cities across Northern Ireland |
Apr 15 |
Barbra Striesand, James Taylor, Carole King & Quincy Jones perform at a benefit for George McGovern for President |
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 15 |
A member of the British Army is shot dead by the Official IRA in the Divis area of Belfast. |
Apr 16 |
"That's Entertainment" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 4 perfs |
Apr 16 |
1st Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Jane Blalock |
Apr 16 |
Two giant pandas arrive in US from China |
Apr 16 |
Apollo 16 launched; 5th manned lunar landing (Decartes Highlands) |
Apr 16 |
Chicago Cub Burt Hooton no-hits Phillies, 1-0 |
Apr 16 |
Two British soldiers are shot dead by the Official Irish Republican Army (OIRA) in separate incidents in Derry |
Apr 17 |
1st Boston Women's Marathon won by Nina Kuscsik of NY in 3:10:26 |
Apr 17 |
76th Boston Marathon won by Olavi Suomalainen of Finland in 2:15:39 |
Apr 17 |
Revised Dutch constitution proclaimed |
Apr 17 |
Kiteman attempting to throw out 1st ball in Phillie Vet crashes into centerfield seats |
Apr 18 |
"Lost in the Stars" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 39 performances |
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 |
"Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" opens at Playhouse NYC for 1,065 perfs |
Apr 19 |
Bangladesh becomes a member of British Commonwealth |
Apr 19 |
Hungary revises constitution |
Apr 19 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Apr 19 |
British Prime Ministe rEdward Heath confirms that a plan to conduct an arrest operation, in the event of a riot during the march on 30 January 1972, was known to British government Ministers in advance |
Apr 20 |
Apollo 16's Young & Duke land on Moon with Boeing Lunar Rover #2 |
Apr 20 |
Kallicharran scores his 2nd Test century in his 2nd Test Cricket |
Apr 21 |
John Young & Charles Duke explores Moon (Apollo 16) |
Apr 21 |
Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 4 (Copernicus) launched |
Apr 22 |
Apollo astronauts John Young & Charles Duke ride on Moon |
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 23 |
26th Tony Awards: Sticks & Bones & 2 Gentlemen of Verona win |
Apr 23 |
Apollo 16 astronauts explores Moon surface |
Apr 23 |
Betty Burfeind wins LPGA Birmingham Centennital Golf Classic |
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 |
Apr 27 |
NYC Mayor John Lindsey appeals that John Lennon not be deported |
Apr 28 |
Courts award 1968 Kentucky Derby prize money to 2nd place winner due to the winner being given drugs before the race |
Apr 30 |
"Arthur Godfrey Time" ends a 27 year run on radio |
Apr 30 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Alamo Ladies Golf Open |
May 1 |
"Different Times" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 24 performances |
May 1 |
North Vietnamese troops occupy Quang Tri Activities Committee |
May 1 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Wallace Stegner (Angle of Repose) |
May 1 |
Radio's Mutual Black Network premieres |
May 2 |
Electrical fire in Sunshine Silver mine. 126 die (Kellogg, Idaho) |
May 2 |
Lt General Vernon A Walters, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA |
May 2 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
May 4 |
Vietcong forms revolutionary government in Quang Tri South Vietnam |
May 4 |
The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to "Greenpeace Foundation". |
May 5 |
Alitalia DC-8 crashes west of Palermo Sicily; killing 115 |
May 6 |
98th Kentucky Derby: Ron Turcotte aboard Riva Ridge wins in 2:01.8 |
May 6 |
Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan and Hüseyin İnan are executed in Ankara for attempting to overthrow the Constitutional order. |
May 7 |
26th NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat NY Knicks, 4 games to 1 |
May 7 |
Betty Burfeindt wins Sealy LPGA Golf Classic |
May 8 |
Sabena aircraft at Lod Intl, Tel Aviv, captured by Palestinians |
May 10 |
Overloaded South Korean bus plunges into reservoir, killing 77 |
May 10 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
May 10 |
An Irish Republican Army bomb starts a fire that destroys the Belfast Co-operative store |
May 11 |
Giants trade Willie Mays to Mets for pitcher Charlie Williams & cash |
May 11 |
John Lennon says his phone is tapped by FBI on Dick Cavett Show |
May 11 |
