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1972 Calendar Trivia
The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2028. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.
April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.
1972 Calendar
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Historical Events Of 1972
- February 15, 1972 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Rat in Chinese astrology.
- February 18, 1972 – The California Supreme Court in the case of People v. Anderson, (6 Cal.3d 628) invalidates the state’s death penalty and commutes the sentences of all death row inmates to life imprisonment.
- February 26, 1972 – The Buffalo Creek Flood caused by a burst dam kills 125 in West Virginia.
- April 6, 1972 – Vietnam War: Easter Offensive: American forces begin sustained air strikes and naval bombardments.
- April 25, 1972 – Vietnam War: Nguyen Hue Offensive: The North Vietnamese 320th Division forces 5,000 South Vietnamese troops to retreat and traps about 2,500 others northwest of Kontum.
- July 24, 1972 – Bugojno group is caught by Yugoslav security forces.
- August 11, 1972 – Vietnam War: The last United States ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam.
- September 19, 1972 – A parcel bomb sent to Israeli Embassy in London kills one diplomat.
- November 10, 1972 – Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham, Alabama is hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After two days, the plane lands in Havana, Cuba, where the hijackers are jailed by Fidel Castro.
- November 28, 1972 – Last executions in Paris: Claude Buffet and Roger Bontems are guillotined at La Santé Prison. The chief executioner is André Obrecht. (Bontems had been found innocent of murder, but as Buffet’s accomplice was condemned to death anyway)
Who Were Born On 1972?
- February 23, 1972 – Rondell White, American baseball player
- April 2, 1972 – Calvin Davis, American sprinter and hurdler
- April 5, 1972 – Paul Okon, Australian footballer and manager
- April 11, 1972 – Jason Varitek, American baseball player and manager
- April 17, 1972 – Yuichi Nishimura, Japanese footballer and referee
- July 8, 1972 – Sourav Ganguly, Indian cricketer and sportscaster
- October 17, 1972 – Musashi, Japanese martial artist and kick-boxer
- November 18, 1972 – Jeroen Straathof, Dutch cyclist and speed skater