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Clockwise from top-left: an earthquake in Nicaragua kills 4,000–11,000 people; the first commercial home video game console, the Magnavox Odyssey, is released; a photo of the Earth known as The Blue Marble is taken during Apollo's final mission; during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, a terrorist attack carried out; Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty is signed; Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashes at the Andes, survivors resort to cannibalism to survive; President Ferdinand Marcos announces on television that the entirety of the Philippines is under martial law (eventually lifted in 1981); US President Richard Nixon is implicated in a scandal involving the theft of documents from the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C.
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1972 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar
1972 MCMLXXII
Ab urbe condita
2725
Armenian calendar
1421 ԹՎ ՌՆԻԱ
Assyrian calendar
6722
Baháʼí calendar
128–129
Balinese saka calendar
1893–1894
Bengali calendar
1379
Berber calendar
2922
British Regnal year
20 Eliz. 2 – 21 Eliz. 2
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2516
Burmese calendar
1334
Byzantine calendar
7480–7481
Chinese calendar
辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 4669 or 4462 — to — 壬子年 (Water Rat) 4670 or 4463
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1688–1689
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3138
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1964–1965
Hebrew calendar
5732–5733
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat
2028–2029
- Shaka Samvat
1893–1894
- Kali Yuga
5072–5073
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11972
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972–973
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1350–1351
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1391–1392
Japanese calendar
Shōwa 47 (昭和４７年)
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1903–1904
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61
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Gregorian minus 13 days
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4305
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ROC 61 民國61年
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504
Thai solar calendar
2515
Tibetan calendar
阴金猪年 (female Iron-Pig) 2098 or 1717 or 945 — to — 阳水鼠年 (male Water-Rat) 2099 or 1718 or 946
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63072000 – 94694399
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1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1972nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 972nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 72nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1970s decade.
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Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using mean solar time [the legal time scale], its duration was 31622401.141 seconds of Terrestrial Time (or Ephemeris Time), which is slightly shorter than 1908).[1]
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