Where were you in 72?

[imperfect]

What can you recall about 72?

I was 9 yrs old and lived in Meriden, Ct (moved in 75 to Orlando, FL)

I remember mom asking my sister and I at Thanksgiving if we would like a little brother or sister and we said, "Naaaah."

Three weeks later she brought a big fat baby brother home from the hospital that she told me "got" on Dec 8, 1972. Yes, I didn't even know she was pregnant. We didn't talk about those kinds of things (back in the day.)

Boy did that Xmas stink. We each got a walkie talkie from the drug store. UGH. Charlie Brown Xmas indeed.

Now, he's 33 (almost) and he is my little baby brother and I couldn't imagine my life without him.

Oh, and I am a CARAF! or a CARAT + 12

[kiwimobro]

Hey wow. We had a similar experience in '73. We were told we were going to get a little bro or sis and come July we got a lil sis. She's now 31 with 5 children! I could not have imagined life without her!
As with all my chilhood and up til I was 21, I lived on Auckland's North Shore, New Zealand

[Healing Oil]

I wasn't even a thought. In fact, my parents hadn't even gone through puberty in 72'.

[Tony Trout]

I wasn't even developing eyelids in 1972......so I wouldn't know.

[triplet mom]

i think i was in 5th grade, discovering boys, and getting all goo goo eyed over the Osmonds and David Cassidy and Bobby Sherman. Each month I HAD to get a Tiger Beat magazine, too.
:p :p :p

[imperfect]

i think i was in 5th grade, discovering boys, and getting all goo goo eyed over the Osmonds and David Cassidy and Bobby Sherman. Each month I HAD to get a Tiger Beat magazine, too.
:p :p :p

LEIF GARRETT! My first love looked just like him. Sigh
My sister had Willie Aames all over her wall.

:p

[The Unknown Gomer]

In 1972? Let's see... *counts on fingers*...

I was FIVE! Just starting kindygarten!

Here I yam! So proud to be stepping out and starting my first day ever of school! Oooooh! :)

[JamieM.]

I wasn't even born in 1972 :eek: :eek: !!

I came along a year later!!

[imperfect]

LEIF GARRETT! My first love looked just like him. Sigh
My sister had Willie Aames all over her wall.

:p
OK...since u added a pic from 72, here am I at 9 with that BIG FAT baby the stork brought my mom for Christmas.

[imperfect]

1972:
The God Father
Hawaii Five O!!!! Na na na na na na na na na Do the dance
Stairway to Heaven
American Pie - Not Jason Biggs kiddies...I"m talkin the real Pie by Don Mclean.
Oh and for all you dawgs out there...we already coined the phrase Superfly.

Other needless trivia.
Do you all remember this stuff? The quiz is fun.
http://www.superseventies.com/1972.html

[prayercloth sis]

I was 7 years old and in the scond grade. Mrs Jennings was my teacher. I loved putting on a show and still do. I was part of a spelling team that year. I think that it was just to let the parents know what we were doing in class, not a competition.

Rhonie

[wbthornton]

Like Rhonie ^^ I was 7 years old ;)

[Weebie]

I was 3, so I don't remember anything. I was probably watching Captain Kangaroo on TV!

[wbthornton]

I was 3, so I don't remember anything. I was probably watching Captain Kangaroo on TV!
Hehehehe......I was doing that at 7 ;)

So, I see you haven't earned your 2nd ^ yet :)

[Weebie]

So what's with the ^? How did I get one? And how do you get a second one?

[wbthornton]

The first ^ (carat) is for 30.......you add one for each 10th year afterwards. So I'm a ^^ ;)

[rhjanes]

attending 8th grade in Springfield Virginia.

[rossid]

I was six and between kindergarten and first grade depending on what part of the year we are talking about. My brother was born in 71 and joined my middle brother who was born in 69. My mother, father, and myself, had moved to Iowa from Italy just four years earlier. I don't seem to remember toys or TV shows. One year I did get a little painted fire engine made out of wood. It had a bell that chimed when you rolled it on the ground and a fire hose that looked similar to a shoe string.

Good thread.

:D

[prayercloth sis]

i think i was in 5th grade, discovering boys, and getting all goo goo eyed over the Osmonds and David Cassidy and Bobby Sherman. Each month I HAD to get a Tiger Beat magazine, too.
:p :p :p

Oh My God, I loved Tiger Beat!!!! Leif Garrett, The Bay City Rollers, Donnie Osmond, Willie Aames, and the list could go on and on.

I had forgotten about that, Thanks for the memories!! Those good old days!!!

Rhonie

[Thomas508]

Had to be the worst year of my life I was only 5 but I remember alot of bad things I broke my leg, I was in and out of the hospital with a kidney infection and my mother died.

Billy T

[baker12]

I'll be 33 on Oct 4.

[RevZeek]

Where were you in '72?

I was a twinkle in my parent's eyes. (born in '80)

Oh...Hey Angie! Long time no see! :D

-Zack

[kiwisongbird]

72 I was twelve and loving life, I played the scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz at school, I thought boys were cool but wasn't really interested in them as more than friends, in fact I was tall (i'm not now!!!) and had short hair so sometimes was mistaken for a boy anyway...loved God, didn't fall away until 74...eeww, too many things to think about doing this...

72 was awesome, cool, wonderful, fun, exciting - great year... :)

I lived in New Plymouth on the west coast of the north island of new Zealand, have a look you guys, under an absolutely beautifull mountain called Taranaki which looks like Mt Fuji, in fact if you go see the movie The Last Samurai, then you will see Taranaki (or Mt Egmont) cos they used it for a double!!!!! :)

[prayercloth sis]

72 I was twelve and loving life, I played the scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz at school, I thought boys were cool but wasn't really interested in them as more than friends, in fact I was tall (i'm not now!!!) and had short hair so sometimes was mistaken for a boy anyway...loved God, didn't fall away until 74...eeww, too many things to think about doing this...

