Didn’t Nixon get impeached? Or was it the year the conflict in Viet Nam ended? Or was that '74? I don’t know. You always hear about 1812 (big war) and 1776 (American Independence), but rarely hear about years like 1972. It’s criminal, I tells ya. Criminal.
The Whitlam government was elected in Australia, ending 23 unbroken years of Liberal-Country Party governments.
A few highlights from January …
January 9 - Howard Hughes speaks by telephone to denounce Clifford Irving’s supposed biography about him.
January 19 - Libertarian enclave Minerva on a platform in the South Pacific, sponsored by the Phoenix Foundation, declares independence. Soon neighboring Tonga annexes the area and dismantles the platform
January 23 - New Delhi bootlegger sells wood alcohol to a wedding party - 100 dead
January 24 - Japanese soldier Shoichi Yokoi is discovered in Guam. He had spent 28 years in the jungle.
January 31 - King Mahendra of Nepal dies, becoming the second king to die that month, and is succeeded by his son, Birendra.
I graduated from high school.
West Side Story was broadcast on TV for the first time.
Either the 13-year or 17-year cicadas came to Middle Tennessee.
I was born!
Sorry twickster, not trying to make you feel old!
In 1972:
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Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney founded Atari with $500 in Santa Clara, CA.
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22 IRA bombs go off in Belfast.
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Nixon met with Chinese Premier Chou En-lai for peace talks
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Poineer 10 was launched
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11 Isreili olympic competitors were killed by Black September geurillas in Munich
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I turned 1.
What’s that sonny? waves cane threateningly
As was I, making the world a fantastic place for women almost immediately.
Me, too! Different high school, tho. Different states even!
It’s also the year my paternal grandmother died.
I also think that was the year I got my hair cut really short - after graduation.
Yep, one historical year.
I met the future Razorette at a college graduation party on May 17, 1972. Exactly one month later, five men were caught burglarizing the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate Hotel.
October 7, 1972, I proposed marriage to my future (and current) wife. Exactly one month later, Richard Nixon won re-election in a landslide.
On July 21, 1973, Razorette and I were married in a double-ring ceremony in the same church where she first received communion. Two days later, Nixon refused to hand over presidential tape recordings to the Senate Watergate Committee.
October 20, 1973, I and five other apprentices lost our jobs as house painters for a construction firm. The cover story was that “not enough houses are being built.” That night Nixon fired Archibald Cox and abolishes the office of the special prosecutor; and Attorney General Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William D. Ruckelshaus resign in what is called the “Saturday Night Massacre.”
Coincidences? I think not.
Ditto.
Man, that was a great year for music, too.
1972 in Music (Wikipedia)
Only one the most important moments in the Canadian conciousness.
The Summit Series
God, Exile on Main Street and Paul Simon’s first solo album. Yikes, I guess so.
I was 8 and pissed because that Nixon putz keep pre-empting my cartoons with his damn investigation!
I was burned by a mole in MI6. After eight months in Lubyanka I was exchanged for a KGB busboy and a hodful of pet rocks.
Sweeeeeet. That’s my birthday!!!
I wasn’t alive then, but the one thing that I immediately think of when I hear that date is the Munich Massacre, followed by the break-in at the Watergate, the Immaculate Reception, and the death of Jackie Robinson and Roberto Clemente on December 31 (I was a big baseball fan when I was younger).
I met my wife. In December, the last Apollo mission, Apollo 17, left for the moon, and I saw it take off.