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| 1972 |
| | | Five burglars are arrested breaking into the Democratic National Committee HQ at the Watergate office building in Washington | |
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| 1972 |
| | | Spanish director Luis Buñuel satirizes social conventions in his film Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie | |
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| 1972 |
| | | Francis Ford Coppola writes and directs The Godfather, the first of three related films | |
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| 1972 |
| | | Peter Maxwell Davies's opera Taverneris performed at Covent Garden | |
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| 1972 |
| | | Eleven Israeli athletes are killed by Palestinian 'Black September' terrorists at the Munich Olympic Games | |
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| 1972 |
| | | The Orleans House Gallery is opened to the public, mounting a regular series of temporary exhibitions | |
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| 1972 |
| | | US swimmer Mark Spitz wins seven gold medals in the Munich Olympics | |
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| 1972 |
| | | The Tuskegee syphilis experiment in Alabama becomes a major scandal after a whistle-blower reveals the details | |
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| 1972 |
| | | Aung San Ssu Kyi maries Michael Aris, an English academic specializing in the history of Buddhism | |
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| 1972 |
| | | Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law in the Philippines, citing the danger of a Communist takeover | |
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