February 1972 calendar

Events

• 01 Feb 1972 Wings release Give Ireland Back to the Irish in the UK
• 02 Feb 1972 Lefty Gomez, Ross Youngs and William Harridge selected for Baseball Hall of Fame.
• 03 Feb 1972 11th Winter Olympic games opens in Sapporo, Japan (1st in Asia)
• 04 Feb 1972 Sen Strom Thurmond suggests John Lennon be deported
• 05 Feb 1972 Another Puff by Jerry Reed peaks at #65
• 08 Feb 1972 Josh Gibson and Buck Leonard selected to Baseball Hall of Fame.
• 09 Feb 1972 President of Ecuador José María Velasco Ibarra is deposed for the fourth time.
• 10 Feb 1972 BBC bans Give Ireland Back to the Irish by Wings
• 13 Feb 1972 1776 closes at 46th Steet Theater in New York City after 1,217 performances.
• 14 Feb 1972 John andYoko co-host Mike Douglas Show for entire week
• 15 Feb 1972 Dimitrios Papadopoulos becomes metropolitan of Imbros / Tenedos
• 16 Feb 1972 Wilt Chamberlain hit 30,000 point mark during a game with Phoenix Suns
• 17 Feb 1972 President Nixon leaves Washington DC for China
• 18 Feb 1972 John andYoko end a week of co-hosting Mike Douglas Show
• 19 Feb 1972 The Asama-Sanso hostage standoff begins in Japan.
• 20 Feb 1972 1st time Cleveland Cavaliers beat the New York Knicks (111-109)
• 21 Feb 1972 Richard Nixon becomes 1st US President to visit China
• 22 Feb 1972 Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani becomes Amir and Prime Minister of Qatar.
• 23 Feb 1972 Angela Davis is released from jail. A Caruthers, California farmer, Rodger McAfee, helps her make bail.
• 24 Feb 1972 North Vietnamese negotiators walk out of the Paris Peace Talks to protest U.S. air raids.
• 25 Feb 1972 Paul McCartney releases Give Ireland back to the Irish single
• 26 Feb 1972 Dam break in WV kills 107
• 27 Feb 1972 US President Richard Nixon and Chinese Premier Chou En-lai issue Shanghai Communique.
• 28 Feb 1972 George Harrison is involved in a minor car accident
• 29 Feb 1972 Jack Anderson discloses Dita Beard (ITT) memo indicating antitrust charges were dropped for $400,000 contribution to the Republican Party

Famous Birthday

• Billie Joe Armstrong
• Audrey Pulvar

  French journalist, TV host and presenter, born to Marc Pulvar who founded the Martinican Independence Movement.

• Mary Crown Princess of Denmark
• Rory Cochrane

  American actor.

• Philippe Candeloro

  Philippe Candeloro is a French former competitive figure skater.

• Rob Thomas

  American musician (Matchbox Twenty).

• Paul Wight

  American professional wrestler.

• Zofia Borucka
• Kelly Slater

  American surfer.

• Guillaume Gallienne
• Taylor Hawkins

  American musician (Foo Fighters).

• Rolando Villazón
• Antonio Sabato Jr

  Actor (Jagger Cates- General Hospital).

• Big Daddy V

  American professional wrestler.

• Craig Jones (musician)
• Valeria Mazza

  Argentinian model and businesswoman.

• Géraldine Maillet
• Jaromír Jágr

  Czech ice hockey player.

• Tego Calderón
• Sarah Clarke

  American actress.

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Famous Deaths

• Tom Manders

  Dutch cabaret artist (Dorus), dies at age 50.

• Edgar P Snow

  US Author / journalist (Battle for Asia), dies at 66.

• Gavril Nikolayevich Popov

  Composer, dies at 67.

• Herbert Menges

  Composer, dies at 69.

• Michael Taube

  Composer, dies at 81.

• Victor Barna

  Table tennis champ.

• John Litel

  Actor (Big Boss, Crime Doctor, My Buddy), dies at 79.

• Pat Brady

  American actor and singer (Born 1914).

• Julian H Steward

  US anthropologist (South American), dies at age 70.

• Lambertus "Bertus" van Lyre

  composer/conductor (Dike), dies at age 65.

• Jef [Josephus CF]

  last Dutch poet/Indonesian politician, dies at age 73.

• Natalie Clifford Barney

  American writer (Born 1876).

• Eugene Tisserant

  French Catholic Cardinal (Born 1884).

• Zhang Guohua

  Chinese general and politician (Born 1914).

• John Grierson

  Scottish founder of the British documentary-film movement and its leader for almost 40 years.

• Lee Morgan

  American business executive, with Caterpillar tractor co.

• Bronislava Nijinska

  Russian dancer and choreographer (d. 1972).

• Markos Vamvakaris

  Greek singer-songwriter and bouzouki player (d. 1972).

• Tedd Pierce

  American animator producer and screenwriter (d. 1972).

• Marianne Moore

  American poet critic and translator (d. 1972).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Don McLean - American Pie (Parts 1 and 2)
2. Al Green - Let's Stay Together
3. Nilsson - Without You
4. Carpenters - Hurting Each Other
5. Melanie - Brand New Key

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Chicory Tip - Son Of My Father
2. T Rex - Telegram Sam
3. Don McLean - American Pie
4. The Chi-Lites - Have You Seen Her
5. The New Seekers - Beg, Steal Or Borrow