The treaty was signed in Moscow on May 26, 1972 by the President of the United States, Richard Nixon and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev ; and ratified by the US Senate on August 3, 1972.

On August 10, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon formally transmitted the Biological Weapons Convention to the United States Senate for ratification.

The first American-made pocket-sized calculator, the Bowmar 901B ( popularly referred to as The Bowmar Brain ), measuring 5. 2 × 3. 0 × 1. 5 in ( 131 × 77 × 37 mm ), came out in the Autumn of 1971, with four functions and an eight-digit red LED display, for $ 240, while in August 1972 the four-function Sinclair Executive became the first slimline pocket calculator measuring 5. 4 × 2. 2 × 0. 35 in ( 138 × 56 × 9 mm ) and weighing 2. 5 oz ( 70g ).

Eric Gairy served as Premier from August 1967 until February 1974, as the Grenada United Labour Party party won majorities in both the 1967 and 1972 general elections.

No. 187 / 1972 – Firearms ( Temporary Custody ) Order, 1972 ) was issued for all privately-held pistols and all rifles over. 22 calibre to be surrendered to local Garda ( police ) stations by 5 August 1972, for a period of one month.

Cedeno made his first All-Star game in 1972 and became the first Astros player in team history to hit for the cycle in August versus the Reds.

* Johnny Ford ( born August 1942 ), American political figure ; Democrat, later Republican ; became Alabama's first African-American mayor when elected by Tuskegee in 1972

Milford briefly became vocalist for Beck, Bogert & Appice for six performances between July 24 to August 7, 1972.

Karlheinz Stockhausen (; 22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007 ) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important ( Barrett 1988, 45 ; Harvey 1975b, 705 ; Hopkins 1972, 33 ; Klein 1968, 117 ) but also controversial ( Power 1990, 30 ) composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries.

On 8 August 1972, Rines ' Raytheon DE-725C sonar unit, operating at a frequency of 200 kHz and anchored at a depth of, identified a moving target ( or targets ) estimated by echo strength to be in length.

Leakey ) ( 7 August 1903 – 1 October 1972 ) was a British archaeologist and naturalist whose work was important in establishing human evolutionary development in Africa.

In July 1971 and again in August 1972, the regime was challenged by two attempted military coups.

Murat Ses left the band in August 1972.

The next ODI was played on August 1972, some 19 months later.

Falk was also a chess aficionado and was a spectator at the American Open in Santa Monica, California, in November 1972, and at the U. S. Open in Pasadena, California, in August 1983.

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Virgin Records was scheduled to release a box-set entitled Roxy Music: The Complete Studio Recordings 1972-1982 on 6 August, celebrating 40 years since the release of the band's debut album in 1972.

Roberto Clemente Walker ( August 18, 1934 – December 31, 1972 ) was a Puerto Rican baseball player whose Major League career comprised the 18 seasons stretching from 1955 through 1972, all of them played with the Pittsburgh Pirates, primarily as a right fielder.

In May 2006, Petersen's $ 160 million epic film Poseidon, a re-telling of the 1969 Paul Gallico novel ( and popular 1972 disaster film ) The Poseidon Adventure, was released by Warner Bros., but performed poorly in the US, barely cracking $ 60 million in box office receipts by early August, although international profits surpassed $ 121 million.

* August 25 – Stefan Wolpe, German-born composer ( d. 1972 )

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

The street that is full now of traffic and parked cars then and for many years drowsed on an August afternoon in the shade of the curbside trees, and silence was a weight, almost palpable, in the air.

Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.

From the night of August 30 to the morning of September 2 there was no Union cavalry east of the Macon railway to disclose to Sherman that he was missing the greatest opportunity of his career.

The 15th Street deposit is not to be confused with the nearby famous Mayflower Hotel cypress swamp on 17th Street reported in The Washington Post, August 2, 1955, which was probably formed during the second interglacial period and is therefore much younger.

Its ground for this recommendation was that, while petitioner claimed before the local board August 17, 1956 ( as evidenced by its memorandum in his file of that date ), that he was devoting 100 hours per month to actual preaching, the headquarters of the Jehovah's Witnesses reported that he was no longer doing so and, on the contrary, had relinquished both his Pioneer and Bible Student Servant positions.

He was born in the small Danish town of Rudkoebing on the island of Langeland in the south-central part of Denmark on August 14, 1777.

The final mailing of the questionnaire was made late in August, 1960, to 4,900 firms consisting of 3,450 from the AIA list and 1,450 from the TR list.

This was working by the end of August and giving satisfactory service.

Bailly, after leaving Fort Snelling in August 1821, was forced to leave some of the cattle at the Hudson's Bay Company's post on Lake Traverse `` in the Sieux Country '' and reached Fort Garry, as the Selkirk Hudson's Bay Company center was now called, late in the fall.

The normal rate of suicides in East Berlin was one a day, but since the border was closed on August 13 it has jumped to 25 a day!!

She glanced at the man nodding beside her, a man with weather cracks furrowed into his lean cheeks, with powdery pale eyes reflecting all the droughts he had seen, reflecting the sky and the drought which must follow now in August -- yes, with eyes predicting the drought and here it was only June, only festival time again and thoughts of Gratt Shafer would not leave her.

