1972
1972 Summer Olympics-Munich, West Germany; Winter Olympics-Sapporo, Japan
Munich Terrorist Massacre; Israeli Olympic Team murdered by Black September tied to Yaser Arafat
Mark Spitz wins 7 gold medals; Soviet Union defeats U.S. for basketball gold and Olga Korbut are top Olympic stories; Soviet Union tops the U.S. with 99 medals (50 gold) to 94 for USA; Dan Gable wins gold
Rick Sanders, twice Olympic Silver medalist, killed in an auto accident in Yugoslavia
Mark Spitz and Olga Korbut win AP Athletes of the Year
Michigan’s Micki King wins gold in Diving
Jack Nicklaus is PGA Tour winner with $320,000 and winning 7 events
Riva Ridge wins Kentucky Derby and Belmont, but not Preakness
Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky to become 1st American World Chess Champion
Dallas Cowboys defeat Miami Dolphins in Super Bowl
USC goes undefeated to win the 1972 NCAA Football Championship; Johnny Rogers of Nebraska wins Heisman
#3 Michigan upset by #16 Stanford in the Rose Bowl 13-12 after going undefeated in 1971 season
UCLA defeats Florida State for NCAA Basketball title
Roberto Clemente dies in a plane crash
French Connection wins Best Picture and Jane Fonda wins Best Actress for Klute at the 1972 Academy Awards
George Wallace shot by Arthur Bremmer
Watergate break in and scandal
Nixon-Agnew defeats McGovern-Shriver (Eagleton) in 1972 Presidential election
Title IX signed into law allowing gender equality for sports and other programs
Dow Jones closes at 1,000 for first time ever
Naval Race Riot on U.S.S. Kitty Hawk
Angela Davis found not guilty of murder
Death Penalty ruled unconstitutional
I’m O.K. You’re O.K. reaches New York Times Best Seller List
The Price Is Right and MASH premier on TV
First female FBI agents are hired
Atari video game released
A.J. Foyt wins Indianapolis 500, Daytona 500 and 24 Hours of Le Mans
Apollo 17 mission lands on the moon
City Council of Ann Arbor passes a city ordinance making marijuana possession a $5 fine with two elected members from the Human Rights Party; District Judge rules ordinance unconstitutional
Perry Bullard elected to Michigan House of Representatives, proponent of legalizing marijuana
1st Hash Bash on April 1st after John Sinclair, White Panther Party, is arrested on marijuana possession and State Supreme Court overturns his conviction
Michigan establishes Lottery
Feminists hold a sit in at the Ladies Home Journal; Ms. Magazine in launched, Life Magazine publishes last magazine
Cigarette advertising banned from TV
HBO is launched
Future Shock II III IV IV narrated by Orson Welles released after book published in 1970
1972 in Television (1972-1973 TV Schedule)
| 1-Jan-72 | Rose Bowl | #4 Michigan ends an undefeated season with a Rose Bowl loss to Stanford, 12-13 |
| 14-Jan-72 | Crisler Arena | The Faces/Badfinger |
| 23-Jan-72 | Hill Auditorium | Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen |
| 12-Feb-72 | Hill Auditorium | Gordon Lightfoot |
| 19-Feb-72 | Hill Auditorium | Delaney & Bonnie/Billy Preston/Iris Bell |
| 15-Mar-72 | Grammy's | Carole King (It's Too Late and You've Got a Friend), The Carpenters, Quincy Jones, Carly Simon, Aretha Franklin (Bridge over Troubled Waters), Lou Rawls (A Natural Man), Bill Withers (Ain't No Sunshine), Paul McCartney (Uncle Albert), Isaac Hayes (Theme from Shaft) and James Taylor (You've Got a Friend) are winners at the Grammy's |
| 17-Mar-72 | Hill Auditorium | Alice Coltrane/Leon Thomas/CJQ |
| 1-Apr-72 | The Diag | 1st Hash Bash |
| 9-Apr-72 | Bowen Fieldhouse | Neil Diamond |
| 4-May-72 | Bowen Fieldhouse | It's a Beautiful Day/Taj Mahal |
| 17-Jun-72 | n/a | Watergate Break In |
| 30-Jun-72 | Davison, MI | Eagle Scout Michael Moore graduates from Davison High School and is elected to the school board at the age of 18 while enrolling at the University of Michigan-Flint; he would later win an Oscar for his film making and be recognized by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the USA |
| 1-Jul-72 | n/a | Blood, Sweat & Tears |
| 5-Jul-72 | Crisler Arena | The Faces/Rod Stewart/Badfinger |
| 1-Sep-72 | Reykjavik, Iceland | Bobby Fischer defeat Russian Boris Spassky for world chess championship |
| 5-Sep-72 | Munich, Germany | Terrorist massacre at the Summer Olympics |
| 10-Sep-72 | Otis Spann Memorial Field | Ann Arbor Blues & Jazz Festival: Bonnie Raitt, Miles Davis, Hound Dog Taylor, Junior Walker & The All Stars, Sun Ra, Muddy Waters, Luther Allison, Dr. John, etc. |
| 15-Sep-72 | Hill Auditorium | Ravi Shankar |
| 22-Sep-72 | Union Ballroom (UofM) | Scott Richard Case, Catfish, The Up, Geyda |
| 23-Sep-72 | Bowen Fieldhouse | Cheech & Chong/Flo & Eddie |
| 7-Oct-72 | Hill Auditorium | Cheech & Chong |
| 27-Oct-72 | Bowen Fieldhouse | Chuck Berry/The Drifters/The Woolies |
| 27-Oct-72 | Hill Auditorium | Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen |
| 28-Oct-72 | Hill Auditorium | Stevie Wonder |
| 29-Oct-72 | Hill Auditorium | Grateful Dead |
| 10-Nov-72 | Bowen Fieldhouse | The Fifth Dimension |
| 17-Nov-72 | Crisler Arena | James Taylor |
| 22-Nov-72 | Union Ballroom (UofM) | Scott Richard Case, The Up, Brat, Carnal Kitchen |
| 25-Nov-72 | Columbus, OH | #3 Michigan loses to #9 Ohio State, 11-14, after being stopped on the goal line on three occasions |
| 9-Dec-72 | Crisler Arena | The Allman Brothers/Dr. John/The Rockets |