Date: April 13, 1972
Cathay Pacific Flight 700Z is destroyed by a bomb over Pleiku, Vietnam (then South Vietnam) and kills 81 people. Date: June 15, 1972 Read more on Wikipedia โ ๐ Other events on June 15 ๐ Events on this day in 1972 ๐ On This Day (Today) More events from 1972Provisional IRA First Belfast Car Bombing…
The Price Is Right premieres on CBS. It currently is the longest running game show on American television. Date: September 4, 1972 Read more on Wikipedia โ ๐ Other events on September 4 ๐ Events on this day in 1972 ๐ On This Day (Today) More events from 1972Soviet Luna 20 Lands on Moon February…
Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham, Alabama is hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After two days, the plane lands in Havana, Cuba, where the hijackers are jailed by Fidel Castro. Date: November 10, 1972 Read more on Wikipedia โ ๐ Other…
Tombs containing bamboo slips, among them Sun Tzu's Art of War and Sun Bin's lost military treatise, are discovered by construction workers in Shandong. Date: April 10, 1972 Read more on Wikipedia โ ๐ Other events on April 10 ๐ Events on this day in 1972 ๐ On This Day (Today) More events from 1972Deadliest…
Gough Whitlam is elected the 21st Prime Minister of Australia in the 1972 Australian federal election, defeating William McMahon and leading the Australian Labor Party back into office after 23 years in Opposition. Date: December 2, 1972 Read more on Wikipedia โ ๐ Other events on December 2 ๐ Events on this day in 1972…
Two Avianca Douglas DC-3 airliners collide over Colombia, killing 38. Date: July 29, 1972 Read more on Wikipedia โ ๐ Other events on July 29 ๐ Events on this day in 1972 ๐ On This Day (Today) More events from 1972First Leap Second Added to UTC Time System, June 30, 1972Shandong Tombs Reveal Sun Tzu…