Under the Local Government Act 1972, since 1974, the town has formed part of the larger Borough of Hyndburn including the former Urban Districts of Oswaldtwistle, Church, Clayton-le-Moors, Great Harwood and Rishton.

Göran Bror Benny Andersson () ( born 16 December 1946 ), known professionally as Benny Andersson, is a Swedish musician, composer, former member of the Swedish musical group ABBA ( 1972 – 1983 ), and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia !.

However, Chad has not recognised the State of Israel since former Chadian President François ( Ngarta ) Tombalbaye broke off relations in September 1972 as an act of solidarity with the Palestinians, and other Arabs under Israeli occupation.

In 1972, her mother purchased a farm in New Zealand and moved the family there, but left Love in the United States under the care of her former stepfather and various friends due to her increasingly hostile behavior.

After rejecting an offer from George Steinbrenner and former Indian Al Rosen, Stouffer sold the team in 1972 to a group led by Cleveland Cavaliers and Cleveland Barons owner Nick Mileti.

* Defense Mapping Agency, a former ( 1972 – 1996 ) agency of the US Department of Defense.

Since 1972 the former communities of Pellheim with Pullhausen, Assenhausen, Lohfeld, and Viehgarten have been incorporated into Dachau.

In 1972, Exxon was unveiled as the new, unified brand name for all former Enco and Esso outlets.

After the demise of BSA in 1972, Cheney joined with former BSA factory rider John Banks to develop and campaign a highly successful BSA powered motocross bike.

Berry began to sing again in the early 1970s, and he arranged and produced a number of singles ( both solo and as Jan & Dean ) between 1972 and 1978 on the Ode and A & M labels, facilitated by friend and former manager Lou Adler.

M. George Craford, a former graduate student of Holonyak, invented the first yellow LED and improved the brightness of red and red-orange LEDs by a factor of ten in 1972.

* 1972 – Italian publisher and former partisan Giangiacomo Feltrinelli is killed by an explosion near Segrate.

Muttiah Muralitharan (; ) ( also spelt as Muralidaran ; born 1972 ), often referred to as Murali, is a former Sri Lankan cricketer who was rated the greatest Test match bowler ever by Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack in 2002.

Cicely Tyson, born on 19 December 1933, Oscar-nominated in 1972, former wife of Miles Davis and winner of multiple Emmy Awards, is of Nevisian descent.

( 1970 ) in which vet Robert De Niro films pornographic home movies before deciding to become an urban guerrilla, The Strangers in 7A where a team of former paratroopers blow up a bank and threaten to blow up a residential apartment building, The Hard Ride ( 1971 ) and Welcome Home Soldier Boys ( 1972 ) in which returning vets are met with incomprehension and violence.

* September 13 – August Zaleski, former President of Poland ( d. 1972 )

* Gabriele Galateri di Genola, MBA 1972, Chairman of Telecom Italia, former CEO of Fiat

Cameron Michelle Diaz ( born August 30, 1972 ) is an American actress and former model.

Thurmond's memo and attachment, received by the White House on February 7, 1972, initiated the Nixon administration's persecution of John Lennon that threatened the former Beatle with deportation for nearly five years from 1972 to 1976.

In 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, the Staines Urban District was abolished and its area combined with that of the former Sunbury-on-Thames Urban District to form the present-day borough of Spelthorne.

In 1972, Le Pen founded the Front National ( FN ) party, along with former OAS member Jacques Bompard, former Collaborationist Roland Gaucher and others nostalgics of Vichy France, neo-Nazi pagans, Traditionalist Catholics, and others.

* Roland Gaucher, a cofounder of the National Front in 1972, who was also a former RNP member.

Opposed to unemployment on moral grounds, Heath encouraged a famous " U-Turn " in economic policy that precipitated what became known as the “ Barber boom .” This was a two-range process involving the budgets of 1972 and 1973, the former of which pumped £ 2. 5 billion into the economy in increased pensions and benefits and tax reductions.

Amongst the most significant legal victories of the movement after the formation of NOW were a 1967 Executive Order extending full Affirmative Action rights to women, Title IX and the Women's Educational Equity Act ( 1972 and 1974, respectively, educational equality ), Title X ( 1970, health and family planning ), the Equal Credit Opportunity Act ( 1974 ), the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978, the illegalization of marital rape ( although not illegalized in all states until 1993 ), the legalization of no-fault divorce ( although not allowed in all states until 2010 ), a 1975 law requiring the U. S. Military Academies to admit women, and many Supreme Court cases, perhaps most notably Reed v. Reed of 1971 and Roe v. Wade of 1973.

