WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO SEPTEMBER 1972
Find out what all happened January to September 1972

Pakistan launched its Nuclear weapons program few weeks after its defeat in Bangladesh Liberation War and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. (20. January 1972)

Roberto Clemente records the 3,000th and final hit of his career. (30. September 1972)

The United States Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. (3. August 1972)

The first day of the seven-day 1972 Iran blizzard, which would kill at least 4,000 people, making it the deadliest snowstorm in history. (3. February 1972)

The fast food restaurant chain Popeyes is founded in Arabi, Louisiana. (12. June 1972)

The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon. (21. February 1972)

Bob Douglas becomes the first African American elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame. (5. February 1972)

The first Gay Pride march in England takes place. (1. July 1972)

The first game of the World Chess Championship 1972 between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky starts. (11. July 1972)

Mark Spitz becomes the first competitor to win seven medals at a single Olympic Games. (4. September 1972)

Vietnam War: Vietnamization – South Korea withdraws 11,000 of its 48,000 troops from Vietnam. (29. February 1972)

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan. (10. January 1972)

The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the case Furman v. Georgia that arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. (29. June 1972)

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos signs Proclamation № 1081, placing the entire country under martial law and marking the beginning of his authoritarian rule. (21. September 1972)

In Reykjavík, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky to become the world chess champion. (1. September 1972)

In Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park, a Cave Research Foundation exploration and mapping team discovers a link between the Mammoth and Flint Ridge cave systems, making it the longest known cave passageway in the world. (9. September 1972)

The island of Okinawa, under U.S. military governance since its conquest in 1945, reverts to Japanese control. (15. May 1972)

The Troubles: In Operation Motorman, the British Army re-takes the urban no-go areas of Northern Ireland. It is the biggest British military operation since the Suez Crisis of 1956, and the biggest in Ireland since the Irish War of Independence. Later that day, nine civilians are killed by car bombs in the village of Claudy. (31. July 1972)

Vietnam War: Increased American bombing in Vietnam prompts anti-war protests in Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco. (22. April 1972)

Sound recordings are granted U.S. federal copyright protection for the first time. (15. February 1972)