# Anything interesting happen in 1972? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 21, 2006, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happen-in-1972/365520 "2006-07-21T19:08:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happen-in-1972/365520/41 "2006-07-23T01:19:30Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > I graduated from high school. Me too. Pioneer High, to be more specific. My two favorite albums from that year:"_School’s Out_"and “_Machine Head_”. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happen-in-1972/365520/42 "2006-07-23T01:21:34Z")
They had a pretty good football team in Miami that year… > **[Tribute to the 1972 Miami Dolphins](http://www.phins.com/72phins/)** > > Phins.com is the first source for Miami Dolphins News. The News Wire is updated continuously and gets stories as they happen. Phins.com was the first Miami Dolphins website on the Internet and continues to be one of the best sources for news and... ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happen-in-1972/365520/43 "2006-07-23T01:26:35Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Twin, you must have started school a year earlier than I did! In our district a kid could start kindergarten when they were four, if they would be five by January 1. But it wasn’t required, so my folks waited and sent me to school next year. So basically I was the oldest in the class, rather than the youngest! Nope – graduated a year early. Long story. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happen-in-1972/365520/44 "2006-07-23T02:38:46Z")
> [@August West](#): > > I was born! I was conceived. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happen-in-1972/365520/45 "2006-07-23T03:05:07Z")
I was cutting the soles off my shoes. I didn’t actually climb up a tree or learn to play the flute until 1973. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happen-in-1972/365520/46 "2006-07-23T03:32:05Z")
In other sports news, the 1972 Lakers won 33 straight games, which is still a NBA record, and won 69 games during the regular season, which set a record which lasted until 1996 [Cite](http://www.nba.com/playoffs2004/challenge_lakers1972.html) The Oakland A’s won the first of 3 straight World Series titles, beating the Cincinnati Reds in an exciting 7 game series. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happen-in-1972/365520/47 "2006-07-23T05:32:46Z")
Nixon won re-election. If you would like to know more about the campaign you can read [Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0446313645/sr=8-11/qid=1153632428/ref=pd_bbs_11/103-9368695-0154268?ie=UTF8) by Hunter S. Thompson. I finished second grade that year and I had my first real crush on Thresa A. I only knew her that school year and I still wonder about her today. I actually got into a fight with another boy over her. I didn’t start it, but I finished it, and in far better shape than he did. The sight of her in her Blue Bird uniform thrilled me to my soul. Her red hair, blue eyes, pale skin and freckles are still the height of beauty in my book. No she hasn’t registered with Classmates for our elementary school. (sigh) ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happen-in-1972/365520/48 "2006-07-23T08:48:02Z")
Hurricane Agnes. Early June. Rained for like 5 days straight. The Potomac rose about 30 feet. Up over the tow path and filling the C&O canal and then up the banks too. ---
**Author:** ![LiveOnAPlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happen-in-1972/365520/49 "2006-07-23T10:02:18Z")
72…72… I was definitely around then, but I am very sorry, I got nothing. I think I was in a regional tennis tournament…I think I had a 1969 Torino 428 Cobra Jet…The engine self-destructed, I do know that much…People tell me that I met my wife during that period… Hell, I got nuthin’ ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happen-in-1972/365520/50 "2006-07-23T15:05:14Z")
1972 brought with it the worlds first digital, LED display, watch: [The Pulsar](http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/quartz/coolwatches/pulsar.html). ---
**Author:** ![Carm6773](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/2bfe46/32.png) [@Carm6773](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carm6773)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happen-in-1972/365520/51 "2006-07-23T20:11:28Z")
I was conceived in November of 72. ---
**Author:** ![Faruiza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@Faruiza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Faruiza)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happen-in-1972/365520/52 "2006-07-23T20:30:50Z")
I showed up! August 27. I was just remarking the other day on how I have been telling people that I’m a year older than I actually am by accident. I’m going to be 34 this year. I am not currently 34. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![lee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lee/32/7455_2.png) [@lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lee)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happen-in-1972/365520/53 "2006-07-23T23:41:37Z")