72 was awesome, cool, wonderful, fun, exciting - great year... :)

I lived in New Plymouth on the west coast of the north island of new Zealand, have a look you guys, under an absolutely beautifull mountain called Taranaki which looks like Mt Fuji, in fact if you go see the movie The Last Samurai, then you will see Taranaki (or Mt Egmont) cos they used it for a double!!!!! :)

If you got any photos I would love to see them. Sounds beautiful!!!!

Rhonie

[Jason]

I was two. In May my family moved from Toledo, Ohio (where I was born) to Phoenix, Arizona (where I live now). In August, my grandpa (dad's dad) died and we flew back to Indiana for his funeral.

Here's a song I wrote about grandpa:

When Jesus Called Your Name

Words and music by Jason Mitchener and Kitty Hart
(Copyright 1999, Solid Walnut Music / ASCAP. All rights reserved.)

Dedicated to Robert Mitchener (1917-1972)

Grandpa was a good man, worked hard all the time
Never made much money but he saved ev'ry dime
Provided for his children, cared deeply for his wife
He was only fifty four years when he lost his life

CHORUS:
Grandpa, were you ready
When Jesus called your name?
Was the Savior happy
To see you on that day?
Did the angels rejoice
Did you hear His voice
When Jesus called your name?

Grandpa died when I was too young to understand
So I look through photographs to get to know the man
Pictures don't tell everything and memories often lie
It's hard to say if grandpa knew Jesus when he died

CHORUS

BRIDGE:
We all search for answers but the question still remains . . .
Oh, will you be ready when Jesus calls your name?

CHORUS

[kiwisongbird]

If you got any photos I would love to see them. Sounds beautiful!!!!

Rhonie

So sad, one time when we moved house, a whole box of photographs went missing and that time of our lives was in it! :(

I remember hanging upsidedown on the jungle gym at school and seeing the mountain upsidedown - a lovely childhood memory :)

[kiwimobro]

If you got any photos I would love to see them. Sounds beautiful!!!!

Rhonie
Here ya go .... check out this site.

http://www.taranakinz.org/destination/index.cfm?pageid=1

[kiwimobro]

and ...

[kiwimobro]

but wait ...

[wbthornton]

Whoa......so cool Kevin :)

[kiwimobro]

hehe ... Middle Earth ... with the roads and fences

[prayercloth sis]

Here ya go .... check out this site.

http://www.taranakinz.org/destination/index.cfm?pageid=1

If that doesn't make you know that there is a God....

Man where is that picture from? Just breathtaking!!!

Thanks!

Rhonie :eek:

Okay Kev

You are the official "photo poster dude"

I love traveling and seeing all of the beautiful country sides that are here in the USA. We are trully a blessed people.

You have to tell where each of those pix are from, city and state if you will.

Thanks for sharing!!! I loved the photos!!! I am a photo person!!!
God Bless

[prayercloth sis]

Just upclose photos??????

Way too cool!!!!!


I pick up on it sooner or later!!!

Rhonie

[imperfect]

I was a twinkle in my parent's eyes. (born in '80)

Oh...Hey Angie! Long time no see! :D

-Zack
Hey Zack. Yeah, I'm back!
Actually, your parents were just youngins too weren't they?

[Bonnie_Ty]

Hmmmm, this thread looks interesting... I think I'll actually read it later... ;)

In '72 I had just moved to Indiana from Kentucky, was 10 and a big dork. My dad used to cut our hair - right before class pictures were taken! :eek: He had no clue what he was doing! And we had super-short bangs which were so crooked it looked like he was walking cornfields while cutting... :eek::eek: (I'm glad I don't have any scanned pix of them!!!) In Kentucky we had to wear dresses to school and when we moved to Indiana we could wear pants. I thought that was the best thing! (I am one of the world's biggest tomboys...) I started school there in the 5th grade and two popular boys fought over me! :eek: Back then all boys had cooties.... :p

Eeeeeeeeeewwwwww, do y'all remember those nasty polyester suits? :rolleyes:

[imperfect]

Hmmmm, this thread looks interesting... I think I'll actually read it later... ;)

In '72 I had just moved to Indiana from Kentucky, was 10 and a big dork.

Eeeeeeeeeewwwwww, do y'all remember those nasty polyester suits? :rolleyes:

OH man! Dad's and hair styling don't mix. My dad braided my hair so tight that I am still a whimp at the hairdresser's and still remember the headache and began wearing my hair in one big rat's nest cuz I refuse to let that dude get near me with a brush.

[prayercloth sis]

silk shirts???? platform shoes???? wide lapels eeeewwwww!!!!

How about tye dye which is now back in and the BIIIG hair????

daisies everywhere and peace signs and flower painted vans!!!!

The Partridge Family, The Monkeys, Tony Orlando and Dawn????

Just good old days, I was .....7!

Peace

Rhonie

[sirlok]

In '72 I was....not born yet.... :)

[Jason]

The Partridge Family


I think I was a Partridge Family reject. Pic taken in '79 though.

[ruepickle]

let's see, my parents were in their freshman year of college (or in my dad's case, his only year) they graduated as the class of '71!

[RevZeek]

Hey Zack. Yeah, I'm back!
Actually, your parents were just youngins too weren't they?

Well...not really I was kind of the tag along child! My oldest brother was born in '72

[Bonnie_Ty]

silk shirts???? platform shoes???? wide lapels eeeewwwww!!!!

How about tye dye which is now back in and the BIIIG hair????

daisies everywhere and peace signs and flower painted vans!!!!

The Partridge Family, The Monkeys, Tony Orlando and Dawn????

Just good old days, I was .....7!