President Lincoln rejected two geographically limited emancipation attempts by Major General John C. Frémont in August 1861 and by Major General David Hunter in May 1862, on the grounds that it was not within their power, and it would upset the border states loyal to the Union.

On August 12, 2011, a plaque was unveiled on the Wolff building at Third Ave and La Mesa Bl commemorating Dwan and the Flying A Studios origins in La Mesa, California.

He was named Adjutant General as a colonel in the Republic of Texas Army on August 5, 1836.

Andy Warhol ( August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987 ) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.

Andy Warhol ( né Andrej Varchola, Jr .) was born on August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

From 2002 to July 2008 under Turkmen calendar reform, the month of August was named after Alp Arslan.

While horses in the wild mate and foal in mid to late spring, in the case of horses domestically bred for competitive purposes, especially horse racing and various futurities, it is desirable that they be born as close to January 1 in the northern hemisphere or August 1 in the southern hemisphere as possible, so as to be at an advantage in size and maturity when competing against other horses in the same age group.

They played their first-ever County Championship match there in 1921, competing there every season ( except while first-class cricket was suspended during the Second World War ), their last match being against Somerset County Cricket Club in August 1966.

Following an intense period of political activity, the competing political parties signed a Pact for Democracy on 10 August, reducing President Balaguer's term of office from 4 to 2 years, setting early elections, and reforming the constitution.

He published papers in 1864 and 1869, and in this field he found himself competing with August Kekulé.

However, with Frank McLintock and Terry Neill competing for the centre half position, Ure found himself being squeezed out towards the end of that decade, and he left Arsenal in August 1969 to join Manchester United.

A split between the electorally oriented SLP and the revolution-minded IWPA, which took with it a good portion of the SLP's left wing, including such prominent leaders as the English-speaking orator Albert Parsons and the German-speaking newspaper editor August Spies, began to develop early in the 1880s, with the split formalized by 1883, a year in which the SLP and the IWPA held competing conventions, in Baltimore and Pittsburgh, respectively.

" The tower was reilluminated on 4 August in support of New Zealand athletes competing at the Beijing Olympics.

On May 20, 1990, he broke Ulf Timmermann's outdoor record with a put of 23. 12 m. Barnes was banned from competing for 27 months after testing positive for the anabolic steroid methyltestosterone at a competition in Malmö, Sweden on August 7 that same year.

In August 2012, the plans were approved over two other competing schemes, the council citing that, in addition to adhering with planning policy, the Harley site was favoured because of the job creation for the town.

The 1st World Games was held in Bari, Italy in 2007 and the 2nd was scheduled for Tunisia in 2009 but was cancelled and has now taken place in the form of an UWH-only event in Kranj, Slovenia in August 2009, billed as a World Championship but with only one non-European country competing ( South Africa ); France won the Open division while Great Britain took the Women's title.

The 13th CMAS " European " Championship held in Coimbra, Portugal in August 2011, had teams representing both Colombia and South Africa competing there.

On August 13, 2004, popular morning show hosts Carter Brown, Sandra Plagakis, Andrew " The Boyle " Boyle and Jenny “ From the Block ” Usher resigned from competing CHR station CIHT-FM and became the new morning hosts at Kiss FM.

The merger has been notably opposed by a coalition formed by competing cable companies Cogeco, Québecor Média ( Vidéotron ), and Eastlink in August 2012.

" In August sunshine, the eights and the fours and the pleasure boats and the turf-cots competing on Carrick's day of days.

* August 12 – The Royal Air Force holds a fly-off between four competing flying boat designs, the Supermarine Southampton, Blackburn Iris, Short Singapore, and Saunders-Roe Valkyrie.

In late August 1965, Billy Harrison and Pat McAuley formed a rival Them, competing with the Morrison / Henderson line-up and leading to legal action.

Canadian art student Deidre LaCarte, who was competing with her best friend and sister to see who could generate the most traffic, designed the Hampster Dance in August 1998 as homage to her pet hamster, named " Hampton Hamster.

At the end of August during the 1950s, Labatt Park annually hosted athletes from across the city's playgrounds competing in a variety of sports during a two-to three-day event, called the " Junior Olympiad.

In August 2003, she entered the Miss Ireland finals in Dublin, and winning the competition, found herself competing for the title of Miss World.

Over the course of a season, which runs annually from August to the following May, each team plays twice against the others in the league, once at ' home ' and once ' away ', resulting in each team competing in 46 games in total.

In August of 2012, Monroe College fielded a college football team competing in the Northeast Football Conference in Division I of the NJCAA.

The album, went head to head with heavy metal band Slipknot's All Hope Is Gone on the Billboard 200, seeing that both albums were released on August 22, 2008, therefore both albums were competing for the number one spot on the Billboard 200 albums charts.

Styris aged 35 and competing for a competitive Medium Pace All-rounder slot with Grant Elliott was selected for the Tri-series in Sri Lanka August 2010 he scored 88 runs in the first ODI.

On August 13 the technical evaluation of the competing planes ' construction took place.