Launched in early 1972 it was unlike the other basic four-function pocket calculators then available in that it was the first pocket calculator with scientific functions that could replace a slide rule.

* 1972 – The United Kingdom imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland.

Civilian rule resumed from 1972 to 1977 under Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, until he was deposed by General Zia-ul-Haq, who became the country's third military president.

Although the Greenman rule was transmitted to most other states via Section 402A of the Restatement of Torts, Second ( published in 1964 after Greenman ), the Supreme Court of California refused to adopt Section 402A's " unreasonably dangerous " limitation upon strict liability in 1972.

1972 brought so many rule changes, it has prompted many to consider this year as the start of the modern era of NASCAR racing.

With the partition of Ireland, Northern Ireland received home rule in 1920, though civil unrest meant direct rule was restored in 1972.

From early 1971, he opposed, with increasing vehemence, Heath's approach to Northern Ireland, the greatest breach with his party coming over the imposition of direct rule in 1972.

* Boole's rule, a mathematical rule of integration sometimes known as Bode's rule, due to a typo in Abramowitz and Stegun ( 1972, p. 886 ) that was subsequently propagated

Gough Whitlam's Labor government was elected in 1972 after 23 years of rule by a coalition formed by the Liberal and Country parties.

In the 1972 presidential election, opponents of military rule united under José Napoleón Duarte, leader of the Christian Democratic Party ( PDC ).

He became the first Secretary of State for Northern Ireland after the imposition of direct rule in March 1972 and he served in that capacity until November 1973.

A short time before his death he published an essay in which he criticized the Radikalenerlass (" Radicals Decree ") of 1972, a rule which subjected all candidates for the civil service ( including prospective teachers, railway engine drivers, and postmen ) to special scrutiny in order to exclude political radicals.

The Home Rule Charter and Optional Plans Law, Act 62 of 1972, provided all local governments in Pennsylvania a unique opportunity of true " home rule.

Marcos declared martial law on September 22, 1972, by virtue of Proclamation No. 1081 which he signed on September 21, 1972, extending his rule beyond the constitutional two-term limit.

* Parliament of Northern Ireland-a home rule parliament of 1920 – 1972.

* Sunningdale Northern Ireland Assembly-a home rule assembly established in 1972.

The office of Prime Minister of Northern Ireland was abolished in 1972, along with the Stormont government, when direct rule of Northern Ireland was returned to London.

The residents of Washington, D. C. did not elect their own mayor and city council until 1972, when the United States Congress extended home rule to the city.

On 24 March 1972, it announced that direct rule from Westminster would be introduced.

The Parliament of Northern Ireland was the home rule legislature of Northern Ireland, created under the Government of Ireland Act 1920, which sat from 7 June 1921 to 30 March 1972, when it was suspended with the introduction of Direct Rule.

She suggests this explains the low numbers of black women who participated in the feminist movement in the 1970s, pointing to Louis Harris ' Virginia Slims poll done in 1972 for Philip Morris that she says showed 62 percent of black women supported " efforts to change women's status " and 67 percent " sympathized with the women's rights movement ", compared with 45 and 35 percent of white women ( also Steinem, 1972 ).

In 1972, Sweden became first country in the world to allow people who were transsexual by legislation to surgically change their sex and provide free hormone replacement therapy.

However, there was no change in government policy regarding reunification, and on October 17, 1972, Park declared martial law, dissolving the National Assembly and suspending the constitution.

* 1972 — Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge proposed an idea they call " punctuated equilibrium ", which states that the fossil record is an accurate depiction of the pace of evolution, with long periods of " stasis " ( little change ) punctuated by brief periods of rapid change and species formation ( within a lineage ).

One very significant change was the introduction of virtual memory, which was first made generally available in 1972 via IBM's " System / 370 Advanced Function " announcement.

The Times stayed with Times New Roman for 40 years, but new production techniques and the format change from broadsheet to tabloid in 2004 have caused the newspaper to switch font five times since 1972.

Roy Thomas and Gerry Conway, who co-created Man-Thing for Marvel Comics a year and a half earlier, thought that this origin was too similar to that of their character, and Wein himself had written a Man-Thing story ( in fact, the second ) that was published with a June 1972 cover date, but he refused to change the origin in spite of some cajoling by Conway, who was his roommate at the time.

In 1972 there was a minor revision ; the main change was a lowering of the voting age to 18.

Since its change in name in 1972, Alabama has included Owen, Cook and Gentry.

Her second album, Give It Up, was released in 1972 to universal acclaim ; though many critics still regard it as her best work, it did not change her commercial fortunes.

It was closed at the end of the 1971 model year, as Chrysler decided to triple-stack its transport trains for the 1972 model year ; its Los Angeles facility couldn't accommodate this change.

In November 1972, residents voted to change the name of the borough to Elmwood Park.

On January 1, 1972, the voters in the Township approved a change to a Mayor-Council form of government, which would be governed by a directly elected mayor and a seven-member Township Council elected on an at-large basis.

Moreover, the Paterson vicinity has also seen a previous name change in recent decades, as the borough of East Paterson ( located in adjacent Bergen County ) changed its name to Elmwood Park in 1972.

From this point on the College underwent dramatic change under the leadership of its eleventh Principal, Gwynne Henton Davies ( 1958 – 1972 ).

The town council voted to change the designation of Crowley from a town to a city on September 3, 1972.

In a ceremony performed by the Duke of Kent the new purpose-built museum building in the parkland surrounding Palace House was opened on 4 July 1972: the name was changed to the National Motor Museum, reflecting a change of status from a private collection to a charitable trust and highlighting Montagu's stated aim to provide Britain with a National Motor Museum " worthy of the great achievements of its motor industry ".

In 1972, the student body voted to change the official nickname from " Wildcats " to " Purple Haze " but the new name never stuck.

This led to a third name change in 1972, to Southwest Missouri State University.

The Climatic Research Unit, founded in 1972 by Hubert Lamb in the School of Environmental Sciences has been an early centre of work for climate change research.

* 1972 — Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould propose punctuated equilibrium, claiming that the evolutionary history of most species involves long intervals of stasis between relatively short periods of rapid change.

In 1972, a radical change occurred in the Torino and Ranchero lines.