Apollo 17 becomes the last Apollo mission to land on the Moon.
Tag: 1972
11 July 1972
The World Chess Championship 1972 between challenger Bobby Fischer and champion Boris Spassky starts.
30 May 1972
Members of the Japanese Red Army kill 24 people and injure 78 others at Lod Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel.
2 February 1972
The British embassy in Dublin is destroyed in a protest the was known as Bloody Sunday.
23 December 1972
The 16 survivors of the Andes flight disaster are rescued after 73 days. They survived by cannibalism.
16 December 1972
Victory Day is commemorated every 16 December in India to mark its military victory over Pakistan in 1971.
17 June 1972
Five White House staffers are arrested for burglarizing the offices of the Democratic National Committee, in an attempt by some members of the Republican party…
26 December 1972
During the Vietnam War, as part of Operation Linebacker II, 120 American B-52 Stratofortress bombers attack Hanoi.