Stanley Cup: Boston Bruins beat NY Rangers, 4 games to 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 12 |
Paul McCartney & Wings release "Mary Had a Little Lamb" |
May 13 |
115 die in nightclub atop 7-story Sennichi dept store (Osaka Japan) |
May 13 |
Milwaukee Brewers beat Minnesota Twins, 4-3, in 22 innings (started 5/12) |
May 13 |
Battle at Springmartin: following a loyalist car bombing of a Catholic-owned pub in the Ballymurphy area of Belfast, clashes erupte between the PIRA, UVF and British Army |
May 14 |
24th Emmy Awards: All in the Family, Carrol O'Conner & Jean Stapleton win |
May 14 |
In Willie Mays 1st game as a NY Met his homer beats SF Giants, 5-4 |
May 14 |
14th Grammy Awards: It's Too Late, Carly Simon wins |
May 14 |
A 13 year old Catholic girl is shot dead by Loyalist paramilitaries in Ballymurphy, Belfast |
May 15 |
Assassination attempt on US Governor George Wallace of Alabama by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, Md |
May 15 |
"Hard Job Being God" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 6 performances |
May 15 |
Bus plunges into Nile River killing 50 pilgrims. (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 |
"Don't Play Us Cheap" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 164 perfs |
May 16 |
Greg Luzinski's 500' HR hits Liberty Bell monument in Phila Vet |
May 16 |
Jane Blalock wins LPGA Suzuki Golf Internationale |
May 17 |
Neth & China PR exchange ambassadors |
May 17 |
Tottenham Hotspur wins 1st UEFA Cup in London |
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 & The Chimp" last airs on CBS-TV |
May 18 |
John Sebastian makes 63 consecutive free throws while blindfolded |
May 19 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
May 19 |
WMAV TV channel 18 in Oxford, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting |
May 20 |
"Different Times" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 24 performances |
May 20 |
"Hard Job Being God" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 6 performances |
May 20 |
5th ABA Championship: Indiana Pacers beat NY Nets, 4 games to 2 |
May 20 |
98th Preakness: Eldon Nelson aboard Bee Bee Bee wins in 1:55.6 |
May 20 |
Cameroon adopts its constitution |
May 20 |
Republic of Cameroon declared as constitution is ratified |
May 21 |
"Heathen!" opens & closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 1 performance |
May 21 |
"Lost in the Stars" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 39 perfs |
May 21 |
Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational |
May 21 |
Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal. |
May 21 |
The Official Irish Republican Army (OIRA) kidnap and shoot dead William Best (19), a member of the Royal Irish Rangers |
May 22 |
Ceylon becomes Republic of Sri Lanka as its constitution is ratified |
May 22 |
Ton Sijbrands becomes world checkers champion |
May 22 |
US president Nixon begins visit to Moscow |
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 24 |
Glasgow Rangers wins 12th Europe Cup II at Barcelona |
May 24 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
May 25 |
Heavyweight Joe Frazier KOs Ron Stander |
May 25 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
May 26 |
Joe Frazier TKOs Ron Stander in 5 for heavyweight boxing title |
May 26 |
Nixon & Brezhnev signs SALT accord |
May 26 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
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 |
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 27 |
"Applause" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 900 performances |
May 27 |
"Jimmy Castor Bunch's Troglodyte" (Cave Man) hits #6 |
May 27 |
Indianapolis 500: Mark Donohue wins in 3:04:23.851 (262.262 km/h) |
May 28 |
White House "plumbers" break into Democratic Natlional HQ at Watergate |
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 29 |
Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
May 29 |
The Official IRA announce a ceasefire |
May 30 |
3 Jap 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. |
May 31 |
Ajax wins Europe Cup 1 in Rotterdam |
Jun 1 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's 15th Symphony, Dutch premieres in West Berlin |
Jun 1 |
Tswanaland becomes Bophuthatswana in South Africa |
Jun 1 |
West German police arrest Red Army Faction leader Andreas Baader |
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 2 |
