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1972 yes July 2017 Citation bot December 2024 1972 border:none;b 3/3/3 Nixon edited transcripts.jpg President Richard Nixon and Premier Chou En-Lai Shake Hands at the Nixons' Arrival in Peking, China - DPLA - 315dbcc0e8b46e1bc678fde12bef9eb8.jpg Germany Israel Olympics Attack.jpg Eugene Cernan at the LM, Apollo 17, AS17-134-20378.jpg Bloody Sunday, Londonderry 1972 (cropped).jpg 1972 Iran Blizzard 3.jpg Rapid City SD wea00703.jpg Andes Plane Crash Victims Near Wreckage, Dec. 27, 1972.jpg 1972Nicaraguaquake5.jpg 330 From top to bottom, left to right: the Watergate scandal begins with the DNC break-in, triggering a major U.S. political crisis; President Richard Nixon makes a historic visit to China; the 1972 Summer Olympics are marred by the Munich massacre; Apollo 17 becomes the final Apollo Moon landing; Bloody Sunday intensifies the Troubles in Northern Ireland; the 1972 Iran blizzard kills thousands; the 1972 Black Hills flood kills 238 in Rapid City, South Dakota; Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashes in the Andes, leading to a dramatic survival ordeal; and the 1972 Nicaragua earthquake devastates Managua. 1972 1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated.TAI−UTC (1972-01-01 – 2025-06-28) 4 July 2024 2 January 2025 https://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/Leap_Second.dat (If its start and end are defined using mean solar time [the legal time scale], its duration was 31622401.141 seconds of Terrestrial Time (or Ephemeris Time), which is slightly shorter than 1908).Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Stephenson, F. R. Morrison, L. V. 1984 313 1524 47–70 Long-Term Changes in the Rotation of the Earth: 700 B. C. to A. D. 1980 Royal Society 10.1098/rsta.1984.0082 1984RSPTA.313...47S 120566848 2 Events January January 1972 January 1 – Kurt Waldheim becomes Secretary-General of the United Nations.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-austria-waldheim-factbox/factbox-the-life-of-ex-un-head-kurt-waldheim-idUSL1487718320070614 FACTBOX: The life of ex-U.N. head Kurt Waldheim June 14, 2007 June 8, 2019 Reuters January 4 – The first scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) is introduced (price $395).1976 WESCON Technical Papers: Western Electronic Show and Convention : Papers Presented at the Western Electronic Show and Convention in Los Angeles, California, September 14–17, 1976 https://books.google.com/books?id=2klGAQAAIAAJ 1976 Western Electronic Show and Convention 1 January 7 – Iberia Airlines Flight 602 crashes into a 462-meter peak on the island of Ibiza; 104 are killed. January 9 – The RMS Queen Elizabeth catches fire and sinks in Hong Kong's Victoria harbor while undergoing conversion to a floating university.2009-11-13 Fire breaks out on former RMS Queen Elizabeth January 9, 1972 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/january-9/fire-breaks-out-on-queen-elizabeth 2025-09-04 HISTORY en January 10 – Independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to Bangladesh after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.J. C. Johari Governments and Politics of South Asia https://books.google.com/books?id=ZF0hAQAAIAAJ 1991 Link Press 978-1-873444-00-9 378 January 11 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declares a new constitutional government in Bangladesh, with himself as president. January 12 – In a 10-hour siege, a cell of 4 left-wing insurgents hold off a task force of 2500 army soldiers and police agents in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: eight members of the security forces and the entire insurgent cell are killed in the course of the siege.http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=es&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.diariolibre.com%2Fespeciales%2Freportajes%2Fla-intensa-batalla-en-que-acribillaron-a-los-palmeros-GK11820723 La intensa batalla en que acribillaron a Los Palmeros Diario Libre September 2, 2021 January 13 – Prime Minister of Ghana Kofi Abrefa Busia is overthrown in a military coup by Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheampong.Who's who in Africa: The Political, Military and Business Leaders of Africa https://books.google.com/books?id=DA4ZAQAAIAAJ 1973 African Development 978-0-9502755-0-5 162 January 14 – Queen Margrethe II of Denmark succeeds her father, King Frederik IX, on the throne of Denmark, the first queen regnant of Denmark since 1412 and the first Danish monarch not named Frederick or Christian since 1513. January 18 – Members of the Mukti Bahini lay down their arms to the government of the newly independent Bangladesh, 33 days after winning the war against the occupying Pakistan Army.http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/1027878cf31917aa32db9fe6d6d1635f Bangladesh Guerrilla Fighters Give Up Arms in Dhaka Associated Press March 8, 2021 January 18, 1972 January 19 – The Libertarian enclave Minerva on a platform in the South Pacific, sponsored by the Phoenix Foundation, declares independence. Soon neighboring Tonga annexes the area and dismantles the platform. January 20 – President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto announces that Pakistan will immediately begin a nuclear weapons program. January 21 A New Delhi bootlegger sells wood alcohol to a wedding party; 100 people die. Tripura, part of the former independent Twipra Kingdom, becomes a full state of India. January 24 – Japanese soldier Shoichi Yokoi is discovered in Guam; he has spent 28 years in the jungle, having failed to surrender after World War II.LastName FirstName The last Japanese soldier: Corporal Yokoi's 28 incredible years in the Guam jungle Tom Stacey Ltd London 1972 9780854682935 7 January 26 Yugoslavian air stewardess Vesna Vulović is the only survivor when her plane crashes in Czechoslovakia. She survives after falling 10160 m ft off us in the tail section of the aircraft.Zimonjic Vesna The Independent Too good to be true? Miracle woman who survived '33,000ft fall' https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/too-good-to-be-true-miracle-woman-who-survived-33000ft-fall-6294556.html January 26, 2012 August 9, 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170810043228/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/too-good-to-be-true-miracle-woman-who-survived-33000ft-fall-6294556.html August 10, 2017 live The Aboriginal Tent Embassy is set up on the lawn of Parliament House in Canberra.Lines William Taming the great south land : a history of the conquest of nature in Australia University of California Press Berkeley 1991 9780520078307 244 January 30 Bloody Sunday: The British Army kills 14 unarmed nationalist civil rights marchers in Derry, Northern Ireland. Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.1972-01-31 Bhutto Removes Pakistan From the Commonwealth (Published 1972) https://www.nytimes.com/1972/01/31/archives/bhutto-removes-pakistan-from-the-commonwealth-he-acts-after-being.html 2025-09-14 en January 31 – King Birendra succeeds his father as King of Nepal. February February 1972 February 2 A bomb explodes at the British Yacht Club in West Berlin, killing Irwin Beelitz, a German boat builder.Baumann Michael Wie alles anfing = How it all began : the personal account of a West German urban guerrilla Pulp Press Vancouver 2000 9780889780453 5 The West German militant group June 2 Movement claims responsibility, announcing its support of the Provisional Irish Republican Army. Anti-British riots take place throughout Ireland. The British Embassy in Dublin is burned to the ground, as are several British-owned businesses.Day Alan Political violence in Northern Ireland : conflict and conflict resolution Praeger Westport, Conn 1997 9780275954147 9 February 3–13 – The 1972 Winter Olympics are held in Sapporo, Japan.Ski https://books.google.com/books?id=DWCke6Y6KzYC&pg=PA52 February 1972 52 February 4 – Mariner 9 sends pictures as it orbits Mars.In Depth Mariner 09 https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/mariner-09/in-depth 2023-05-09 NASA Solar System Exploration February 15 – President of Ecuador José María Velasco Ibarra is deposed for the fourth time. February 17 – Volkswagen Beetle sales exceed those of the Ford Model T when the 15,007,034th Beetle is produced. February 19 – Asama-Sansō incident: Five United Red Army members break into a lodge below Mount Asama in Japan, taking the wife of the lodgekeeper hostage. February 21 – The Soviet uncrewed spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon. February 21–28 – U.S. President Richard Nixon makes an unprecedented 8-day visit to the People's Republic of China and meets with Mao Zedong. February 22 The Troubles: 1972 Aldershot bombing – A car bomb planted by the Official Irish Republican Army kills seven people outside a British military base in Aldershot, England."From the archives: IRA kills 7 in raid on Paras' English base" – The Guardian (February 23, 1972) Lufthansa Flight 649 is hijacked and taken to Aden. Passengers are released the following day after a ransom of 5 million US dollars is agreed.United States Congress Legal Mechanisms to Combat Terrorism: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-ninth Congress, Second Session, on the Availability of Civil and Criminal Actions Against Yassir Arrafat's Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), April 23, 1986 https://books.google.com/books?id=IGEvupLgOuQC&pg=PA224 1986 U.S. Government Printing Office 224 February 23 – US activist Angela Davis is released from jail. Rodger McAfee, a farmer from Caruthers, California, helps her make bail.Bettina Aptheker The Morning Breaks: The Trial of Angela Davis https://books.google.com/books?id=VE-nAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT122 