* 1972 – Seventy-four nations sign the Biological Weapons Convention, the first multilateral disarmament treaty banning the production of biological weapons.

Offensive biological warfare, including mass production, stockpiling and use of biological weapons, was outlawed by the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention ( BWC ).

( The 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention ( BWC ) extended the ban to almost all production, storage and transport.

In 1972, the U. S., U. K., U. S. S. R., and many other nations signed the BWC, which banned " development, production and stockpiling of microbes or their poisonous products except in amounts necessary for protective and peaceful research.

Restrictions on homebrewing were lifted in the UK in 1963, Australia followed suit in 1972, and the USA in 1978, though individual states were allowed to pass their own laws limiting production.

Due to engine knocking ( detonation ), the compression ratio in a gasoline or petrol-powered engine will usually not be much higher than 10: 1, although some production automotive engines built for high-performance from 1955 – 1972 had compression ratios as high as 13. 0: 1, which could run safely on the high-octane leaded gasoline then available.

Guest continued with the production when it moved to Broadway in 1972.

Although it had been funding British experimental films as early as 1952, the British Film Institute's foundation of a production board in 1964 — and a substantial increase in public funding from 1971 onwards — enabled it to become a dominant force in developing British art cinema in the 1970s and 80s: from the first of Bill Douglas's Trilogy My Childhood ( 1972 ), and of Terence Davies ' Trilogy Childhood ( 1978 ), via Peter Greenaway's earliest films ( including the surprising commercial success of The Draughtsman's Contract ( 1982 )) and Derek Jarman's championing of the New Queer Cinema.

This led to the 1972 Ducati 750 Imola Desmo, and the 1970s and 1980s production Ducati L-twin motorcycles.

To restructure the economy, the NRC, under General Acheampong ( 1972 – 78 ), undertook an austerity program that emphasized self-reliance, particularly in food production.

He directed Maggie Smith in Travels with My Aunt in 1972 and helmed the critical and commercial flop The Blue Bird, the first joint Soviet-American production, in 1976.

Kawasaki presented also in 1972 its Kawasaki X99 RCE prototype ( US patent N 3848574 ), both Yamaha and Kawasaki claimed having solved all problems previously found in Wankel RCEs, but none entered the stage of production.

In 1972 in a cost-cutting move, Warner and Columbia Pictures formed a partnership called The Burbank Studios in which they would share production facilities utilitizing the Warner lot in Burbank.

The 1972 Protocol to this Convention calls for increased efforts to prevent illicit production of, traffic in and use of narcotics.

Smith also appeared in a number of films, often as himself ; The Candidate ( 1972 ),, The President's Plane Is Missing ( 1973, a made-for-television production of the Robert J. Serling novel of the same name ), Nashville ( 1975 ), Close Encounters of the Third Kind ( 1977 ), The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas ( 1982 ), the " The Odd Candidate " ( 1974 ) episode of the television series The Odd Couple ( playing himself ), the " Kill Oscar " episode ( 1977 ) of The Bionic Woman ( playing himself anchoring an ABC newscast ), and both V ( 1983 ) and the subsequent 1984 television series.

Elton John ( whose given name was Reginald Kenneth Dwight, until it was legally changed in 1972 ) is notorious for his use of aliases under various writing and production credits throughout his career.

A 1972 publication in the journal Pétrole Informations () compared shale-based oil production unfavorably with the coal liquefaction.

In 1972, PCB production plants existed in Austria, the then Federal Republic of Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Spain, USSR, and USA.

In Japan, PCBs were first produced by Kanegafuchi Chemical Co. Ltd. ( Kaneka ) in 1954 and production continued until 1972 when the Japanese government banned the production, use, and import of PCBs.

Homologation saw many out-and-out racing cars produced in sufficient quantities to see them classed as production vehicles ; the FIA responded by placing more restrictions on even the allegedly production-based cars and placed draconian limits on the power available to prototypes – these prototypes of the late 1960s / early 1970s were comfortably quicker than contemporary Grand Prix machinery and for 1972 they were constrained to run much smaller engines to F1 rules, often detuned for endurance.

The series stopped production in 1968, was modernized, and reintroduced in 1972.

In 1972, Edward Downes, formerly associated with London's Royal Opera House, became Musical Director, and his first new production was the Australian premiere of Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier at the Princess Theatre, Melbourne, followed closely by Prokofiev's War and Peace as the opening night performance of the Sydney Opera House, a short time before the building's official opening.