Peace

Rhonie

What's so cool is - we have two outbuildings here and I have yet to go through them to see all the goodies (antiques) left behind. Anyway, this morning I needed to get out the wheelbarrow from one of the buildings and on a stool was an old copy of Tiger Beat from 1966! When you mentioned the Monkees, it made me recall that there was a Q&A section in it, sort of like a Dear Abby column, where they answered teen girls' dating questions (strange!). I know that's 6 years prior to '72, but it's cool that there are still pieces of history floating around! I also saw a calendar (complete!) from '66 hanging on a nail... :cool:

I also need to get up in the attic and see what else I can pull out...
(We have a bookcase up there loaded with old books. The former owners were school teachers, so we have some pretty cool books! Anyway, I haven't gone through all the books yet, but did pull one out that was on the top - written and autographed in the 1870s!!! :eek: :cool: )

K, back to the thread...

[prayercloth sis]

I tried to post this a few days ago and I guess it didn't post!!!

Sounds like a treasue box to me!!!!! Wish I could come dig with you!!!
I love thrift stores and garage sales!!! You never know what you will find!!!

Rhonie

[pintogator]

In '72, I was 2 and living with my parents in married housing at the University of Florida. If there are any college football fans out there, when I was living in married housing, I used to play with Willie Jackson (who would later play WR for UF and for the Cowboys, Jags, Bengals, Saints, Falcons and Skins). Willie's dad was in school at UF at the time and playing football for UF.

[thirday]

I was 10 and was living in Columbia, Missouri. My parents had divorced 2 yrs earlier and we (kids) were living with my dad. He got custody of us, unheard of in those days. He re-married 2 yrs later. Good times with my best friends. Baseball, fishing etc..........

[rossid]

I was six and starting first grade. Had to move to a new school because the one where I attended kindergarten closed. Was that a hint?

:D

[sirlok]

I was about -1 years old...I don't remember much...now if I were a mormon I think I would of been some spirit baby in some far away planet...

[prayercloth sis]

Okay some of you historians out there post some events that happened in 1972!!!

Rhonie

[Jason]

The Duke Carat Clown moved to AZ.

Oh, major historical events? Hmm...

Nixon was reelected

[SirMax]

I was 2 years old...that's about all I know...

[Jason]

I was 2 years old...that's about all I know...

Hmm, so was I.

[SirMax]

Hmm, so was I.


:D :D :D

[Jason]

:D :D :D

When's your b-day?

[SirMax]

When's your b-day?


getting personal now huh?

June 22 and yours?

[Jason]

getting personal now huh?

June 22 and yours?

April 8. I'm older. :(

[SirMax]

April 8. I'm older. :(


haha!!! just kidding....

[Jason]

haha!!! just kidding....

But beauty before age right? So I go first.

[SirMax]

But beauty before age right? So I go first.


wow we haven't even really been introduced and you insult me right off....I think we'll get along just fine :p

[Jason]

wow we haven't even really been introduced and you insult me right off....I think we'll get along just fine :p

ROTFLOL!

[SirMax]

ROTFLOL!


:D

seeing hanging around Rob has made my backbone thick...

so where do you live that you are still up this late?

[Jason]

:D

seeing hanging around Rob has made my backbone thick...

so where do you live that you are still up this late?

Phoenix. But I sleep from 3 am 'til noon.

[kiwimobro]

I think Jasonmit aka Mitcho is in his own time zone - prolly related to him being an honarary Aussie

[Jason]

I think Jasonmit aka Mitcho is in his own time zone - prolly related to him being an honarary Aussie

More like in the twilight zone.

[SirMax]

Phoenix. But I sleep from 3 am 'til noon.


sounds like my life...

[Jason]

sounds like my life...

Yeah, but I choose to. ;) I'm on disability.

[SirMax]

Yeah, but I choose to. ;) I'm on disability.


well my job chooses for me!!!

[Jason]

well my job chooses for me!!!

Thought so. Magistrate or something, I heard?

[kiwimobro]

well, my time zone thingy makes it that I'm on here in the middle of the night ;)

[Jason]

This board is weird. Read enough and you think you know people without ever being introduced.

[Jason]

well, my time zone thingy makes it that I'm on here in the middle of the night ;)

It's okay. Sometimes I'm the only one on and I refuse to reply to my own posts.

[SirMax]

Thought so. Magistrate or something, I heard?


yep that would be me...I'm working midnight shift this month

[Jason]

yep that would be me...I'm working midnight shift this month

What does a magistrate do? (*and I thought mock trial in high school would teach me something*)

[SirMax]

It's okay. Sometimes I'm the only one on and I refuse to reply to my own posts.


it increases your post count.... :p

[Jason]

it increases your post count.... :p

That's okay. I just passed Mama. :D

[SirMax]

What does a magistrate do? (*and I thought mock trial in high school would teach me something*)


well we set bond/bail for people that get arrested, we sign arrest warrants and search warrants, we marry people and now I'm being trained to hold traffic court, worthless check court and small claims court

[SirMax]

That's okay. I just passed Mama. :D

well since they deleted 95% of mine I just don't care anymore :p

[Jason]

well we set bond/bail for people that get arrested, we sign arrest warrants and search warrants, we marry people and now I'm being trained to hold traffic court, worthless check court and small claims court

Ah, so you're the people at the beginning of the second half of Law & Order. ;)

[Jason]

well since they deleted 95% of mine I just don't care anymore :p

Weren't you like #1 before that? 15000?

[SirMax]

Weren't you like #1 before that? 15000?


I was #1 for a little while

[imperfect]

Okay some of you historians out there post some events that happened in 1972!!!

Rhonie
Billy C asked me to marry him after our 4th grade dance. Is that historic? Probably not.

I posted some pop culture stuff, but I'll look up some historic events cuz frankly, I don't remember anything going on in the world that year other than what happened to me...

[Col. Mustard]

Billy C asked me to marry him after our 4th grade dance. Is that historic? Probably not.

