(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . History: Selected headlines from 1972 [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-01-29 You are here. Alright, here we go again. Every other Sunday, I am posting history, and the other Sundays, I am posting hit music. I started posting music only, starting with the year I was born, 1955. But, when I started looking at the music of 1968, I realized, many big things happened, in the news, that year. I wore myself down, trying to post headlines and songs, so I decided to break it up. Call me lazy. Here is the link, to the source I am using for the headlines: en.wikipedia.org/… Feel free to browse there, and post anything that you feel deserves attention, but I failed to post, post it in your comment. Of course, you can also just post wise sounding comments, as you analyze history. January 4 - The first scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) is introduced (price $395). Nowadays, they cost less: www.walmart.com/… Texas Instruments Ti-84 Plus Ce Graphing Calculator, Black Now $119.95 Was this still being called, The Troubles? February 17 – Volkswagen Beetle sales exceed those of the Ford Model T when the 15,007,034th Beetle is produced. Fifteen million Beetles. Making nice, with China. We still do that. March 22 The 92nd U.S. Congress votes to send the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification. Eisenstadt v. Baird: The Supreme Court of the U.S. rules that unmarried people have the right to access contraception on the same basis as married couples Those two items are connected. Women need equal rights. Women need contraception. Of course, all the men (or at least lots and lots of men) could get vasectomies, like I did, in 1977. I have zero children. It is not invasive. It takes less than 20 minutes. There they go again, driving their dune buggy, on the Moon. Why are they calling that a speed record? A little faster than the other one? Big deal. April 27 The Burundian Genocide against the Hutu begins; more than 500,000 Hutus die. Half a million dead? I skipped plane crashes, and smaller battles, but, half a million? Dead? April 29 – The fourth anniversary of the Broadway musical Hair is celebrated with a free concert at a Central Park bandshell, followed by dinner at the Four Seasons. There, 13 Black Panther protesters and the show's co-author, Jim Rado, are arrested for disturbing the peace and for using marijuana. Okay, in 1972, how did they expect anyone to have a rock concert, without disturbing the peace, and using marijuana? How? Watergate! The beginning of the end, of the Nixon administration. Not important, but I remember those names. The media did a lot of reporting on that match. July 25 – U.S. health officials admit that African-Americans were used as guinea pigs in the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male. I married a Black woman in 2011. She died in March of 2022. She told me things, and I noticed things like this, (I read about this, a few times, in recent years) that answer the question, why Black Americans find it hard to trust white folks. I remember that. That was a low body count, but, this was the Olympics, which have always been a feel-good event. At the time, I was told, that the Philippines has a constitution similar to that of the USA. So, that made me feel a little worried, that such a thing could happen here. I guess Trump sort of tried that. Most Americans were saying, get out of Vietnam. Nixon took steps, to do so. Just after winning the election. We are living on a blue marble. We have the photographic evidence. As they left, did they say, “We’ll be back!”? Okay, feel free, to post your wise words, about 1972. Here is the link, again: en.wikipedia.org/… Hugs! [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/1/29/2149889/-History-Selected-headlines-from-1972 Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/