Aeroflot Flight 217 Crashes Near Moscow, 174 Killed – October 13, 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 → 📅 Other events on June 29 📅 Events on this day in 1972 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1972Watergate Tape Gap Emerges in Nixon…

Apollo 17, the last Apollo Moon mission, is launched. The crew takes the photograph known as The Blue Marble as they leave the Earth. Date: December 7, 1972 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 7 📅 Events on this day in 1972 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1972Apollo…

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 → 📅 Other events on April 10 📅 Events on this day in 1972 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 19721972…

American pay television network Home Box Office (HBO) launches. Date: November 8, 1972 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 8 📅 Events on this day in 1972 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1972San Francisco BART Begins Passenger Service, September 11, 1972East Pakistan Renames Itself Bangladesh – January 11,…

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…

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan. Date: January 10, 1972 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 10 📅 Events on this day in 1972 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1972Antonov An-24 Crashes Into Kindergarten…