June 1972 calendar

June 1972
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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in June 1972.
The US president was Richard Nixon (Republican), the UK Prime Minister was Edward Heath (Conservative), Pope St Paul VI was leading the Catholic Church.

But much more happened on June 1972: find out below

Historical Events

Which were the important events of June 1972?

Events

01 Jun 1972 Tswanaland becomes Bophuthatswana in South Africa
02 Jun 1972 Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe, Holger Meins and some other members of Red Army Faction are arrested in Frankfurt am Main after a shootout.
03 Jun 1972 Hot Rod Lincoln, by Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen hits #9
04 Jun 1972 Angela Davis, black activist, acquitted of killing a white guard
05 Jun 1972 If You Had Wings opens
06 Jun 1972 David Bowie releases Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust
07 Jun 1972 Grease opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 3,388 performances
08 Jun 1972 Padres draft Dave Roberts #1, Indians draft Rick Manning #2
09 Jun 1972 1st all-nite grad parties
10 Jun 1972 104th Belmont: Ron Turcotte aboard Riva Ridge wins in 2:28
11 Jun 1972 18th LPGA Championship won by Kathy Ahern
12 Jun 1972 George P. Shultz begins term as 60th Treasury Secretary of the US.
14 Jun 1972 Hurricane Agnes kills 117
15 Jun 1972 West German police arrested RAF leader Ulrike Meinhof
16 Jun 1972 Red Army Faction member Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen.
17 Jun 1972 Long Haired Lover From Liverpool by Little Jimmy Osmond peaks at #38
18 Jun 1972 72nd US Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 290 at Pebble Beach, California
19 Jun 1972 40,000 pilots strike against naval officer
22 Jun 1972 Man of La Mancha opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 140 performances
23 Jun 1972 Nixon and Haldeman agree to use CIA to cover up Watergate
24 Jun 1972 Troglodyte (Cave Man) by Jimmy Castor Bunch peaks at #6
25 Jun 1972 Bernice Gera becomes 1st female umpire in pro baseball
26 Jun 1972 IRA proclaims resistant in North-Ireland
28 Jun 1972 U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that no new draftees will be sent to Vietnam.
29 Jun 1972 Supreme Court rules (5-4) that Death Penalty is cruel and unusual
30 Jun 1972 1st leap second day; also 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985
08 Jun 1972 Vietnam War: Nine-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc is burned by napalm, an event captured by Associated Press photographer Nick Ut moments later while the young girl is seen running naked down a road, in what would become an iconic, Pulitzer Prize-winning photo.