February 15, 2014 Cornell University Press 978-0-8014-7013-4 122 February 26 – Luna 20 comes back to Earth with 55 g oz off of lunar soil. February 28 – The Asama-Sansō incident ends in a standoff between 5 members of the Japanese United Red Army and the authorities, in which two policemen are killed and 12 injured. March March 1972 March 1 – Juan María Bordaberry is sworn in as President of Uruguay amid accusations of electoral fraud.Foreign Economic Trends and Their Implications for the United States https://books.google.com/books?id=UU99EAsO_soC&pg=PA4 1972 U.S. Department of Commerce, Industry and Trade Administration 4 March 2 The Club of Rome presents the research results leading to its report The Limits to Growth, published later in the month.Don McNeil Interactive Statistics: Proceedings of the Applied Statistics Conference, Sydney, February 8–9, 1979 https://books.google.com/books?id=MRrvAAAAMAAJ 1979 North-Holland Publishing Company 978-0-444-85412-4 114 The Pioneer 10 spacecraft is launched from Cape Kennedy, to be the first man-made spacecraft to leave the Solar System. Jean-Bédel Bokassa becomes President of the Central African Republic. March 4 Libya and the Soviet Union sign a cooperation treaty. The Organisation of the Islamic Conference Charter is signed (effective February 28, 1973). March 19 – India and Bangladesh sign the Indo-Bangladeshi Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Peace. March 22 The 92nd U.S. Congress votes to send the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification. Eisenstadt v. Baird: The Supreme Court of the U.S. rules that unmarried people have the right to access contraception on the same basis as married couplesEisenstadt v. Baird, 405 U.S. 438 (1972) https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/405/438/ 2025-09-27 Justia Law en March 25 – "Après toi" sung by Vicky Leandros (music by Klaus Munro & Mario Panas, lyric by Klaus Munro & Yves Dessca) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1972 (staged in Edinburgh) for Luxembourg. March 26 – An avalanche on Mount Fuji in Japan kills 19 climbers. March 27 The First Sudanese Civil War ends. The Soviet Union launches Venera 8, which will make the first soft landing on Venus. March 30 – Vietnam War: The Easter Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam April April 1972 April 4 – The U.S. formally recognizes Bangladesh.https://www.nytimes.com/1972/04/05/archives/bangladesh-gets-us-recognition-promise-of-help-rogers-announces-the.html Bangladesh Gets U.S. Recognition, Promise of Help The New York Times April 5, 1972 April 10 The U.S. and the Soviet Union join some 70 nations in signing the Biological Weapons Convention, an agreement to ban biological warfare.United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations Prohibition of Chemical and Biological Weapons: Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Relations... December 10, 1974 https://books.google.com/books?id=_mHQAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA21 1974 U.S. Government Printing Office 21 Tombs containing bamboo slips, among them Sun Tzu's Art of War and Sun Bin's lost military treatise, are accidentally discovered by construction workers in Shandong. The 6.7 w Qir earthquake shakes southern Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing 5,374 people in the province of Fars. The 44th Annual Academy Awards are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. April 13 – The Universal Postal Union decides to recognize the People's Republic of China as the only legitimate Chinese representative, effectively expelling the Republic of China administering Taiwan. April 16 Apollo 16 (John Young, Ken Mattingly, Charlie Duke) is launched.2022-04-15 50 Years Ago: Apollo 16 Launches to the Moon - NASA https://www.nasa.gov/history/50-years-ago-apollo-16-launches-to-the-moon/ 2025-04-05 en-US During the mission, the astronauts, driving the Lunar Roving Vehicle, achieve a lunar rover speed record of 17 km/h.Apollo 16 Essay https://www.honeysucklecreek.net/msfn_missions/Apollo_16_mission/hl_apollo16.html 2025-07-10 www.honeysucklecreek.net Vietnam War: Nguyen Hue Offensive – Prompted by the North Vietnamese offensive, the United States resumes bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong. April 26 – The Lockheed L-1011 TriStar enters service with Eastern Airlines. April 27 Ikiza: Burundi government forces begin a 4-month genocide against the Hutu people, killing 100,000–300,000. A no-confidence vote against German Chancellor Willy Brandt fails under obscure circumstances; years later it turned out that at least one opposition MP was paid by the East German Stasi for not supporting the vote. April 29 – The fourth anniversary of the Broadway musical Hair is celebrated with a free concert at a Central Park bandshell, followed by dinner at the Four Seasons. There, 13 Black Panther protesters and the show's co-author, Jim Rado, are arrested for disturbing the peace and for using marijuana. May May 1972 May 2 – Fire at the Sunshine Mine, a silver mine in Idaho, kills 91.1972 Sunshine Mining Company Mining Disaster, Kellogg, Idaho https://arlweb.msha.gov/DISASTER/SUNSHINE/ss1.asp Mining Disasters – An Exhibition U.S. Dept. of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration December 15, 2018 December 15, 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20181215070337/https://arlweb.msha.gov/DISASTER/SUNSHINE/ss1.asp dead May 5 – An Alitalia DC-8 crashes west of Palermo, Sicily; 115 die.Ranter Harro Accident Douglas DC-8-43 I-DIWB, Friday 5 May 1972 https://asn.flightsafety.org/asndb/330520 2025-09-28 asn.flightsafety.org May 7 – General elections are held in Italy. May 10 – Operation Linebacker and Operation Custom Tailor begin with large-scale bombing operations against North Vietnam by tactical fighter aircraft. May 13 – A fire in a nightclub atop the Sennichi department store in Osaka, Japan, kills 115. May 21 – In St. Peter's Basilica (Vatican City), Laszlo Toth attacks Michelangelo's Pietà statue with a geologist's hammer, shouting that he is Jesus Christ. May 22 The Dominion of Ceylon becomes the republic of Sri Lanka under prime minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike, when its new constitution is ratified.A. R. Sriskanda Rajah Government and Politics in Sri Lanka: Biopolitics and Security https://books.google.com/books?id=xDAlDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA44 April 21, 2017 Taylor & Francis 978-1-351-96800-3 44 Ferit Melen forms the new (interim) government of Turkey (35th government) May 23 – The Tamil United Front (later known as Tamil United Liberation Front), a pro-Tamil organization, is founded in Sri Lanka. May 26 Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT I treaty in Moscow, as well as the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and other agreements. Willandra National Park is established in Australia. May 27 – Mark Donohue wins the Indianapolis 500 in a Penske Racing McLaren–Offenhauser.https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Xe9VAAAAIBAJ&pg=2494%2C7042731 Eugene Register-Guard Oregon Associated Press Donohue bides time, then charges to victory May 28, 1972 1B May 30 Lod Airport massacre: Three Japanese Red Army members operating on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – External Operations kill 26 and injure 80 people at Lod Airport, Israel.Jeffrey D. Simon, The Terrorist Trap: America's Experience with Terrorism, Indiana University Press, p. 324. 0-253-21477-7 The Troubles: The Official Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/30/newsid_2973000/2973759.stm 1972: Official IRA declares ceasefire May 30, 1972 BBC News June June 1972 June – Iraq nationalizes the Iraq Petroleum Company. June 3 – Sally Priesand becomes the first American woman (and the second known woman anywhere) to be ordained as a rabbi within Judaism.Blau Eleanor https://www.nytimes.com/1972/06/04/archives/1st-woman-rabbi-in-us-ordained-she-may-be-only-the-second-in.html 1st Woman Rabbi in U.S. Ordained; She May Be Only the Second in History of Judaism The New York Times June 4, 1972 2009-09-17 June 5–16 – The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment is held in Stockholm, Sweden June 8 Seven men and three women hijack a plane from Czechoslovakia to West Germany. Vietnam War: Associated Press photographer Nick Ut takes his Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of a naked nine-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc running down a road after being burned by napalm. June 9 – The Black Hills flood kills 238 in South Dakota. June 11 – Henri Pescarolo (France) and co-driver former World Drivers' Champion Graham Hill (Britain) win the 24 Hours of Le Mans in the Equipe Matra MS670. June 12 – Popeyes was formed in Arabi, Louisiana, a suburb of New Orleans, Louisiana, in St. Bernard Parish. June 14–23 – Hurricane Agnes kills 117 on the U.S. East Coast. June 14 – Japan Airlines Flight 471 crashes outside New Delhi airport, killing 82 of 87 occupants. June 16 – 108 die as two passenger trains hit the debris of a collapsed railway tunnel near Soissons, France. June 17 Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives are arrested for burgling the offices of the Democratic National Committee. Chilean president Salvador Allende forms a new government. June 18 Staines air disaster: 118 die when a British European Airways Trident 1 jet airliner crashes two minutes after takeoff from London Heathrow Airport.Staines air crash: Memorial held for one of UK's worst air crashes https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-surrey-61822837 BBC News June 21, 2022 June 18, 2022 West Germany beats the Soviet Union 3–0 in the final to win Euro '72. Hong Kong's worst flooding and landslides in recorded history with 653.2 mm of rainfall in the previous three days. 67 people die due to building collapses in Mid-levels districts landslide and building collapses, with a further 83 due to flooding-related fatalities. It is the second worst fatality due to building collapses, and the worst flooding in Hong Kong's recorded history. June 23 Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House chief of staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the C.I.A. to obstruct the investigation by the F.B.I. into the Watergate break-ins. The United Kingdom Chancellor of the Exchequer, Anthony Barber, announces a decision for the pound sterling to move to a floating exchange rate. Although intended to be temporary, this remains permanent.