In history, year 1972 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1972.
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
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| 09 january | RMS Queen Elizabeth, an ocean liner which sailed the Atlantic Ocean for the Cunard White Star Line, was destroyed by fire in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong. |
| 09 january | The Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association Lost to the Milwaukee Bucks, ending a 33-game winning streak, the longest of any team in American professional sports. |
| 09 january | Seawise University, formerly RMS Queen Elizabeth, an ocean liner which sailed the Atlantic Ocean for the Cunard White Star Line,was destroyed by fire in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong. |
| 21 january | Tripura, part of the former independent Twipra Kingdom, became full-fledged state in India. |
| 24 january | Japanese soldier Shoichi Yokoi was found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II. |
| 29 january | Dita Beard (IIT) memo was disclosed by Jack Anderson indicating that the antitrust charges were dropped for $400000 contribution to Republican Party. |
| 30 january | On Bloody Sunday, members of the British Parachute Regiment Shot at twenty-six civil rights protesters in Derry, Northern Ireland,killing at least thirteen people. |
| 28 february | Japanese police stormed a mountain lodge near Karuizawa, Naganoprefecture, to end a ten-day siege by members of the paramilitary groupUnited Red Army. |
| 28 february | U.S. President Richard Nixon's visit to the People's Republicof China concluded with the two countries issuing the ShanghaiCommuniqué, pledging to work toward the full normalization ofdiplomatic relations. |
| 29 february | Dita beards (IIT) memo was disclosed by Jack Anderson indicating that the antitrust charges were dropped for $400000 contribution to Republican party. |
| 14 march | Italian publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, known for hisdecision to translate and publish Boris Pasternak's novel Doctor Zhivagoafter it had been smuggled out of the Soviet Union, was killed in anexplosion. |
| 15 march | The Godfather, a gangster film based on the novel of the samename by Mario Puzo and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, was released. |
| 30 march | Vietnam War North Vietnamese forces began the Easter Offensive in an attempt to gain as much territory and destroy as many units of the South Vietnamese Army as possible. |
| 19 april | The Constitution was revised by Hungary. |
| 08 may | Four members of Black September hijacked Sabena Flight 571 to demand the release of 315 convicted Palestinian terrorists. |
| 13 may | The Troubles-A car bomb planted by loyalists exploded outsidea crowded pub in Belfast, Northern Ireland, beginning two days of gunbattles between the British Army, the Irish Republican Army, and theUlster Volunteer Force. |
| 22 may | Ceylon changed its name to Sri Lanka, adopteda new constitution, and officially became a republic. |
| 26 may | The United States and the Soviet Union signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty was a treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union on the limitation of the anti-ballistic missile (ABM) systems used in defending areas against ballistic missile-delivered nuclear weapons. Under the terms of the treaty, each party was limited to two ABM complexes, each of which was to be limited to 100 anti-ballistic missiles. |
| 30 may | Members of the Japanese Red Army carried out the Lod Airportmassacre in Tel Aviv, Israel, on behalf of the Popular Front for theLiberation of Palestine, killing over 20 people and injuring almost 80others. |
| 08 june | Vietnam War-Associated Press photographer Nick Ut took his Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of a naked nine-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phucrunning down a road after being burned by napalm. |
| 17 june | Five men were arrested for attempted burglary on the offices ofthe Democratic National Committee in the Watergate complex inWashington, D.C., igniting the Watergate scandal that ultimately led tothe resignation of U.S. President Richard Nixon more than two yearslater. |
| 18 june | British European Airways Flight 548 crashed near the town ofStaines less than three minutes after departing from London HeathrowAirport, killing all 118 people aboard, at the time the worst airdisaster in the UK. |
| 23 june | Title IX of the United States Civil Rights Act of 1964 wasamended to prohibit gender discrimination in any educational programreceiving federal funds, which allowed for huge growth in women's sportsfor student athletes. |
| 30 june | The first leap second is added to the UTC time system. A leap second is a one-second adjustment that is occasionally applied to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) in order to keep its time of day close to the mean solar time, or UT1. Without such a correction, time reckoned by Earth's rotation drifts away from atomic time because of irregularities in the Earth's rate of rotation. |
| 30 june | The International Time Bureau added the first leap second tothe Coordinated Universal Time time scale. |
| 02 july | Shimla Treaty was signed between Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Pakistani PM Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. It took place after the war between the two nations in 1971 which resulted in the independence of Bangladesh. It was earlier known as East Pakistan and was part of the Pakistani territory. The agreement was approved by the Parliaments of both the nations in same year. |
| 14 july | Plate ump and catcher have become brothers in a game. Bill Haller is ump and Tom Haller is Tigers catcher. Kansas City Royals win 1-0. |
| 15 july | 101st British Golf Open has been declared closed. Lee Trevino shoots 278 at Muirfield Gullane. This was a huge success for him. |
| 30 july | Ain't Supposed to Die Death' closed at Barrymore New York City. This has made 325 performances. It was a huge success. |
| 31 july | The Troubles-Free Derry, an autonomous self-declared area ofDerry, Northern Ireland, was brought to an end by the British Army'sOperation Motorman. |
| Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 01 February | Kami / Drummer / Japan |
| 01 April | Darren McCarty / Ice Hockey Player / Canada |
| 05 May | Mikael Renberg / Ice Hockey Player / Sweden |
| 07 October | Marlou Aquino / Basketball Player / Philippines |
| 08 December | Édson Ribeiro / Sprinter / Brazil |
| 09 September | Natasha Kaplinsky / Journalist / United Kingdom |
| 14 February | Drew Bledsoe / Footballer / United States of America |
| 14 January | Dion Forster / Politician / South Africa |
| 16 August | Stan Lazaridis / Footballer / Australia |
| 18 September | Brigitte Becue / Swimmer / Belgium |
| 18 December | Raymond Herrera / Writer / United States of America |
| 19 July | Ebbe Sand / Footballer / Denmark |
| 20 March | Greg Searle / Rower / United Kingdom |
| 21 February | Seo Taiji / Singer / South Korea |
| 24 April | Rab Douglas / Footballer / Scotland |
| 26 March | Leslie Mann / Actress / United States of America |
| 26 September | Shawn Stockman / Singer / United States of America |
| 28 July | Robert Chapman / Cricketer / United Kingdom |
| 28 December | Patrick Rafter / Tennis Player / Australia |
| 30 September | John Campbell / Writer / United States of America |
| Year | Name / Profession / Country |
|---|
| 28 July | Ayesha Jhulka / Actress / India |
| 22 January | Namrata Shirodkar / Actress / India |
| 24 February | Pooja Bhatt / Actress / India |
| 14 March | Irom Chanu Sharmila / Poet / India |
| 25 December | Harita Deol / Pilot / India |
| 12 September | Rasika Joshi / Actress / India |
| 20 June | Paras Mhambrey / Cricketer / India |
| 18 January | Vinod Kambli / Cricketer / India |
| 08 April | Tanaaz Irani / Actress / India |
| 25 May | Karan Johar / Actor / India |
| 15 April | Mandira Bedi / Actress / India |
| 02 December | Apoorva Agnihotri / Actor / India |
| 25 November | Deepa Marathe / Cricketer / India |
| 26 November | Arjun Rampal / Actor / India |
| 18 July | Soundarya / Actress / India |
| 05 June | Yogi Adityanath / Politician / India |
| 12 August | Gyanendra Pandey / Cricketer / India |
| 08 July | Sourav Ganguly / Cricketer / India |
| 05 June | Yogi Adityanath / Politician / India |
| 01 March | Namrata Shirodkar / Actress / India |