Aeroflot Flight 217 crashes outside Moscow, killing 174.
Tag: 1972
11 October 1972
A race riot occurs on the United States Navy aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off the coast of Vietnam.
11 January 1972
East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh’]
13 October 1972
Aeroflot Flight 217 crashes outside Moscow, killing 174. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_217′]
22 March 1972
In Eisenstadt v. Baird, the United States Supreme Court decides that unmarried persons have the right to have contraceptives. Recent controversy over the Affordable Care…
23 December 1972
The survivors of the Andes flight disaster are rescued after 73 days, having reportedly survived by cannibalism. was a chartered flight that crashed on a…
13 October 1972
An Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-62 crashes, killing 174. Aeroflot Flight 217 was a non-scheduled international passenger flight from Orly Airport in Paris to Sheremetyevo International Airport…
11 August 1972
The last United States ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam (Vietnam War). SAIGON, South Vietnam, Aug. 11—The last American ground?combat unit in Viet nam was…
13 October 1972
174 people are killed when an Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-62 crashes just outside Moscow. Aeroflot Flight 217 was a non-scheduled international passenger flight from Orly Airport…