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Bill Johnson, African American dixieland jazz double-bassist (born 1872) December 9 – Louella Parsons, gossip columnist and screenwriter (born 1881) [38] December 11 – Cornelius Keefe, film actor (born 1900) December 12 – Thomas H. Robbins Jr., admiral (born 1900) December 15 – Edward Earle, Canadian-born American actor (born 1882 in ...
Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974 (WW Norton, 2019), scholarly history. excerpt; Olson, James S. ed. Historical Dictionary of the 1970s (1999) excerpt; Richards, Marlee. America in the 1970s (Twenty-First Century Books, 2010) online. Sandbrook, Dominic. Mad as Hell: The Crisis of the 1970s and the Rise of the Populist Right ...
1972 was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1972nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 972nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 72nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1970s decade.
The presidency of William Henry Harrison, who died 31 days after taking office in 1841, was the shortest in American history. [9] Franklin D. Roosevelt served the longest, over twelve years, before dying early in his fourth term in 1945. He is the only U.S. president to have served more than two terms. [10]
In 1972, Nixon announced the end of mandatory military service which had been in effect since the Korean War, and the final American citizen to be conscripted received his draft notice in June 1973. The president also secured the passage of the 26th Amendment , lowering the minimum age of voting from 21 to 18.
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On October 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 from Uruguay to Chile crashed in the Andes mountains. Survivors suffered from freezing temperatures, exposure and starvation for 72 days until their rescue on December 23. On December 29, 1972, Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 crashed in the Florida Everglades while its crew was distracted. 101 ...
Al Green had three songs on the Year-End Hot 100, the most of any artist in 1972. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1972. [1] The Top 100, as revealed in the year-end edition of Billboard dated December 30, 1972, is based on Hot 100 charts from the issue dates of December 4, 1971 through November 18, 1972.