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/23/newsid_2518000/2518927.stm Chancellor orders pound flotation On This Day BBC News 2008-01-27 June 23, 1972 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307113551/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/23/newsid_2518000/2518927.stm 2008-03-07 live Foreign exchange controls are applied to most members of the sterling area. June 29 – United States Supreme Court Case Furman v. Georgia, the Supreme Court decides that inconsistent imposition of the death penalty is unconstitutional and violates the eighth and fourteenth Amendments, causing almost 700 death sentences to be repealed. Furthermore, dozens of states rewrote their death sentence laws resulting from the decision.Kaplan John John Kaplan (law professor) https://law.stanford.edu/publications/criminal-law-cases-and-materials-7th-edition/ Criminal Law – Cases and Materials Weisberg Robert Robert Weisberg Binder Guyora Guyora Binder Wolters Kluwer Law & Business 2012 978-1-4548-0698-1 7thBellware Kim July 6, 2022 Death penalty's 50-year rise and fall since Supreme Court struck it down https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/07/06/furman-georgia-supreme-co The Washington Post June 30 – The International Time Bureau adds the first leap second (23:59:60) of this year to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). July July 1972 July 1 – The Canadian ketch Vega, flying the Greenpeace III banner, collides with the French naval minesweeper La Paimpolaise while in international waters to protest French nuclear weapon tests in the South Pacific. July 2 – Following Pakistan's surrender to India in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, both nations sign the historic Simla Agreement, agreeing to settle their disputes bilaterally. July 4 – The first Rainbow Gathering is held in Colorado. July 10 – At least 24 people have been killed by elephants crazed by heat and drought in separate incidents in the Chandka Forest of India, according to news agency reports. July 11 The long anticipated chess match between world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union, and United States champion Bobby Fischer, begins in Iceland at Reykjavík. Curtis Mayfield releases the soundtrack to the 1972 film, Super Fly. July 10–14 – The Democratic National Convention meets in Miami Beach. Senator George McGovern, who backs the immediate and complete withdrawal of U.S. troops from South Vietnam, is nominated for president. He names fellow Senator Thomas Eagleton as his running mate. July 18 – Anwar Sadat expels 20,000 Soviet advisors from Egypt. July 21 The Troubles: Bloody Friday – 22 bombs planted by the Provisional Irish Republican Army explode in Belfast, Northern Ireland; nine people are killed and 130 seriously injured.http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/chron/ch72.htm CAIN: Chronology of the Conflict – 1972 Cain.ulst.ac.uk 2012-05-17 March 5, 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20110305015858/http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/chron/ch72.htm dead A collision between two trains near Seville, Spain, kills 76 people. July 22 - The Soviet probe Venera 8 lands on the surface of Venus and transmits data for 50 minutes about the planet's surface temperature and atmospheric pressure. July 23 – The United States launches Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite. July 24 – Jigme Singye Wangchuck succeeds his father Jigme Dorji Wangchuck as King of Bhutan. July 25 – U.S. health officials admit that African-American men were used as guinea pigs in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study without their informed consent. July 27 – The McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle fighter aircraft makes its first flight in the United States. July 31 – The Troubles, Northern Ireland: Operation Motorman 4:00 AM: The British Army begins to regain control of the "no-go areas" established by Irish republican paramilitaries in Belfast, Derry ("Free Derry") and Newry. Claudy bombing ("Bloody Monday"), 10:00 AM: Three car bombs in Claudy, County Londonderry, kill nine. It becomes public knowledge only in 2010 that a local Catholic priest was an IRA officer believed to be involved in the bombings but his role was covered up by the authorities.Claudy bomb: conspiracy allowed IRA priest to go free https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-11061296 BBC News Northern Ireland August 24, 2010 2010-08-25 https://web.archive.org/web/20100825014212/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-11061296 August 25, 2010 live August August 1972 August 4 Expulsion of Asians from Uganda: Dictator Idi Amin declares that Uganda will expel 50,000 Asians with British passports to Britain within 3 months.New York University. International Law Society New York University Journal of International Law & Politics https://books.google.com/books?id=TPsdAAAAMAAJ 1972 New York University School of Law 603 Most of their property is confiscated. August 1972 solar storms: A huge solar flare (one of the largest ever recorded) knocks out cable lines in the U.S. It begins with the appearance of sunspots on August 2; an August 4 flare kicks off high levels of activity until August 10. August 10 – 1972 Great Daylight Fireball: A brilliant meteor is seen in the western U.S. and Canada as an Apollo asteroid skips off the Earth's atmosphere.http://www.astrosociety.org/pubs/mercury/9806/impact.html Observation of Meteoroid Impacts by Space-Based Sensors Edward Tagliaferri astrosociety.org Mercury Magazine 27 6 18 November–December 1998 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20071020025037/http://www.astrosociety.org/pubs/mercury/9806/impact.html 2007-10-20 1998Mercu..27f..18T August 12 – Oil tankers Oswego-Guardian and Texanita collide near Stilbaai, South Africa. August 14 – An East German Ilyushin airliner crashes near East Berlin; all 156 on board perish. August 16 – As part of a coup attempt, members of the Royal Moroccan Air Force fire upon, but fail to bring down, Hassan II of Morocco's plane while he is traveling back to Rabat. August 19 – The first daytime episode of the second incarnation of the American game show The Price Is Right is taped at CBS Television City, to be aired on September 4.MatchGameForever Price Is Right First Episode (9-4-1972) May 26, 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UpXJTRFQdo https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/3UpXJTRFQdo 2021-12-11 live 2018-09-22 August 21 – The Republican National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida, renominates U.S. President Richard Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew for a second term. August 22 Rhodesia is expelled by the International Olympic Committee for its racist policies. In the Almirante Zar Naval Base, Argentina, 16 detainees are executed by firing squad in the Trelew massacre. August 26–September 10 – The 1972 Summer Olympics are held in Munich, West Germany. September September 1972 September 1 Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky in a chess match in Reykjavík, Iceland, becoming the first American world chess champion. The Second Cod War begins between the United Kingdom and Iceland.Robert L. Mason Imperfect Circle https://books.google.com/books?id=BhIZe54_qfEC&pg=PA77 November 4, 2011 AuthorHouse 978-1-4670-0193-9 77 September 5–6 – Munich massacre: Eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich are murdered after eight members of the Arab terrorist group Black September invade the Olympic Village; five guerillas and one policeman are also killed in a failed hostage rescue. September 10 – Brazilian driver Emerson Fittipaldi wins the Italian Grand Prix at Monza and becomes the youngest Formula One World Champion at the age of 25.Norris McWhirter Guinness Book of Sports Records, Winners & Champions https://books.google.com/books?id=0mZYAAAAYAAJ 1982 Sterling Publishing Company 978-0-8069-0234-0 24 September 14 – West Germany and Poland renew diplomatic relations.The World Book Year Book https://books.google.com/books?id=ShUMAAAAIAAJ 1973 World Book – Childcraft International 978-0-7166-0473-0 353 September 23 – Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos announces on national television the issuance of Proclamation No. 1081 placing the entire country under martial law.https://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/iq/146939-martial-law-explainer-victims-stories/ Martial Law, the dark chapter in Philippine history Francisco Katerina September 22, 2016 Rappler 2018-06-29 https://web.archive.org/web/20160923155126/https://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/iq/146939-martial-law-explainer-victims-stories September 23, 2016 live September 24 – An F-86 fighter aircraft leaving an air show at Sacramento Executive Airport fails to become airborne and crashes into a Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour, killing 12 children and 