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.

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…

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.

(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…

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

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…