The Troubles: Bloody Sunday: British paratroopers open fire on anti-internment marchers in Derry, Northern Ireland, killing 13 people; another person later dies of injuries sustained. Date: January 30, 1972 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 30 📅 Events on this day in 1972 📅 On This Day (Today)
JAT Flight 367 is destroyed by a terrorist bomb, killing 27 of the 28 people on board the DC-9. Flight attendant Vesna Vulović survives with critical injuries. Date: January 26, 1972 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 26 📅 Events on this day in 1972 📅 On This Day (Today)
Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II. Date: January 24, 1972 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 24 📅 Events on this day in 1972 📅 On This Day (Today)
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)
Members of the Mukti Bahini lay down their arms to the government of the newly independent Bangladesh, a month after winning the war against the occupying Pakistan Army. Date: January 18, 1972 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 18 📅 Events on this day in 1972 📅 On This Day (Today)
Queen Margrethe II of Denmark ascends the throne, the first Queen of Denmark since 1412 and the first Danish monarch not named Frederik or Christian since 1513. Date: January 14, 1972 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 14 📅 Events on this day in 1972 📅 On This Day (Today)
Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana are ousted in a bloodless military coup by Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheampong. Date: January 13, 1972 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 13 📅 Events on this day in 1972 📅 On This Day (Today)
East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh. Date: January 11, 1972 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 11 📅 Events on this day in 1972 📅 On This Day (Today)
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)
Bowing to international pressure, President of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto releases Bengali leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from prison, who had been arrested after declaring the independence of Bangladesh. Date: January 8, 1972 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 8 📅 Events on this day in 1972 📅 On This Day (Today)