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Movie history events from 1972
A Uruguayan college rugby team's chartered airplane crashes deep in the icy mountains. (Andes) (Alive)
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover Watergate. (Washington DC) (All the President's Men)
Young Frankie Maguire witnesses the murder of his father. (Belfast, Ireland) (The Devil's Own)
President Nixon hires Betsy Jobs and Arlene Lorenzo as dog walkers for Checkers. (The White House) (Dick)
Deena Jones and The Dreams have another No 1 hit record. (Dreamgirls)
3 talking apes from the future travel back in time and land off the coast of California. (Los Angles, Ca.) (Escape from the Planet of the Apes)
Moonlight Graham dies. (Field of Dreams)
Lts. Jake Grafton, and Virgil Cole, make an illegal bombing run over Hanoi. (Hanoi, North Vietnam) (Flight of the Intruder)
11 Israeli athletes are killed at the Olympics by terrorists; a group of Mossad agents track down the Black September group responsible. (Munich) (Munich)
Richard Nixon makes a state visit. (China) (Nixon)
Astronaut Landon graduates college, as 'the golden boy'. (Planet of the Apes (1968))
Johnny Smalls, David Durango, and friends try to get a model rocket back from Mr.Myrtle's dog, Goliath, son of Hercules. (Sawyer Valley, California) (The Sandlot 2)
Monday 10th January: Former Vice President Hubert Humphrey criticizes President Richard Nixon, saying that it was taking longer for President Nixon to withdraw U.S. troops from Vietnam than it did to defeat Hitler. (Nixon)
Thursday 13th January: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon announces that 70,000 U.S. troops will leave South Vietnam over the next three months, (Nixon)
Monday 21st February: President Richard Nixon takes a dramatic first step toward normalizing relations with the communist People's Republic of China (PRC) by traveling to Beijing for a week of talks. (Nixon)
Wednesday 1st March: John Mitchell begins his job as Nixon's campaign manager. (All the President's Men)
Wednesday 15th March: Earliest phone call made to the GOP from Watergate burglars. (All the President's Men)
Wednesday 15th March: Actor Edward Lionheart comes out of retirement and murders critic George Maxwell. (London) (Theatre of Blood)
Monday 10th April: Date of incriminating cashiers check written out to Kenneth H Dahlberg. (All the President's Men)
Monday 10th April: Charlie Chaplin accepts an honorary Academy Award for his "incalculable" contribution to the art of filmmaking. (Los Angeles, California) (Chaplin)
Monday 10th April: The U.S. table tennis team begins a weeklong visit to the People's Republic of China at the invitation of China's communist government. (Forrest Gump)
May: Richard Collier is given an old pocket-watch by an old woman who whispers "Come back to me". (Somewhere In Time)
Friday 5th May: J Edgar Hoover dies. (Washington DC) (Nixon)
Monday 15th May: George Wallace is shot by Arthur Bremer. (Laurel, Maryland) (George Wallace)
Friday 19th May: 'Too Much Spring' by Richard Collier opens; Elise McKenna visits him and presents him with a watch, before dying that same night. (Somewhere In Time)
Monday 22nd May: Richard Nixon arrives in Moscow for a summit with Soviet leaders. (Moscow) (Nixon)
Saturday 17th June: The break-in at the Democratic National Committee occurs. (All the President's Men)
Wednesday 28th June: U.S. President Nixon announces that no more draftees will be sent to Vietnam unless they volunteer for such duty. (Nixon)
July: Theatre Monthly prints an article entitled 'Elise McKenna: The Final Years'. (Somewhere In Time)
Monday 24th July: Story in the New York Times published about calls to the GOP offices linked to Watergate. (All the President's Men)
August: The Washington Post publishes the Dahlberg story. (All the President's Men)
Friday 4th August: Dictator Idi Amin gives Uganda's 50,000 Asians 90 days to leave the country thanks to a dream. (Uganda) (The Last King of Scotland)
Tuesday 22nd August: A bank robbery to afford a transexual operation becomes a siege. (Dog Day Afternoon)
September: The Washington Post publishes the Mitchell story. (All the President's Men)
October: The Washington Post learns Ken Clawson is alleged to have written the Canuck letter. (All the President's Men)
Thursday 5th October: Artist/Poet Chrsity Brown marries Mary Carr. (County Kerry, Ireland) (My Left Foot)
Wednesday 25th October: The White House orders a suspension of bombing above the 20th parallel as a signal of U.S. approval of recent North Vietnamese concessions at the secret peace talks in Paris. (Nixon)
Friday 17th November: Wealthy socialite Barbara Baekeland is stabbed to death with a kitchen knife by her 25-year-old son, Antony, in her penthouse. (London, England) (Savage Grace)
Saturday 9th December: Louella Parsons dies of arteriosclerosis. (Santa Monica, California) (The Cat's Meow )
Monday 18th December: Following the breakdown of peace talks with North Vietnam just a few days earlier, President Richard Nixon announces the beginning of a massive bombing campaign to break the stalemate. For nearly two weeks, American bombers pounded North Vietnam. (Nixon)
Tuesday 26th December: Former U.S. President Harry S. Truman dies. (Independence, Missouri) (Truman)
Sunday 31st December: Forrest Gump celebrates New Year in New York. (New York) (Forrest Gump)