America - 1972AD

In 1972AD:

• President Nixon made his historic trip to Peking to meet Mao Tse-tung.
• The Watergate affair began with the arrest of five burglars at Democratic party headquarters.
• Alabama governor George Wallace was shot in an assassination attempt.
• American Bobby Fischer defeated Russian world chess champion Boris Spassky.
• DDT insecticide was banned in the U.S.
• Apollo 17 made the last manned Moon landing.
• President Nixon authorized the Space Shuttle program.
• American swimmer Mark Spitz won a record seven Olympic gold medals.
• Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola directed Marlon Brando in The Godfather.
• Liza Minnelli starred in Bob Fosse's film Cabaret.
• Marlon Brando starred in Bernardo Bertolucci's film Last Tango in Paris.
• American feminist Gloria Steinem founded Ms. magazine.72

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