I posted some pop culture stuff, but I'll look up some historic events cuz frankly, I don't remember anything going on in the world that year other than what happened to me...
lol!
:D

[Shelly Gomer]

hmmm......let me see.....I was 11, living at Ellsworth AFB in SD. Remember those little 45 records? I spent every hard earned penny to buy them!
Tiger Beat Magazine---Boy does that bring back memories! Back in the day!! Those days were fun!! NO WORRIES!

[The Unknown Gomer]

...now I'm being trained to hold traffic court...Ohhh, so you weren't doing traffic court back in, say, January and February of this year yet? Whew! So it's a pretty safe bet that the evil things I said in the car about the presiding judges after my two court dates to fight my utterly bogus speeding ticket were mostly likely NOT said about you then? :p I've been wondering about that, and hoping that it wasn't you...

But answer me this, in traffic court, (since you're in training at the moment, maybe you'll know this :) ), is it actually procedure to take the 3 or 4 "not guilty" pleas, and stick them at the VERY end of the docket for morning court session, and make us wait through all the 200+ "guilty" pleas (including guilty pleas of those already incarcerated, as well as the "second roll call" guilty pleas) before our cases are actually heard? :confused:

[prayercloth sis]

hmmm......let me see.....I was 11, living at Ellsworth AFB in SD. Remember those little 45 records? I spent every hard earned penny to buy them!
Tiger Beat Magazine---Boy does that bring back memories! Back in the day!! Those days were fun!! NO WORRIES!

Definitely!!!

Rhonie

Still have alot of those 45s.

[SueQ]

I remember my sister having a Donny Osmond album and I would secretly listen to it...just saw him in concert last winter...excellent show... can admit my crush now...wait...isn't this a 3D site?.....sorry....they'r e awesome too! :p

[Worshipmentor]

Rhonie, you scare me! You still have those old 45's? what do you do with them, use them as decorative coasters? And what's all this cooing about Donnie and ole what's his name? Next thing you know we will hear about Keith Partidge!

Seriously though, I remember '72 as a tragic year. We were still in Vietman, I was 9 and getting terrorized by the guy who use to be my best friend and the town we lived near was destroyed by a flood caused by hurricane Agnes (upsate New York).

Musically I had one 45 of my own (three dog night-"One is the loneliest number") and my two favorite albums to swipe (oops, :eek: borrow) from my brothers were Steele Dan and The Doobie Brother's, particularly "Taken it to the Streets" I really liked the singer voice.

*as he wrinkles his brow and looks like a true CARAF searching the memory banks struggling to remember :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: *

I think it was Michael McDonald.

[Mr. J]

1973 here.
Close, but no cigar.

[stubbornmuse]

That was a fabulous year! I was born on January 5.

Julie

[BJ]

Okay some of you historians out there post some events that happened in 1972!!!

Rhonie
I was 17 & a Jr in High School, really into art, drama, music, music, & more music... going to lots of concerts (Grateful Dead, New Riders of the Purple Sage, early early Eagles, Lynnard Skynnard, Jethro Tull, Neil Young, Yes, Little Feat, Leon Russell, Birds... more "underground" than mainstream radio hits), also a number of Bluegrass festivals, perpetually depressed because of the Beatles break up... hanging out on weekends at my friend's family cabin in the mountains, hiking around the Blue Ridge Parkway & Skyline Drive... doing things I shouldn't have been doing :eek: ...
oh, history? got a D in that... I was pretty much in my own little world!

[oohmercyme]

I was born!

[CAfan]

In 72 I was a bratty 3 year old. I actually have a lot of memories from when I was that young.

[BJ]

July of '72.... I was 17 & just completed my Jr year of HS and was getting ready to take a roadtrip to FL with my girlfriend. :eek: Those were some pretty wild and crazy times when I tried to ignore God. He never gave up on me though & I eventually gave up MY control to him. :)

[stubby]

Just a twinkle in my dad's eye.
I wasn't born until March of '74.

[Pouye]

I was emerging from a womb...

Rock

[Tony Trout]

I wasn't even developing eyelids in '72......

[kiwisongbird]

I was twelve and living in New Plymouth, New Zealand - I starred as the Scarecrow in a school production of the Wizard of Oz - people at our school were mucking around with ouija (spelling?) boards and were suspended from school - um, a teacher hassled me when I wasn't allowed to sell raffle tickets to raise funds because my mum and dad didn't believe it was right to encourage people to gamble...um what else... I loved to sing as I always love to sing - my sister's friend was starring in a production of the Sound of Music and I went along several times and my friends were in a performance of Oliver which I went to several times as well - New Plymouth was a great place to be to enjoy music!!!

I really enjoyed being twelve, I think from ten to twelve was perhaps the best time for me in my childhood... Lovely memories to have - thanks :)

[prayercloth sis]

I was 7....wooo hooo....2 nd grade....

in elementary school...riding bikes and playing with doll babies and paper dolls and hand me down barbies..from my big sisters...

with pig tails and popsicles...spoiled rotten..and still am...lol...

Rhonie

[Whiteheart]

Dunno if this has been posted. But aside from being born myself in 1972,,,these are a few less important things that happened.

Jan to Jun

Events of 1972

January

* January 2 - The Pierre Hotel Heist: Six men rob the safety deposit boxes of The Pierre Hotel in New York City, of at least $4 million.
* January 3 - The classic musical Show Boat airs for the first time on network television, when NBC shows MGM's 1951 film adaptation on NBC Monday Night at the Movies.


