* 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.

Two long-running series began around this time, Steptoe and Son ( 1962 – 65, 1970 – 74 ) and Till Death Us Do Part ( 1965 – 68, 1972 – 75 ), the latter criticised by Clean-Up TV campaigner Mary Whitehouse for its bad language.

Later radio shows made use of the panel game format, including the long-running Just a Minute ( from 1967 to date ) and I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue ( from 1972 ).

Other long-running games on radio include I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue since 1972, The News Quiz from 1977, and My Word!

" Then in 1972 he co-starred with Anthony Newley in the long-running Newley / Bricusse musical, The Good Old Bad Old Days.

Magnusson presented the long-running quiz show Mastermind from 1972 to 1997.

The MASH unit made its way into popular culture through the 1968 novel M * A * S * H by Richard Hooker, the 1970 feature film based on the novel, and the long-running television sitcom ( 1972 – 1983 ) based on the movie.

In 1972, the long-running Pippin premiered on Broadway.

Short-lived cooking show Variety Italian Style premiered in 1972, with Malcom Elliott initially hosting the long-running Tonight Show in 1981 being replaced by John Tingle years later.

Productions of the decade included a revival of Enid Bagnold's The Chalk Garden, with Gladys Cooper ( 1971 ); the long-running A Voyage Round My Father ( John Mortimer ) starring Alec Guinness, succeeded by Michael Redgrave ( 1971 – 72 ); and, in 1972, Crown Matrimonial by Royce Ryton, starring Wendy Hiller as Queen Mary.

Sugden was already a well-known face on British television when she was given the role that brought her international fame, that of Mrs. Slocombe, a department store saleswoman with a socially superior attitude, a repertoire of double entendres, and a penchant for bouffant, pastel-coloured coiffures, in the popular and long-running Are You Being Served ?, which ran from 1972 to 1985 ( see image at top, with purple hairstyle ).

In 1972 he was asked to stand in as the host of the long-running Sunday evening radio programme Down Your Way ( first broadcast in 1946 ) when Franklin Engelmann, who had hosted the programme since 1953, died very suddenly.

Gless had been initially unavailable for the movie and series, which were produced by Orion, because of her long-running contract to Universal Television ( she was the last actress ever to be signed to a long-term contract with a studio, in 1972 ).

Although his practice was based in Brisbane, he was senior counsel for the Alliance Party in Lord Denning's arbitration in Fiji Sugar Industry in 1969 ; in 1972, senior prosecutor in the long-running trial for the murder of the District Commissioner in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea ; and, in 1974, senior counsel for the Northern Land Council in the Woodward Commission into Aboriginal Land Rights in the Northern Territory.

Perry also hosted another long-running game show, Headline Hunters, which lasted from 1972 until 1983, with a year of repeats the following year.

He produced the first ever show on Radio 1-Tony Blackburn's breakfast show on 30 September 1967-worked his way up through the ranks, creating jingles, recruiting most of the station's DJs ( one of whom was Tom Browne who presented the BBC chart from 1972 to 1978 ) and along the way launched the long-running and successful annual Radio 1 Roadshow events in 1973.

Nonrural-themed shows cancelled by CBS included sitcoms Family Affair and Hogan's Heroes in 1971, with the long-running My Three Sons ending in 1972.

Producer Robert A. Cinader saw him in a small role on The Bold Ones opposite Hal Holbrook that led to his decision to cast him as Los Angeles County Firefighter / Paramedic Johnny Gage on the long-running TV series, Emergency !, which shot him to stardom in 1972 to 1979, starring opposite Robert Fuller, Julie London, Bobby Troup and Kevin Tighe, who would become best friends for life.

Tatort ( English title: Crime Scene ) is a long-running German / Austrian / Swiss ( ARD ( since 1970 ), ORF ( since 1972 ) and SF ( 1990 – 2001, again since 2011 )), crime television series set in various parts of these countries.

In 1972, the makers of the long-running children's television series Jackanory started to develop new story-telling format.

The long-running Black and White Minstrel Show played through the 1960s until 1972.