Date: April 25, 1972
The Official Irish Republican Army detonates a car bomb at Aldershot barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others. Date: February 22, 1972 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 22 📅 Events on this day in 1972 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1972Vietnam War Operation Linebacker Ends After Five…
The United States Supreme Court rules in the case Furman v. Georgia that arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. Date: June 29, 1972 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 29 📅 Events on this day in 1972…
Watergate scandal: An 18+1⁄2-minute gap appears in the tape recording of the conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and his advisers regarding the recent arrests of his operatives while breaking into the Watergate complex. Date: June 20, 1972 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 20 📅 Events on this day in…
The California Supreme Court in the case of People v. Anderson, (6 Cal.3d 628) invalidates the state's death penalty and commutes the sentences of all death row inmates to life imprisonment. Date: February 18, 1972 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 18 📅 Events on this day in 1972 📅 On…
Pakistan launches its nuclear weapons program, a few weeks after its defeat in the Bangladesh Liberation War, as well as the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. Date: January 20, 1972 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 20 📅 Events on this day in 1972 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from…
An Ilyushin Il-62 airliner crashes near Königs Wusterhausen, East Germany killing 156 people. Date: August 14, 1972 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 14 📅 Events on this day in 1972 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1972Congress Sends Equal Rights Amendment to States for Ratification, March 22, 1972Sterling…