Events in 1972

236 notable events from 1972. Page 2 of 3.

• Adolph Laudenberg
  Dec 25, 1972–Mar 21, 1975 · —
• Philip Joseph Hughes Jr.
  Jan 1, 1972–Jan 1, 1975 · United States
• George Duncan (lecturer)
  May 10, 1972 · Australia
• Aeroflot Flight 1036
  Oct 1, 1972 · Russian Federation
• Neal Long
  Jan 1, 1972–Jan 1, 1975 · United States
• Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 710
  Jul 5, 1972 · United States
• Claudy bombing
  Jul 31, 1972 · United Kingdom
• Hotel Vendome fire
  Jun 17, 1972 · United States
• Kidnapping of Virginia Piper
  Jul 27, 1972 · United States
• Wayne Henry Garrison
  Jan 1, 1972–Jan 1, 1989 · —
• 1972–1975 Bangladesh insurgency
  1972 · Bangladesh
• Braathens SAFE Flight 239
  Dec 23, 1972 · Norway
• An-2 plane crash into a building in Voroshilovgrad
  Mar 27, 1972 · Ukraine
• 1972 Aldershot bombing
  Feb 22, 1972 · United Kingdom
• Vierzy tunnel disaster
  Jun 16, 1972 · France
• Triple police murder in Oberhausen
  Jun 15, 1972 · Germany
• 1972 Qatari coup d'état
  Feb 22, 1972 · Qatar
• Southern Airways Flight 49
  Nov 10, 1972 · United States
• 1973 Chilean economic crisis
  Oct 1, 1972 · Chile
• East African Airways Flight 720
  Apr 18, 1972 · Ethiopia
• Pan Am Flight 841
  Jul 2, 1972 · Vietnam
• 1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery
  Sep 4, 1972 · Canada
• Nikko Crown Prince couple attack incident
  Jan 5, 1972 · Japan
• 1972 Lake Winnebago mid-air collision
  Jun 29, 1972 · United States
• Puente Moreno railway disaster
  Oct 5, 1972 · Mexico
• Air Inter Flight 696Y
  Oct 27, 1972 · France
• Bombing of the Fusetsu no Gunzo and Institute of Northern Cultures
  Oct 23, 1972 · Japan
• Alva Campbell
  Apr 21, 1972 · —
• Mohawk Airlines Flight 405
  Mar 3, 1972 · United States
• Ethiopian Airlines Flight 708
  Dec 8, 1972 · Ethiopia
• Top of the Hill bar shooting
  Dec 20, 1972 · United Kingdom
• Schweinsburg-Culten train accident
  Oct 30, 1972 · Germany
• Afrikaanderwijk riots
  Aug 9, 1972–Aug 14, 1972 · Netherlands
• George Lamar Jones
  Jan 1, 1972–Jan 1, 1997 · —
• EgyptAir Flight 763
  Mar 19, 1972 · Yemen
• 1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings
  Dec 1, 1972 · Ireland
• Kızıldere Incident
  Mar 30, 1972 · Türkiye
• Abercorn Restaurant bombing
  Mar 4, 1972 · United Kingdom
• Rotaka
  May 13, 1972 · —
• Shelling of Highway 1
  May 2, 1972 · Vietnam
• El Cuervo railway accident
  Jul 21, 1972 · Spain
• Aeroflot Flight 558
  Aug 31, 1972 · Russian Federation
• 1972 Israeli air raid in Syria and Lebanon
  Sep 8, 1972 · Syrian Arab Republic
• 1972 Dahomeyan coup d'état
  Oct 26, 1972 · Benin
• 1972 unrest in Lithuania
  May 18, 1972–May 19, 1972 · Lithuania
• Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 130
  Sep 15, 1972–Sep 16, 1972 · Sweden
• Jean-Michel Di Falco affair
  Jan 1, 1972 · France
• Burning of the British Embassy in Dublin
  Jan 30, 1972 · Ireland