Two British Army soldiers die in a land mine attack by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) 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 3 |
Yanks score 8 times in 13th beating White Sox 18-10 |
Jun 4 |
Angela Davis, black activist, acquitted of killing a white guard |
Jun 4 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
Jun 4 |
Record 8 shutouts pitched in 16 major league games (AL=5, NL=3) |
Jun 5 |
"If You Had Wings" opens |
Jun 5 |
UN Conference on Human Environment opens in Stockholm |
Jun 5 |
Yugoslav president Josip Tito visits USSR |
Jun 6 |
David Bowie releases "Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust" |
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 |
"Grease" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 3,388 performances |
Jun 7 |
German Chancellor Willy Brandt visits Israel |
Jun 7 |
Hsan Hua, Zen teacher, conducted 1st ordination ceremony in America |
Jun 7 |
Pirate's Gene Alley bases-loaded walk, beats Padres 1-0 in 18th |
Jun 8 |
Padres draft Dave Roberts #1, Indians draft Rick Manning #2 |
Jun 8 |
Test Cricket debut of Tony Greig, v Australia at Old Trafford (57/62) |
Jun 9 |
14" of rain in 6 hrs burst Rapid City SD dam, drowns 237 |
Jun 9 |
1st all-nite grad parties |
Jun 9 |
Bruce Springsteen signs a record deal with Columbia |
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 |
104th Belmont: Ron Turcotte aboard Riva Ridge wins in 2:28 |
Jun 10 |
Elvis Presley records a live album at NY's Madison Square Garden |
Jun 10 |
Hank Aaron's grandslammer (14) ties him for NL lead with Gil Hodges & moves him ahead of Willie Mays as #2 HR hitter (649) |
Jun 11 |
18th LPGA Championship won by Kathy Ahern |
Jun 11 |
31°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in June |
Jun 11 |
KPAT-AM in Berkeley CA returns from KRE |
Jun 11 |
Gun battle between Loyalist and Republican paramilitaries break out in the Oldpark area of Belfast |
Jun 12 |
John Lennon's political "Sometime in NYC" released including "Woman is the Nigger of the World" "Attica State" & "Luck of the Irish" |
Jun 13 |
The Irish Republican Army invites Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 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 13 |
The Irish Republican Army invites Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 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 |
Hurricane Agnes kills 117 |
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 15 |
Rock fall inside Vierzy Tunnel (France) causes 2 train crash; 107 die |
Jun 15 |
West German police arrested RAF leader Ulrike Meinhof |
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 16 |
The largest single-site hydro-electric power project in Canada starts at Churchill Falls, Labrador. |
Jun 17 |
"Long Haired Lover From Liverpool" by Little Jimmy Osmond peaks at #38 |
Jun 17 |
5 arrested for burglarizing Democratic Party HQ at Watergate |
Jun 17 |
Chile president Allende forms new government |
Jun 17 |
Looking Glass releases "Brandy" |
Jun 17 |
9 firefighters are killed in the Hotel Vendome fire in Boston |
Jun 17 |
Five White House plumbers apprehended after second burglary of Democratic Natl HQ, Watergate |
Jun 18 |
72nd US Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 290 at Pebble Beach Calif |
Jun 18 |
BEA Trident crashes after takeoff from Heathrow killing 118 |
Jun 18 |
West Germany wins soccer world championship |
Jun 18 |
US Supreme Court, 5-3, confirms lower court rulings in Curt Flood case, upholding baseball's exemption from antitrust laws |
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 19 |
-29] Hurricane Agnes, kills 118 in NY & Florida |
Jun 19 |
Hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers face flight delays and cancellations after pilots threaten to strike over hijack fears |
Jun 19 |
A Catholic civilian is shot dead by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in the Cracked Cup Social Club, Belfast |
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 |
"Man of La Mancha" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 140 performances |
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 |
Hurricane Agnes is costliest natural disaster in American history |
Jun 23 |
Nixon & Haldeman agree to use CIA to cover up Watergate |
Jun 23 |
Pres Nixon signs act barring sex discrimination in college sports |
Jun 23 |
45 countries leave the Sterling Area, allowing their currencies to fluctuate independently of the British Pound. |
