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1972
 
   
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns from prison in West Pakistan to become prime minister of the newly independent state of Bangladesh      
1972
 
   
Aborigines pitch a Tent Embassy on Australia Day outside parliament in Canberra to highlight political injustices      
1972
 
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British paratroops open fire on a civil rights march in Derry, killing thirteen, in what becomes known as Bloody Sunday       
1972
 
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The British government suspends the parliament at Stormont and imposes direct rule from Westminster      
1972
 
   
An Equal Rights Amendment is passed by Congress but fails when not ratified in sufficient states      
1972
 
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In an orgy of ethnic slaughter in Burundi, Tutsis klll some 100,000 Hutus       
1972
 
    
The SALT 1 treaty is signed by the US and USSR, limiting anti-ballistic missiles       
1972
 
   
Ultimos Ritos ('Last Rites'), an oratorio by John Tavener, has its first performance in Haarlem in the Netherlands      
1972
 
     
Bernardo Bertolucci directs Marlon Brando in the sexually explicit film Last Tango in Paris        
1972
 
   
Jean-Marie Le Pen founds a neo-Fascist party in France, the National Front