11 adults.http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/Sabrejet_crash_site.htm Crash at Farrell's 2008-03-16 https://web.archive.org/web/20080320003854/http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/Sabrejet_crash_site.htm March 20, 2008 live September 25 – 1972 Norwegian EC referendum: Norway rejects membership of the European Economic Community. September 28 – The Canada men's national ice hockey team defeats the Soviet national ice hockey team in the eighth and final game of the 1972 Summit Series 6–5 to win the series 4–3–1.Montreal Gazette Foster Hewitt, 81, was voice of hockey April 22, 1985 C1 https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ikYwAAAAIBAJ&pg=2775%2C115416 September 29 – China–Japan relations: The Joint Communiqué of the Government of Japan and the Government of the People's Republic of China is signed in Beijing, which normalizes Japanese diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China (Taiwan). October October 1972 October – In Somalia, the government of President Siad Barre formally introduces the Somali alphabet as the country's official writing script.Economist Intelligence Unit (Great Britain), Middle East annual review, (1975), p.229 October 1 The first publication reporting the production of a recombinant DNA molecule, by Paul Berg and colleagues, marks the birth of modern molecular biology methodology.Jackson David A. Symons Robert H Berg Paul 1972 Biochemical Method for Inserting New Genetic Information into DNA of Simian Virus 40: Circular SV40 DNA Molecules Containing Lambda Phage Genes and the Galactose Operon of Escherichia coli Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 69 10 2904–2909 10.1073/pnas.69.10.2904 4342968 389671 1972PNAS...69.2904J free Alex Comfort's bestselling manual The Joy of Sex is published. October 2 – Denmark joins the European Community; the Faroe Islands stay out. October 5 – The United Reformed Church in England is founded out of the Congregational and Presbyterian Churches. October 6 – A train crash in Saltillo, Mexico, kills 208 people.https://www.onthisday.com/date/1972/october/6 What Happened on October 6, 1972 OnThisDay.com 2018-09-12 October 8 – A major breakthrough occurs in the Paris peace talks between Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ. October 13 – Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571: A Fairchild FH-227D passenger aircraft transporting a rugby union team crashes at about 14000 ft m in the Andes mountain range, near the Argentina/Chile border. Sixteen of the survivors are found alive December 20 but they have had to resort to cannibalism to survive. October 22 – The Oakland Athletics defeat the Cincinnati Reds four games to three to capture Major League Baseball's World Series. It is the Athletics' first championship since 1930, when the franchise was in Philadelphia. October 25 – Belgian Eddy Merckx sets a new world hour record in cycling in Mexico City. October 26 – A coup in the Republic of Dahomey (later Benin) led by Mathieu Kérékou removes a civilian government (which has been headed by a triumvirate consisting of Ahomadégbé, Apithy and Maga). October 28 – The Airbus A300 flies for the first time. November November 1972 November – The Nishitetsu Lions baseball club, part of the NPB's Pacific League, is sold to the Fukuoka Baseball Corporation, a subsidiary of Nishi-Nippon Railroad. The team is renamed the Taiheiyo Club Lions. November 7 – 1972 United States presidential election: Republican incumbent Richard Nixon defeats Democratic Senator George McGovern in a landslide. The election has the lowest voter turnout since 1948, with only 55 percent of the electorate voting. November 11 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization – The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam.George Moss Paul Alwyn Conway A Vietnam Reader: Sources and Essays https://books.google.com/books?id=mUIuAQAAIAAJ 1991 Prentice Hall 978-0-13-946625-0 324 November 14 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 1,000 (1,003.16) for the first time.Hsuan Owyang From Wall Street to Bukit Merah: Strategies of a Corporate Leader https://books.google.com/books?id=LUuKoB_zQmQC 1998 Times Books International 978-981-204-969-8 61 November 16 – The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization adopts the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage.Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage https://whc.unesco.org/en/conventiontext/ UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) UNESCO World Heritage Centre October 17, 2012 November 16, 1972 November 19 – Seán Mac Stíofáin, a leader of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, is arrested in Dublin after giving a radio interview to RTÉ and charged with being a member of the IRA. November 28 – The last executions in Paris, France. Roger Bontems and Claude Buffet – the Clairvaux Mutineers – are guillotined at La Santé Prison by chief executioner André Obrecht. Bontems, found not guilty of murder by the court, is condemned as Buffet's accomplice. President Georges Pompidou, in private an abolitionist, upholds both death sentences in deference to French public opinion.Council of Europe The Death Penalty: Beyond Abolition https://books.google.com/books?id=zKsfGi3y3YgC&pg=PA194 January 1, 2004 Council of Europe 978-92-871-5333-3 194 November 29 The "tea house" Mellow Yellow opens on the river Amstel in Amsterdam, pioneering the legal sale of cannabis in the Netherlands.http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/book/nov29.html *Ø* Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine | Book of Days | November 29 | International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People Die Grünen Petra Kelly Wilsonsalmanac.com 2012-05-17 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120924071355/http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/book/nov29.html September 24, 2012 Atari in the United States release the production version of Pong, one of the first video games to achieve widespread popularity in both the arcade and home console markets, devised by Nolan Bushnell and Allan Alcorn.Ultimate History of Video Games Steven Kent Steven L. Kent And Then There Was Pong Three Rivers Press 0-7615-3643-4 2001 December December 1972 December 2 – 1972 Australian federal election: The Labor Party led by Gough Whitlam defeats the Liberal/Country Coalition government led by Prime Minister William McMahon. Consequently, Whitlam becomes the first Labor Prime Minister of Australia since the defeat of Ben Chifley in 1949. Whitlam will be sworn in on December 5; his first action using executive power is to withdraw all Australian personnel from the Vietnam War. McMahon resigns from the Liberal leadership almost immediately; he will be replaced by outgoing Treasurer Billy Snedden. December 7 Apollo 17 (Gene Cernan, Ronald Evans, Harrison Schmitt), the last crewed mission beyond low Earth orbit until the Artemis II lunar flyby in 2026, is launched to the Moon and The Blue Marble photograph of the Earth is taken. The mission also includes five mice. Imelda Marcos, First Lady of the Philippines, is stabbed and seriously wounded by an assailant; her bodyguards shoot the assailant. December 8 United Airlines Flight 553 crashes short of a runway in Chicago, killing 43 of 61 passengers and two people on the ground. A day later, over $10,000 cash is found in the purse of Watergate conspirator Howard Hunt's wife, who was on board.New York Magazine July 1, 1974 A secret is discovered in a plane crash 40 International Human Rights Day is proclaimed by the United Nations. December 11 – Apollo 17 lands on the Moon. December 14 – Apollo program: Eugene Cernan becomes the last person to walk on the Moon until 2028 at the earliest, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and final extra-vehicular activity (EVA) of Apollo 17.Smith Marcia https://spacepolicyonline.com/news/nasa-delays-next-artemis-missions-to-2025-and-2026/ NASA Delays Next Artemis Missions to 2025 and 2026 SpacePolicyOnline January 9, 2024 2024-09-22 December 15 – The United Nations Environment Programme is established as a specialized agency of the United Nations. December 16 The Constitution of Bangladesh comes into effect. Mozambican War of independence: The Portuguese army kills 400 Africans in Tete, Mozambique. December 19 – Apollo program: Apollo 17 returns to Earth, concluding the program of lunar exploration. December 21 – Rhodesian Bush War: ZANLA troopers attack Altera Farm in north-east Rhodesia. December 22 Australia establishes diplomatic relations with China and East Germany. A peace delegation that includes singer-activist Joan Baez and human rights attorney Telford Taylor visit Hanoi to deliver Christmas mail to American prisoners of war (they will be caught in the Christmas bombing of North Vietnam). December 23 The 6.2 w y Nicaragua earthquake kills 5,000–11,000 people in the capital Managua. President Anastasio Somoza Debayle is later accused of not distributing millions of dollars worth of foreign aid. Swedish Prime minister Olof Palme compares the American bombings of North Vietnam to Nazi massacres. The U.S. breaks diplomatic contact with Sweden. Asker accident: Braathens SAFE Flight 239 crashes during approach to Oslo Airport, Fornebu, Norway; forty people on board are killed. December 28 – The bones of Nazi Party official Martin Bormann are discovered in Berlin during construction work.Whiting Charles Charles Whiting The Hunt for Martin Bormann: The Truth 1996 1973 Pen & Sword London 0-85052-527-6 217–218 December 29 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 crashes into the Everglades in Florida, killing 101 of 176 on board. It is the first hull loss of a wide-body aircraft. December 31 – For the first and last time, a 2nd leap second is added (23:59:60) to a year, making 1972 366 days and two seconds long, the longest year ever within the context of UTC. Date unknown Colombian looters find the lost 1st millennium city of Ciudad Perdida; it is not reached by official archaeologists until 1976. 