* January 4 - Rose Heilbron becomes the first woman judge at the Old Bailey in London.
* January 4 - Kurt Waldheim becomes the Secretary General of the United Nations.
* January 5 - U.S. President Richard Nixon orders the development of a space shuttle program.
* January 7 - An Iberian Airlines passenger plane crashes into a 250-metre peak on the island of Ibiza; 104 dead.
* January 9 - Howard Hughes speaks by telephone to denounce Clifford Irving's supposed biography about him.
* January 9 - RMS Queen Elizabeth is destroyed by fire in Hong Kong harbor.
* January 11 - East Pakistan wins independence with the name Bangladesh.
* January 13 - Prime Minister of Ghana Kofi Abrefa Busia is overthrown in a military coup.
* January 14 - King Frederick IX of Denmark dies; he's succeeded by his daughter Queen Margaret II of Denmark.
* January 19 - The Libertarian enclave Minerva on a platform in the South Pacific, sponsored by the Phoenix Foundation, declares independence. Soon neighboring Tonga annexes the area and dismantles the platform.
* January 23 - A New Delhi bootlegger sells wood alcohol to a wedding party - 100 dead.
* January 24 - Japanese soldier Shoichi Yokoi is discovered in Guam. He had spent 28 years in the jungle.
* January 25 - Shirley Chisholm, the first African American Congresswoman, announces her candidacy for President.
* January 26 - Yugoslavian air stewardress Vesna Vulovic is the only survivor when her plane crashes in Czechoslovakia. She survives after falling 9000 metres in the tail section of the aircraft.
* January 28 - Richard Chanfray claims he is the Count of St Germain on French television.
* January 30 - Bloody Sunday: - the British Army kills 13 unarmed Roman Catholic civil rights marchers in Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
* January 30 - Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.
* January 31 - King Mahendra of Nepal dies (the second king to die that month) and is succeeded by his son, Birendra.

[edit] February


* February 1 - First scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) is introduced (price $395).
* February 2 - A bomb explodes at the British Yacht Club in West Berlin. The only casualty is Irwin Beelitz, a German boat builder.
* February 2 - The German militant group Movement 2 June announces its support of the Irish Republican Army.
* February 2 - Anti-British riots throughout Ireland take place. The British Embassy in Dublin is burned to the ground, as are several British-owned businesses.
* February 4 - Mariner 9 sends pictures from Mars.
* February 5 - U.S. airlines begin mandatory inspection of passengers and baggage.
* February 5 - Bob Douglas becomes the first African American elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
* February 9 - The British government declares a state of emergency over a miners' strike.
* February 15 - President of Ecuador José María Velasco Ibarra is deposed for the fourth time.
* February 15 - Phonorecords are granted U.S. Federal copyright protection for the first time.
* February 17 - Volkswagen Beetle sales exceed those of the Ford Model-T when the 15,007,034th Beetle is produced.
* February 18 - The California Supreme Court voids the state's death penalty, commuting all death sentences to life in prison.
* February 21 - The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon.
* February 21-February 28 - U.S. President Richard M. Nixon makes an unprecedented 8-day visit to the People's Republic of China and meets with Mao Zedong.
* February 22 - An Official IRA bomb kills 7 in Aldershot, England.
* February 23 - Angela Davis is released from jail. A Caruthers, California farmer, Rodger McAfee, helps her make bail.
* February 23 - A Lufthansa plane is hijacked and taken to Aden. Passengers are released after a ransom of 16 million German marks is agreed.
* February 24 - North Vietnamese negotiators walk out of the Paris Peace Talks to protest U.S. air raids.
* February 26 - A coal sludge spill kills 125 in Buffalo Creek.
* February 26 - Luna 20 comes back to Earth with a cargo of moon rocks.

[edit] March


* March 1 - The Thai province Yasothon is created after being split off from the Ubon Ratchathani Province.
* March 1 - British schoolboy Timothy Davey, 14, is sentenced in Turkey for "conspiring to sell cannabis".
* March 1 - The Club of Rome publishes its report Limits to Growth.
* March 2 - The Pioneer 10 spacecraft is launched from Cape Kennedy, to be the first man-made satellite to leave the solar system.
* March 2 - Jean-Bedel Bokassa becomes President of the Central African Republic.
* March 3 - Sculpted figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson are completed at Stone Mountain, Georgia.
* March 4 - Libya and the Soviet Union sign a cooperation treaty.
* March 5 - Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis leaves the Greek Communist Party.
* March 13 - The United Kingdom and the People's Republic of China elevate diplomatic exchanges to the ambassadorial level after 22 years.
* March 13 - Clifford Irving admits to a New York court that he had fabricated Howard Hughes' "autobiography".
* March 15 - The Godfather was released in New York City, New York.
* March 16 - The first building of the Pruitt-Igoe housing development is destroyed.
* March 19 - India and Bangladesh sign a friendship treaty.
* March 22 - The 92nd U.S. Congress votes to send the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification.
* March 24 - The British government announces the prorogation of the Parliament of Northern Ireland and the introduction of 'Direct Rule' of Northern Ireland, after the Unionist government refuses to cede security powers.
* March 25 - Après toi by Vicky Leandros (music by Mario Panas and Klaus Munro, text by Yves Dessca and Klaus Munro) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1972 for Luxembourg.
* March 26 - An avalanche on Mount Fuji kills 19 climbers.
* March 30 - Vietnam War: The Easter Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam.

