Every year since 1972 the BVI has hosted the Spring Regatta, which is a seven-day collection of sailing races throughout the islands.

The following year, he won the Parents Without Partners Exemplary Service Award for 1972.

By 1972, the economic progress of Allende's first year had been reversed, and the economy was in crisis.

The EMSBL ( East Meadow Strat-o-Matic Baseball League ), founded in 1972 started its 41st consecutive year of play in May 2012 and is believed to be the oldest continuously playing fantasy baseball league in the world.

His England career ended the same year with yet another game against West Germany, in the qualification stages for the 1972 European Championships, which England lost.

Only 25, 000 people per year, of which about 21 percent are industrial workers, graduate yearly from the National Institute of Professional Training ( Instituto Nacional de Formación Profesional-- INFOP ) established in 1972.

They had an off year in 1971, but were the National League Pennant winner in 1972.

The next year on December 18 the Chargers faced the unbeaten Colts ; the Colts dream of the first perfect season since 1972 failed as the Chargers won 26-17.

Bench had another strong year in 1972, again winning the Most Valuable Player Award and leading the National League in home runs ( 40 ) and RBI ( 125 ), to help propel the Reds to another National League West Division title, and a five-game victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1972 National League Championship Series.

Dalglish scored his first goal for Scotland a year later on 15 November 1972 in the 2 – 0 World Cup qualifier win over Denmark at Hampden Park.

Liverpool won both the League and the UEFA Cup during the 1972 – 73 season, and the FA Cup again a year later.

The 1972 Dolphins defensive unit, called the No-Name Defense because Miami ’ s impressive offense received much more publicity, was the league ’ s best that year.

As Third World countries increased their influence in the arena of world politics and Soviet – American détente created opportunities for countries in both blocs, North Korea declared 1972 a year of diplomacy.

A year before their 1972 Eldredge and Gould paper, Niles Eldredge published a paper in the journal Evolution which suggested that gradual evolution was seldom seen in the fossil record and argued that Ernst Mayr's standard mechanism of allopatric speciation might suggest a possible resolution.

From 1957 until her final disc for the company in 1972, she produced a steady stream of two or three albums per year which usually included standards ( often arranged quite different from the original ), her own compositions, and material from young artists.

Set up in 1972 as an informal group to consider the technical issues involved in connecting different networks, later that year it became a subcommittee of the International Federation for Information Processing.

In the late 1950s, roughly 60 graduated each year, peaking to more than 500 in early 1972 as a result of mobilisation brought on by the first southern rebellion.

1972 brought so many rule changes, it has prompted many to consider this year as the start of the modern era of NASCAR racing.

He wears the uniform number " 72 " in honor of 1972, the year the Rangers relocated to Arlington.

It is known that during 1969 – 1971, there were about 22, 000 ARVN combat deaths per year and the army reached a peak strength of about one million soldiers during 1972.

In 1972, Jaguar came out with the XJ12, equipped with a 5. 3 litre V12, which continued ( after revisions in 1993 ) until the 1996 model year, after which the marque discontinued the twelve-cylinder engine.

Serpico survived, although partially deaf, testified to the Knapp Commission later that year and retired in 1972 on a disability pension, living abroad until his quiet return to the U. S. in 1980, when he moved upstate into an old fashioned cabin.

Year 1972 ( MCMLXXII ) was a leap year starting on Saturday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar.

During 1972, the same year he again spoke publicly of his opposition to the immigration of Ugandan Asians, Powell was also defeated in his struggle against the European Communities Bill, which helped prepare the UK to join the common market, which he had spent three years campaigning to prevent from happening.

* 1989 – Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restoring democracy for the first time since 1972.

* 1972 – 20 days after he is kidnapped in Buenos Aires, Oberdan Sallustro is murdered by communist guerrillas.

Although Japan eventually recognized the People's Republic in 1972, shortly after Kakuei Tanaka succeeded Sato as Prime Minister of Japan, the memory of this relationship was strong enough to be reported by The New York Times ( April 15, 1978 ) as a significant factor inhibiting trade between Japan and the mainland.

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.

Left out of the Italian starting eleven in the 1970 FIFA World Cup, Zoff resumed his success after signing for Juventus in 1972.

* 1972 – United Airlines Flight 553 crashes after aborting its landing attempt at Chicago Midway International Airport, killing 45.

* 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.

Howe returned to pro hockey shortly after to play with his two sons Mark and Marty Howe ( Mark would later join the Red Wings at the end of his career ) in the upstart World Hockey Association in 1972.

* 1972 – Apollo program: Eugene Cernan is the last person to walk on the moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and final Extra-vehicular activity ( EVA ) of the Apollo 17 mission.

Almost all EWDs appearing after 1972 were hand-written.

The Vyborg tramway network ceased operations in 1957, after the city had been ceded to the Soviet Union, while the Turku tramway network shut down in 1972.

The second coup took place in 1972, after the reinstated civilian government had cut military privileges and began to start changing the leadership of the army's combat units.

Named after American revolutionary, patriot, and founding father George Mason, the university was founded as a branch of the University of Virginia in 1957 and became an independent institution in 1972.

Eric Bogle wrote a popular song, " And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda " ( 1972 ), after watching in Australia a parade of elderly veterans of the Gallipoli campaign.

Under the new ownership, the Colts did not reach the postseason for three consecutive seasons after 1971, and after the 1972 season, starting quarterback and legend Johnny Unitas, was traded to the San Diego Chargers.

Brown after a concert in Tampa on Jan. 29, 1972

* 1972 – Staines air disaster – 118 are killed when a plane crashes two minutes after take off from London Heathrow Airport.

* 1972 – Vietnam War: Associated Press photographer Nick Ut takes his Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of a naked 9-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc running down a road after being burned by napalm.

* 1972 – Pakistan launched its Nuclear detterent program few weeks after its defeat in Bangladesh Liberation War and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.

* 1972 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.

In the early 1970s, Oakland won three World Series titles from 1972 – 1974, and after the A's left Kansas City under less than honorable terms, a strong rivalry existed between the two teams during this period.

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

* 1972 – The Thai province of Yasothon is created after being split off from the Ubon Ratchathani province.

* 1972 – Vietnam War: The Easter Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone ( DMZ ) of South Vietnam.