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.
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I was born!
Sorry twickster, not trying to make you feel old!
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What’s that sonny? waves cane threateningly
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I was born!
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As was I, making the world a fantastic place for women almost immediately.
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I graduated from high school.
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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.
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I graduated from high school.
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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
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Ditto.
Man, that was a great year for music, too.
1972 in Music (Wikipedia)
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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.
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I met the future Razorette at a college graduation party on May 17, 1972.
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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.