Sunshine Mine Fire Kills 91 Workers in Idaho, May 2, 1972
Date: May 2, 1972
Date: May 2, 1972
A Convair CV-580 and De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter collide above Lake Winnebago near Appleton, Wisconsin, killing 13. Date: June 29, 1972 Read more on Wikipedia โ ๐ Other events on June 29 ๐ Events on this day in 1972 ๐ On This Day (Today) More events from 1972Bhutto Releases Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from…
Alitalia Flight 112 crashes into Mount Longa near Palermo, Sicily, killing all 115 aboard, making it the deadliest single-aircraft disaster in Italy. Date: May 5, 1972 Read more on Wikipedia โ ๐ Other events on May 5 ๐ Events on this day in 1972 ๐ On This Day (Today) More events from 1972Soviet Union Makes…
Vietnam War: The Battle of An Lแปc begins. Date: April 13, 1972 Read more on Wikipedia โ ๐ Other events on April 13 ๐ Events on this day in 1972 ๐ On This Day (Today) More events from 1972Pioneer 10 Launched to Explore Outer Planets, March 2, 1972Bloody Sunday: British Paratroopers Kill 14 in Derry…
Apollo program: Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt begin the third and final extra-vehicular activity (EVA) or "Moonwalk" of Apollo 17. To date they are the last humans to set foot on the Moon. Date: December 13, 1972 Read more on Wikipedia โ ๐ Other events on December 13 ๐ Events on this day in 1972…
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 1972Apollo…