Wikipedia: 1972

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Swedish prime minister [Olof Palme]? compares the American bombings of North Vietnam to Nazi massacres. The US breaks diplomatic contacts with Sweden.
February 21 - February 27 - President Richard M. Nixon makes an unprecedented eight-day visit to Communist China and meets with Mao Zedong.
March 24 - In a bid for peace, Britain takes over direct rule of Northern Ireland.
May 15 - Governor [George C. Wallace]? of Alabama is shot by [Arthur H. Bremer]? at a Laurel?, Md., political rally.
June 17 - Watergate? break-in, Washington, D.C.
Return of Okinawa from United States' control to Japan.
June 29 - United States Supreme Court rules that the death penalty is unconstitutional
September 5 - Eleven Israeli athletes at the Summer Olympic Games in Munich are killed after eight members of an Arab terrorist group invade Olympic Village; five guerrillas and one policeman are also killed.

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