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(from the JapanTimes) In 1969, Prime Minister Eisaku Sato and President Richard Nixon agreed to the reversion, and on May 15, 1972, Okinawa was returned to […]

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First successful report of freezing of mouse embryo’s. They actually survived after being frozen!

The first successful mouse embryo cryopreservation (CP) was […]

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 which the United […]

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 and address it. To do this, we needed a means to […]

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 full participation of females in […]

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 effec […]

Gene Cernan

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

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 widespread damage […]

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. The hostages were […]

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 November 8, 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, 197 […]

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 […]

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 world that we are always our own […]

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 Nike retail […]

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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 sex.

The […]

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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 grand jury found ex-FBI man G. Gordon […]