Historical Events In 1972
Jan 06 Vladimir Bukovski is exiled from USSR
Jan 06 US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn
Jan 05 West-Pakistani sheik Mujib ur-Rahman freed
Feb 14 John & Yoko co-host "Mike Douglas Show" for entire week
Feb 22 President Nixon, meets with Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai in Beijing
Feb 21 US President Richard Nixon goes to China, to help improve relations
Feb 25 Paul McCartney releases "Give Ireland back to the Irish" single
Feb 10 Ras al Khaima joins the United Arab Emirates
Feb 29 Hank Aaron becomes the first baseball player to sign for $200,000 a year.
Feb 04 In Central Italy a 4.8 earthquate and a series of hundreds of relatively minor shocks near the Italian town of Ancona on the Adriatic coast caused wide-spread panic, some damage, several injuries, and one death
Feb 09 British government declares state of emergency after month-long miners' strike
Feb 25 Ontario Hydro opens $75 million Pickering nuclear power plant; has been the largest single producer of electricity in the world
Feb 26 Slag heap dam collapses above Buffalo Creek WV, kills 125
Feb 17 President Nixon leaves Washington DC for communist China
Feb 28 George Harrison is involved in a minor car accident
Feb 18 A report suggested that alcohol abuse was the nation's biggest problem
Feb 03 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Feb 21 Richard Nixon becomes first US President to visit China
Feb 10 BBC bans "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" by Wings
Feb 04 6th round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks ends in Vienna Austria
Feb 27 President Nixon & Chinese Premier Chou En-lai issued Shanghai Communique
Feb 04 Senator Strom Thurmond suggests John Lennon be deported
Feb 17 The House of Commons votes in favour of Britain joining the Common Market
Feb 16 German mass murderers "Three of Breda" freed
Feb 01 Wings release "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" in UK
Feb 13 "Grease" opens on Broadway
Feb 18 California Supreme Court abolishes death penalty
Feb 22 Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani becomes Amir & Prime Minister of Qatar
Feb 05 "Another Puff" by Jerry Reed peaks at #65
Feb 21 Michael Weller's "Moonchildren," premieres in New York NY
Feb 10 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
Feb 16 Test Cricket debut of Lawrence Rowe West Indies vs New Zealand Kingston, 214 & 100
Feb 15 Dimitrios Papadopoulos becomes metropolitan of Imbros/Tenedos
Feb 13 11th Winter Olympics games close at Sapporo, Japan
Feb 28 President Richard Nixon wraps up his historic trip to China
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