1972 @ Nostalgia Central

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01 - French singer Maurice Chevalier dies (b. 1888)

04 - Rose Heilbron is the first woman to sit as a judge at the Old Bailey in London

05 - The Congregational Church in England and Wales and the Presbyterian Church of England vote to form a United Reformed Church

09 - A national coal strike begins in England which leads to large-scale power cuts and nation-wide blackouts

09 - Fire destroys the liner Queen Elizabeth in Hong Kong harbour

14 - King Frederik IX of Denmark dies, aged 72

15 - Princess Margrethe becomes Queen of Denmark

17 - Highway 51 South (Bellvue Street) in Memphis is renamed Elvis Presley Boulevard

20 - Unemployment in the UK rises above one million

25 - World's first kidney and pancreatic tissue transplant takes place in London

27 - Mahalia Jackson dies

30 - "Bloody Sunday" in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. 13 civilians are shot and killed by British Troops during riots against internment

30 - Pakistan quits Commonwealth over the Bangladesh conflict

02 - Anti-British demonstrators in the Irish Republic burn down the British embassy in Dublin

05 - Due to increased hijackings, the screening of passengers and luggage becomes mandatory on all domestic and foreign flights by US airlines

07 - New Zealand prime minister Sir Keith Hollyoake retires. His successor is John Marshall

09 - A state of emergency is declared in Britain as the month-old miners strike leads to wide-spread power cuts. Edward Heath imposes a three day working week and the country suffers power cuts as power stations are closed to conserve energy

09 - Paul McCartney and his new group, Wings, begin their debut low-key tour of small British venues with an unadvertised show at Nottingham University

14 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono host The Mike Douglas Show on TV while Douglas takes a week's holiday. Among their guests are Chuck Berry and Black Panthers leader, Bobby Seale

21 - President Nixon visits Beijing - The first US president to visit China

22 - 7 killed in an IRA (Irish Republican Army) car bomb at Aldershot barracks

23 - Elvis and Priscilla Presley separate

24 - British PM Edward Heath imposes direct rule for Ulster with William Whitelaw as secretary of state

28 - British miners return to work after accepting a wage increase agreement

01 - 14-year-old English schoolboy Timothy Davey sentenced to six years jail in Turkey for selling hashish

06 - John Lennon's US Visa is revoked

15 - A Los Angeles radio station plays the Donny Osmond single Puppy Love for 90 minutes non-stop

16 - Fog on the British M1 motorway results in 9 deaths and 50 people injured

01/03 - Four people die during Puerto Rico's Mar y Sol Festival which features performances from Black Sabbath, ELP and The Allman Brothers Band

15 - The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards top the UK pop charts with their bagpipe dominated version of Amazing Grace

15 - Nixon steps up bombing as North Vietnamese launch a new offensive

16 - Apollo 16 is launched

20 - Apollo 16 lands on Moon. Astronauts Charles Duke and Thomas K Mattingly walk on the Moon's surface, conducting tests and collecting rocks

27 - Phil King of Blue Öyster Cult dies

30 - The Brighton Belle train makes its last journey from London Victoria to Brighton

02 - FBI founder, J Edgar Hoover, dies

05 - 115 die in Alitalia DC-8 crash

06 - Thousands of members of the Tutsi tribe are massacred in the African republic of Burundi by members of the Hutu tribe, backed by Congolese mercenaries

09 - Israeli commandos rescue 92 Black September hijack victims

11 - John Lennon appears on the Dick Cavett TV Show claiming he is under constant surveillance by the FBI, and that his telephone has been tapped

15 - Governor George C. Wallace of Alabama is shot by Arthur H. Bremer at a political rally in Laurel, Maryland. The assassination attempt leaves Wallace permanently paralyzed from the waist down

18 - After a bomb threat aboard the QE2, bomb experts are parachuted aboard, but find nothing

22 - Nixon becomes first US President to visit USSR

22 - Ceylon becomes the independent republic of Sri Lanka

26 - Nixon and Brezhnev sign Moscow pact - a treaty limiting strategic arms

28 - The Duke of Windsor (who gave up his throne for the love of Wallis Simpson) dies in Paris, aged 77

30 - Japanese Red Army terrorists kill 26 people at Lod Airport, Tel Aviv

01/15 - West German police arrest the Baader-Meinhof urban guerrilla group

01 - Iraq nationalizes the Iraq Petroleum Company

04 - Black activist Angela Davis is found innocent of abetting a 1970 courtroom escape that left four dead

08 - US Planes bomb South Vietnamese village in error

09/11 - Elvis Presley plays his first ever concerts in New York (at Madison Square Garden)

13 - Clyde McPhatter, original vocalist with The Drifters, dies

15 - Education Secretary Margaret Thatcher discontinues free milk to British schoolchildren

