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The Blue Bird Café fire was a nightclub fire on September 1, 1972, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. In all, 37 people were killed as a result of arson. [1] [2] The fire was the worst in Montreal since 1927, when 77 people perished in the Laurier Palace Theatre Fire. [3]
One day after receiving a trace of snow on the 26th, Victoria International Airport set a record low temperature for September of -1.1℃. [83] [84] In Fort Lauderdale, Susan Place, 17, and Georgia Jessup, 16, went with their friend, "Jerry Shepard", on a trip "to the beach to play the guitar".
This is a list of films which placed number one at the weekly box office in the United States during 1972 per Variety.The data was based on grosses from 20 to 24 key cities and therefore, the gross quoted may not be the total that the film grossed nationally in the week.
September 1 – World Chess Championship 1972 ("Match of the century"): Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky in a chess match at Reykjavík, Iceland, becoming the first American chess champion. September 4 – The New Price is Right , a revival of the 1956-65 NBC and ABC game show of the same name premieres on CBS, along with Gambit and The ...
September 25 – 1972 Norwegian EC referendum: Norway rejects membership of the European Economic Community. September 28 – The Canada men's national ice hockey team defeats the Soviet national ice hockey team in the eighth and final game of the 1972 Summit Series 6–5 to win the series 4–3–1. [42] [43] [44]
“September 5” walked that fine line spades as it set out to retell the story of Sept. 5, 1972, when eight Palestinian Black September terrorists took 11 Israelis hostage at the Munich Summer ...
On September 5, 1972, during the Munich Summer Olympics, members of a Palestinian terrorist group named Black September infiltrated the Olympic village and took 11 members of the Israeli Olympic ...
These are the Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1972.. That year, 18 acts earned their first number one song, such as Don McLean, Al Green, Nilsson, Neil Young, America, Roberta Flack, The Chi-Lites, The Staple Singers, Sammy Davis Jr., Bill Withers, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Looking Glass, Mac Davis, Chuck Berry, Johnny Nash, Helen Reddy, and Billy Paul.