Jun 24 |
"Troglodyte (Cave Man)" by Jimmy Castor Bunch peaks at #6 |
Jun 24 |
Wake Island becomes unincorporated territory of US (US Air Force) |
Jun 24 |
Yvonne Braitwaite Burke becomes 1st black chair in Dem convention |
Jun 24 |
Danie Malan, South African athlete, sets a new world record in the 1000m event in Munich |
Jun 24 |
The Irish Republican Army (IRA) kill 3 British Army soldiers in a land mine attack near Dungiven, County Derry |
Jun 25 |
Bernice Gera becomes 1st female umpire in pro baseball |
Jun 25 |
Juan Peron elected president of Argentina |
Jun 26 |
Bob Massie takes 16 wickets (8-84 & 8-53) on Test cricket debut v Eng |
Jun 26 |
IRA proclaims resistant in North-Ireland |
Jun 26 |
The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) begin a "bi-lateral truce" as at midnight |
Jun 26 |
The Irish Republican Army (IRA) kill two British Army soldiers in separate attacks during the day |
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 |
Cincinnati Reds are 11 games back in NL, & go on to win pennant |
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 |
"Follies" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 524 performances |
Jul 1 |
"Hair" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 1750 performances |
Jul 1 |
Ms. magazine begins publishing |
Jul 1 |
The first Gay Pride march in England takes place. |
Jul 2 |
"Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 3242 perfs |
Jul 2 |
27th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Susie Maxwell Berning |
Jul 2 |
Bob Seagren pole vaults world record 5.63m |
Jul 2 |
India & Pakistan sign peace accord |
Jul 2 |
Two Catholic civilians are shot and killed in Belfast by Loyalist paramilitaries, probably the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) |
Jul 3 |
Themba Sono is forced to resign as president of South African Student Organisation (SASO) |
Jul 3 |
The Ulster Defence Association and the British Army come into conflict about a 'no-go' area at Ainsworth Avenue, Belfast |
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 (There was 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 |
79th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats Goolagong (63 63) |
Jul 7 |
Dutch Minister of Agt decides to ignore soft drug usage |
Jul 7 |
Secret Talks Between IRA and British Government: Gerry Adams is part of a delegation to London for talks with the British Government |
Jul 7 |
7 people are killed in separate incidents across Northern Ireland |
Jul 8 |
US sells grain to USSR for $750 million |
Jul 9 |
1st tour of Paul McCartney & Wings (France) |
Jul 9 |
86th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: S Smith beats I Nastase (46 63 63 46 75) |
Jul 9 |
Kathy Ahern wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic |
Jul 9 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
Jul 9 |
Kwame Nkrumah, re-buried in Nkroful Ghana |
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 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 president in Miami Fla |
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 |
LA Rams (Irsay) & Baltimore Colts (Rosenbloom) swap owners |
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 Natl Committee |
Jul 14 |
USSR performs underground nuclear Test |
Jul 14 |
Plate ump & catcher in a game are brothers. Bill Haller is ump & Tom Haller is Tigers catcher, KC Royals win 1-0 |
Jul 15 |
101st British Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots 278 at Muirfield Gullane |
Jul 15 |
Sandra Palmer/Jane Blalock wins Angelo's Four-Ball Golf Championship |
Jul 16 |
Dimitrios Papadopoulos becomes 269th patriarch of Constantinople |
Jul 16 |
Smokey Robinson & Miracles final live performance |
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 |
Egyptian president Anwar Sadat throws out 20,000 Russian military aids |
Jul 18 |
Mike Procter 8-73 with hat-trick, plus 51 & 102, Gloucs v Essex |
Jul 18 |
The 100th British soldier to die in the conflict is shot by a sniper in Belfast |
Jul 18 |
Leader of the British Labour Party Harold Wilson holds meeting with representatives of the Irish Republican Army |
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 |
Dodgers release & end career of pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm |
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 |
Venera 8 makes soft landing on Venus |
Jul 22 |
