* Gene Austin ( 1900 – 1972 ), American singer

* Charles Atlas ( 1892 – 1972 ), a famous bodybuilder

He was the fourth child of Ondrej Varchola ( Americanized as Andrew Warhola, Sr., 1889 – 1942 ) and Júlia ( née Zavacká, 1892 – 1972 ), whose first child was born in their homeland and died before their move to the U. S. Andy had two older brothers, Paul, born about 1923, and John, born about 1925.

* 1972 – Vietnam War: Easter Offensive – American forces begin sustained air strikes and naval bombardments.

* 1886 – Athenagoras I, Greek religious leader, 268th Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople ( d. 1972 )

* 1929 – Joi Lansing, American model and actress ( d. 1972 )

* 1972 – Scott Martin Brooks, American actor

* 1972 – Chad Eaton, American football player

* 1972 – Jason Hervey, American actor

* 1972 – Ami James, Israeli-American tattoo artist

* 1972 – Anders Thomas Jensen, Danish screenwriter and director

* 1972 – Dickey Simpkins, American basketball player

* 1972 – Jo Van Daele, Belgian discus thrower

* 1972 – Sebnem Ferah, Turkish singer and musician

* 1972 – Dimitrios Kokotis, Greek high jumper

* 1972 – Paul Lo Duca, American baseball player

* 1896 – Reverend Gary Davis, American singer and guitarist ( d. 1972 )

* 1972 – JR Richards, American singer-songwriter, and musician ( Dishwalla )

* 1887 – George, Crown Prince of Serbia ( d. 1972 )

* 1972 – Jaap-Derk Buma, Dutch field hockey player

* 1972 – Felix da Housecat, American DJ and producer

* 1972 – The Great Khali, Indian wrestler

* 1972 – Denise Lewis, English heptathlete

* 1972 – Mohamed Al-Deayea, Saudi Arabian footballer

However, in October 1972 fighting erupted between the North Yemen and the South Yemen ; North Yemen supplied by Saudi Arabia and South Yemen by the USSR.

* Hajj Terminal, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 1972

The airline reverted back to its abbreviated English brand name Saudia ( used from 1972 to 1996 ) from Saudi Arabian Airlines ( historic name in use until 1971 and reintroduced in 1997 ) on 29 May 2012, the name was changed to celebrate the company's entry into the SkyTeam airline alliance on that day, and it was a part of a larger rebranding initiative.

The treaty was negotiated in Taif, Saudi Arabia by the surviving members of Lebanon's 1972 parliament ; fathered by Parliament Speaker President Hussein El-Husseini.

* Mohamed Abdullaziz Al-Deayea, or Mohamed Al-Deayea ( born 1972 ), Saudi footballer

Following OPEC negotiations in 1972, the Saudi government bought 25 % owenership of Aramco.

Mohamed Abdullaziz Al-Deayea () ( born 2 August 1972 ) is a Saudi Arabian retired football goalkeeper.

The earliest association between anime and adult animation occurred prior to the 1972 release of Fritz the Cat when American distributors attempted to cash in on the publicity garnered from the rating by rushing out dubbed versions of two other adult animations from Japan, both of which featured an X rating in their advertising material: Senya ichiya monogatari and Kureopatora, retitled One Thousand and One Arabian Nights and Cleopatra: Queen of Sex, respectively.

in Derek Hopwood, ed., The Arabian Peninsula: Society and Politics 1972.

The Arabian oryx ( Oryx leucoryx, Arabic: المها ), the smallest species, became extinct in the wild in 1972 from the Arabian Peninsula.

The Arabian oryx became extinct in the wild in 1972, and reintroduction efforts were started in 1982 when Oryx were released to the wild in the Omani Central Desert and Coastal Hills.

On 7 October 1972, Gaddafi praised the Lod Airport massacre, carried out by the Japanese Red Army, and demanded Palestinian terrorist groups to carry out similar attacks.

