29 events found for 1972
In Ben Gurion Airport (at the time: Lod Airport), Israel, members of the Japanese Red Army carry out the Lod Airport mas
Vietnam War: Nine-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc is burned by napalm, an event captured by Associated Press photographer Nic
Severe rainfall causes a dam in the Black Hills of South Dakota to burst, creating a flood that kills 238 people and cau
Japan Air Lines Flight 471 crashes on approach to Palam International Airport (now Indira Gandhi International Airport)
Cathay Pacific Flight 700Z is destroyed by a bomb over Pleiku, Vietnam (then South Vietnam) and kills 81 people
The largest single-site hydroelectric power project in Canada is inaugurated at Churchill Falls Generating Station
Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives are arrested for burgling the offices of the Democratic National Committe
Staines air disaster: One hundred eighteen people are killed when a BEA H
Watergate scandal: An 18+1⁄2-minute gap appears in the tape recording of the conversations between U