* 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 – The United States Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.

* 1972 – Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s.

" The other item was a commemorative medal issued by the United States Air Force, which was celebrating its 25th anniversary in 1972.

Category: 1972 in the United States

Category: 1972 in the United States

* 1972 – Vietnam War: the last United States ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam.

The treaty was signed in Moscow on May 26, 1972 by the President of the United States, Richard Nixon and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev ; and ratified by the US Senate on August 3, 1972.

Category: 1972 in the United States

Ansbach was also home to the headquarters of the 1st Armored Division ( United States ) from 1972 to the early1990s.

After only about a month, Clinton postponed his plans to be a coordinator for the McGovern campaign for the 1972 United States presidential election in order to move in with her in California.

* Baby Scoop Era, a period in United States history from the end of World War II to 1972

Charlton left Manchester United at the end of the 1972 – 73 season, having scored 249 goals and set a club record of 758 appearances, a record which Ryan Giggs broke in the 2008 UEFA Champions League Final.

On August 10, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon formally transmitted the Biological Weapons Convention to the United States Senate for ratification.

When he briefly returned to the United States in 1972, the Lincoln Center Film Society honoured him with a gala and awarded him a lifetime achievement award, which has since been awarded annually to filmmakers as The Chaplin Award.

Although all administrative links with Jamaica were broken in 1962, the Cayman Islands and Jamaica continue to share many links and experiences, including membership in the Commonwealth of Nations ( and Commonwealth citizenship ) and a common united church ( the United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands ) and Anglican diocese ( although there is debate about this ) as well as a common currency ( until 1972 ).

In 1972, her mother purchased a farm in New Zealand and moved the family there, but left Love in the United States under the care of her former stepfather and various friends due to her increasingly hostile behavior.

In 1972, at the peak of the Sino-Soviet split, Mao and Zhou Enlai met Richard Nixon in Beijing to establish relations with the United States.

The UCC is by far the most diverse of the Reformed churches in the U. S. In the United Kingdom, the United Reformed Church was formed in 1972 by the merger of the Presbyterian and the Congregational churches, on presbyterian principles of union but within a continuing congregational regard for local diversity.

* 1972 – Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will engage North Vietnam in Operation Linebacker II, a series of Christmas bombings, after peace talks collapsed with North Vietnam on the 13th.

In the 1970s and 1980s, agricultural use was banned in most developed countries, beginning with Hungary in 1968 then in Norway and Sweden in 1970, Germany and the United States in 1972, but not in the United Kingdom until 1984.

* 1972 – Vietnam War: The United States halts heavy bombing of North Vietnam.