[The Rapid City flash flood](http://www.crh.noaa.gov/unr/1972/comparisons.php) happened on June 10, 1972. It killed 238 peopleand caused $165 million in dammage. Perhaps due to the the proximity of Ellsworth Air Force Base, and lack of major waterway which might be expected to flood, it is rumored to have been caused by cloud seeding, and credited with ending weather manipulation programs and studies then in progress. Even if it were not caused by deliberately seeding, we have since found that contrails crossing each other can accidentally seed clouds so it may be that planes from Ellsworth Air Force Base did contribute to the cause of the flood. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2006, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happen-in-1972/365520/54 "2006-07-24T17:06:36Z")
[Dan Blocker died.](http://ponderosascenery.homestead.com/files/castbios/hoss.html) ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happen-in-1972/365520/55 "2006-07-25T03:02:11Z")
I turned 2. My brother turned 5. My mom turned 27, my dad 28. Kmart (formerly Kresge’s) moved its headquarters from Detroit to Troy, Michigan. Coleman Young was elected mayor of Detroit for the first time; he would be re-elected 4 times, for no good reason I can divine. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happen-in-1972/365520/56 "2006-07-25T04:02:56Z")
1972 stuff **Draelin** may not have considered “interesting”: (source: Wikipedia) East Pakistan becomes Bangladesh. The HP-35, the first handheld scientific calculator, is introduced (price $395). Ceylon becomes Sri Lanka. America gets its first woman rabbi, the FBI its first women agents, Dartmouth its first women students, and the Boston Marathon its first women runners. _M_A_S_H\* and Bob Barker’s _Price is Right_ debut on CBS. Gov. George Wallace of Alabama is shot and paralyzed during a Presidential campaign stop. Recombinant DNA is discovered. Marijuana becomes legal in the Netherlands. Steve Jobs graduates high school in Cupertino, CA. Swedish supergroup ABBA begins. Among 1972 babies are Ben Affleck, Gwyneth Paltrow, Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Garner, Jude Law, and Eminem. Leaving the scene that year are J. Edgar Hoover, Maurice Chevalier, Walter Winchell, the Duke of Windsor (Edward VIII), Harry S Truman, and M.C. Escher. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happen-in-1972/365520/57 "2006-07-25T16:44:57Z")
> [@Beware of Doug](#): > > 1972 stuff **Draelin** may not have considered “interesting”: > (source: Wikipedia) Nah, it wasn’t that I thought it uninteresting, it was that I wanted first post. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happen-in-1972/365520/58 "2010-07-22T23:56:19Z")
I’d just like to wish this thread a happy fourth birthday on July 22nd. And I still can’t recall anything exciting happening in 1972. ---
**Author:** ![NetTrekker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nettrekker/32/2909_2.png) [@NetTrekker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NetTrekker)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happen-in-1972/365520/59 "2010-07-23T02:52:02Z")
Very funny you should ask. I recently read the book(s) about the 1972 crash of a plane carrying a Uruguayan rugby team in the Andes, and what the survivors endured and how they managed to get rescued. Highly recommended ! [http://www.viven.com.uy/571/Eng/default.asp](http://www.viven.com.uy/571/Eng/default.asp) ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happen-in-1972/365520/60 "2010-07-23T02:55:53Z")
_Loggins and Messina_ album was released in 1972. _Your Mama Don’t Dance_ reached #4 in the charts. > **[Loggins and Messina (album)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loggins_and_Messina_%28album%29)** > > Loggins and Messina is the second album by singer-songwriters Loggins and Messina, released in 1972. > Following on the success of their first album, this album built on the strengths of their debut outing. It also became the true introduction of the team, Loggins and Messina, not as singles playing together, but rather as a team that played as one. > It featured two songs that charted, with "Your Mama Don't Dance" reaching its peak at number 4, their highest-charting single. The album itself cha... IMHO this was one of their best albums here they are singing Mama Don’t Dance on the Midnight Special tv appearance. Great stuff! 😉 [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdtzuY1z5RI) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happen-in-1972/365520.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happen-in-1972/365520.md?page=4)