January 24 –
Japanese soldier
Shoichi Yokoi is discovered in
Guam; he had spent 28 years in the jungle and becomes the third-to-last Japanese soldier to surrender after
World War II.
January 27 – Two
New York City Police Department officers, Gregory Foster and Rocco Laurie, are assassinated by members of the
Black Liberation Army (BLA) while on foot patrol in New York's East Village area.
February
February 2 – The last draft lottery is held, a watershed event in the wind-down of military
conscription in the United States during the Vietnam era. These draft candidates are never called to duty.
Mohawk Airlines Flight 405 crashes into a house on Edgewood Avenue in
Albany, New York, killing 16 of the 47 people on board, and one person in an upstairs apartment. The impact happened at 8:48 pm after the commuter plane lost power during a snowstorm.
April 17 – The first
Boston Marathon in which women are officially allowed to compete.
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 for using marijuana. On this day Kings Island in Mason Ohio opened to the public.
American Airlines Flight 96 during a domestic flight leg between
Detroit, Michigan and
Buffalo, New York, suffers an explosive rapid decompression over
Windsor, Ontario due to the aircraft's left cargo door breaking off mid-flight.[4] Everyone onboard survives after the aircraft makes a successful emergency landing back in Detroit.
August 1 – U.S. Senator
Thomas Eagleton, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, withdraws from the race after revealing he suffered from depression and had been hospitalized three times for its treatment.[6]
A huge
solar flare (one of the largest ever recorded) knocks out cable lines in U.S. It begins with the appearance of sunspots on August 2; an August 4 flare kicks off high levels of activity until August 10.
August 22 –
John Wojtowicz, 27, and Sal Naturile, 18, hold several Chase Manhattan Bank employees hostage for 17 hours in Gravesend, Brooklyn, N.Y, an event later dramatized in the 1975 film Dog Day Afternoon.
September 17 – The television series M*A*S*H begins its run on
CBS.
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.[11]
A plane carrying U.S. 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.[12]
November 29 –
Atari, Inc. 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 because troop levels are now down to 27,000.[13]
December 19 – Apollo program: Apollo 17 returns to
Earth, concluding the program of lunar exploration.
December 22 – A peace delegation that includes singer-activist
Joan Baez and human rights attorney
Telford Taylor visit
Hanoi to deliver Christmas mail to American prisoners of war.
December 24 –
Swedish Prime minister
Olof Palme compares the American bombings of
North Vietnam to
Nazi massacres. The U.S. breaks diplomatic contact with Sweden.
^"Data Bank of Scientists: Emma Perry Carr". Project NOVA (NASA Opportunities for Visionary Academics). California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Archived from
the original on December 5, 2008. Retrieved June 20, 2013.
^Dictionary of North Carolina Biography: Vol. 5, P–S edited by William S. Powell. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979, p. 372.
^Whitman, Alden, "Mahalia Jackson, Gospel Singer And a Civil Rights Symbol, Dies", The New York Times, (January 28, 1972) p. 1.
^"Deaths"(PDF). Broadcasting. February 14, 1972. p. 54. Retrieved April 8, 2018.
^Gregory, Elizabeth (2017). Twenty-first century Marianne Moore. Essays from a critical Renaissance. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 257.
ISBN9783319651095.
^Seabrook, Jack (1993). Martians and misplaced clues : the life and work of Fredric Brown. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press. p. 10.
ISBN9780879725914.
January 24 –
Japanese soldier
Shoichi Yokoi is discovered in
Guam; he had spent 28 years in the jungle and becomes the third-to-last Japanese soldier to surrender after
World War II.
January 27 – Two
New York City Police Department officers, Gregory Foster and Rocco Laurie, are assassinated by members of the
Black Liberation Army (BLA) while on foot patrol in New York's East Village area.
February
February 2 – The last draft lottery is held, a watershed event in the wind-down of military
conscription in the United States during the Vietnam era. These draft candidates are never called to duty.
Mohawk Airlines Flight 405 crashes into a house on Edgewood Avenue in
Albany, New York, killing 16 of the 47 people on board, and one person in an upstairs apartment. The impact happened at 8:48 pm after the commuter plane lost power during a snowstorm.
April 17 – The first
Boston Marathon in which women are officially allowed to compete.
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 for using marijuana. On this day Kings Island in Mason Ohio opened to the public.
American Airlines Flight 96 during a domestic flight leg between
Detroit, Michigan and
Buffalo, New York, suffers an explosive rapid decompression over
Windsor, Ontario due to the aircraft's left cargo door breaking off mid-flight.[4] Everyone onboard survives after the aircraft makes a successful emergency landing back in Detroit.
August 1 – U.S. Senator
Thomas Eagleton, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, withdraws from the race after revealing he suffered from depression and had been hospitalized three times for its treatment.[6]
A huge
solar flare (one of the largest ever recorded) knocks out cable lines in U.S. It begins with the appearance of sunspots on August 2; an August 4 flare kicks off high levels of activity until August 10.
August 22 –
John Wojtowicz, 27, and Sal Naturile, 18, hold several Chase Manhattan Bank employees hostage for 17 hours in Gravesend, Brooklyn, N.Y, an event later dramatized in the 1975 film Dog Day Afternoon.
September 17 – The television series M*A*S*H begins its run on
CBS.
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.[11]
A plane carrying U.S. 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.[12]
November 29 –
Atari, Inc. 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 because troop levels are now down to 27,000.[13]
December 19 – Apollo program: Apollo 17 returns to
Earth, concluding the program of lunar exploration.
December 22 – A peace delegation that includes singer-activist
Joan Baez and human rights attorney
Telford Taylor visit
Hanoi to deliver Christmas mail to American prisoners of war.
December 24 –
Swedish Prime minister
Olof Palme compares the American bombings of
North Vietnam to
Nazi massacres. The U.S. breaks diplomatic contact with Sweden.
^"Data Bank of Scientists: Emma Perry Carr". Project NOVA (NASA Opportunities for Visionary Academics). California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Archived from
the original on December 5, 2008. Retrieved June 20, 2013.
^Dictionary of North Carolina Biography: Vol. 5, P–S edited by William S. Powell. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979, p. 372.
^Whitman, Alden, "Mahalia Jackson, Gospel Singer And a Civil Rights Symbol, Dies", The New York Times, (January 28, 1972) p. 1.
^"Deaths"(PDF). Broadcasting. February 14, 1972. p. 54. Retrieved April 8, 2018.
^Gregory, Elizabeth (2017). Twenty-first century Marianne Moore. Essays from a critical Renaissance. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 257.
ISBN9783319651095.
^Seabrook, Jack (1993). Martians and misplaced clues : the life and work of Fredric Brown. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press. p. 10.
ISBN9780879725914.