17 - Five intruders are caught trying to install listening devices in the Democratic National Committee's Watergate offices in Washington. One of them is James McCord, a former CIA agent currently working for the Republican National Committee

26 - A total of 87 British soldiers have now died while serving in Northern Ireland

29 - US Supreme Court rules that death penalty is unconstitutional

06 - Kakuei Tanaka is new PM of Japan

10/14 - US Democratic National Convention nominates Senator George McGovern for president. McGovern vows to end the Vietnam War within 90 days of taking office

21 - 22 IRA bombs explode in Belfast, killing 13 people and injuring 130

22 - Paul McCartney and his wife Linda are arrested in Sweden for possession of marijuana

06 - Idi Amin gives Asians of non-Ugandan citizenship 90 days to leave Uganda. 50,000 attempt to flee to Britain

11 - Last US combat unit is withdrawn from Vietnam

21/23 - Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew nominated for re-election by Republican National Convention

26 - XXth Olympic Games open in Munich

26 - Swimmer Mark Spitz wins a record seven Olympic gold medals at Munich

28 - While taking part in an air race, Prince William of Gloucester and his co-pilot are killed when their plane crashes after take-off near Wolverhampton

29 - Nixon announces that an investigation of the Watergate break-in led by White House counsel John Dean, has revealed that administration officials were not involved

01 - Bobby Fischer becomes first US world chess champion, beating Boris Spassky of the USSR

05 - Black September Arab terrorists take Israeli athletes hostage at the Olympics. In a bungled rescue attempt all nine hostages, four terrorists and one policeman are killed. Two other athletes die at the Olympic Village

08 - Israeli planes raid Lebanon in retaliatory attack for the deaths of their Olympic athletes

12 - Cod War breaks out after an Icelandic gunboat sinks two British trawlers in the North Sea

18 - In Uganda, Idi Amin starts to expel 8,000 Asians

25 - In a referendum, Norway votes against joining the Common Market

27 - Former Merseybeat legend Rory Storm (born Alan Caldwell) dies

29 - Japan and China agree to end the state of war existing since 1937

10 - Sir John Betjeman becomes Britain's Poet Laureate

19 - Vietnam peace is close - Kissinger holds talks

21 - In Australia, the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme is officially completed

29 - Arab terrorists hijack a Lufthansa flight and secure the release of three Palestinians being held in West Germany for the Olympic massacre

02 - Singers Carly Simon and James Taylor wed in Manhattan

06 - Billy Murcia, drummer with The New York Dolls, dies at a Chelsea (London) apartment, suffocating on black coffee poured down his throat by a girlfriend who is attempting to keep him awake following an alcohol and drugs session

06 - UK wage freeze imposed in attempt to combat inflation

07 - Nixon re-elected over George McGovern in the largest Republican landslide in history

10 - Tickets go on sale for Led Zeppelin's huge forthcoming UK tour - The price is £1

11 - The P&O liner Spirit Of London begins her maiden voyage

11 - Berry Oakley, bass player of The Allman Brothers Band, is killed in a motorcycle accident three blocks from where Duane Allman was killed

12 - George Harrison drills 200 feet deep holes at his Friar Park mansion near Henley-on-Thames. He needs water to replenish his vast ornamental lakes

13 - "It's Time", says Gough Whitlam as he campaigns to bring Labor to power in Australia

15 - A gun battle takes place at Alice Springs in the Australian outback with a hijacker

25 - Norman Kirk becomes Prime Minister of New Zealand after the Labour party wins a sweeping victory

28 - The 100th British soldier dies in Northern Ireland

02 - Australian Labor Party wins federal election after 23 years in opposition. Gough Whitlam is new Prime Minister

05 - Australian PM Whitlam ends National Service and frees all jailed draft resisters

07 - Apollo 17 is launched, the sixth and last spacecraft of that series. Astronauts Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans and Harrison Schmitt splash back to Earth on December 19 carrying 249 lb of rock and soil samples from the Moon

08 - Seven hijackers are killed in an Ethiopian aircraft

10 - British businessman Ronald Grove is kidnapped in Buenos Aires

11 - In Australia, the new Whitlam Government orders withdrawal of all remaining Australian troops in Vietnam

18 - US tries to force North Vietnam back to the conference table with resumption of full-scale bombing of North Vietnam after Paris peace negotiation reach impasse

20 - Billy Snedden replaces William McMahon as Australian Liberal Party leader, following McMahon's resounding defeat

24 - Earthquake kills 10,000 in Managua, Nicaragua

26 - Former US President Harry S Truman dies. America in mourning

30 - Nixon orders a halt to US bombing of Hanoi

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