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1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries
The 1972 Democratic presidential primaries, first held under McGovern-Fraser reform rules, nominated antiwar Senator George McGovern over Humphrey, Muskie, and Wallace, featuring 23 binding primaries, the California delegate fight, and Chisholm's historic run.
1972 in chess
1972 in chess: Bobby Fischer beat Boris Spassky 12½–8½ in Reykjavík to become the 11th world champion, and the USSR won its 11th straight gold at the Skopje Chess Olympiad.
1972 in film
1972 in film: the cinema year of The Godfather, the year's top grosser and Best Picture winner, Cabaret's 8 Oscars, and hits from Deliverance, Cabaret, and The Poseidon Adventure.
1972 in spaceflight
1972 in spaceflight ended the Apollo lunar program with the last two Moon landings, Apollo 16 and Apollo 17, while Nixon approved the Space Shuttle that January.
1972 Iran blizzard
The 1972 Iran blizzard was a weeklong series of snowstorms that struck Iran from 3 to 9 February 1972, the deadliest blizzard in recorded history, killing more than 4,000 people.
1972 Miami Dolphins season
1972 Miami Dolphins season: Don Shula's Dolphins went 17-0, the only perfect season in NFL history, beating Washington 14-7 in Super Bowl VII on January 14, 1973; still unmatched, closest being 2007 Patriots at 18-1.
1972 NBA Finals
The 1972 NBA Finals: Los Angeles Lakers beat the New York Knicks 4-1 for the franchise's first title since 1954; Wilt Chamberlain won Finals MVP after the Lakers' 69-13, 33-game-streak season.
1972 Nicaragua earthquake
The 1972 Nicaragua earthquake was a destructive shallow earthquake that struck the capital, Managua, on December 23, 1972, killing about 10,000 people and destroying most of the city center.
1972 Qir earthquake
The 1972 Qir earthquake, also called the Ghir or Qir-Karzin earthquake, struck Fars Province in southern Iran on 10 April 1972, killing roughly 5,000 people.
1972 Rochdale by-election
The 1972 Rochdale by-election was held on 26 October 1972 after Labour MP Jack McCann died, and was won by Liberal Cyril Smith on an 11.2% swing.
1972 Summer Olympics
1972 Summer Olympics (Munich, 26 August–11 September 1972): XXth Olympiad with 7,147 athletes from 122 countries; Mark Spitz won seven golds; Black September attack killed 11 Israelis; motto Die Heiteren Spiele.
1972 Summer Paralympics
The 1972 Summer Paralympics, or Heidelberg 1972 Paralympic Games, were held 2–11 August 1972 in Heidelberg, West Germany, not Munich; 921 wheelchair athletes from 41 countries competed in 10 sports, with West Germany topping the gold medal count.
1972 United States presidential election
The 1972 United States presidential election, held November 7, 1972, saw President Richard Nixon defeat Senator George McGovern in a landslide, winning 49 states and 520 electoral votes.
1972 visit by Richard Nixon to China
Richard Nixon's February 21–28, 1972 state visit to the People's Republic of China, the first by a sitting U.S. president, featuring talks with Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai and the Shanghai Communiqué.
1972 Winter Olympics
1972 Winter Olympics (Sapporo 1972, XI Olympic Winter Games), held 3–13 February 1972 in Sapporo, Japan; first Winter Games in Asia, 1,006 athletes from 35 countries, Japan's first Winter gold in ski jumping.
1972–1974 famine in Ethiopia
The 1972–1974 famine in Ethiopia struck Wollo and Harerghe after drought, killing an estimated 50,000 to 200,000 people and contributing to Haile Selassie's overthrow in 1974.
1972–73 United States network television schedule
1972–73 United States network television schedule: ABC, CBS, and NBC prime-time lineups for fall 1972 through August 1973. First full season under the FCC Prime Time Access Rule with 8:00 p.m. starts except Sunday; NBC Sunday Mystery Movie rated 24.2.
1973
1973: the year of the Paris Peace Accords ending direct U.S. Vietnam involvement, Roe v. Wade, the Yom Kippur War, the Arab oil embargo that quadrupled prices, Skylab, the Chilean coup, and the Battle of the Sexes.
1973 Chilean coup d'état
1973 Chilean coup d'état (golpe de Estado del 11 de septiembre de 1973): the September 11, 1973 overthrow of President Salvador Allende by a military junta led by Augusto Pinochet, ending 46 years of democracy and beginning a 17-year dictatorship.
1973 Concorde eclipse flight
The 1973 Concorde eclipse flight was an airborne mission in which Concorde prototype 001 chased the Moon's shadow over Africa, achieving a record 74 minutes of totality.
1973 Dumfriesshire by-election
The 1973 Dumfriesshire by-election was a parliamentary by-election in Dumfriesshire, a large rural constituency in south-west Scotland with about 61,000 to 64,000 electors, held by Conservative MP Hector Monro.
1973 famine in Senegal
The 1973 famine in Senegal was a food crisis during the 1972–73 crop year, when the worst rainfall in decades cut agricultural production nearly in half.
1973 in film
1973 in film: the year of The Exorcist's $441.3M worldwide gross, The Sting's Best Picture Oscar sweep, Tatum O'Neal's record win, Cannes honors for Scarecrow and La Maman et la Putain, and Westworld's first movie CGI.
1973 in music
1973 in music: the year of The Dark Side of the Moon, Tubular Bells, Innervisions, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, and Bowie's Ziggy retirement, with $1.246 billion in US LP sales and an oil crisis that squeezed vinyl production.
1973 Indonesian party fusion
The 1973 Indonesian party fusion was a reorganization under President Suharto's New Order that merged Indonesia's nine surviving parties into the Islamic PPP and the non-Islamic PDI.
1973 NBA Finals
1973 NBA Finals: the New York Knicks beat the Los Angeles Lakers 4-1 for their second title, avenging the 1972 Finals loss; Willis Reed was Finals MVP in Wilt Chamberlain's last Finals.
1973 Niger famine
The 1973 Niger famine was a food crisis at the peak of the Sahel drought of 1968–1973, destroying most of Niger's livestock and killing possibly 100,000 people.
1973 Nobel Peace Prize
The 1973 Nobel Peace Prize went jointly to Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho (Lê Đức Thọ) for negotiating the Vietnam cease-fire; Tho declined it, the only Peace Prize refusal, and two committee members resigned.
1973 oil crisis
The 1973 oil crisis, also called the first energy crisis or OAPEC oil embargo: Arab OPEC members embargoed oil to the U.S. and others in October 1973, quadrupling prices from about $2.90 to $11.65 by January 1974.
1973 Old Bailey bombing
The 1973 Old Bailey bombing: Provisional IRA car bomb on 8 March 1973 outside London's Old Bailey court, paired with a Great Scotland Yard blast; one killed, 243 injured; Price sisters and Gerry Kelly later jailed for life.