BRITAIN AND THE WORLD SINCE 1953
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1972 |
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| Jan7 | Iberian Airlines crashes into 800' peak on island of Ibiza, 104 die |
| Jan9 | Passenger liner Queen Elizabeth destroyed by fire in Hong Kong Harbour |
| Jan27 | Mahalia Jackson the great US gospel singer dies at 60 |
| Jan24 | Japanese soldier Shoichi Yokoi was discovered in Guam, having spent 28 years hiding in the jungle thinking World War II was still going on. |
| Jan30 | Bloody Sunday British soldiers shoot on Catholics in Londonderry, 13 die as a result of clash |
| Feb1 | First scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) introduced ($395) |
| Feb3 | 11th Winter Olympic games opens in Sapporo, Japan (1st in Asia) |
| Feb9 | British government declares a state of emergency over a miners' strike. . |
| Feb21 | US President Richard M Nixon makes his historic trip to China, the first of its kind for an American leader. Exactly three years later, Nixon's close friend, Attorney General John Mitchell, along with White House aides John Ehrlichman and HR Haldeman, were sentenced to 2 1/2 to eight years in prison for their roles in the Watergate cover-up. Nixon was impeached from office six month earlier. |
| Feb22 | Seven people died in an IRA bomb attack at Aldershot. |
| Mar13 | Britain and China resumed full diplomatic relations after 22 years. |
| Mar24 | Great Britain imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland |
| May15 | Whilst campaigning in the US Elections, Alambama governor George Wallace is shot five times and is left paralyzed by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, Maryland. |
| May22 | Ceylon becomes Republic of Sri Lanka as its constitution is ratified |
| President Nixon arrived in Moscow on a week's visit -- the first U.S. president to visit the Soviet Union. | |
| Jun17 | Burglary of Democratic Party headquarters in Washington, D.C., started the Watergate political scandal. |
| Aug4 | Arthur Bremer was jailed for 63 years for shooting George Wallace, governor of Alabama. |
| President Idi. Amin, declared that Uganda would expel 50,000 Asians with British passports to Britain within three months. | |
| Aug26 | Summer Olympics open in Munich, West Germany |
| Sep4 | U S swimmer Mark Spitz won a record seventh gold medal at the Munich Summer Olympics. |
| Sep5 | Eleven Israeli athletes are killed by terrorists at Munich Olympics |
| Sep11 | The BBC programme "Mastermind" is first transmitted |
| Sep14 | The tonsure, the circular shaving of the head for monks, was abolished after centuries by Pope Paul VI |
| Oct5 | United Reformed Church founded out of Congregational and Presbyterian Churches in E&W |
| Oct29 | The Black September guerrilla group hijacked a Lufthansa Boeing 727 as it flew over Turkey and demanded the release of three colleagues still held for the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games. |
| Nov7 | President Nixon (R) re-elected defeating George McGovern (D) |
| Dec7 |
The final Apollo mission to the moon is launched. Astronauts Schmitt, Cernan and Evans make up the crew of Apollo 17 which lands on the moon's surface on December 19th |
| Dec23 | Rescue finally came to the survivors of a Uruguayan Air Force plane which had crashed in the Andes 72 days earlier. The 16 survivors, members of a rugby team from Montevideo, kept themselves alive by eating the flesh of their fellow passengers who had died in the crash |
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