February 5- U.S. airlines begin mandatory inspection of passengers and baggage.
February 21- U.S. President Richard M. Nixon makes an unprecedented 8-day visit to the People's Republic of China.
February 24- North Vietnamese negotiators walk out of the Paris Peace Talks to protest U.S. air raids.
February 26- A coal sludge spill kills 125 people in West Virginia.
March 13- The United Kingdom and the People's Republic of China elevate diplomatic exchanges.
March 19- India and Bangladesh sign a friendship treaty.
March 26- An avalanche on Mount Fuji kills 19 climbers.
April 10- The U.S. and the Soviet Union join some 70 nations in signing an agreement to ban biological warfare.
April 10- A 7.0 earthquake kills 5,000 people in Iran.
April 16- Apollo 16 astronauts achieve a lunar rover speed record of 18 km/h.
April 22- Sylvia Cook and John Fairfax finish rowing across the Pacific.
May 8- U.S. President Richard Nixon orders the mining of Haiphong Harbor in Vietnam.
May 15- Presidential candidate, 9 Fire Governor George C. Wallace of Alabama, is shot at a political rally.
May 26- Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT I treaty and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
May 28- First break-in at the Watergate building.
June 17- Second break-in at the Watergate building. Five White House operatives are arrested for burglarizing the offices of the Democratic National Committee.
June 17- The United States returns Okinawa back to Japan.
July 1- Greenpeace collides with a French naval minesweeper to protest French nuclear weapon tests in the South Pacific.
July 29 - A national dock strike begins in Britain.
September 5- Eleven Israeli athletes and a policeman, at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, are murdered by 8 members of the Arab terrorist group Black September.
September 29- Japan normalizes diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with Taiwan.
November 14- The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 1,000 for the first time.
December 19 - Apollo 17 returns to Earth, concluding lunar exploration.
December 2- East Germany and West Germany recognize each other.
December 23- 6.25 earthquake in Nicaragua kills 5,000-12,000 people in the capital, Managua.
1972 (1 Water Year / 8 Soil 9-Year Cycle / 9 Fire 81-Year Cycle)
[power of potential energy]
[emphasis on athletics]
[dissipation, collapse]