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Gene Cernan Last man to walk on the moon. He was on Apollo 17 in December 1972.

The Moscow Summit of 1972 was a  meeting between President Richard M. Nixon of the United States and General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. It was held May 22–30, 1972. It featured the signing…

George Wallace’s presidential campaign came to an abrupt halt on May 15, 1972, when he was shot five times by Arthur Bremer while campaigning at the Laurel Shopping Center in Laurel, Maryland, at a time when…

Nike’s first model In 1972, the first line of Nike footwear is introduced, including the so-called “Moon Shoes” and the Nike “Cortez”, that became the company’s most popular product. The first…

Everyone wanted to play games on the TV at home Atari PONG was released in June 1972 and is the first commercially successful video game and is based on a…

1972 Debut Original 1972 Logo for HBO HBO is the oldest and longest continuously operating pay television service (basic or premium) in the United States, having been in operation since…

The first European wide-body passenger plane, the Airbus A300 is a wide-body twin-engine jet airliner developed and manufactured by Airbus. Formally announced in 1969 and first flying in October 1972,…

The Munich Massacre The PLO group Black September in revenge for the 1970 defeat of Palestinian guerrillas, broke into the Olympic Village and killed two coaches and took nine hostages.…

13 protesters were shot by the British Army, touching off riots which led to the suspension of the Northern Ireland parliament.

In order to distract the people from the collapsing economy, Idi Amin ordered all asian non-citizens out of the country and confiscated their businesses.

(1972) Officially opening talks between the two countries, which had been bitter opponents during the 60s.

In July 1972 Anwar Sadat abruptly ordered the withdrawal of the 25,000 Soviet military specialists and advisers in Egypt. By so doing, he later wrote, ”I wanted to tell the whole…

DDT (dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane) was developed as the first of the modern synthetic insecticides in the 1940s. It was initially used with great effect to combat malaria, typhus, and the other insect-borne…

(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…

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.…

(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…

  (1972) In October, North Vietnam offered a compromise if Communist troops were allowed to stay in South Vietnam, it wouldn’t expel the South Vietnam government and try to reach a…