Date: January 4, 1972
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Rose Heilbron becomes the first female judge to sit at the Old Bailey in London, UK. Date: January 4, 1972 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 4 📅 Events on this day in 1972 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1972Vietnam War: B-52 Bombers Resume North Vietnam Bombing, April…
The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to Greenpeace Foundation. Date: May 4, 1972 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 4 📅 Events on this day in 1972 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1972Watergate Tape Gap…
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…
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: A car bombing outside a crowded pub in Belfast sparks a two-day gun battle involving the Provisional IRA, Ulster Volunteer Force and British Army. Seven people are killed and over 66 injured. Date: May 13, 1972 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 13 📅 Events on this day in…
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 → 📅 Other…