[edit] April


* April 7 - U.S. Mafioso Joe Gallo is shot in Umberto's Clam House in Little Italy.
* April 10 - The U.S. and the Soviet Union join some 70 nations in signing an agreement to ban biological warfare.
* April 10 - A 7.0 Richter scale earthquake kills 5,000 people in the Iranian province of Fars.
* April 10 - The 44th Annual Academy Awards are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles.
* April 13 - The Universal Postal Union decides to recognize the People's Republic of China as the only legitimate Chinese representative, effectively expelling the Republic of China administering Taiwan.
* April 15 - Roberta Flack's song "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" reaches #1 on Billboard, remaining #1 for 6 weeks. Only 2 songs remain #1 for 6 weeks (the longest in 1972) - the other is "Alone Again (Naturally)" by Gilbert O'Sullivan on July 29.
* April 16 - Charlie Chaplin re-enters the U.S. to receive a Special Oscar (Academy Award) from Daniel Taradash.
* April 16 - Apollo 16 (John Young, Ken Mattingly, Charlie Duke) is launched. During the mission, the astronauts achieve a lunar rover speed record of 18 km/h.
* April 16 - Vietnam War: Nguyen Hue offensive - Prompted by the North Vietnamese offensive, the United States resumes bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong.
* April 18 - The Roland Corporation is founded in Osaka.
* April 22 - Sylvia Cook and John Fairfax finish rowing across the Pacific.
* April 27 - A no-confidence vote against German Chancellor Willy Brandt fails under obscure circumstances.
* April 29 - The fourth anniversary of the Broadway musical Hair is celebrated with a free concert at a Central Park bandshell, followed by dinner at the Four Seasons. There, 13 Black Panther protesters and the show's co-author, Jim Rado, are arrested for disturbing the peace and marijuana use.

[edit] May


* May - Burundian Genocide against Hutu begins. More than 500,000 Hutus died.
* May - The Magnavox Odyssey is released, thus marking the dawn of the video game age.
* May 2 - Fire in a silver mine in Idaho, United States kills 91.
* May 5 - An Alitalia DC-8 crashes west of Palermo, Sicily (115 dead).
* May 7 - General elections are held in Italy.
* May 8 - U.S. President Richard Nixon orders the mining of Haiphong Harbor in Vietnam.
* May 13 - Fire in a nightclub atop the Sennichi department store in Osaka, Japan, leaves 115 dead.
* May 15 - Governor George C. Wallace of Alabama is shot by Arthur Herman Bremer at a Laurel, Maryland political rally.
* May 17 - The closing notice is posted for the Broadway musical Hair.
* May 18 - Four troopers of both SAS and SBS are parachuted onto the RMS Queen Elizabeth 2, 1,000 miles off Britain in the Atlantic, after a bomb threat and ransom demand, which turns out to be bogus.
* May 19 - Three out of 6 bombs explode in the Springer Press building in Hamburg, Germany, injuring 17 (the Red Army Faction claims responsibility).
* May 21 - In Rome, Laszlo Toth attacks Michelangelo's "Pietà" statue with a sledgehammer, shouting that he is Jesus Christ.
* May 23 - Tamil United Front (now known as Tamil United Liberation Front, a pro-Tamil organization, is founded.
* May 22 - Ceylon becomes the republic of Sri Lanka under prime minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike, when its new constitution is ratified.
* May 24 - Rangers lift the Cup Winners Cup, defeating Dynamo Moscow in the final at the Nou Camp. Their supporters cause a riot, with the team banned from defending the trophy the following season.
* May 24 - A RAF bomb explodes in the Campbell Barracks of the U.S. Army Supreme European Command in Heidelberg, West Germany. Three U.S. soldiers (Clyde Bonner, Ronald Woodard and Charles Peck) are killed.
* May 26 - Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT I treaty in Moscow, as well as the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and other agreements.
* May 26 - First failed attempt at Watergate first break-in: the "Ameritas dinner" at the Watergate.
* May 26 - Wernher von Braun retires from NASA, frustrated by the agency's unwillingness to pursue a manned trans-orbital space program.
* May 26 - Willandra National Park is established in Australia.
* May 27 - Second failed attempt at Watergate first break-in.
* May 28 - Watergate first break-in.
* May 30 - The Angry Brigade goes on trial in the United Kingdom.
* May 30 - Three Japanese Red Army members kill 24 and injure 100 in Lod Airport, Israel.

[edit] June


* June - Iraq nationalizes the Iraq Petroleum Company.
* June 2 - Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe, Holger Meins and some other members of Red Army Faction are arrested in Frankfurt am Main after a shootout.
* June 3 - Sally Priesand becomes the first female U.S. rabbi.
* June 4 - Angela Davis is found not guilty of murder.
* June 14-June 23 - Hurricane Agnes kills 117 on the U.S. East Coast.
* June 15 - Ulrike Meinhof and Gerhard Müller of Red Army Faction are arrested in a teacher's apartment in Langenhagen, West Germany.
* June 15-June 18 - The first U.S. Libertarian Party National Convention is held in Denver, Colorado.
* June 16 - 108 die as two passenger trains hit debris of a collapsed railway tunnel near Soissons, France.
* June 17 - Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives are arrested for burglarizing the offices of the Democratic National Committee.
* June 17 - The United States returns Okinawa, occupied and governed since the WW-II Battle of Okinawa, back to the government of Japan.
* June 17 - Chilean president Salvador Allende forms a new government.
* June 18 - A British European Airways Trident 1 jet airliner crashes alongside the busy A30 Staines bypass, killing all 118 passengers and crew.
* June 18 - West Germany beats the Soviet Union 3-0 to win Euro 72
* June 23 - Watergate Scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House chief of staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the C.I.A. to obstruct the F.B.I.'s investigation into the Watergate break-ins.
* June 26 - Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney become the co-founders of Atari.
* June 28 - U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that no new draftees will be sent to Vietnam.
* June 29 - Furman v. Georgia: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that the death penalty is unconstitutional.

