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1972 in the United States
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Decades: 1950s  1960s  – 1970s –  1980s  1990s
Years: 1969 1970 197119721973 1974 1975
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Events from the year 1972 in the United States.

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Incumbents

Events

January

February

February 21–28: Nixon visits China

March

April

  • 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.
  • April 10 – The 44th Annual Academy Awards are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles.
  • April 16 – Vietnam War – Nguyen Hue Offensive: Prompted by the North Vietnamese offensive, the United States resumes bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong.
  • 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

June

July

August

  • August 1 – U.S. Senator Thomas Eagleton, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, withdraws from the race after revealing he was once treated for mental illness.
  • August 4 – A huge solar flare (one of the largest ever recorded) knocks out cable lines in 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 – A brilliant, daytime meteor skips off the Earth's atmosphere due to an Apollo asteroid streaking over the western US into Canada.[1]
  • August 12 – The last U.S. ground troops are withdrawn from Vietnam.
  • 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 – John Wojtowicz, 27, and Sal Naturile, 18, hold several Chase Manhattan Bank employees hostage for 17 hours in Gravesend, Brooklyn, N.Y, an event later dramatized in the film Dog Day Afternoon.

September

October

November

December

December 7–19: Apollo 17, the last manned Moon mission

Undated

Deaths

References

  1. ^ Observation of Meteoroid Impacts by Space-Based Sensors astrosociety.org, 1998, 'Apollo asteroid about ten meters in diameter'
  2. ^ "Crash at Farrell's". http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/Sabrejet_crash_site.htm. Retrieved 2008-03-16. 

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