The aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga delivered the Apollo 16 command module to the North Island Naval Air Station, near San Diego, California on Friday, 5 May 1972.

On Monday, 8 May 1972, ground service equipment being used to empty the residual toxic reaction control system fuel in the command module tanks exploded in a Naval Air Station hangar.

He has used birth dates of December 24, 1972 and May 28, 1979.

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.

* Wilner, Wayne T., " B1700 Design and Implementation ", Burroughs Corporation, Santa Barbara Plant, Goleta, California, May 1972.

# Measures, numbers, money, days, months, years, clock time, and international words are in English forms, e. g. Date / Time: 20 May 1972 at 21: 00

Chiang was reelected by the National Assembly to be the President of the Republic of China ( ROC ) on May 20, 1954, and again in 1960, 1966, and 1972.

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.

Banks played his 73rd England game in a 1 – 0 win over Scotland at Hampden Park on 27 May 1972 and was awarded the Football Writers ' Association Footballer Of The Year honour.

The Astros ' acquisition of Lee May added more power to the lineup in 1972.

John Edgar Hoover ( January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972 ) was the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) of the United States.

Hoover maintained strong support in Congress until his death at his Washington, D. C., home on May 2, 1972, from a heart attack attributed to cardio-vascular disease.

After publishing in the last issue of the magazine an analysis of the May 1968 revolts, and the strategies that will need to be adopted in future revolutions, the SI was dissolved in 1972.

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In May 1972, Bushnell had visited the Magnavox Profit Caravan in Burlingame, California where he played the Magnavox Odyssey demonstration, specifically the table tennis game.

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 ).

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.

* May 11 – Thomas H. Robbins, Jr., American admiral ( d. 1972 )

* May 26 – Henriette Roosenburg, Dutch journalist ( d. 1972 )

* May 23 – Zack Wheat, Baseball Hall of Famer ( d. 1972 )

* May 5 – Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury ( d. 1972 )

* May 11 – Margaret Rutherford, English actress ( d. 1972 )

In May 1997, Prime Minister James joined 14 other Caribbean leaders, and President Clinton, during the first-ever U. S .- regional summit in Bridgetown, Barbados.

Prime Minister Keith Mitchell joined President Bill Clinton, in May 1997, for a meeting with 14 other Caribbean leaders during the first-ever U. S .- regional summit in Bridgetown, Barbados.

St. Lucia participated, along with 14 other Caribbean nations, in a summit with US President Bill Clinton in Bridgetown, Barbados, in May 1997.

In May 1997, Prime Minister Mitchell joined 14 other Caribbean leaders and U. S. President Bill Clinton during the first-ever U. S .- regional summit in Bridgetown, Barbados.

In May 1997, then-President Wijdenbosch joined US President Clinton and 14 other Caribbean leaders during the first-ever US-regional summit in Bridgetown, Barbados.

Summary of the 21 May 2003 Barbados House of Assembly election results

* Barbados ( submission: 8 May 2008 ; recommendation: 15 April 2010 )

Despite successful performances for Barbados in domestic cricket by the time Best signed with the rebel Indian Cricket League in February 2008 he had not played international cricket since May 2006.

He has been a member of the West Indies cricket team since his Test debut against Pakistan at Barbados in May 2000 – a match in which he was unbeaten in both innings including a first innings score of 84 not out.

On May 29, 2009, the COC and Barbados Olympic Association ( BOA ) signed a Memorandum of Understanding ( MOU ) for co-operation between both bodies.

A similar study, without the security risk factors, was done when LIAT successfully re-established its Barbados base in May 2001.

Edward Kamau Brathwaite ( born 11 May 1930, Bridgetown, Barbados ) is widely considered one of the major voices in the Caribbean literary canon.

Albert married Kian Egan, a member of the Irish boy band Westlife, in May 2009, in Barbados.

In May of 2011, the USVI soccer federation chief, Frederick Hillaren, began ambitious changes in the team and appointed Keith Griffith, former coach and captain of the Barbados national football team and former coach of Trinidad and Tobago powerhouse club team Joe Public F. C., as technical director.

Egan married actress / singer Jodi Albert on 8 May 2009 in Barbados.

Robert Byng served as Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Plymouth from 1728 to 1739 and as Governor of Barbados from May 1739.

The present dollar was created after the establishment of the Central Bank of Barbados ( CBB ), which was founded by an Act of parliament in May, 1972.

The Central Bank of Barbados, was established by Act of parliament on 2 May 1972.

The Final was held in Barbados on 16 May 2010.

He arrived at Barbados and took up the appointment in May 1650 and attempted to negotiate the strained politics of that island, which also experienced a division between Royalists and Parliamentarians.

Documents released by the National Security Archive on May 3, 2007, reveal the links Posada had to the 1976 Cubana airline bombing and other terrorist attacks and plots, including a British West Indian Airways office in Barbados and the Guyanese Embassy in Trinidad.

The 2010 Fireball World Championships were held in Barbados in May 2010.

Luke's first official appointment was as Private Secretary ( 1908 ) and Aide-de-Camp in Barbados, except for a period during May – July when he was attached to the Colonial Office.