* 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

* May 30, 1972: The Lod Airport massacre: an assault rifle ( Sa vz. 58 ) and grenade attack on Israel's Lod Airport in Tel Aviv, now Ben Gurion International Airport, killed 26 people ; about 80 others were injured.

* 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.

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.

* 1972 – Operation Isotope – foiling the hijacking of Sabena Flight 571 in Tel Aviv, Israel ( hostages rescue ).

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 ).

Over the next two decades, Marcel Janco had several new personal exhibits, notably in Tel Aviv ( 1959, 1972 ), Milan ( 1960 ) and Paris ( 1963 ).

In 1957 he joined the top-secret Israel Institute for Biological Research ( IIBR ) in Ness Ziona ( south of Tel Aviv ), where he served as Deputy Scientific Director ( until 1972 ).

On May 30, 1972, Kōzō Okamoto along with Yasuyuki Yasuda, and Tsuyoshi Okudaira, arrived at Israel's Lod Airport in Tel Aviv, via Air France Flight 132 from Rome.

The first Burger Ranch in Israel opened in 1972 on Ben Yehuda Street in Tel Aviv.

Jeroen Godfried Tel ( aka WAVE ) ( born May 19, 1972, Helmond ) is a Dutch composer.

Ne ' eman was founder and director of the School of Physics and Astronomy at Tel Aviv University from 1965 to 1972, president of Tel Aviv University from 1971 to 1975, and director of its Sackler Institute of Advanced Studies from 1979 to 1997.

Avi Nimni ( born 26 April 1972 ) is an Israeli football player, and Maccabi Tel Aviv's highest ever scorer.

He established a wide range of medical institutions bearing his name: the Sackler School of Medicine established in 1972 at Tel Aviv University ( with his brothers Mortimer Sackler and Raymond Sackler ), the Sackler Institute of Graduate Biomedical Science at New York University in 1980, the Arthur M. Sackler Science Center in 1985 at Clark University, the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences and the Arthur M. Sackler Center for Health Communications at Tufts University.

In 1972, he took charge of a number of high profile cases, including the Red Army Asama-Sanso incident, the Narita Airport incident, and the Tel Aviv highjacking.

United Artists, Tel Aviv, 1972.

Aviv claimed to be a former Mossad officer who led the Operation Wrath of God team that assassinated members of Black September who were believed to have been responsible for the Munich Massacre in 1972.

However, Chad has not recognised the State of Israel since former Chadian President François ( Ngarta ) Tombalbaye broke off relations in September 1972 as an act of solidarity with the Palestinians, and other Arabs under Israeli occupation.

In 1972, while Minister for the Interior, he rejected Israel ’ s offer to send an Israeli special forces unit to Germany to deal with the Black September hijacking of the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Genscher's popularity with Israel declined further when he endorsed the handing over of the three captured hijackers to the Palestinians following the hijacking of a Lufthansa plane on 29 October 1972.

And from the 1948 Arab – Israeli War until the early 1970s, 800, 000 – 1, 000, 000 Jews left, fled, or were expelled from their homes in Arab countries ; 260, 000 of them reached Israel between 1948 and 1951 ; and 600, 000 by 1972.

More recent uses include: by France during the First Indochina War ( 1946 – 1954 ), the Algerian War ( 1954 – 1962 ), the Portuguese Colonial War ( 1961 – 1974 ) and the Western Sahara War ( 1975 – 1991 ), The Six-Day War by Israel ( 1967 ), in Nigeria ( 1969 ), India and Pakistan ( 1965 and 1971 ), Turkey during the invasion of Cyprus ( 1974 ), by Morocco during the Western Sahara War ( 1975 – 1991 ), Iran ( 1980 – 88 ), Brazil ( 1972 ), Egypt ( 1973 ), Iraq ( 1980 – 88, 1991, 2003 – 2011 ), Angola ( 1993 ), Yugoslavia ( 1991-1996 ), and by Argentina ( 1982 ).

* 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.

From 1948 until the early 1970s between 800, 000 to 1, 000, 000 Mizrachi and Sephardic Jews either fled from their homes or were expelled from Arab and Islamic countries ; 260, 000 reached Israel between 1948 – 1951, and 600, 000 by 1972.

However, by 1972, he began to see the Chinese in a different light, as a counterbalance to both the Soviet Union as well as his intimate ties with the United States, Israel, and South Africa.

Although Israel was one of the first countries that recognized Bangladesh ( 4 February 1972 ) upon its independence ; Bangladesh does not recognise Israel as legitimate and officially forbids its citizens to travel to Israel by putting " Valid for travel to all countries except Israel " on Bangladeshi passports.

Israel opened its embassy in Seoul in April 1968, which was closed by the Israeli government in February 1972.

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Undercover agents had been sent by Israel as part of Operation Wrath of God to assassinate Ali Hassan Salameh, the leader of the Black September Organization, a Palestinian militant group that carried out the 1972 Munich Massacre.

Doon Arbus and Marvin Israel edited and designed a 1972 book Diane Arbus ( or Diane Arbus: an Aperture Monograph ) accompanying the Museum of Modern Art's exhibition.

From 1972 to 1978, Time Inc. published ten Life Special Reports on such themes as “ The Spirit of Israel ”, “ Remarkable American Women ” and “ The Year in Pictures ”.

In 1969 Israel agreed with the U. S. that Jericho missiles would not be used as " strategic missiles ", with nuclear warheads, until at least 1972.

Lt. General Ion Mihai Pacepa described the operation " SIG " (“ Zionist Governments ”) that was devised in 1972, to turn the whole Islamic world against Israel and the United States.

In December of 1972 he donated the " King David " to the City of Jerusalem to honor the 25th anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel, with the stipulation that it be loaned out for the use of outstanding young Israeli violinists.

In 1972 he went into partnership with Michael Fox and Yaakov Neeman, and established the law firm of Herzog, Fox & Neeman, one of the largest law firms in Israel.