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June 6 Noriaki Kasai, Japanese ski jumperhttps://www.olympic.org/noriaki-kasai Noriaki Kasai IOC February 13, 2021 Natalie Morales, American journalistSeptember 6, 2014 TODAY anchors show their driver's license photos – Video on TODAY.com http://www.today.com/video/today/49118142 2024-03-01 https://web.archive.org/web/20140906043600/http://www.today.com/video/today/49118142 September 6, 2014 June 7 – Karl Urban, New Zealand actorhttps://cleveland.com/entertainment/2020/06/todays-famous-birthdays-list-for-june-7-2020-includes-celebrities-liam-neeson-karl-urban.html Today's famous birthdays list for June 7, 2020 includes celebrities Liam Neeson, Karl Urban Mike Rose June 7, 2020 cleveland June 16 – John Cho, Korean-American actor and musicianhttp://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/john-cho/bio/157818/ John Cho Biography TVGuide.com July 7, 2016 September 20, 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20150920130151/http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/john-cho/bio/157818/ June 17 – Iztok Čop, Slovenian rowerhttp://www.worldrowing.com/athletes/athlete/2147/cop-iztok Iztok Cop World Rowing October 31, 2020 August 22, 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190822161819/http://www.worldrowing.com/athletes/athlete/2147/cop-iztok dead June 18 – Michal Yannai, Israeli actress June 19 – Jean Dujardin, French actor, comedian and film director((Editors of Chase's)) Chase's Calendar of Events 2020: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months https://books.google.com/books?id=6dKpDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA328 September 24, 2019 Rowman & Littlefield 978-1-64143-316-7 328 June 21 – Irene van Dyk, South African born New Zealand netball player June 23 – Zinedine Zidane, French footballer and managerPatrick Fort Jean Philippe Zidane: The Biography 2018 Ebury Press London 978-1-78503-848-8 1 June 24 Robbie McEwen, Australian professional bicycle road racer Kim Yeo-jin, South Korean actress and activist June 28 Geeta Tripathee, Nepali poet, lyricist and literary critic Maria Butyrskaya, Russian figure skater June 29 DJ Shadow, American DJ and record producerDJ Shadow https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.A2218982 subscription Levine Mike Samantha Smith, American peace activist (d. 1985)Patricia Stone Martin Samantha Smith, Young Ambassador Rourke Enterprises 1987 9780865921733 5 June 30 Molly Parker, Canadian actressThanks for the birthday wishes!!! https://twitter.com/TheMollyParker/status/483672261019197440 TheMollyParker 483672261019197440 June 30, 2014 https://archive.today/20141030013400/https://twitter.com/TheMollyParker/status/483672261019197440 October 30, 2014 live July thumb|100px|Lisa Leslie thumb|100px|Sofía Vergara thumb|100px|Maya Rudolph thumb|100px|Wil Wheaton July 1 – Steffi Nerius, German javelin throwerSteffi Nerius https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/70067 Olympedia July 2 – Darren Shan, Irish author July 4 Nina Badrić, Croatian pop singer Alexei Shirov, Spanish chess Grandmasterhttps://www.chess.com/players/alexei-shirov Alexei Shirov chess.com February 13, 2021 Craig Spearman, New Zealand cricketer July 5 Robert Esmie, Canadian Olympic athletehttps://www.olympic.org/robert-esmie Robert Esmie IOC February 13, 2021 Gary Shteyngart, Soviet-born American writerhttps://www.babelio.com/auteur/Gary-Shteyngart/10644 Gary Shteyngart babelio.com September 26, 2024 July 6 Isabelle Boulay, French Canadian singer Zhanna Pintusevich-Block, Ukrainian sprinterZHANNA PINTUSEVICH-BLOCK http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/ZhannaPintusevich.html jewishsports.net January 26, 2023 February 20, 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20150220011850/http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/ZhannaPintusevich.html dead July 7 Lisa Leslie, American basketball player Kirsten Vangsness, American actress and writerhttp://www.cbs.com/primetime/criminal_minds/blog2.php?id=10 Kirstens Blog 2007-10-07 Kirsten Vangsness July 24, 2007 CBS https://web.archive.org/web/20071012101952/http://cbs.com/primetime/criminal_minds/blog2.php?id=10 2007-10-12 July 8 – Sourav 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https://www.14news.com/story/1265946/rising-star-michael-rosenbaum-on-midday-with-mike-tuesday/ January 27, 2024 producer, singer and comedianJanuary 2021 July 17 – Jaap Stam, Dutch football player and coachJaap Stam https://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=12657 soccerbase.com July 20 – Jozef Stümpel, Slovak professional ice hockey player July 21 – Catherine Ndereba, Kenyan long-distance runner July 22 Andrew Holness, 9th Prime Minister of JamaicaPalgrave Macmillan The Statesman's Yearbook 2017: The Politics, Cultures and Economies of the World https://books.google.com/books?id=PBs9DgAAQBAJ&pg=PA680 February 28, 2017 Palgrave Macmillan UK 978-1-349-68398-7 680 Keyshawn Johnson, American football player Nataša Ninković, Serbian actressNataša Ninković http://www.trebinje.info/trebinje/trebinjci-u-svijetu/natasa-ninkovic.html trebinje.info January 24, 2023 April 20, 2007 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https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10182-198532/ryan-bollman-in-biographical-summaries-of-notable-people 2025-12-21 MyHeritage August 10 – Angie Harmon, American actress Lawrence Dallaglio, English rugby union player August 12 – Demir Demirkan, Turkish rock musician and songwriter August 13 – Michael Sinterniklaas, French-American voice actor August 14 – Yoo Jae-suk, South Korean comedian and television comedy show host August 15 – Ben Affleck, American actor and film director August 19 Roberto Abbondanzieri, Argentine footballerR. 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Turner The Statesman's Yearbook 2013: The Politics, Cultures and Economies of the World https://books.google.com/books?id=9pLlDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1020 January 12, 2017 Springer 978-1-349-59541-9 1020 September 21 Liam Gallagher, British singer (Oasis) Erin Fitzgerald, Canadian-American voice actress September 23 Pierre Amine Gemayel, Lebanese politician (d. 2006) Galit Gutman, Israeli female model September 26 Beto O'Rourke, American politician, representative of Texas 16th congressional district Shawn Stockman, American singer and musician (Boyz II Men) September 27 – Gwyneth Paltrow, American actress September 28 – Dita Von Teese, American burlesque artist, model and businesswoman September 30 Ari Behn, Norwegian author (d. 2019)https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2019/12/27/ari-behn-acclaimed-writer-compared-scott-fitzgerald-controversially/ https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2019/12/27/ari-behn-acclaimed-writer-compared-scott-fitzgerald-controversially/ January 12, 2022 subscription live Ari Behn – obituary Telegraph Obituaries December 27, 2019 The Telegraph December 29, 2019 José Lima, Dominican baseball player (d. 2010) Shaan, Indian singer October thumb|100px|Claudia Black thumb|100px|Eminem thumb|100px|Gabrielle Union October 2 – Konstantinos Papadakis, Greek pianist October 3 – Kim Joo-hyuk, South Korean actor (d. 2017) October 5 – Grant Hill, African-American basketball player October 6 – Mark Schwarzer, Australian soccer playerM. Schwarzer https://int.soccerway.com/players/-/702/ soccerway.com October 9 – Anabela Sousa Rodrigues, Portuguese politician and psychologisthttps://www.parlamento.pt/DeputadoGP/Paginas/Biografia.aspx?BID=4199 Anabela Sousa Rodrigues parlamento.pt pt October 11 – Claudia Black, Australian actress October 15 – Sandra Kim, Belgian singer, Eurovision Song Contest 1986 winner October 17 Eminem, American rapper and actorPeter Buckley The Rough Guide to Rock https://books.google.com/books?id=7ctjc6UWCm4C&pg=PA340 2003 Rough Guides 978-1-84353-105-0 340 Sharon Leal, American actress and directorhttp://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20137328,00.html Extra Credit — Kids & Family Life, Boston Public : People.com People 2014 October 2, 2014 September 14, 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160914181827/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20137328,00.html dead Tarkan, Turkish singerhttp://www.milliyet.com.tr/ekler/gazete_pazar/981108/haber/hab2.html Tarkan Fransa ve Belçika'da pop listelerinde hızla yükseliyor Melek Derman June 7, 2013 November 8, 1998 Milliyet https://web.archive.org/web/20160305091132/http://www.milliyet.com.tr/ekler/gazete_pazar/981108/haber/hab2.html March 5, 2016 October 21 Evgeny Afineevsky, Russian-born American film director and producer Evhen Tsybulenko, Ukrainian professor of international law October 22 – Saffron Burrows, British actress October 24 – Kim Ji-soo, South Korean actress October 25 – Esther Duflo, French American economist, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences October 26 – Dianno A. Jakelj, Slovenian abstract painterDianno Jakelj Artworks https://www.saatchiart.com/diannojakelj saatchiart.com Saatchi Art July 13, 2023 October 27 Elissa, Lebanese singer Maria de Lurdes Mutola, Mozambican athletehttps://www.olympic.org/maria-mutola Maria Mutola IOC November 25, 2020 October 28 – Brad Paisley, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist. 