Date: September 5, 1972
The United States launches Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite. Date: July 23, 1972 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 23 📅 Events on this day in 1972 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1972East Pakistan Renames Itself Bangladesh, January 11, 1972Nixon Visits China to Normalize Sino-American Relations, February…
Israeli Mossad assassinate Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani. Date: July 8, 1972 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 8 📅 Events on this day in 1972 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1972Idi Amin Announces Uganda Asian Expulsions, August 4, 1972Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan, Hüseyin İnan Executed in Ankara May…
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) More…
The Troubles: In Operation Motorman, the British Army re-takes the urban no-go areas of Northern Ireland. It is the biggest British military operation since the Suez Crisis of 1956, and the biggest in Ireland since the Irish War of Independence. Later that day, nine civilians are killed by car bombs in the village of Claudy….
A 6.5 magnitude earthquake strikes the Nicaraguan capital of Managua killing more than 10,000. Date: December 23, 1972 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 23 📅 Events on this day in 1972 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1972Idi Amin Announces Uganda Asian Expulsions, August 4, 1972Aeroflot Flight 1491…
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)…