From 1961 to 1972, the Soviet Union caught 138 gray whales ( they originally reported not having taken any ).

* More skull characters of the beaked whale Indopacetus pacificus and comparative measurements of austral relatives J. C. Moore 1972.

'; it opened the awareness of consumers to the use of whale meat in pet food in 1972 ; and produced award-winning documentary-dramas such as ' Life Story ' in 1987 which dramatised the discovery of the structure of DNA.

Sperm whale oil was however still a key component in automatic transmission fluid until 1972.

In November 1972, Kolton was named as the exchange's first chief executive officer and its first salaried top executive.

In 1972, after concluding a study on the US government's computer security needs, the US standards body NBS ( National Bureau of Standards ) — now named NIST ( National Institute of Standards and Technology ) — identified a need for a government-wide standard for encrypting unclassified, sensitive information.

While the organization was founded under a different name in 1970 and was officially named Greenpeace in 1972, the organization itself dates its birth to the first protest of 1971.

* 1972 – Queen Margrethe II of Denmark ascends the throne, the first Queen of Denmark since 1412 and the first Danish monarch not named Frederick or Christian since 1513.

In 1972, poet William Irwin Thompson named his Lindisfarne Association after the monastery on the island.

The original structure was invented in 1972 by Rudolf Bayer and named " symmetric binary B-tree ," but acquired its modern name in a paper in 1978 by Leonidas J. Guibas and Robert Sedgewick.

The Apollo 17 lunar module that landed on the Moon in 1972 was also named Challenger.

In 1972, Gilbert was named American Cancer Society Professor of Molecular Biology.

The largest crocodile ever held in captivity is an estuarine – Siamese hybrid named Yai (, meaning big ) ( born 10 June 1972 ) at the famous Samutprakarn Crocodile Farm and Zoo, Thailand.

As early as October, 1945, a newspaper strip named Walt Disney Presents " Uncle Remus " and His Tales of Brer Rabbit appeared in the United States, and this production continued until 1972.

In 1972 Mobutu tried unsuccessfully to have himself named president for life.

Marc Bolan & T. Rex recorded a live album at the Gliderdrome named ' Live at the Boston Gliderdrome ' in 1972 which was released on CD in 2001.

Hoppe held that post until Pope Paul VI terminated the apostolic administration of Ermland diocese and finally appointed again a bishop to the see on 28 June 1972, then named Warmia ( Polish for Ermland ), however, not comprising the former diocesan area within the Soviet Union.

West's 9. 7 assists per game ( apg ) led the league, he also averaged more than 25 points, and was named MVP of the 1972 NBA All-Star Game.

The most substantial damage occurred on May 21, 1972 ( Pentecost Sunday ) when a mentally disturbed geologist named Laszlo Toth walked into the chapel and attacked the sculpture with a geologist's hammer while shouting " I am Jesus Christ.

* One of the cities in Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities ( 1972 ) is named after Baucis.

* Alia Baha el-Din Toukan H. M. Queen Alia al-Hussein ( 1948 – 1977 ), on 24 December 1972, after whom Jordan's international airport ( Queen Alia International Airport ) is named.

Her Complete Stories won the 1972 U. S. National Book Award for Fiction and was named the " Best of the National Book Awards " by internet visitors in 2009.

In 1972, a street in Ottawa was named Paul Anka Drive.

Established in 1972, the park is named after explorer Charles Sturt.

In 1972 Robert Favre Le Bret was named the new President, and Maurice Bessy the Managing Director.

In 1972 Livingston was named a finalist in the " All American Cities Competition ", sponsored by The Saturday Evening Post.

It is a common misconception that the airline was named after the King's third wife, Queen Alia whom King Hussein did not marry until 1972.

The first prototype of Pong, one of the first arcade videogames, was installed in Sunnyvale in September 1972, in a bar named Andy Capp's Tavern, now Rooster T. Feathers.

Lady Liberty ( Italian: La mortadella ) is a 1972 French-Italian comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli and starring Sophia Loren, William Devane, Gigi Proietti, Susan Sarandon and Danny DeVito.

* 1972 – In an unsuccessful coup d ' état attempt, the Royal Moroccan Air Force fires upon Hassan II of Morocco's plane while he is traveling back to Rabat.

This was started by Roy Noble, who built the guitar played by Clarence White from 1968 to 1972, and was followed by Bill Collings, Marty Lanham, Dana Bourgeois, Randy Lucas, Lynn Dudenbostel and Wayne Henderson, a few of the luthiers building guitars today inspired by vintage Martins, the pre – World War II models in particular.

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

* Peer, Elizabeth and Ralph II ( 1972 ).

* 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.

* 1972 – Vietnam War: As part of Operation Linebacker II, 120 American B-52 Stratofortress bombers attacked Hanoi, including 78 launched from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, the largest single combat launch in Strategic Air Command history.

* 1972 — Harvey Mudd II ( Environmentalist )

Subsequent talks, called SALT II, were held from 1972 to 1979 and actually reduced the number of nuclear warheads held by the USA and USSR.

After winning Super Bowl II after the 1967 regular season, the Packers became a losing team for much of the 1970s and 1980s, only making the playoffs in 1972 and the strike-shortened 1982 season.

** Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-born German World War II spy ( d. 1972 )

Films he made during this period included Bluebeard ( 1972 ), Hammersmith Is Out ( 1972 ), The Klansman ( 1974 ), and Exorcist II: The Heretic ( 1977 ).

Some examples include the Allies ' destruction of civilian Axis targets during World War II, such as the firebombing of the German city of Dresden and the use of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ; and the mass killing of Biharies by Kader Siddique and Mukti Bahini before or after victory of Bangladesh Liberation War in Bangladesh between 1971 and 1972.

The SALT II talks started in 1972 leading to agreement in 1979.

The White Australia Policy was quietly dismantled after World War II by various changes to immigration policy, the full political introduction of official policies of multiculturalism was not until 1972.

Dame Margaret Taylor Rutherford, DBE ( 11 May 1892 – 22 May 1972 ) was an English character actress, who first came to prominence following World War II in the film adaptations of Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit, and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.

He then won the inaugural Marlboro Cup against a field that included Secretariat's stablemate, the 1972 Derby and Belmont Stakes winner Riva Ridge, top California stakes winner Cougar II, Canadian champion Kennedy Road, Onion, Travers winner Annihilate ' Em, and the 1972 American champion three-year-old male horse Key to the Mint.

On June 24, 1980, he was married again, to Robyn Smith ( born August 14, 1944 ), a jockey 45 years his junior, who rode for Alfred G. Vanderbilt II and was herself, on the cover of Sports Illustrated on July 31, 1972.

Near the war's end in December 1972, President Richard Nixon ordered Operation Linebacker II, a high-intensity Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps aerial bombing campaign, which included hundreds of B-52 bombers that struck previously untouched North Vietnamese strategic targets, including heavy populated areas in Hanoi and Haiphong.

* U. S. Senate Judiciary Committee, The Human Cost of Communism in Vietnam ( 1972 ), part I, part II, part III, and part IV.

A visit by Queen Elizabeth II to the site in 1972 caused considerable controversy ; student protests against the Queen's visit were vociferous and, in some cases, fuelled by alcohol, and the disturbances were widely condemned in the press and the local community, where students were refused access to buses and other facilities for a time.

In 1972 he was passed by the Cabinet Biesheuvel II for the position of Vice President of the Council of State and in 1973 he passed the mayoralty of Eindhoven.