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

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…

(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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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.…

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…

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