• 1972 Sidney Lanier Bridge collapse
  Nov 7, 1972 · United States
• 1972 Baton Rouge shooting
  Jan 10, 1972 · United States
• 1972 Adana Turkish Airlines DC-9 crash
  Jan 21, 1972 · Türkiye
• MV Karagatan incident
  Jul 4, 1972 · Philippines
• Yamanaka incident
  Jul 26, 1972 · Japan
• Wankie coal mine disaster
  Jun 6, 1972 · Zimbabwe
• Donegall Street bombing
  Mar 20, 1972 · United Kingdom
• John W. Hopkins
  Jan 1, 1972–Jan 1, 1978 · —
• Pitchfork murders
  Oct 23, 1972 · United Kingdom
• Ralph Andrews (murderer)
  Jan 1, 1972–Jan 1, 1991 · United States
• El Carnavalazo
  Feb 15, 1972 · Ecuador
• 1972 Salvadoran coup attempt
  Mar 25, 1972–Mar 26, 1972 · El Salvador
• Yokohama Koku Soyokaze-go crash
  May 30, 1972 · Japan
• 1972 Las Palomas mid-air collision
  Jul 29, 1972 · Colombia
• Minsk Radio Works explosion
  Mar 10, 1972 · Belarus
• Prinair Flight 191
  Jun 24, 1972 · Puerto Rico
• Operation Custom Tailor
  May 10, 1972 · Vietnam
• 1972 Queenstown shooting
  Sep 18, 1972 · Singapore
• Bombing of the Soji-ji Ossuary
  Apr 6, 1972 · Japan
• Aero Trasporti Italiani Flight 327
  Oct 30, 1972 · Italy
• Transalpine Pipeline bombing
  Aug 4, 1972 · Italy
• Zadar school shooting
  Oct 9, 1972 · Croatia
• Aeroflot Flight B-608
  May 4, 1972 · Russian Federation
• Bangkok Israeli embassy hostage crisis
  Dec 28, 1972 · Thailand
• Chester General rail crash
  May 8, 1972 · United Kingdom
• Benny's Bar bombing
  Oct 31, 1972 · United Kingdom
• 1972 Khulna massacres
  Mar 1972 · Bangladesh
• 1972 Reduc explosion
  1972 · Brazil
• 1972 Hachijōjima earthquake
  Dec 4, 1972 · Japan
• Jeffrey Lynn Hand
  Jan 1, 1972–Jan 1, 1973 · —
• Dextrin explosion in Luboń
  Feb 22, 1972 · Poland
• 1972 Republic of the Congo coup attempt
  Feb 22, 1972 · Congo-Brazzaville
• Essen-Kray rampage
  May 28, 1972 · Germany
• Belturbet bombing
  Dec 28, 1972 · Ireland
• Hurricane Agnes tornado outbreak
  Jan 1, 1972 · United States
• 1972 Qir earthquake
  Apr 10, 1972 · Iran
• 1972 Cherry Hill shooting
  Jun 21, 1972 · United States
• Boanerges de Souza Massa
  Jun 21, 1972 · Brazil
• VFW 614 crash in Bremen
  Feb 1, 1972 · Germany
• 1972 Manila bombings
  Mar 15, 1972–Sep 11, 1972 · Philippines
• Newry customs bombing
  Aug 22, 1972 · United Kingdom
• Quintino massacre
  Mar 29, 1972 · Brazil
• Loddon Viaduct collapse
  Oct 24, 1972 · United Kingdom
• 1972 Robinsons department store fire
  Nov 21, 1972 · Singapore
• 1972 Language violence in Sindh
  Jul 7, 1972 · Pakistan
• Thiruchelvam Nihal Jim Brown
  Jan 1, 1972 · —
• Dungiven landmine and gun attack
  Jun 24, 1972 · United Kingdom
• 1972 Kettle Valley shooting
  Aug 28, 1972 · United States
• Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 811
  Aug 15, 1972 · Argentina
• Murder of Arumugam Jayamani
  Oct 16, 1972 · Singapore
• 1972 Lviv tram disaster
  Jan 10, 1972 · Ukraine
• Collision of two An-12s over Tula
  Oct 23, 1972 · Russian Federation