2 Catholics are abducted, beaten, and shot dead in a Loyalist area of Belfast |
Jul 23 |
1st Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS) is launched |
Jul 23 |
Eddy Merckx (Belgium) wins his 4th consecutive Tour de France |
Jul 23 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Raleigh Golf Classic |
Jul 24 |
Jigme Singye Wangchuk becomes king of Bhutan at 16 |
Jul 24 |
Bugojno group is caught by Yugoslav security forces. |
Jul 25 |
43rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-3 at Atlanta-Fulton County Stad |
Jul 25 |
All star MVP: Joe Morgan (Cin Reds) |
Jul 25 |
US health officials concede African American were used as guinea pigs in 40 year syphilis experiment |
Jul 27 |
The F-15 Eagle flies for the first time. |
Jul 28 |
39th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Dallas 20, All Stars 7 (54,162) |
Jul 29 |
France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
Jul 30 |
"Ain't Supposed to Die Death" closes at Barrymore NYC after 325 perfs |
Jul 30 |
Jan Ferraris wins LPGA Lady Pepsi Golf Open |
Jul 31 |
Dick Allen is 7th to hit 2 inside-the-park homers in a game |
Jul 31 |
Thomas Eagleton withdraws as Democratic VP candidate |
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 |
Claudy bombing: nine civilians were killed when three car bombs exploded in County Londonderry, North Ireland; no group has since claimed responsibility |
Aug 1 |
1st article exposing Wategate scandal (Bernstein-Woodward) |
Aug 1 |
Nate Colbert of SD Padres hits record tying 5 HRs in a double header |
Aug 2 |
Gold hits record $70 an ounce in London |
Aug 3 |
British premier Edward Heath proclaims emergency crisis due to dock strike |
Aug 3 |
Chozen-ji/Intl Zen Dojo founded by Omori Sogen Roshi, in Hawaii |
Aug 3 |
U.S. Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. |
Aug 4 |
Arthur Bremer jailed for 63 years for shooting Alabama Gov Wallace |
Aug 5 |
Moody Blues release "Nights in White Satin" |
Aug 5 |
Uganda president Idi Amin throws out all 80,000 Asians |
Aug 5 |
Detroit shortstop Ed Brinkman errors ends record streak of 72 games & 331 total chances without a miscue |
Aug 6 |
Garry Player wins PGA golf tournament |
Aug 6 |
Hank Aaron hits 660th & 661st HRs for Braves (record for 1 team) |
Aug 6 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Knoxville Ladies Golf Classic |
Aug 7 |
Hall of Fame inducts Berra, Sandy Koufax, Lefty Gomez & Early Wynn |
Aug 8 |
NY Yanks sign 30-year lease to play in remodeled Yankee Stadium |
Aug 9 |
Rockwell receives NASA contract to construct Space Shuttle |
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 |
Paul & Linda McCartney are arrested in Sweden on drug possession |
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 |
"Funny Thing Happened..." closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 156 perfs |
Aug 12 |
"Oh! Calcutta!" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 1316 performances |
Aug 12 |
Ian & Greg Chappell both scores centuries in same Test Cricket innings |
Aug 12 |
Last American combat ground troops leave Vietnam |
Aug 13 |
Dutch KRO-TV transmits 440th & last episode of "Bonanza" |
Aug 13 |
Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Pabst Ladies Golf Classic |
Aug 14 |
East German Aeroflot Illyushin 62 crashes near Moscow, killing 156 |
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 |
54th PGA Championship: Gary Player shoots a 281 at Oakland Hills Mich |
Aug 16 |
Morocco King Hassan II's B727 shot at |
Aug 16 |
Philip Potter appointed sect-gen of World council of Churches |
Aug 16 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Aug 17 |
Phillies Steve Carlton wins his 15th straight game |
Aug 18 |
Police fine Paul & Linda McCartney ś800 in Sweden cannabis possession |
Aug 20 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open |
Aug 20 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
Aug 21 |
1st hot air balloon flight over Alps |
Aug 21 |
British dock strike ends |
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 |
Rhodesia is expelled by the International Olympic Committee for its racist policies. |
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 |
Republican convention (Miami Beach, Fla) renominates VP Agnew but not unanimous-1 vote went to NBC newsman David Brinkley) |
Aug 23 |
Chicago's Dick Allen is 4th (Jimmie Foxx, Hank Greenberg, & Alex Johnson) to homer into Comiskey Park's center field bleachers |
Aug 23 |