The members of the group met as mostly freshmen at Tuskegee Institute ( now Tuskegee University ) in 1968, and signed with Motown in November 1972, having first caught the public eye opening for The Jackson 5 while on tour.

By the end of 1972, COG members had distributed approximately 42 million Christian tracts, mostly on God's salvation and America's doom.

is an American punk rock / new wave band formed in 1972 consisting of members from Kent and Akron, Ohio.

* Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Cthulhu Mythos ( ISBN 0-586-04166-4 ), written by Lin Carter in 1972, is a survey of Lovecraft's work ( along with that of other members of the Lovecraft Circle ) with considerable information on his life.

* 1972 – Watergate scandal: five White House operatives are arrested for burgling the offices of the Democratic National Committee, in an attempt by some members of the Republican party to illegally wiretap the opposition.

Munich was the site of the 1972 Summer Olympics, during which Israeli athletes were assassinated by Palestinian terrorists in the Munich massacre, when gunmen from the Palestinian " Black September " terrorist group took hostage members of the Israeli Olympic team.

* 1972 – In Tel Aviv, Israel members of the Japanese Red Army carry out the Lod Airport Massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others.

In 1972, he headed a Soviet delegation to Belgium, and three years later he led a delegation to West Germany ; in 1983 he headed a delegation to Canada to meet with Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and members of the Commons and Senate.

The Munich massacre is a common reference name for an attack that occurred during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Bavaria, in southern West Germany, when 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage and eventually killed, along with a German police officer, by the Palestinian group Black September.

In 1972, the company's legal form was changed from Kommanditgesellschaft ( KG ), or limited partnership, to Aktiengesellschaft ( AG ), or public limited company, because Ferry Porsche and his sister, Louise Piëch, felt their generation members did not team up well.

The other members of the group from North East London, the " Stoke Newington Eight " were prosecuted for carrying out bombings as the Angry Brigade in one of the longest criminal trials of English history ( it lasted from 30 May to 6 December 1972 ).

Tensions between members during the recording of 666 eventually caused the split of the band in 1971, but the album was still released in 1972.

He was also highly critical of a decision taken in Belfast by McKee to assassinate members of the rival Official IRA, who had been on ceasefire since 1972.

* Watergate scandal, a 1972 break-in at the Watergate Hotel by members of President Richard Nixon's administration and the resulting cover-up

As of February 17, 1972, when Shakur was identified as one of four BLA members on a short trip to Chattanooga, Tennessee, Shakur was wanted for questioning ( along with Robert Vickers, Twyman Meyers, Samuel Cooper, and Paul Stewart ) in relation to police killings, a Queens bank robbery, and the grenade attack.

In 1972, after a long-running financial struggle, legal expenses, and a lack of business interest among some of the Steinway family members, the firm was sold to CBS.

Bonus features on the DVD include a restored version of the 1972 short film " Caravan Holiday " featuring Johnny Young and the Young Talent Team ; full biographies of all 40 Team Members and Johnny Young ; Nicole Kidman's appearance as a guest on the show to promote her 1983 film BMX Bandits ; assorted television commercials featuring members of the team ; footage of some of the Team when they appeared as contestants on the show ; and the full-length clip of sisters Dannii Minogue and Kylie Minogue performing the song " Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves ".

By 1972, Gianfranco Sanguinetti and Guy Debord were the only two remaining members of the SI.

Twenty former RUC officers were killed by acts of terrorism after leaving the service while two members of the Police Authority and three of its employees were killed between 1972 and 1994.

According to an interview with members of Sunrise the studio was founded by former members of Mushi Production in 1972, under the name.

It covers the years 1965 – 1972 and includes recent interviews with band members and thirteen complete songs ( almost all are vintage performances ).

* On 30 May 1972, 28 passengers were gunned down at Ben Gurion International Airport by members of the Japanese Red Army in collaboration with the PFLP in what became known as the Lod Airport massacre.

Swit was one of only four cast members ( the others being Alan Alda, Jamie Farr, and William Christopher ) to stay for all 11 seasons of the show, from 1972 to 1983.

All of the new cast members from the second season left at the end of that season, except Alan Sues who stayed on until 1972.