August 1972 calendar

Events

• 01 Aug 1972 First article appears exposing Watergate scandal (Bernstein-Woodward).
• 02 Aug 1972 Gold hits record US$70 an ounce in London, England.
• 03 Aug 1972 British Premier Heath proclaims emergency crisis due to harbor strike
• 04 Aug 1972 Arthur Bremer jailed for 63 years for shooting Alabama Gov Wallace
• 05 Aug 1972 Detroit shortstop Ed Brinkman errors ends record streak of 72 games and 331 total chances without a miscue
• 06 Aug 1972 Garry Player wins PGA golf tournament
• 08 Aug 1972 New York Yanks sign 30-year lease to play in remodeled Yankee Stadium
• 09 Aug 1972 Rockwell receives NASA contract to construct the Space Shuttle.
• 10 Aug 1972 1 million kg heavy meteorite grazes atmosphere above Canada
• 11 Aug 1972 Vietnam War: the last United States ground combat unit departs South Vietnam.
• 12 Aug 1972 Funny Thing Happened... closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 156 performances
• 13 Aug 1972 Dutch KRO-TV transmits 440th and last Bonanza
• 14 Aug 1972 Bloody Sunday: British soldiers fire into crowd, kill 13
• 16 Aug 1972 54th PGA Championship: Gary Player shoots a 281 at Oakland Hills, Michigan
• 20 Aug 1972 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open
• 21 Aug 1972 British harbor strike ends
• 22 Aug 1972 International Olympic Committee exspells Rhodesia
• 23 Aug 1972 Republican convention (Miami Beach, Florida) re-nominates Vice President Spiro Agnew but not unanimous - one vote given to NBC newsman David Brinkley.
• 24 Aug 1972 Dennis Amiss scores 1st one-day int century, 103 vs. Australia
• 26 Aug 1972 20th Olympic games open at Munich German FR
• 27 Aug 1972 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
• 30 Aug 1972 John Lennon andYoko Ono perform at Madison Square Garden
• 31 Aug 1972 Lasse Viren runs Olympic / world record 10,000m (27:38.4)

Famous Birthday

• Cameron Diaz

  American actress, producer, and former fashion model.

• Ben Affleck

  American actor, an Academy Award winner on 3/23/1998 for the Best Original Screenplay of the film "Good Will Hunting.

• Geri Halliwell

  British singer, a former member of the all-girl group, "The Spice Girls," the biggest pop phenomenon of the late 1990s.

• The Great Khali

  Indian professional wrestler.

• Angie Harmon

  American model and actress.

• Juanes (musician)
• Pavel Nedved

  Czech footballer.

• Ken Ryker

  American pornographic actor.

• Jacinda Barrett

  Australian-American model and actress.

• Stéphane Risacher
• Bae Yong Joon

  South Korean actor.

• Catarina Furtado
• Erika Marozsán

  Hungarian actress.

• Marliece Andrada

  Actress.

• Louis-Karim Nébati
• Emily Robison

  American musician; one of the original founders of the Dixie Chicks.

• Jay Manuel

  Canadian make-up artist.

• Takanohana

  Japanese sumo wrestler, the younger of two brothers who both became champions.

• Eric Poujade
• Corinne Rey-Bellet

  Ski champion and homicide victim.

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Famous Deaths

• Pierre Brasseur

  French actor (Born 1905).

• Oscar Levant

  American composer, author, entertainer, pianist, film actor and radio and TV personality.

• George Wiess

  General Manager (New York Yankees), dies at 78.

• Alf Thorbald Hurum

  Composer, dies at 89.

• John Barnes Chance

  Composer, dies at 39.

• Wampilow

  Writer.

• Balis Dvarionas

  Composer, dies at 68.

• Carlos Wesley "Don" Byas

  US jazz saxophonist, dies at 59.

• Juan Carlos Paz

  Composer, dies at 71.

• Robert Denzler

  Composer, dies at 80.

• Jacques Gans

  Dutch Author / journalist, dies at 63.

• Lale [Liselotte H] Anderson

  German night club performer / singer.

• Rene Leibowitz

  Composer, dies at 59.

• Frederic Tozere

  Actor (Mr Phillips-Stanley), dies at 71.

• William HAF

  Engl prince / grandson of George V, dies in accident at 29.

• Andrea Feldman

  American actor (Born 1948).

• Bill Berns

  commentator (Television Screen Magazine), dies at age 53.

• Harry Hylton-Foster

  Speaker of the British House of Commons (Born 1905).

• Pierre Brasseur

  French actor, poet and playwright from an acting family famed in France since 1820.

• Jules Romains

  French author of a series of some 27 novels, "Men of Good Will," 1932-48.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Gilbert O'Sullivan - Alone Again (Naturally)
2. Looking Glass - Brandy (You're A Fine Girl)
3. The Hollies - Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress)
4. Luther Ingram - (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want To Be Right
5. Al Green - I'm Still In Love With You

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Alice Cooper - School's Out
2. Slade - Mama Weer All Crazee Now
3. Terry Dactyl & The Dinosaurs - Seaside Shuffle
4. Rod Stewart - You Wear It Well
5. Donny Osmond - Puppy Love