1972 Timeline of Events

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1972

Year 1972 was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time 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.- January :* January 1** Kurt Waldheim becomes Secretary General of...

Timeline of Events

1924

5.10.1924

J. Edgar Hoover is appointed the Director of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation, and remains so until his death in 1972.

1989

8.2.1989

Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restoring democracy for the first time since 1972.

1995

2.22.1995

The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.