Although he would go on to have back-to-back 17-win seasons for the Chicago Cubs in 1971 and 1972, including a no-hitter in the latter season, this did not help the Reds, who ended up losing the 1970 World Series to Robinson and the Orioles.

Jack Roosevelt " Jackie " Robinson ( January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972 ) was an American baseball player who became the first black Major League Baseball ( MLB ) player of the modern era.

* January 31 – Jackie Robinson, African-American baseball player ( d. 1972 )

Robinson led the group from its 1955 origins as The Five Chimes until 1972 when he announced a retirement from the stage to focus on his role as Motown's vice president.

However, the late success of the group's track, " Tears of a Clown ", caused Robinson to stay with the group until 1972.

* Jackie Robinson ( 1919 – 1972 ), American Major League Baseball player

The long Welland By-pass, built between 1967 and 1972, opened for the 1973 shipping season, providing a new and shorter alignment between Port Robinson and Port Colborne and by-passing downtown Welland.

* 1972 Bobby Robinson

* K. E. Robinson ( 1972 ).

During Robinson's tenure, the Miracles, known as Motown's " soul supergroup ", recorded 26 top 40 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 including eight top twenty singles, six top ten singles and one number-one single, 1970's " Tears of a Clown ", before Robinson and his wife Claudette left the group altogether in 1972.

In 1972, Robinson made good on his promise to leave the Miracles, starting a six-month tour which ended in July at Washington, D. C., later introducing Billy Griffin as his official replacement.

In 1972, the Taft Broadcasting Company, headed by Kelly Robinson, first proposed building a theme park in the then small village of Maple, part of Vaughan, Ontario.

* Jackie Robinson: ( 1919 – 1972 ), American Major League Baseball player, Civil Rights pioneer

* Robinson, Scott ( 1994 ) The Aboriginal Embassy: An Account of the Protests of 1972 ', Aboriginal History 18 ( 1 ): 49-63.

Apartments were built upon the former Ebbets Field site, and were named the Ebbets Field Apartments upon their opening in 1962 and were later renamed the Jackie Robinson Apartments in 1972, the same year Robinson died.

George Robinson Swift ( December 19, 1887 – September 10, 1972 ) was a U. S. senator from the state of Alabama.

Despite resigning from the character Gordon, and the Sesame Street group officially in 1972, Robinson continued to work with the show, scripting and voicing Roosevelt Franklin sketches until 1975.

Robinson wrote the first Sesame Street themed storybook in 1972 and was titled Gordon of Sesame Street ’ s Storybook.

The Braves failed to contend in 1970 and 1971 and, Richards was fired in the middle of the 1972 season, replaced by Eddie Robinson.

* Robinson J. P. ( 1972 ) Toward a More Appropriate Use of Guttman Scaling.

His batting average improved to. 274 in 1972, but he was not showing his early promise as a major leaguer, and following the season, he was packaged in a trade along with Frank Robinson, Billy Grabarkewitz, Bill Singer and Mike Strahler to the California Angels for Andy Messersmith and Ken McMullen.

He worked as a songwriter and performer in 1973 in a group called The New Cactus Band with Duane Hitchings ( an original member of Buddy Miles Express, who was also recorded jamming with Hendrix ( but quite sporadcally, over at least two years ), although, ( unlike Robinson ) he was edited out of the only official release of his jams by Alan Douglas, and this " fame " has to rely on the untampered, bootlegs of the original recordings ), the sole member from the final lineup of the Cactus band, which had disbanded in 1972.

The Robinson varsity football team has had five head coaches in its history: Kurt Lindstrom ( 1972 – 74 ), Ed Henry ( 1975 – 82 ), Nick Hilgert ( 1983 – 96 ), Mark Bendorf ( 1997 – June 2011 ) and Trey Taylor ( 2011-present ).

Sagan assembled the first physical message that was sent into space: a gold-anodized plaque, attached to the space probe Pioneer 10, launched in 1972.

From 1965 to 1972 it had a caravan camp and main watching platform at Achnahannet, and sent observers to other locations up and down the loch.