4 civilians and 1 British soldier are injured in separate overnight shooting incidents in North Ireland |
Aug 24 |
8th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 2-1 |
Aug 24 |
Dennis Amiss scores 1st one-day int century, 103 v Australia |
Aug 24 |
Gordie Howe & Jean Beliveau inducted in Hockey Hall of Fame |
Aug 26 |
20th Olympic games open at Munich German FR |
Aug 26 |
Leo Durocher replaces Harry Walker as manager of Astros |
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 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open |
Aug 27 |
US bombs Haiphong, North Vietnam |
Aug 28 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Aug 29 |
SF Giant Jim Barr retires 1st 20 batters he faces added to last 21 he retired 6 days earlier for record 41 in a row |
Aug 30 |
John Lennon & Yoko Ono perform at Madison Square Garden |
Aug 31 |
Lasse Viren runs Olympic/world record 10,000m (27:38.4) |
Aug 31 |
Olga Korbut, USSR, wins olympic gold medal in gymnastics |
Sep 1 |
Bobby Fischer (US) defeats Boris Spassky (USSR) for world chess title |
Sep 1 |
Egypt & Libya form federation |
Sep 2 |
Chicago White Sox Milt Pappas no-hits SD Padres, 1-0 |
Sep 2 |
Renate Stecher runs 100m European female record (11.07 sec) |
Sep 2 |
Rod Stewart's 1st #1 hit (You Wear it Well) |
Sep 2 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Sep 2 |
The headquarters of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) in Belfast is severely damaged by an IRA bomb |
Sep 4 |
US swimmer Mark Spitz becomes 1st athlete to win 7 olympic gold medals |
Sep 4 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
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 5 |
11 Israeli athletes taken hostage and later killed by Palestinian Black September group at the Munich Olympics |
Sep 5 |
Chemical spill with fog sickens hundreds in Meuse Valley Belgium |
Sep 5 |
Jerry Lewis' 7th Muscular Dystrophy telethon, John & Yoko appear |
Sep 6 |
John & Yoko appear on Jerry Lewis' Muscular Dystrophy Telethon |
Sep 6 |
Summer Olympics resume in Munich Germany after massacre |
Sep 8 |
Chic Cub Ferguson Jenkins wins his 20th game for 6th straight year |
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 |
86th US Womens Tennis: Billie Jean M King beats K Melville (63 75) |
Sep 9 |
Terry Anne Meeuwsen (Wisc), 23, crowned 45th Miss America 1973 |
Sep 10 |
20th Olympic games close at Munich, German FR |
Sep 10 |
92nd US Mens Tennis: Ilie Nastase beats Arthur Ashe (36 63 67 64 63) |
Sep 10 |
Emerson Fittipaldi is youngest to win an auto race World Championship |
Sep 10 |
Frank Shorter wins 17th Olympic marathon (2:12:19.8) |
Sep 10 |
Jane Blalock wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
Sep 10 |
US Men's olympic basketball teams 1st lose, 51-50 to USSR (disputed) |
Sep 10 |
WKAR TV channel 23 in East Lansing, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting |
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 12 |
Lord Michael Killanin succeeds Avery Brundage as head of Olympics |
Sep 13 |
1st TV broadcast of "Waltons" on CBS |
Sep 14 |
"Waltons" TV program premieres |
Sep 14 |
Jason Miller's "That Championship Season," premieres in NYC |
Sep 14 |
West Germany & Poland establish diplomatic relations |
Sep 14 |
2 people are killed and 1 mortally wounded in a Ulster Volunteer Force bomb attack on the Imperial Hotel, Belfast |
Sep 15 |
WMAO TV channel 23 in Greenwood, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting |
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 16 |
1st TV series about mixed marriage-Bridgit Loves Bernie |
Sep 16 |
Penny Marshall appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Fly Unfriendly Skies" |
Sep 17 |
"M*A*S*H," premieres on NBC TV |
Sep 17 |
BART begins passenger service in SF |
Sep 17 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Quality First Golf Classic |
Sep 17 |
Tanzania troops march in to Uganda |
Sep 18 |
1st black NL umpire (Art Williams-Los Angeles vs San Diego) |
Sep 19 |
A parcel bomb sent to Israeli Embassy in London kills one diplomat. |
Sep 20 |
Police find cannabis growing on Paul & Linda McCartney's farm |
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 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 |
Marcos declares martial law in Philippines |
Sep 21 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
Sep 22 |
Dictator Idi Amin expels 8,000 Asians from Uganda |
Sep 23 |
Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law |
Sep 23 |
President Marcos ends emergency crisis in Philippines |
Sep 24 |
Antique F86 Sabrejet fails to takeoff at air show, kills 22 |
Sep 24 |
Jack Tatum, Oakland, returns a fumble 104 yds vs Green Bay (rec) |
Sep 24 |
NY Jet Joe Namath passes for 6 touchdowns vs Balt Colt (44-34) |
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 25 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open |
Sep 26 |
American Museum of Immigration dedicated |
Sep 26 |
Norway rejects membership in European Common Market |
Sep 27 |
1st game at Nassau Coliseum, Rangers beat Islanders 6-4 (exhibition) |
Sep 28 |
David Bowie sells out his 1st show in NY Carnegie Hall |
Sep 28 |
Japan & Communist China agree to re-establish diplomatic relations |
Sep 28 |
Canada defeats the USSR in the eigth and final game of the ice hockey Summit Series. |
Sep 29 |
Japan & People's Republic of China begin diplomatic relations |
Sep 30 |
Passenger train derails killing 48 (Rust Stasie South Africa) |
Sep 30 |
Roberto Clemente is 11th to get 3,000 hits |
Oct 1 |
"Don't Play Us Cheap" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 164 perfs |
Oct 1 |
1st games of World Hockey Association |
Oct 1 |
2nd NYC Women's Marathon won by Nina Kuscsik in 3:08:41 |
Oct 1 |
3rd NYC Marathon won by Sheldon Karlin in 2:27:52 |
Oct 1 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Portland Ladies Golf Classic |
Oct 2 |
"From Israel with Love" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 8 performances |
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 |
Mont Expos Bill Stoneman 2nd no-hitter beats NY Mets, 7-0 |
Oct 2 |
Ron Johnson becomes 1st NY Giant to score 4 TDs (vs Phila) |
Oct 3 |
Indians set a team record for lowest team batting avg .234 |
Oct 3 |
Spaceflight 71-2 launched; 1st flexible substrate photovoltaic flown |
Oct 3 |
Steve Carlton wins 27th game for Phillies (almost ½ of their 59 wins) |
Oct 3 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
Oct 3 |
Balt Roric Harrison is last AL pitcher to homer until interleague play 25 years later |
Oct 4 |
Ted Williams manages his final game as Rangers lose to Royals, 4-0 |
Oct 5 |
Herbert Mullin 1st kills, to prevent earthquakes |
Oct 6 |
22-car train carrying 2,000 pilgrims derails, kills 208 in Mexico |
Oct 6 |
Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Jack Lynch closes the Sinn Féin (SF) office in Dublin |
Oct 6 |
Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Jack Lynch closes the Sinn Féin (SF) office in Dublin |
Oct 7 |
1st season game at Nassau Coliseum, Flames-3, Islanders-2 |
Oct 8 |
"From Israel with Love" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 8 perfs |
Oct 8 |
Harold Carmichael begins NFL streak of 127 consecutive game receptions |
Oct 8 |
In Game 2 of ALCS, A's Bert Campaneris fires his bat at Det pitcher |
Oct 8 |
Lerrin LaGrow Campy, who had been hit by a pitch, is fined & suspended |
Oct 9 |
"Dude" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 16 performances |
Oct 10 |
Judy Rankin wins LPGA Heritage Village Golf Open |
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 DC jail |
Oct 11 |
Reads beat Pirates in NLCS |
Oct 12 |
"Hurry, Harry" opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 2 performances |
Oct 12 |
46 sailors injured in race riot on aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk |
Oct 12 |
Billy Harris failed in 1st Islander penalty shot |
Oct 12 |
Mariner 9 takes pictures of Martian north pole |
Oct 13 |
"Hurry, Harry" closes at Ritz Theater NYC after 2 performances |
Oct 13 |
Aeroflot Il-62 crashes in large pond outside Moscow, 176 die |
Oct 13 |
Commish Bowie Kuhn allows Bert Campaneris to play in World Series |
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 |
Oakland A Gene Tenace is 1st to homer in 1st 2 World Series at bats |
Oct 14 |
North Irish Loyalist paramilitaries raid Headquarters of the 10 Ulster Defence Regiment in Belfast and stole rifles and ammunition |
Oct 15 |
61st Davis Cup: USA beats Romania in Bucharest (3-2) |
Oct 15 |
Omni in Atlanta opens - Hawks beat NY Knicks 109-101 |
Oct 16 |
"Pacific Paradise" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 5 performances |
Oct 16 |
Creedence Clearwater Revival breaks up |
Oct 16 |
2 members of the Offical 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 |
1st time Islanders shut-out-5-0 vs Penguins |