WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO MAY 1972
Find out what all happened January to May 1972

The British embassy in Dublin is destroyed in protest at Bloody Sunday. (2. February 1972)

Apollo 16, commanded by John Young, lands on the moon. (20. April 1972)

Tombs containing bamboo slips, among them Sun Tzu's Art of War and Sun Bin's lost military treatise, are accidentally discovered by construction workers in Shandong. (10. April 1972)

José María Velasco Ibarra, serving as President of Ecuador for the fifth time, is overthrown by the military for the fourth time. (15. February 1972)

The Troubles: a car bombing outside a crowded pub in Belfast sparks a two-day gun battle involving the Provisional IRA, Ulster Volunteer Force and British Army. Seven people are killed and over 66 injured. (13. May 1972)

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan. (10. January 1972)

Kuala Lumpur becomes a city by a royal charter granted by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia. (1. February 1972)

East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh. (11. January 1972)

In Tel Aviv, Israel, members of the Japanese Red Army carry out the Lod Airport massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others. (30. May 1972)

Italian publisher and former partisan Giangiacomo Feltrinelli is killed by an explosion near Segrate. (14. March 1972)

United States President Richard Nixon orders the development of a Space Shuttle program. (5. January 1972)

20 days after he is kidnapped in Buenos Aires, Oberdan Sallustro is murdered by communist guerrillas. (10. April 1972)

Vietnam War: Vietnamization – South Korea withdraws 11,000 of its 48,000 troops from Vietnam. (29. February 1972)

The Thai province of Yasothon is created after being split off from the Ubon Ratchathani province. (1. March 1972)

Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations. (30. January 1972)

Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. (16. April 1972)

Four Black September terrorists hijack Sabena Flight 571. Israeli Sayeret Matkal commandos recapture the plane the following day. (8. May 1972)

Queen Margrethe II of Denmark ascends the throne, the first Queen of Denmark since 1412 and the first Danish monarch not named Frederick or Christian since 1513. (14. January 1972)

The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to "Greenpeace Foundation". (4. May 1972)

Pakistan launched its Nuclear weapons program few weeks after its defeat in Bangladesh Liberation War and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. (20. January 1972)