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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
- January 14, 1972 – Queen Margrethe II of Denmark ascends the throne, the first Queen of Denmark since 1412 and the first Danish monarch not named Frederick or Christian since 1513.
- January 20, 1972 – Pakistan launched its Nuclear weapons program few weeks after its defeat in Bangladesh Liberation War and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
- February 15, 1972 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Rat in Chinese astrology.
- March 1, 1972 – The Thai province of Yasothon is created after being split off from the Ubon Ratchathani Province.
- May 5, 1972 – Alitalia Flight 112 crashes into Mount Longa near Palermo, Sicily, killing all 115 aboard, making it the deadliest single-aircraft disaster in Italy.
- June 18, 1972 – Staines air disaster: One hundred eighteen are killed when a BEA H.S. Trident crashes two minutes after take off from London Heathrow Airport.
- July 24, 1972 – Bugojno group is caught by Yugoslav security forces.
- September 10, 1972 – The United States suffers its first loss of an international basketball game in a disputed match against the Soviet Union at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany.
- September 30, 1972 – Roberto Clemente records the 3,000th and final hit of his career.
- October 29, 1972 – The three surviving perpetrators of the Munich massacre are released from prison in exchange for the hostages of hijacked Lufthansa Flight 615.
Who Were Born On 1972?
- May 27, 1972 – Todd Demsey, American golfer
- July 19, 1972 – Ebbe Sand, Danish footballer and manager
- August 12, 1972 – Demir Demirkan, Turkish singer-songwriter and producer
- August 22, 1972 – Pontus Schultz, Swedish journalist (d. 2012)
- September 27, 1972 – Clara Hughes, Canadian cyclist and speed skater
- October 12, 1972 – Tom Van Mol, Belgian footballer
- October 21, 1972 – Evhen Tsybulenko, Ukrainian scholar and academic
- November 29, 1972 – Jamal Mashburn, American basketball player and sportscaster
- December 27, 1972 – Kevin Ollie, American basketball player and coach