(Featured image courtesy of “whowhatwhy.org” ) The act that felled the President two years later, was committed in June of 1972 The break-in was conducted by five men, and a…

The World Chess Championship 1972 was a match for the World Chess Championship between challenger Bobby Fischer of the United States and defending champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union.…

(Feature photo courtesy of knoxblogs.com ) First successful report of freezing of mouse embryo’s. They actually survived after being frozen! The first successful mouse embryo cryopreservation (CP) was reported independently from…

Capital Devastated In 1972 Nicaragua was bracing for possible aftershocks to an earthquake measuring 5.9 degrees on the Richter scale that killed four people, injured at least 45 and caused…

In September 1972, President Ferdinand Marcos announced that he had placed the entirety of the Philippines under martial law. This marked the beginning of a 14-year period of one man rule which would effectively last until…

On July 1, 1972, Richard Nixon signed into law Title IX of the Education Amendments. Few people noticed at the time, but eventually it became the single greatest force for…

Email Address Once computers began to talk to each other over networks, the problem became more complex – We needed to be able to put a message in an envelope…

(Feature Image from CNN) The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution designed to guarantee equal legal rights for all American citizens regardless of…

Ruling 5-4, it determined the death penalty as it was administered, was cruel and unusual punishment. (from Wikipedia)  Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (1972), was a criminal case in…

(Feature photo and cover courtesy of ADST.org) (from the JapanTimes) In 1969, Prime Minister Eisaku Sato and President Richard Nixon agreed to the reversion, and on May 15, 1972, Okinawa…