1972
 
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  • Pakistani civil war ends with the establishment of Bangladesh
  • American B-52s bomb Hanoi and Haiphong in North Vietnam
  • British government assumes direct rule of Northern Ireland
  • Palestinian terrorists capture  Israeli athletes at the Olympic games in Munich resulting in the death of 9 athletes, 1 policeman & 5 terrorists
  • Nixon meets Mao Zedong in Beijing 
  • "Watergate Affair" begins with the arrest of five burglars at the Democratic Party headquarters
  • Gough Whitlam elected Prime Minister of Australia
  • Conscription ends in Australia
  • Landslide victory for the Labour Party in New Zealand
  • Apollo 17 makes the last manned landing on the Moon
  • Space Shuttle program authorised
  • Richard Leakey discovers a 2.6 million year old hominid skull in Kenya
  • Ord River Dam (Lake Argyle) completed
  • Lake Pedder flooded as part of a hydro-electric scheme
  • DDT insecticide banned in the US
  • American Bobby Fischer defeats Russian world chess champion Boris Spassky

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