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1972 was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1972nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 972nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 72nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1970s decade.
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Events. January 3 – Show Boat is aired for the first time on...
- Film
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):. The Working Class Goes...
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Hall of Famer Sandy Koufax. The Washington Senators move to...
- United States
Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives are arrested...
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Highest-grossing films of 1972 Rank Title Distributor...
- Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" by Roberta Flack was...
- 1972 in the United Kingdom
26 August–10 September – Great Britain and Northern Ireland...
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Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives are arrested for burglarizing the offices of the Democratic National Committee. The United States returns Okinawa, occupied and governed since the Battle of Okinawa, to Japan. Main Street Electrical Parade debuts at Disneyland in Anaheim, California.
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February 18 – U.S. President Richard Nixon visits China.May 15 – Governor George C. Wallace of Alabama is shot by Arthur H. Bremer at a Laurel, Marylandpolitical rally.June 13-22 – Hurricane Agnes strikes Florida and moves through the East Coast of the United States. In Pennsylvania and New York, Agnes caeses heavy flooding that kills many people. Total damage fr...June 29 – The United States Supreme Court rules that the death penalty is unconstitutional.January 2 – Adam Elliot, Australian animatorJanuary 11 – Amanda Peet, American actressJanuary 16 - Greg Page, Australian musician (The Wiggles)February 17 – Billie Joe Armstrong, American singer (Green Day)January
1. January 16 – Ross Bagdasarian, American actor and songwriter (b. 1919) 2. January 27 – Mahalia Jackson, American gospel singer (b. 1911) 3. January 31 – King Mahendra of Nepal (b. 1920)
February
1. February 20 – Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German physicist (b. 1906)
March
1. March 22 – Miguel Gustavo, Brazilian journalist, radio personality and composer (b. 1922) 2. March 31 – Meena Kumari, Indian actress and poet (b. 1933)
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1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1972nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 972nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 72nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1970s decade.
Highest-grossing films of 1972 Rank Title Distributor Domestic gross 1 The Godfather: Paramount: $133,698,921 2 The Poseidon Adventure: 20th Century Fox: $93,300,000 3 What's Up, Doc? Warner Bros. $57,142,740 4 Deliverance: $46,122,355 5 Deep Throat: $45,000,000 6 Jeremiah Johnson: $44,693,786 7 Cabaret: Allied Artists: $41,326,446 8 The ...
OpeningOpeningTitleProduction CompanyJ A N U A R Y1Columbia Pictures / Robertson and ...J A N U A R Y7J A N U A R Y11ABC Circle Films / Dan Curtis Productions ...J A N U A R Y13The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" by Roberta Flack was the number one song of 1972. Al Green had three songs on the Year-End Hot 100, the most of any artist in 1972. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1972.
26 August–10 September – Great Britain and Northern Ireland compete at the Olympics in Munich, West Germany, and win 4 gold, 5 silver and 9 bronze medals. 28 August – Prince William of Gloucester, a cousin of the Queen, is killed in an air crash near Wolverhampton.