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The Godfather was number one at the box office and, along with Cabaret, at the Oscars. Other notable movies of 1972 include:
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January 1: Advertising of cigarettes on radio and television ceases as the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act goes into effect.
January 17: The Baltimore Colts defeat the Dallas Cowboys 16-13 on a last second field goal in Super Bowl V.
January 25: Uganda's President Milton Obote is overthrown by Idi Amin.
February 9: An earthquake centered 40 miles north of Los Angeles leaves 64 dead.
March 14: Carole King is the big winner at the Grammy Awards held in Los Angeles.
April 17: The United States table tennis team ends its week-long visit to China.
May 5: More than 12,000 were arrested during three days of anti-war protests in the Washington, D.C. Thousands were imprisoned in the Washington Coliseum.
June 30: Three Soviet Soyuz 11 cosmonauts die when their oxygen supply leaks due to a faulty valve during re-entry.
June 30: The Supreme Court gives the go ahead for the New York Times and Washington Post to resume publication of the Pentagon Papers.
July 1: Ratification of the 26th Amendment to the Constitution, which granted voting rights to 18-year-olds, was completed when the legislature of the 38th State, North Carolina, ratified it.
July 3: Elections are held in Indonesia for the first time in 16 years.
August 15: President Nixon orders a 90 day wage and price freeze.
September 13: Over 1,000 state troopers storm and take back the state prison in Attica, New York, leaving 10 hostages and 30 convicts dead.
October 23: The United Nations recognizes the communists in Peking (Beijing) as the legitimate government of China in a vote opposed by the United States.
November 13: Mariner 9 becomes the first space probe to orbit another planet as it encounters Mars.
November 15: The People's Republic of China is seated at the United Nations for the first time.
November 24: Hijacker D.B. Cooper parachutes out of a Northwest Orient 727 with $200,000 at 10,000 feet and is never seen again.
December 3: War breaks out between Pakistan and India over Kashmir.
December 10: William Rehnquist becomes the fourth Nixon Supreme Court appointee to be confirmed by Congress.
December 17: A 15-day war between India and Pakistan over Bangladesh ends.
December 22: Austrian Kurt Waldheim is chosen as secretary-general of the United Nations.
1972: MAJOR STORIES
January 16: The Dallas Cowboys defeat the Miami Dolphins 24-3 to win Super Bowl VI.
January 26: A bomb explodes aboard a Yugoslav Airlines DC-9 at 33,000 feet. Incredibly, a stewardess survives the crash.
February 3-13: Japan becomes the first Asian nation to host the Winter Olympics.
February 21-28: Richard Nixon becomes the first U.S. president to visit China.
March 30: Provisional government in Northern Ireland is suspended and direct rule from London is reinstated.
April 15: Bombing of North Vietnam by the U.S. begins again.
May 3: J. Edgar Hoover dies ending a 48-year reign of terror as director of the FBI. L. Patrick Gray is named as acting FBI director.
May 15: The island of Okinawa is returned to Japan by the United States.
May 15: President candidate and noted-racist George C. Wallace is shot while campaigning in Maryland. He is left paralyzed but does not withdraw from the race, finishing third.
June 17: Five "third-rate buglers" are arrested after breaking into the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate complex in Washington.
July 18: Unhappy with the assistance he is getting from the Soviets and hoping to warm relations with the West, Egypt's Anwar Sadat orders Soviet military advisors out of the country.
August 26-September 11: The Summer Olympics are held in Munich, Germany. Arab terrorists murder 11 Israeli athletes and coaches.
September 1: Temperamental Bobby Fischer becomes the first American to win the world chess title.
September 23: Martial law is declared in the Philippines by President Ferdinand Marcos.
October 24: Jackie Robinson, who was the first black baseball player to play in the major leagues, dies at age 53.
November 7: Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew easily win reelection over George McGovern and R. Sargent Shriver.
November 14: The Dow-Jones Industrial Average reaches 1,000 for the first time.
December 19: NASA's Apollo mission ends with the splash-down of Apollo 17. The Apollo 17 astronauts would be the last people of the century to walk on the moon.
December 29: An Eastern Air Lines Lockheed L-1011 TriStar crashes into the Everglades killing 99 of 163 onboard.
December 31: Baseball superstar Roberto Clemente is killed in an airplane crash while attempting to deliver disaster relief supplies to earthquake victims in Managua, Nicaragua.
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