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December 17, 2016 April 1, 2017 india.com Aishwarya Krishnan https://web.archive.org/web/20170401232930/http://www.india.com/buzz/happy-birthday-john-abraham-7-things-to-know-about-the-bollywood-hunk-791740/ April 1, 2017 live Iván Pedroso, Cuban long jumperIván PEDROSO https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/cuba/ivan-pedroso-14169391 worldathletics.org December 18 – Lawrence Wong, Singapore economist and fourth Prime Minister of Singaporehttps://www.mccy.gov.sg/news/speeches/2013/Sept/New_Book_to_Honour_Nine_Hainanese_Who_Have_Contributed_Significantly_to_the_Society.aspx Speech by Mr Lawrence Wong at the Hainan Culture and Heritage Centre's anniversary dinner cum book launch 6 November 2013 Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth 7 March 2026 https://web.archive.org/web/20170901115049/https://www.mccy.gov.sg/news/speeches/2013/Sept/New_Book_to_Honour_Nine_Hainanese_Who_Have_Contributed_Significantly_to_the_Society.aspx 1 September 2017 dead December 19 – Alyssa Milano, American actress December 22 – Vanessa Paradis, French singer and actresshttp://www.hollywoodlife.com/2010/12/22/happy-birthday-vanessa-paradis-youre-38-today-december-22/ Happy Birthday, Vanessa Paradis! You're 38 Today, December 22! The Hollywood Reporter December 22, 2010 June 25, 2012 Leigh April 18, 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120418160016/http://www.hollywoodlife.com/2010/12/22/happy-birthday-vanessa-paradis-youre-38-today-december-22/ dead December 24 – Álvaro Mesén, Costa Rican footballer December 25 – Qu Yunxia, Chinese middle-distance runner December 27 – Colin Charvis, Welsh rugby playerhttp://www.wru.co.uk/41_426.php Wales at the Rugby World Cup 1999 Wales Rugby Union https://web.archive.org/web/20090212080550/http://www.wru.co.uk/41_426.php November 7, 2021 February 12, 2009 December 28 – Pat Rafter, Australian tennis playerpat-rafter December 29 Jude Law, British actor Leonor Varela, Chilean actressFrank Javier Garcia Berumen Latino Image Makers in Hollywood: Performers, Filmmakers and Films Since the 1960s McFarland, Incorporated 2014 9780786474325 273 December 31 – Grégory Coupet, French footballer Deaths January thumb|100px|Maurice Chevalier thumb|100px|Mahalia Jackson January 1 Maurice Chevalier, French singer and actor (b. 1888)https://www.nytimes.com/1972/01/02/archives/maurice-chevalier-dead-singer-and-actor-was-83.html Maurice Chevalier Dead; Singer and Actor Was 83 February 14, 1972 The New York Times Maximus V of Constantinople, Turkish Orthodox Christian bishop (b. 1897) January 3 – Frans Masereel, Belgian painter and graphic artist (b. 1889)Amy T. Schlegel Corinne Granof Bessie Tina Yarborough Stephanie D'Alessandro Art in Germany, 1909–1936: From Expressionism to Resistance : the Marvin and Janet Fishman Collection Milwaukee Art Museum 1990 260 January 6 – Chen Yi, Chinese military commander and politician (b. 1901)https://www.britannica.com/biography/Chen-Yi Chen Yi | Communist Party, Chinese Civil War, Nationalist Party | Britannica January 7 John Berryman, American poet (b. 1914)Thomas J. Travisano Midcentury Quartet: Bishop, Lowell, Jarrell, Berryman, and the Making of a Postmodern Aesthetic https://books.google.com/books?id=jY6TuWwWyk0C&pg=PA73 29 December 1999 University of Virginia Press 978-0-8139-2918-7 73 April 16, 2021 December 7, 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20231207134603/https://books.google.com/books?id=jY6TuWwWyk0C&pg=PA73#v=onepage&q&f=false live Emma P. Carr, American spectroscopist (b. 1880)Data Bank of Scientists: Emma Perry Carr http://www.csupomona.edu/~nova/scientists/articles/carr.html Project NOVA (NASA Opportunities for Visionary Academics) California State Polytechnic University, Pomona June 20, 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20081205040333/http://www.csupomona.edu/~nova/scientists/articles/carr.html December 5, 2008 dead January 8 Kenneth Patchen, American poet and painter (b. 1911)Kenneth Patchen American artist Wesley Ruggles, American film director (b. 1889)http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/wesley-ruggles/ Wesley Ruggles Los Angeles Times April 8, 2016 January 10, 1972 January 10 Nubar Gulbenkian, Ottoman-born Armenian-British oil trader, socialite and intelligence operative (b. 1896) Aksel Larsen, Danish politician (b. 1897)https://danmarkshistorien.dk/vis/materiale/aksel-larsen-1897-1972 Aksel Larsen, 1897-1972 danmarkshistorien.dk January 12 – Ernest Dezentjé, Dutch-Indonesian painter (b. 1885)Ernest Dezentjé Overleden Ernest Dezentjé Dies Dutch https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=KBNRC01:000031783:mpeg21:a0083 NRC Handelsblad Rotterdam 26 January 1972 6 January 14 – King Frederik IX of Denmark (b. 1899)Frederik of Denmark Dies. Margrethe to Be Queen https://www.nytimes.com/1972/01/15/archives/frederik-of-denmark-dies-margrethe-to-be-queen-frederik-of-denmark.html The New York Times January 15, 1972 January 16 – Ross Bagdasarian, American record producer (b. 1919) January 19 – Mohammad Al-Abbasi, 45th Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1914) January 25 – Erhard Milch, German field marshal and Luftwaffe officer (b. 1892) January 27 – Mahalia Jackson, American gospel singer (b. 1911)Whitman, Alden, "Mahalia Jackson, Gospel Singer And a Civil Rights Symbol, Dies", The New York Times, (January 28, 1972) p. 1. January 30 Beatrice Forbes, Countess of Granard, American-born heiress (b. 1883)http://www.longfordatwar.ie/soldiers/858 President, Founder, Administrator Beatrice Forbes (O.B.E.) longfordatwar.ie Prince Sisowath Watchayavong, 5th Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1891) January 31 – King Mahendra of Nepal (b. 1920) February thumb|100px|Maria Goeppert-Mayer February 2 – Jessie Royce Landis, American actress (b. 1896)Nissen Axel Actresses of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Hollywood Faces from the Thirties to the Fifties 2007 McFarland 9780786427468 95–99 February 5 – Marianne Moore, American poet (b. 1887)Gregory Elizabeth Twenty-first century Marianne Moore. Essays from a critical Renaissance Palgrave Macmillan Cham 2017 9783319651095 257 February 7 – Walter Lang, American film director (b. 1896) February 11 – Colin Munro MacLeod, Canadian-American geneticist (b. 1909) February 17 – Gavriil Popov, Soviet Russian composer (b. 1904) February 19 John Grierson, Scottish documentary filmmaker (b. 1898) Lee Morgan, American jazz trumpeter and composer (b. 1938) February 20 Maria Goeppert Mayer, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)The Nobel Prize in Physics 1963 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1963/mayer/biographical/ NobelPrize.org April 9, 2022 Walter Winchell, American journalist (b. 1897)http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,,910224,00.html https://archive.today/20130204143240/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,,910224,00.html dead February 4, 2013 Mrs. Winchell's Little Boy March 26, 1972 Time Magazine October 17, 2011 February 25 – Gottfried Fuchs, German footballer (b. 1889) March thumb|100px|Meena Kumari March 8 – Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, German Nazi politician and SS functionary (b. 1899) March 11 Fredric Brown, American science fiction and mystery writer (b. 1906)Seabrook Jack Martians and misplaced clues : the life and work of Fredric Brown Bowling Green State University Popular Press Bowling Green, OH 1993 9780879725914 10 Zack Wheat, American baseball player (b. 1888)https://baseballhall.org/hall-of-famers/wheat-zack Wheat, Zack | Baseball Hall of Fame baseballhall.org March 20 – Marilyn Maxwell, American actress (b. 1921) March 23 – Cristóbal Balenciaga, Spanish couturier (b. 1895)Charleston Beth Duncuff Cristobal Balenciaga (1895–1972) Timeline of Art History Metropolitan Museum of Art October 2004 http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/bale/hd_bale.htm December 23, 2020thumb|134x134px|Johannes SpiessMarch 27 M. C. Escher, Dutch artist (b. 1898) Lorenzo Wright, American athlete (b. 1926)https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wr/lorenzo-wright-1.html Lorenzo Wright Bio, Stats, and Results | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com April 18, 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200418105919/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wr/lorenzo-wright-1.html April 18, 2020 March 28 – Joseph Paul-Boncour, 71st Prime Minister of France (b. 1873) March 30 – Johannes Spieß, German U-boat commander during World War I (b. 1888)Kapitänleutnant Johannes Spieß - German and Austrian U-boats of World War One - Kaiserliche Marine - uboat.net https://uboat.net/wwi/men/commanders/335.html 2025-11-25 uboat.net March 31 – Meena Kumari, Indian actress, singer and poet (b. 1933; cirrhosis of the liver)http://www.khaleejtimes.com/wknd/bollywood/remembering-the-tragedy-queen-meena-kumari Remembering the Tragedy Queen Meena Kumari Mohamed Khalid 25 March 2016 Khaleej Times 12 October 2020 18 October 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20191018123244/https://www.khaleejtimes.com/wknd/bollywood/remembering-the-tragedy-queen-meena-kumari live April thumb|100px|George Sanders thumb|100px|Kwame Nkrumah April 2 – Franz Halder, German general (b. 1884) April 3 – Ferde Grofé, American pianist and composer (b. 1892) April 4 – Stefan Wolpe, German-born American composer (b. 1902) April 4 – Gil Hodges, American baseball player and manager (b. 1924) April 5 – Isabel Jewell, American actress (b. 1907) April 6 Brian Donlevy, American actor (b. 1901) Heinrich Lübke, 2nd President of the Federal Republic of Germany (b. 1894) April 7 Abeid Karume, 1st President of Zanzibar (b. 1905)https://www.nytimes.com/1972/04/09/archives/4-gunmen-murder-zanzibar-chief-and-wound-2-aides.html 4 Gunmen Murder Zanzibar Chief and Wound 2 Aides April 9, 