[Whiteheart]

Jul to Dec

[edit] July


* July - U.S. actress Jane Fonda tours North Vietnam, during which she is photographed sitting on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun.
* July 1 - The Broadway production of the musical Hair closes after 1,752 performances.
* July 1 - The Canadian ketch Vega fyling the Greenpeace III banner collides with the French naval minesweeper La Paimpolaise, - While in international waters to protest French nuclear weapon tests in the South Pacific.
* July 2 - Following Pakistan's surrender to India in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, both nations sign the historic Simla Agreement, agreeing to settle their disputes bilaterally.
* July 4 - The first Rainbow Gathering is held in Colorado.
* July 8 - The U.S. sells grain to the Soviet Union for $750 million.
* July 10 - A stampede of elephants kills 24 in the Chandka Forest in India.
* July 10-July 14 - The Democratic National Convention meets in Miami Beach. Senator George McGovern, who backs the immediate and complete withdrawal of U.S. troops from South Vietnam, is nominated for President. He names fellow Senator Thomas Eagleton as his running mate.
* July 15 - The Pruitt-Igoe housing development is demolished in Saint Louis, Missouri.
* July 18 - Anwar Sadat expels 20,000 Soviet advisors from Egypt.
* July 21 - Bloody Friday: 22 bombs planted by the Provisional IRA explode in Belfast, Northern Ireland; 9 people are killed and 130 seriously injured.
* July 21 - Comedian George Carlin is arrested by Milwaukee, Wisconsin police for public obscenity, for reciting his “Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television” at Summerfest.
* July 21 - Collision between two trains near Sevilla, Spain kills 76.
* July 23 - The United States launches Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite.
* July 25 - U.S. health officials admit that blacks were used as guinea pigs in a syphilis experiment.
* July 29 - A national dock strike begins in Britain.

[edit] August


* August 1 - U.S. Senator Thomas Eagleton, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, withdraws from the race after revealing he was once treated for mental illness. He was eventually replaced by Sargent Shriver.
* August 4 - Arthur Bremer is jailed for 63 years for shooting George Wallace.
* August 4 - Dictator Idi Amin declares that Uganda will expel 50,000 Asians with British passports to Britain within three months.
* August 10 - A brilliant, daytime meteor skips off the Earth's atmosphere as it streaks over the western US into Canada.
* August 12 - The last U.S. ground troops are withdrawn from Vietnam.
* August 14 - An East German Ilyushin airliner crashes near East Berlin killing all 156 onboard.
* August 16 - The Royal Moroccan Air Force mistakenly fires upon, but fails to bring down, Hassan II of Morocco's plane while he is traveling back to Rabat.
* August 21 - The Republican National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida renominates U.S. President Richard Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew for a second term.
* August 22 - Twenty-seven-year-old John Wojtowicz and 18-year-old Sal Naturile hold several Chase Manhattan Bank employees hostage for 17 hours in Flatbush, Brooklyn, N.Y.
* August 22 - Jane Fonda makes an antiwar broadcast from a hotel room in Hanoi.
* August 26-September 11 - The 1972 Summer Olympics are held in Munich, West Germany.
* August 28 - Prince William of Gloucester dies in an air crash.

[edit] September

* September 1 - Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky in a chess match at Reykjavík, Iceland, becoming the first American chess champion (see Match of the Century).
* September 4 - The Price Is Right moves to CBS. A previous version of the program, with Bill Cullen, had aired on NBC.
* September 5-September 6 - Munich Massacre: Eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich are murdered after 8 members of the Arab terrorist group Black September invade the Olympic Village; 5 guerillas and 1 policeman are also killed in a failed hostage rescue.
* September 14 - West Germany and Poland renew diplomatic relations.
* September 17 - Uganda announces that there are Tanzanian troops in its territory.
* September 17 - M*A*S*H debuts on CBS.
* September 18 - São Paulo Metro is inaugurated in Brazil.
* September 19 - A parcel bomb sent to the Israeli Embassy in London kills 1 diplomat.
* September 21 - Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos issues Proclamation No. 1081[1] placing the entire country under martial law.
* September 24 - An F-86 fighter aircraft leaving an air show at Sacramento Executive Airport fails to become airborne and crashes into a Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor, killing 12 children and 11 adults.
* September 25 - Norwegian EC referendum, 1972: Norway rejects membership in the European Economic Community.
* September 27 - The Joint Communique of the Government of Japan and the Government of the People's Republic of China is signed in Beijing.
* September 28 - The Canadian national men's hockey team defeats the Soviet national ice hockey team in game eight of the 1972 Summit Series (La Série du Siècle), 6-5, to win the series 4-3-1.
* September 29 - Sino-Japanese relations: Japan normalizes diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China (Taiwan).
* September 30 - The WWF Supershow is held at Shea Stadium in Flushing, NY. It is the first outdoor supershow in World Wrestling Entertainment history since breaking ties with NWA in 1963.

[edit] October


* October 1 - The first publication reporting the production of a recombinant DNA molecule, marks the birth of modern molecular biology methodology.

Jackson, David A.; Symons, Robert H.; and Berg, Paul. (1972). Biochemical Method for Inserting New Genetic Information into DNA of Simian Virus 40: Circular SV40 DNA Molecules Containing Lambda Phage Genes and the Galactose Operon of Escherichia coli. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 69(10), 2904-2909.

* October 2 - Denmark joins the European Community. The Faroe Islands stay out.
* October 5 - The United Reformed Church is founded out of the Congregational and Presbyterian Churches.
* October 6 - A train crash in Saltillo, Mexico kills 208.
* October 8 - R. Sargent Shriver is chosen to replace Thomas Eagleton as the U.S. vice-presidential nominee of the Democratic Party.
* October 12 - En route to her station in the Gulf of Tonkin, a racial brawl involving more than 100 sailors breaks out aboard the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk. Nearly 50 sailors are injured.
* October 13 - Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571: A Fairchild FH-227D passenger aircraft transporting a rugby union team crashes at about 14,000' in the Andes mountain range, near the Argentina/Chile border. Sixteen of the survivors are found alive December 20 but they have had to resort to cannibalism to survive (a movie based on these events was directed by Frank Marshall (movie producer) in 1993 starring Ethan Hawke (see external links).
* October 16 - A plane carrying U.S. Congressman Hale Boggs of Louisiana and 3 other men vanishes in Alaska. The wreckage has never been found, despite a massive search at the time.
* October 16 - Rainbow, a British television programme for children, debuts.
* October 16 - Rioting Maze Prison inmates cause a fire that destroys most of the camp.
* October 17 - Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom visits Yugoslavia.
* October 25 - The first female FBI agents are hired.
* October 25 - Belgian Eddy Merckx sets a new world hour record in cycling in Mexico City.
* October 26 - Following a visit to South Vietnam, U.S. National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger suggests that "peace is at hand."
* October 28 - The first flight of the Airbus A300, the first airliner built by Airbus
* October 29 - The Black September group hijacks a Lufthansa Boeing 727 over Turkey, and demands the release of 3 of their comrades still held for the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Olympic games.
* October 30 - U.S. President Richard Nixon approves legislation to increase Social Security spending by US$5.3 billion.
* October 30 - A commuter train collision in Chicago kills 45, injures hundreds.