The ceasefire line came into effect on January 1, 1949, after eighteen months of fighting between Indian forces and Afridi tribals which Pakistan had sent to occupy Kashmir and was last adjusted and agreed upon by the two countries according to the Simla Agreement of July 2, 1972 between Indira Gandhi and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.

* 1972 – A parcel bomb sent to Israeli Embassy in London kills one diplomat.

Iraq signed an aid pact with the Soviet Union in 1972, and arms were sent along with several thousand advisers.

On February 4, 1972, Thurmond sent a secret memo to William Timmons ( in his capacity as an aide to Richard Nixon ) and United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell, with an attached file from the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee urging that British musician John Lennon ( living in New York City at the time ) be deported from the United States as an undesirable alien, due to Lennon's political views and activism.

The Mars 2 and 3 orbiters sent back a large volume of data covering the period from December 1971 to March 1972, although transmissions continued through August.

Drake co-designed the Pioneer plaque with Carl Sagan in 1972, the first physical message sent into space.

In 1972, with new technology becoming available, Yale sent the map for chemical analysis by forensic specialist Walter McCrone whose team, using a variety of techniques, found that the yellowish lines contain anatase ( titanium dioxide ) in a rounded crystalline form manufactured for use in pale pigments since the 1920s, indicating that the ink was modern.

The writers Peter Stansky and William Abrahams, in their 1972 The Unknown Orwell, noted :" Eric Blair looked back unforgivingly on the world before 1914-it was that world that had sent him to his prep school-while George Orwell could believe it was superior to what came after it, and looked back to it nostalgically in Coming Up for Air.

The Mars 2 orbiter sent back a large volume of data covering the period from December 1971 to March 1972, although transmissions continued through August.

The Mars 3 orbiter sent back a large volume of data covering the period from December 1971 to March 1972, although transmissions continued through August.

SM-1A pressurized-water reactor reached initial criticality on 13 March 1962, and was shut down in 1972: the reactor core was removed and sent to the Savannah River nuclear site.

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.

In 1972, ABC sent out promotional copies of Steely Dan's first single, " Dallas ", backed with " Sail the Waterway.

After basic military training in secondary school in 1966, Sankara began his military career at the age of 19, and a year later was sent to Madagascar for officer training at Antsirabe where he witnessed popular uprisings in 1971 and 1972 against the government of Philibert Tsiranana and first read the works of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin, profoundly influencing his political views for the rest of his life.

In 1972 he was sent a letter bomb that failed to explode because of faulty wiring.

According to a memo sent by L. Patrick Gray, acting FBI Director, to H. R. Haldeman in 1972: " Sources in Miami say he ( Sturgis ) is now associated with organized crime activities ".

A special promotional-only, white-label, " banded for airplay " version of the LP was sent to U. S. radio stations in 1972.

He enjoyed and participated in student politics, including becoming a member of the New Zealand Greenpeace executive that sent Greenpeace III to Mururoa Atoll in 1972 in the campaign against French nuclear testing in the Pacific Ocean.

‘ Milocas ’ was destroyed by an accidental fire in 1969, while ‘ Gina ’ and ‘ Licas ’ were withdrawn from active service in 1972, the former being sent to Luanda and the latter ended up in 1973 as an airfield security pillbox in the Portuguese Air Force ’ s Zala airfield.

In 1972, before the Munich massacre, Sayeret Matkal's operatives were sent to West Germany to cooperate with German authorities and, if necessary, perform the hostage-rescue themselves.

In Europe, Basel failed to impress, once again, in 1972, as they were sent crashing out at the first stage by Hungary's Újpesti Dózsa SC but in the 1973 – 74 season they excelled, eliminating Icelanders Fram Reykjavík and Club Brugge of Belgium, before narrowly exiting in the quarter-finals to Celtic 5 – 6 on aggregate.

In September 1972, the Houston-based 630th Radar Squadron sent a detachment ( OL-D ) to this FAA-operated site to set up an AN / FPS-6 height-finder radar to join the AN / FPS-66A search radar already in place ( Z-241 ).