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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