Munich was the site of the 1972 Summer Olympics, during which Israeli athletes were assassinated by Palestinian terrorists in the Munich massacre, when gunmen from the Palestinian " Black September " terrorist group took hostage members of the Israeli Olympic team.

* 1972 – Munich Massacre: 9 Israel athletes taken hostage at the Munich Olympic Games by the Palestinian " Black September " terrorist group died ( as did a German policeman ) at the hands of the kidnappers during a failed rescue attempt.

* 1972 – Munich Massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called " Black September " attack and take hostage 11 Israel athletes at the Munich Olympic Games.

* The Munich massacre takes place at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, where Palestinian Arab terrorists of the Black September terrorist organization kidnap and murder eleven Israeli athletes.

On September 5, 1972, the Palestinian terrorist movement Black September infiltrated the Summer Olympic Games in Munich, West Germany, to kidnap 11 Israeli athletes, killing two in the Olympic Village in the initial assault on the athletes ' rooms.

At one time labeled by critics as " the most feared female terrorist in the world ", she helped plan the 1972 attack at Lod Airport.

On the night of 6 February 1972, a Palestine terrorist organisation named Black September attempted to blow up a natural gas pipeline at a distribution hub near Ommen, but not all explosives were detonated.

In 1972 stun grenades were used to capture the hijacked Sabena Flight 571, allowing the Israeli forces headed by Ehud Barak and including Benjamin Netanyahu to storm the plane and take it over within 10 minutes while capturing two terrorists and killing Ali Taha, the leader of the terrorist group and his aide, while rescuing all passengers ( three were wounded, and one died of her injuries several days later ).

* On 8 May 1972, Flight 571 from Vienna to Tel Aviv with 101 people on board ( a Boeing 707 registered OO-SJG ) was hijacked by four members of the terrorist organization Black September, in order to secure the release of 315 detainees from Israeli prisons.

* The second movement was also used as a funeral dirge during the memorial service following the " Munich massacre " terrorist attacks during the 1972 Summer Olympics.

On May 30, 1972 three members of the Japanese Red Army undertook a terrorist attack, popularly called the Lod Airport massacre, at the Lod Airport, now known as the Ben Gurion International Airport, in Tel Aviv.

It also criticised the stance IS adopted on the Provisional Irish Republican Army's terrorist actions in 1972.

In 1972, Dixon's prediction of terrorist attacks in America in the wake of the Munich massacre spurred Nixon to set up a cabinet committee on counterterrorism.

The Lod Airport massacre was a terrorist attack that occurred on May 30, 1972, in which three members of the Japanese Red Army having been recruited by the Palestinian group called the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ) killed 26 people and injured 80 others at Tel Aviv's Lod airport ( now Ben Gurion International Airport ).

OMON originated in 1979, when the first group was founded in preparation for the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, to ensure that there were no terrorist attacks like the Munich massacre during the 1972 Summer Olympics.

While most of this reclamation occurred by way of peaceful meetings and beneficial organizations such as Kayano Shigeru ’ s work for a national Ainu museum, some groups, like Ainu Liberation, used terrorist tactics such as the bombing of October 23, 1972 to attract attention to their cause.

After shortcomings in police procedures and training were revealed by the terrorist attack on Israeli athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympics, a BGS task force known as Special Group 9 ( GSG-9 ) was formed to deal with terrorist incidents, especially hostage situations.

He withdrew the United States from participation in the 1998 Kyoto Protocol on world climate change and from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, as well as withdrawing U. S. support for the International Criminal Court, but his legacy was defined by his response to the 9 / 11 terrorist attack.

* 1972: During the Summer Olympic Games in Munich, West Germany, eleven members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage by Palestinian terrorist group Black September in what is known as the Munich massacre.

He took office in 1972 in the midst of an institutional crisis caused by the authoritarian rule of Pacheco and the terrorist threat.

An Office for Combatting Terrorism was created in the State Department in 1972 after the Munich Olympics terrorist attack.

The establishment of the first unit started in 1973 as a direct response to the hostage crisis at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich and the infiltration of the armed terrorist groups inside the Yugoslav territory in the same year.