[edit] November


* November 1 (exact date not known) - At a scientific meeting in Honolulu, Herbert Boyer and Stanley N. Cohen conceive the concept of recombinant DNA. They publish their results in November 1973 in PNAS. Separately in 1972, Paul Berg also recombines DNA in a test tube. Recombinant DNA technology has dramatically changed the field of biological sciences, especially biotechnology, and opened the door to genetically modified organisms.
* November 5 - A group of Amerindians occupies the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
* November 7 - U.S. presidential election, 1972: Republican incumbent Richard Nixon defeats Democratic Senator George McGovern in a landslide (the election had the lowest voter turnout since 1948, with only 55 percent of the electorate voting).
* November 11 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam.
* November 14 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 1,000 (1,003.16) for the first time.
* November 16 - The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization adopts the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage [1].
* November 19 - Seán Mac Stíofáin, a leader of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, is arrested in Dublin after giving an interview to RTÉ.
* November 22 - Vietnam War: The United States loses its first B-52 Stratofortress of the war.
* November 29 - Atari kicks off the first generation of video games with the release of their seminal arcade version of PONG, the first game to achieve commercial success.
* November 30 - Vietnam War: White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler tells the press that there will be no more public announcements concerning United States troop withdrawals from Vietnam due to the fact that troop levels are now down to 27,000.
* November 30 - Cod War: British Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home says that Royal Navy ships would be stationed to protect British trawlers off Iceland.

[edit] December


* December 2 - Edward Gough Whitlam becomes the first Labor Party Prime Minister of Australia for 23 years. He is famously sworn in on the election night and his first action using executive power is to withdraw all Australian personnel from the Vietnam War.
* December 7 - Apollo 17 (Gene Cernan, Ron Evans, Harrison Schmitt), the last manned mission to the Moon to date, is launched.
* December 7 - Provisional Irish Republican Army kidnaps Jean McConville in Belfast.
* December 7 - Imelda Marcos is stabbed and seriously wounded by an assailant; her bodyguards shoot him.
* December 8 - United Airlines Boeing 737 from Washington National to Chicago Midway crashes short of the runway, killing 43 of 61 onboard and 2 on the ground.
* December 8 - Over $10,000 cash is found in the purse of Watergate conspirator Howard Hunt's wife.
* December 8 - International Human Rights Day is proclaimed by the United Nations.
* December 11 - Apollo 17 lands on Moon.
* December 11 - The film version of Man of La Mancha has its world premiere.
* December 15 - The Commonwealth of Australia ordains equal pay for women.
* December 16 - The Constitution of Bangladesh comes into effect.
* December 16 - Portuguese army kills 400 africans in Tete, Mozambique.
* December 19 - Apollo program: Apollo 17 returns to Earth, concluding the program of lunar exploration.
* December 21 - East Germany and West Germany recognize each other.
* December 21 - ZANLA troopers attack Altera Farm in north-east Rhodesia.
* December 22 - Two small earthquakes are felt at about 9:30 and 10:15 local time in Managua, Nicaragua.
* December 22 - Australia establishes diplomatic relations with China and West Germany.
* December 23 - A 6.25 Richter scale earthquake in Nicaragua kills 5,000-12,000 in the capital, Managua; President Somoza will later be accused of pocketing millions of dollars worth of foreign aid intended for relief.
* December 24 - The highest recorded temperature in Australia is recorded in Birdsville, Queensland of 49.5C (121.1F).
* December 25 - The Christmas bombing of North Vietnam causes widespread criticism of the U.S. and President Richard Nixon.
* December 26 - Former United States President Harry S. Truman dies in Kansas City, Missouri.
* December 28 - The bones of Martin Bormann are identified in Berlin.
* December 29 - An Eastern Air Lines Lockheed L-1011 crashes into the Everglades in Florida, killing 101 of 163 onboard.
* December 31 - Roberto Clemente dies in a plane crash off the coast of Puerto Rico while en route to deliver aid to Nicaraguan earthquake victims.

[R. Smith]

yea, I wasn't born yet.

-Roger

[Andi]

I was 5! Probably playing with a Barbie!

[rossid]

Kindergarten or first grade. Switched schools after kindergarten, it was later a church, and since the building was torn down years ago it became a Hardee's.

[Buttabean]

wasn't born for another 12 years. :P Oldies!!! :eek:

[wbthornton]

2nd grade ;)

[luvmyrottie]

Turning 9 years old and starting 4th grade. I was in Girl Scouts and having a blast! My parents bought our first house that year. Summers lasted forever and it was exciting when the ice cream truck came past our house and Mom let us get a popcicle. And we would go to the drive-in movies and fall asleep in the back of the truck.

[HotWireD]

Nine years old, spending my evenings and weekends cycling around in the country making tree houses and dens with Adrian Barker and Michael Giles (two lads I have not seen in years).

Edit: just been looking at places where I frequented in 1972 - they are all grown over with trees, so this is where I am right now....

[HotWireD]

This is where I was in 1972 (some of it anyway) My primary school.

I never realised how crazy the roof looked.