1972 The New York Times December 9, 2022 August Zaleski, 6th President of Poland (b. 1883) April 9 – James F. Byrnes, United States Secretary of State and Justice of the Supreme Court (b. 1882) April 10 – Henry de La Falaise, French film director, Croix de guerre recipient (b. 1898)https://www.geneastar.org/celebrite/lejames/henry-de-la-falaise Généalogie de Henry DE LA FALAISE Geneanet April 16 – Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese novelist (b. 1899)Yasunari Kawabata – Facts https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1968/kawabata-facts.html June 11, 2014 April 20 – Andrea Andreen, Swedish physician (b. 1888)https://www.vf.se/uncategorized/andrea-andreen-pionjaren-som-glomts-bort/ Andrea Andreen – pionjären som glömts bort VF November 6, 2015 Hansen, Maria October 21, 2017 Swedish October 21, 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20171021220206/https://www.vf.se/uncategorized/andrea-andreen-pionjaren-som-glomts-bort/ dead April 24 Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (b. 1892) Nora K. Chadwick, English philologist (b. 1891) April 25 – George Sanders, Russian-born British actor (b. 1906) April 27 – Kwame Nkrumah, 1st President of Ghana (b. 1909) Lucien Sarti, French drug trafficker shot by Mexican police.Krüger Henrik The Great Heroin Coup: Drugs, Intelligence & International Fascism 1980 7 South End Press April 29 – King Ntare V of Burundi (b. 1947) April 30 Gia Scala, British actress (b. 1934) Clara Campoamor, Spanish politician and suffragist (b. 1888) May thumb|100px|J. Edgar Hoover thumb|100px|Lee Beom-seok thumb|100px|Edward VIII May 2 – J. Edgar Hoover, American civil servant, 1st Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) (b. 1895) May 3 – Bruce Cabot, American actor (b. 1904) May 4 Father Chrysanthus, Dutch arachnologist (b. 1905)v[an] H[elsdingen] P[eter] J. 1973 Father Chrysanthus O.F.M. Cap.: 1 September 1905 – 4 May 1972 Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 2 7 148 https://britishspiders.org.uk/node/2313 Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1886)Edward C. Kendall http://www.nap.edu/html/biomems/ekendall.pdf National Academy of Sciences Ingle Dwight Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences 1974 47 249–90 11615626 Josep Samitier, Spanish footballer (b. 1902) May 5 Reverend Gary Davis, American blues and gospel singer (b. 1896) Frank Tashlin, American animation director (b. 1913) May 6 – Deniz Gezmiş, Turkish Marxist revolutionary (executed) (b. 1947) May 10 – Rice Gemmell, Australian tennis champion (b. 1896) May 11 – Lee Beom-seok, Korean activist, 1st Prime Minister of South Korea (b. 1900) May 12 – Lionel Penrose, English geneticist (b. 1898)https://history.rcp.ac.uk/inspiring-physicians/lionel-sharples-penrose Lionel Sharples Penrose | RCP Museum history.rcp.ac.uk May 13 – Dan Blocker, American actor (b. 1928) May 15 – Nigel Green, South African-English actor (b. 1924) May 17 – Sir Gordon Lowe, Bt., British tennis player (b. 1884) May 22 Cecil Day-Lewis, British poet (b. 1904) Dame Margaret Rutherford, English actress (b. 1892) May 23 – Richard Day, Canadian art director (b. 1896) May 24 Asta Nielsen, Danish silent film star (b. 1881)https://wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/asta-nielsen-2/ Asta Nielsen – Women Film Pioneers Project wfpp.columbia.edu Ismail Yassine, Egyptian comedian and actor (b. 1912)Isma'eel Yasseen May 28 The Duke of Windsor, previously King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (b. 1894)Christopher Warwick Abdication https://books.google.com/books?id=CJufAAAAMAAJ 1986 Sidgwick & Jackson 978-0-283-99351-0 166 Violette Leduc, French writer (b. 1907) May 29 – Prithviraj Kapoor, Indian actor and director (b. 1906) May 30 – Watchman Nee, Chinese Christian preacher and church leader (b. 1903)https://www.watchmannee.org/ Watchman Nee — A Seer of the Divine Revelation www.watchmannee.org May 31 – Walter Jackson Freeman II, American neurologist (b. 1895)https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walter-Jackson-Freeman-II Walter Jackson Freeman II | American Neurologist & Neurosurgeon | Britannica November 10, 2024 Encyclopædia Britannica June thumb|100px|Joe Deakin June 9 – Rudolf Belling, German sculptor (b. 1886) June 12 Saul Alinsky, American political activist (b. 1909) Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Austrian biologist (b. 1901) Edmund Wilson, American writer and critic (b. 1895) June 13 Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899) Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-born German World War II spy (b. 1891)https://spartacus-educational.com/Stephanie_von_Hohenlohe.htm Stephanie von Hohenlohe Spartacus Educational Clyde McPhatter, American singer (b. 1932) Felix Stump, American admiral (b. 1894)https://www.nytimes.com/1972/06/15/archives/adm-felixstump-led-pacifig-fleet-task-force-commander-in-battle-ef.html ADM, FELIX STUMP, LED PACIFIC FLEET June 15, 1972 NYTimes.com June 18 – Milton L. Humason, American astronomer (b. 1891) June 20 – Henriette Roosenburg, Dutch journalist (b. 1916)Henriette Roosenburg, a Writer Who Fought Nazis, Dies at 56 June 22 – Vladimir Durković, Serbian footballer (b. 1937) June 25 – Jan Matulka, Czech-born American artist (b. 1890)https://www.askart.com/artist/Jan_Matulka/24727/Jan_Matulka.aspx Jan Matulka – Biography askart.com June 28 – Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Indian scientist (b. 1893) June 30 – Joe Deakin, British Olympic athlete (b. 1879) July July 2 – Joseph Fielding Smith, 10th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1876) thumb|100px|Paul-Henri SpaakJuly 5 – Raúl Leoni, 55th President of Venezuela (b. 1905) July 6 – Brandon deWilde, American actor (b. 1942) July 7 Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople (b. 1886) King Talal of Jordan (b. 1909) July 8 – Ghassan Kanafani, Palestinian author (b. 1936) July 20 – Geeta Dutt, Indian singer (b. 1930) July 21 Ralph Craig, American Olympic athlete (b. 1889) King Jigme Dorji Wangchuck (b. 1929) July 24 − Lance Reventlow, English playboy, entrepreneur and racing driver (b. 1936) July 25 − Oscar Elton Sette, American fisheries scientist (b. 1900)http://www.aifrb.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/AIFRB-Biographies-web.pdf Oscar Elton Sette November 4, 2024 December 20, 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20161220174404/http://www.aifrb.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/AIFRB-Biographies-web.pdf dead July 27 – Count Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, Austrian-Japanese politician and philosopher (b. 1894) July 28 – Helen Traubel, American soprano (b. 1899)Jan Onofrio Missouri Biographical Dictionary Somerset 2001 9780403095988 275 July 31 Alfons Gorbach, Austrian politician, 15th Chancellor of Austria (b. 1898) Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian politician and statesman, 31st Prime Minister of Belgium and 2nd Secretary General of NATO (b. 1899) August thumb|100px|Max Theiler August 2 – Paul Goodman, American author (b. 1911)Paul Goodman August 8 – Andrea Feldman, American actress (b. 1948) August 9 – Ernst von Salomon, German writer (b. 1902)Ernst von Salomon Dead; West German Author, 69 https://www.nytimes.com/1972/08/10/archives/ernst-yon-salomor-dead-i-west-g2_ror-69.html November 18, 2021 The New York Times August 10, 1972 Bonn August 11 – Max Theiler, South African-born American virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899) August 14 thumb|110x110px|Pavla HočevarOscar Levant, American pianist and actor (b. 1906) Jules Romains, French poet and writer (b. 1885) August 16 – Pierre Brasseur, French actor (b. 1905)Pierre Brasseur Encyclopædia Britannica August 10, 2024 https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pierre-Brasseur August 18 – Pavla Hočevar, Slovenian teacher, writer, socialist and suffragist (b. 1889)2011-06-27 Pogumna feministka - Časnik https://www.casnik.si/pogumna-feministka/ https://web.archive.org/web/20220808231552/https://www.casnik.si/pogumna-feministka/ 2022-08-08 2025-09-19 Časnik sl-SI August 20 – Juan Manuel Gálvez, 39th President of Honduras (b. 1887) August 24 – Jinichi Kusaka, Japanese admiral (b. 1888) August 26 – Sir Francis Chichester, British sailor and aviator (b. 1901) August 28 – Prince William of Gloucester (b. 1941)https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/28/newsid_2536000/2536275.stm 1972: Prince William killed in plane crash BBC News On This Day April 28, 2011 August 28, 1972 August 29 Lale Andersen, German singer (b. 1905)The Historic Record & AV Collector Quarterly https://books.google.com/books?id=7Cs5AQAAIAAJ 1992 J. R. Wrigley 27 René Leibowitz, French composer (b. 1913) September thumb|100px|Ásgeir Ásgeirsson thumb|100px|Akim Tamiroff September 1 – He Xiangning, Chinese revolutionary, feminist, politician, painter and poet (b. 1878)https://www.chinesenewart.com/chinese-artists15/hexiangning.htm He Xiangning – Chinese New Art – chinesenewart chinesenewart.com September 2 – Ivan Yumashev, Soviet admiral (b. 1895)https://www.tracesofwar.com/persons/83309/Yumashev-Ivan-Stepanovich.htm Yumashev, Ivan Stepanovich – TracesOfWar.com tracesofwar.com September 5 (Munich massacre): Yossef Romano, Israeli weightlifter (b. 1940) Moshe Weinberg, Israeli wrestling coach (b. 1939) September 6 (Munich massacre): David Berger, Israeli weightlifter (b. 1944) Ze'ev Friedman, Israeli weightlifter (b. 1944) Yossef Gutfreund, Israeli wrestling referee (b. 1931) Eliezer Halfin, Israeli wrestler (b. 1948) Amitzur Shapira, Israeli athletics coach (b. 1932) Kehat Shorr, Israeli shooting coach (b. 1919) Mark Slavin, Israeli wrestler (b. 1954) Andre Spitzer, Israeli fencing coach (b. 1945) September 8 – Warren Kealoha, American Olympic