As early as October, 1945, a newspaper strip named Walt Disney Presents " Uncle Remus " and His Tales of Brer Rabbit appeared in the United States, and this production continued until 1972.

The Times stayed with Times New Roman for 40 years, but new production techniques and the format change from broadsheet to tabloid in 2004 have caused the newspaper to switch font five times since 1972.

* 1886 – Athenagoras I, Greek religious leader, 268th Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople ( d. 1972 )

The Andaman Wild Boar is protected by the Wildlife Protection Act 1972 ( Sch I ).

* 1972 – First edition of the BBC comedy panel game I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue is broadcast, one of the longest running British radio shows in history.

In his transmittal, he states: " I am transmitting herewith, for the advice and consent of the Senate to ratification, the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, and Stockpiling of Bacteriological ( Biological ) and Toxin Weapons, and on their Destruction, opened for signature at Washington, London and Moscow on April 10, 1972.

The effort was sufficiently complete that during the summer of 1973 the Unix kernel for the PDP-11 was rewritten in C. During the 1972 – 73 period there was a need to port to Honeywell 635 and IBM 360 / 370 machines, so Mike Lesk wrote the " portable I / O package " which would become the C " standard I / O " routines.

Early songs with disco elements include " You Keep Me Hangin ' On " ( The Supremes, 1966 ), " Only the Strong Survive " ( Jerry Butler, 1968 ), " Message to Love " ( Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys, 1970 ), " Soul Makossa " ( Manu Dibango, 1972 ), Eddie Kendricks ' Keep on Truckin ' ( 1973 ) and " The Love I Lost " by Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes ( 1973 ).

The " Troubles " in Northern Ireland ( 1970 – 1998 ) were becoming a security concern for the Irish Government at the time, and in 1972 a Temporary Custody Order ( S. I.

* 1972 – Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople ( b. 1886 )

Moon was credited as composer of " I Need You ", which he also sang, and the instrumental " Cobwebs and Strange " ( from the album A Quick One, 1966 ), the single B-sides " In The City " ( co-written by Moon and Entwistle ), " Dogs Part Two " ( 1969 ) ( sharing credits with Townshend's and Entwistle's dogs, Towser and Jason ), " Tommy's Holiday Camp " ( 1969 ), " Waspman " ( 1972 ), and " Girl's Eyes " ( from The Who Sell Out sessions ; featured on Thirty Years of Maximum R & B and a 1995 re-release of The Who Sell Out ).

* Interim Agreement on Offensive Arms ( SALT I ) 1972: The Soviet Union and the United States agreed to a freeze in the number of intercontinental ballistic missiles ( ICBMs ) and submarine-launched ballistic missiles ( SLBMs ) that they would deploy.

Notable anti-war songs include " And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda " ( 1972 ) by Eric Bogle, and " A Walk in the Light Green " ( 1983 ) by Redgum, most often remembered by its chorus " I was only nineteen ".

I coined the term punctuated equilibrium and wrote most of our 1972 paper, but Niles is the proper first author in our pairing of Eldredge and Gould.

Gretzky would later remark that the Soviet National Team's practice drills, which impressed Canada in 1972, had nothing to offer him: " I'd been doing these drills since I was three.

In 1972, he was asked if he believed in God, and responded, " To be perfectly frank, I really do not ".

) ANRW I. 2 ( de Gruyter, 1972 ).

Bowie in a 1972 interview while noting that other artists described as glam rock was doing different work said " I think glam rock is a lovely way to categorize me and it's even nicer to be one of the leaders of it ".

I just went about my business and did things my way [...] You start messing with my music, I get mean " In 1972, his recording contract was nearing an end.

* 1972 I Can Count More, My Vest is White, Animal Book, Animals From Our Land, Animals From Other Countries

A facsimile edition ( based on the 3rd edition of 1726 but with variant readings from earlier editions and important annotations ) was published in 1972 by Alexandre Koyré and I. Bernard Cohen.

The SALT I talks led to the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and an Interim Strategic Arms Limitation Agreement ( see SALT I ), both in 1972.

* Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty ( SALT I ), signed and ratified 1972, in force 1972-1977

I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, a spinoff panel game show, was first produced in 1972.