Date: June 29, 1972
Pakistan leaves the Commonwealth of Nations in protest of its recognition of breakaway Bangladesh. Date: January 30, 1972 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 30 📅 Events on this day in 1972 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1972Apollo 16 Launch from Cape Canaveral April 16, 1972Bhutto Releases Sheikh…
Ceylon adopts a new constitution, becoming a republic and changing its name to Sri Lanka. Date: May 22, 1972 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 22 📅 Events on this day in 1972 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1972Provisional IRA First Belfast Car Bombing Kills Seven March 20,…
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 → 📅 Other events on June 15 📅 Events on this day in 1972 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1972East African Airways Flight 720 Crashes…
Apollo program: The Apollo 16 Lunar Module Orion, commanded by John Young and piloted by Charles Duke, lands on the Moon. Date: April 20, 1972 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 20 📅 Events on this day in 1972 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1972California Supreme Court Invalidates…
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…
Sound recordings are granted U.S. federal copyright protection for the first time. Date: February 15, 1972 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 15 📅 Events on this day in 1972 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1972Apollo 16 Launch from Cape Canaveral April 16, 1972Michelangelo’s Pietà Vandalized in Rome,…