swimmer (b. 1903) September 12 – William Boyd, American actor (b. 1895) September 13 – Zoel Parenteau, American composer (b. 1883)https://www.nytimes.com/1972/09/15/archives/zoel-raientiau-stage-composer-arranger-who-also-wrote-scores-is.html Zoel Parenteau, Stage Composer The New York Times September 15, 1972 40 September 15 Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, 2nd President of Iceland (b. 1894) Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1887) September 17 – Akim Tamiroff, Armenian actor (b. 1899)September 19, 1972 Akim Tamiroff, Actor, Is Dead; Had Screen Career of 35 Years The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/1972/09/19/archives/-akim-tamiroff-actor-is-dead1-had-screen-career-of-35-years-exert.html 2021-06-19 0362-4331 September 19 – Robert Casadesus, French pianist (b. 1899) September 21 – Henry de Montherlant, French writer (b. 1896) September 25 – Max Fleischer, American animator (b. 1883) October thumb|100px|Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin 100px|thumb|Jackie Robinson October 1 – Louis Leakey, British paleontologist (b. 1903)New Scientist https://books.google.com/books?id=167YFAML_o4C&pg=PA573 September 8, 1977 Reed Business Information 573 October 5 – Ivan Yefremov, Soviet paleontologist and science fiction author (b. 1908)Christy G. Turner II Nicolai D. Ovodov Olga V. Pavlova Animal Teeth and Human Tools: A Taphonomic Odyssey in Ice Age Siberia https://books.google.com/books?id=8U5CAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA27 July 11, 2013 Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-06765-3 27 October 8 – Prescott Bush, American banker and politician (b. 1895)https://www.britannica.com/biography/Prescott-Bush Prescott S. Bush | Biography, Family Tree, & Facts | Britannica Encyclopædia Britannica October 9 – Miriam Hopkins, American actress (b. 1902) October 10 – Kenneth Edgeworth, Irish army officer, economist and astronomer (b. 1880)The Irish Astronomical Journal https://books.google.com/books?id=MDtBAQAAIAAJ 1996 Irish Astronomical Society 3 October 16 – Leo G. Carroll, English actor (b. 1886)Ellenberger Allan R. Celebrities in Los Angeles Cemeteries: A Directory Jefferson, N.C. McFarland & Company 2001 9780786409839 https://books.google.com/books?id=ZraJCgAAQBAJ 103 none; Mass Slated Today for Actor Leo G. Carroll Valley News October 19, 1972 35 October 17 – George, Crown Prince of Serbia (b. 1887) October 19 - Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin, French mathematician (b. 1905)Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin - Biography https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Dubreil-Jacotin/ 2026-07-19 Maths History en October 20 – Harlow Shapley, American astronomer (b. 1885)Dr. Harlow Shapley Dies at 86. Dean of American Astronomers. Dr. Harlow Shapley, Dean of American Astronomers, Dies at 86 https://www.nytimes.com/1972/10/21/archives/dr-harlow-shapley-dies-at-86-dean-of-american-astronomers-dr-harlow.html The New York Times October 21, 1972 2014-01-15 October 24 Jackie Robinson, African-American baseball player (b. 1919)https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0131.html Jackie Robinson, First Black in Major Leagues, Dies Anderson Dave The New York Times September 27, 2009 October 25, 1972 Claire Windsor, American actress (b. 1892)https://www.nytimes.com/1972/10/25/archives/claire-windsor-actress-74-dead-blonde-star-of-the-silent-screen-for.html Claire Windsor, actress, 74, dead October 25, 1972 The New York Times November 25, 2020 October 26 – Igor Sikorsky, Soviet aviation engineer (b. 1889)http://www.sikorskyarchives.com/pdf/news%202013/April%202013%202.pdf Igor Sikorsky Was a Reflection of His Heritage and Experiences in Life Jacobson Lee April 2013 Sikorsky Archives News Igor I. Sikorsky Historical Archives October 12, 2021 3 October 27 – Katherine Oppenheimer, American biologist (b. 1910) October 28 – Mitchell Leisen, American film director (b. 1898) November November 1 – Ezra Pound, American poet (b. 1885)Peter Ackroyd Ezra Pound and His World https://books.google.com/books?id=IccfAQAAIAAJ 1980 Scribner 978-0-684-16798-5 116 November 5 – Reginald Owen, English actor (b. 1887) November 12 Rudolf Friml, Czech composer (b. 1879)Ian Herbert Christine Baxter Robert E. Finley Who's who in the Theatre: A Biographical Record of the Contemporary Stage https://books.google.com/books?id=lAC1AAAAIAAJ 1977 Pitman 978-0-273-00163-8 1382 José Nucete Sardi, Venezuelan historian and diplomat (b. 1897)Mireya SOSA DE LEÓN: «Nucete Sardi, José». En: Diccionario de Historia de Venezuela. Venezuela: Fundación Empresas Polar, 1997. 980-6397-37-I.thumb|134x134px|Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha November 13 – Arnold Jackson, British Olympic athlete (b. 1891) November 14 – Martin Dies Jr., American politician (b. 1900)https://www.britannica.com/biography/Martin-Dies-Jr Martin Dies, Jr. | Texas Congressman, House Un-American Activities Committee | Britannica www.britannica.com November 17 Thomas C. Kinkaid, American admiral (b. 1888)Gerald E. Wheeler Kinkaid of the Seventh Fleet: A Biography of Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, U.S. Navy https://books.google.com/books?id=R4wTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA486 1995 Naval Historical Center, Department of the Navy 978-0-945274-26-1 486 Eugène Minkowski, French psychiatrist (b. 1885) November 20 – Ennio Flaiano, Italian screenwriter, playwright, novelist, journalist and drama critic (b. 1910)Ennio Flaiano, Italian author and critic November 23 – Marie Wilson, American actress (b. 1916) November 25 – Henri Coandă, Romanian aerodynamics pioneer (b. 1886) November 28 Havergal Brian, English composer (b. 1876) Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1908) November 29 – Carl W. Stalling, American musician (b. 1891) December thumb|100px|Harry S. Truman thumb|100px|Lester B. Pearson December 1 – Antonio Segni, 34th Prime Minister of Italy and 4th President of the Italian Republic (b. 1891) December 2 – Ettore Bastico, Italian field marshal (b. 1876)https://comandosupremo.com/ettore-bastico/ General Ettore Bastico (1876–1972) Robert Hansen February 12, 2019 February 1, 2025 December 15, 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20201215114455/https://comandosupremo.com/amp/ettore-bastico/ dead December 9 William Dieterle, German film director (b. 1893) Louella Parsons, American gossip columnist (b. 1881)Paul Donnelley Fade to Black: A Book of Movie Obituaries https://books.google.com/books?id=EmYcAQAAIAAJ 2000 Omnibus 978-0-7119-7984-0 455 December 11 – Numa Turcatti, Uruguayan law student, victim of the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crash (b. 1947)Guevara Mauricio January 11, 2024 ¿Quién fue Numa Turcatti, el último muerto del vuelo 571 quien se negó a comer carne humana? https://larepublica.pe/mundo/2024/01/07/quien-fue-numa-turcatti-ultima-victima-de-la-tragedia-de-los-andes-quien-se-nego-a-comer-carne-humana-la-sociedad-de-la-nieve-pancho-delgado-roberto-canessa-230741 2024-01-11 larepublica.pe es December 12 – Thomas H. Robbins Jr., American admiral (b. 1900)https://www.nytimes.com/1972/12/14/archives/adm-thomas-robbins-72-dies-aviator-led-naval-war-college.html Adm. Thomas Robbins, 72, Dies; Aviator Led Naval War College December 14, 1972 NYTimes.com December 13 – René Mayer, 91st Prime Minister of France (b. 1895) December 20 – Günter Eich, German lyricist, dramatist and author (b. 1907) December 21 Horace Mann Bond, American historian and college administrator (b. 1904)https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/bond-horace-mann Bond, Horace Mann | Encyclopedia.com www.encyclopedia.com Paul Hausser, German Waffen SS general and commander (b. 1880)Williamson Gordon German Commanders of World War II (2): Waffen-SS, Luftwaffe and Navy 2006 Osprey Publishing 1-8417-6597-X 8 December 23 – Andrei Tupolev, Soviet aircraft designer (b. 1888) December 24 Charles Atlas, Italian-born American strongman and sideshow performer (b. 1892) Gisela Richter, English art historian (b. 1882)https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/richter-gisela-1882-1972 Richter, Gisela (1882–1972) | Encyclopedia.com encyclopedia.com December 25 – C. Rajagopalachari, Indian politician and freedom-fighter. Last Governor-General of India (1948–50) (b. 1878) December 26 – Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States (b. 1884) December 27 – Lester B. Pearson, 14th Prime Minister of Canada, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1897)http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/series/primeministers/stories/obit-LBP.html Lester Pearson dies in Ottawa The Globe and Mail December 28, 1972 September 17, 2014 June 22, 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170622024840/http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/series/primeministers/stories/obit-LBP.html dead December 29 – Joseph Cornell, American sculptor (b. 1903)https://americanart.si.edu/artist/joseph-cornell-995 Joseph Cornell | Smithsonian American Art Museum americanart.si.edu December 31 – Roberto Clemente, Puerto Rican baseball player (b. 1934)https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0818.html Clemente, Pirates' Star, Dies in Crash of Plane Carrying Aid to Nicaragua The New York Times January 2, 1973 January 3, 2019 Nobel Prizes right|100px Physics – John Bardeen, Leon Neil Cooper, John Robert Schrieffer Chemistry – Christian B. Anfinsen, Stanford Moore, William H. Stein Physiology or Medicine – Gerald M. Edelman, Rodney R. Porter Literature – Heinrich Böll Peace – not awarded Economics – John Hicks, Kenneth Arrow Other academic awards Turing Award – Edsger W. Dijkstra References 1970s Category:Leap years in the Gregorian calendar