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…

  (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…

(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…

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…

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…

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…