What is 1972?
{{Year nav|1972}} {{Year in various calendars|1972}} '''1972''' ([[Roman numerals|MCMLXXII]]) was a [[leap year starting on Saturday]] in the Gregorian calendar, the 1972nd year of the [[Common Era]] (CE) and ''[[Anno Domini]]'' (AD) designations, {{Year article header/year number|1972}} == Events == * [[February 18]] – [[President of the United States|U.S. President]] [[Richard Nixon]] visits [[China]]. * [[May 15]] – Governor [[George C. Wallace]] of [[Alabama]] is shot by Arthur H. Bremer at a Laurel, [[Maryland]] political rally. * [[June 13]]-[[June 22|22]] – [[Hurricane Agnes]] strikes [[Florida]] and moves through the [[East Coast of the United States]]. In [[Pennsylvania]] and [[New York (state)|New York]], Agnes caeses heavy flooding that kills many people. Total damage from the storm is $3 billion. * [[June 29]] – The [[United States Supreme Court]] rules that the [[death penalty]] is [[unconstitutional]]. * [[July 25]] – The first [[newspaper]] stories about the [[Tuskegee syphilis experiment]] are published. This will lead to the end of the experiment, where [[Poverty|poor]] [[African-Americans]] were infected with [[syphilis]] and not given [[treatment]]. * [[September 17]] – The [[television]] [[comedy]] [[television programme|series]] ''[[M*A*S*H]]'' premieres in the [[United States]]. * [[September 17]] – A 22-year-old named Chan Chee Chan was [[1972 Queenstown shooting|shot dead]] while walking in Queenstown, [[Singapore]]. The crime is still unsolved. * Writer and [[pen club]] president [[Heinrich Böll]] receives the [[Nobel Prize]] for [[literature]]. == Births == ===January=== * [[January 2]] – [[Adam Elliot]], [[Australia]]n [[Animation|animator]] * [[January 11]] – [[Amanda Peet]], [[United States|American]] [[actor|actress]] * [[January 16]] - [[Greg Page]], [[Australia]]n [[musician]] ([[The Wiggles]]) ===February=== * [[February 17]] – [[Billie Joe Armstrong]], American [[singer]] ([[Green Day]]) * February 17 – [[Yuki Isoya]], [[Japan]]ese singer ([[Judy and Mary]]) ===March=== * [