At the time of his retirement from the England team in 1970, he was the nation's most capped player, having turned out 106 times at the highest level.

At the University, he founded a lecture course on sociology, maintaining it until his retirement.

At the time of his retirement, Zoff's 112 caps were the most ever by a member of the Italian national team.

At the age of seventy-two, Pei had begun thinking about retirement, but continued working long hours to see his designs come to light.

At the time of his retirement, Abdul-Jabbar was the NBA ’ s all-time leader in points scored, games played, minutes played, field goals made, field goal attempts, blocked shots, defensive rebounds, and personal fouls.

At the time of his retirement he was the 6th winningest coach in NFL history with 168 career wins, including playoffs.

At the time of his retirement, Williams ranked third all-time in home runs ( behind Babe Ruth and Jimmie Foxx ), seventh in RBIs ( after Ruth, Cap Anson, Lou Gehrig, Ty Cobb, Foxx, and Mel Ott ; Stan Musial passed Williams in 1962 ), and seventh in batting average ( behind Cobb, Rogers Hornsby, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Lefty O ' Doul, Ed Delahanty and Tris Speaker ).

At the time of his retirement in 1999, he held 40 regular-season records, 15 playoff records, and six All-Star records.

At the time of his retirement, Gretzky was the second-to-last WHA player still active in professional hockey, Mark Messier, who himself attended the game along with other representatives of the Edmonton dynasty, being the last.

At this concert's end, his retirement is announced, and Toscanini never conducts in public again.

At his retirement, his 586 career home runs were the fourth-best in history ( behind only Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth, and Willie Mays ).

At his 100th birthday and retirement celebration in December, Thurmond said, " I don't know how to thank you.

At the time of his retirement, he ranked fifth in career home runs ( 361 ) and sixth in career slugging percentage (. 579 ).

At the age of fifty and facing retirement due to his selling of his successful automobile company ( The Revelation Motor Company ) to a far larger competitor, he sets out to do what he had always wanted to experience: a leisurely trip to Europe with his wife.

At the time of his retirement, Mantle was the Yankees all-time leader in games played with 2, 401, which was broken by Derek Jeter on August 29, 2011.

At the time of his retirement, many regarded Sampras as the greatest player of all time.

At the time of his retirement, he was the last of the 17 spitballers left in the league.

At the time of his retirement, Wilhelm pitched in a then-MLB record 1, 070 games.

At a September 15 practice however, Richard made up his mind and he announced his retirement at a press conference on September 15, 1960.

At the time of his retirement, his 2, 239 career hits represented the 143rd-highest total in Major League Baseball history.

At the end of 2002 Rosenborg saw the retirement of Nils Arne Eggen after many successful years, during which he was only relieved once, in the 1998 season, by his assistant, Trond Sollied.

At the time of his retirement, his. 318 career batting average was the highest by any right-handed American League batter since Joe DiMaggio.

At the time of his retirement, he had played the second most of any Dallas Cowboy in history.

At the time of his retirement, Howe's professional totals, including playoffs, for the NHL and WHA combined, were first.

At club level, Banks came up with his second most famous save when spectacularly palming a vicious penalty from his England team-mate Hurst over the crossbar as Stoke defeated West Ham United in the semi final of the 1972 League Cup.

At the time of the hostage-taking, the 1972 Munich Olympic Games were well into their second week.

* 1972 – Tomas Lindberg, Swedish musician ( At the Gates )

At the same time, Senegal and Mauritania have cooperated successfully with Mali under the Senegal River Development Office ( Organisation pour la Mise en Valeur du Fleuve Sénégal — OMVS ), which was formed in 1972 as a flood control, irrigation, and agricultural development project.

At the tumultuous 1972 Democratic convention, presidential nominee George McGovern selected Senator Thomas Eagleton as his running mate, but numerous other candidates were either nominated from the floor or received votes during the balloting.

At the end of its combat debut in 1972, the Sheridan saw extensive action in the Vietnam War, being assigned to nearly all armored cavalry squadrons involved in that conflict.

At Stanford University, he received his Master's degree in computer science in 1971 and a Ph. D. in computer science ( with a minor in mathematics ) in 1972.

At the urging of the Lebanese government, UNTSO created an observation operation along the Lebanese border ( 1949 Armistice Demarcation line ) in the spring of 1972.

At some point before or after this, grave robbers broke into and destroyed the underground burial chamber, but in 1972 there was still enough of it remaining to determine a layout of the chambers when they were excavated.

At the 1972 Summer Olympics, Stecher repeated that performance.

At the 22nd Berlin International Film Festival in 1972, the film won the Silver Bear Extraordinary Jury Prize.

At the same time, officials in Canada and the Soviet Union negotiated an arrangement that would see the top players of each nation – amateur or professional – play in an eight game " Summit Series " in September 1972 between the world's two greatest hockey nations.

At the University of Pennsylvania, Lenat received his Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Physics, and his Master's degree in Applied Mathematics in 1972.

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

At first the police charged the Hares and the others with assault and battery, but increased the charge to manslaughter in May 1972.

At the time, it was the city's largest employer, employing 800 people at in 1972, and over 1, 000 at its peak.

At Henderson Row, the property next to the school, No 32, was acquired for administrative use in 1972 and in 1977, the Academy acquired the junior school of Donaldson's College, to the west.

At the beginning of 1972, he was offered the job as first head coach of the New York Islanders, but turned it down.

At the age of thirteen in 1972, Smith first saw David Bowie on television, performing Starman on Top of the Pops.

At the Fine Gael Ard Fheis in May 1972, Cosgrave faced down his political opponents in spectacular style.

At the end of 1972, Rutherford left Pan's People to raise a family, and was replaced by Cherry Gillespie.

*" Living One Day At A Time " / " Girl from Dublin City " ( CBS, February 1972 )

At this they were one of the first groups to achieve success ; Procol Harum Live In Concert with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra was a No. 5 gold album in the US in 1972, as well as reaching No. 48 in Britain.

At the time of his birth he was fifth in the line of succession to the throne, and second in line to his father's Dukedom, behind his brother, Prince William of Gloucester, who died in 1972 when the plane he was piloting crashed at Halfpenny Green, near Wolverhampton.