1972: Twelve Years Before 1984!
-The first Leap Second was added
-Canada began domestic satellite
service (ANIK)
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/satcomhistory.html
-The Earth Resources Technology
Satellite (ERTS) was launched by NASA in July, 1972
http://chesapeake.towson.edu/data/all_landsat.asp
US launches Christmas
bombing campaign against Hanoi, North Vietnam.
FBI director,
J. Edgar Hoover dies.
Coincidence? We think not!
"Pong" introduces the video game craze.
SALT I treaty limiting nuclear arms signed by US and USSR.
| President Nixon
makes unprecedented eight-day visit to Communist
China and meets with
Mao Zedong
(Feb. 17). |
| Britain takes
over direct rule of
Northern Ireland in bid for peace (March 24). |
| Eleven Israeli
athletes at Olympic
Games in Munich are killed after eight members of an Arab
terrorist group
invades Olympic Village; five guerrillas and one policeman are also killed
(Sept. 5). |
| Nixon orders "Christmas bombing" of North
Vietnam (Dec.).
Background: Vietnam War |
Watergate Scandal
| The VW Beetle becomes the biggest selling car ever |
| Mark Spitz wins 7 Gold medals for swimming Was the timing accurate? |
| The pocket calculator is invented by Texas Instruments |
| The Godfather film is released Coincindence? |
Pink Floyd release "Dark Side of the Moon" Subliminal message?
First call was made with a cell phone (cellular phone) in New York.
In Rome, Laszlo Toth attacks Michelangelo's Pieta statue with a sledgehammer shouting that he is Jesus Christ Apocalyptic? Coincidence?
September 1 - Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky in a chess match at Reykjavík, Iceland, and becomes the first American chess champion (see Match of the Century).
|
October 16 - A plane carrying US congressman
Hale
Boggs of Louisiana and three other men vanishes in Alaska. The wreckage
has never been found, despite a massive search at the time. |
| December 7 - Apollo 17, the last manned mission to the moon, is launched. |
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