WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO MARCH 1972
Find out what all happened January to March 1972

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

The United States Congress sends the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification. (22. March 1972)

The California Supreme Court in the case of People v. Anderson, (6 Cal.3d 628) invalidates the state's death penalty and commutes the sentences of all death row inmates to life imprisonment. (18. February 1972)

The Asama-Sansō hostage standoff begins in Japan. (19. February 1972)

The Official Irish Republican Army detonates a car bomb at Aldershot barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others. (22. February 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)

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

Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana are ousted in a bloodless military coup by Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheampong. (13. January 1972)

The British embassy in Dublin is destroyed in protest at Bloody Sunday. (2. February 1972)

Italian publisher and former partisan Giangiacomo Feltrinelli is killed by an explosion near Segrate. (14. March 1972)

José María Velasco Ibarra, serving as President of Ecuador for the fifth time, is overthrown by the military for the fourth time. (15. February 1972)

Mohawk Airlines Flight 405 crashes as a result of a control malfunction and insufficient training in emergency procedures. (3. March 1972)

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

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

The United Kingdom imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland. (24. March 1972)

Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II. (24. January 1972)

The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets. (2. March 1972)

In Eisenstadt v. Baird, the United States Supreme Court decides that unmarried persons have the right to possess contraceptives. (22. March 1972)

Rose Heilbron becomes the first female judge to sit at the Old Bailey in London, England. (4. January 1972)

President Richard Nixon visits the People's Republic of China to normalize Sino-American relations. (21. February 1972)