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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      
1972
 
   
Five burglars are arrested breaking into the Democratic National Committee HQ at the Watergate office building in Washington      
1972
 
    
Spanish director Luis Buñuel satirizes social conventions in his film Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie       
1972
 
    
Francis Ford Coppola writes and directs The Godfather, the first of three related films       
1972
 
    
Peter Maxwell Davies's opera Taverneris performed at Covent Garden       
1972
 
    
Eleven Israeli athletes are killed by Palestinian 'Black September' terrorists at the Munich Olympic Games       
1972
 
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The Orleans House Gallery is opened to the public, mounting a regular series of temporary exhibitions See in Google maps   
1972
 
    
US swimmer Mark Spitz wins seven gold medals in the Munich Olympics