Editing 1972

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==Events==
*January 2 - [[John Wayne Gacy]] commits his first confirmed [[murder]] when he kills 16-year old Timothy McCoy.
*February 15 - [[Guillermo Rodríguez Lara]] declares himself President of Ecuador after ousting President [[José María Velasco Ibarra]] in a military coup.
*March 27 - End of the First Sudanese Civil War.
*April 24 - The [[Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist]] is founded by [[İbrahim Kaypakkaya]].
*April 29 - Beginning of the ''[[Ikiza]]'' in Burundi when President [[Michel Micombero]] declares martial law and orders Hutus to be killed en masse.
*May 15 - [[George Wallace]] is shot five times by [[Arthur Bremer]] while campaigning at the Laurel Shopping Center in Laurel, Maryland. Wallace survives the assassination attempt, but is left paralyzed from the waist down.
*May 30 - The Lod Airport massacre occurs when three members of the [[Japanese Red Army]] attack Lod Airport (now Ben Gurion International Airport) near Tel Aviv, killing 26 people and injuring 80 others.
*June 17 - The [[Watergate scandal]]: Five men break into the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate Office Building in Washington, D.C. on the orders of [[Richard Nixon]] in an attempt to sabotage the Democratic Party.
*July 31 - Delta Airlines Flight 841 is hijacked by five members of the [[Black Liberation Army]], who hold all 86 passengers on the plane hostage and demand 1 million dollars in ransom from the FBI. The ransom is paid, and the hijackers eventually release the hostages and escape to Algeria.
*August 1 - End of the ''Ikiza''.
*August 4 - [[Idi Amin]] orders the expulsion of all Asians from Uganda.
*August 4 - Arthur Bremer is sentenced to 63 years in prison.
*September 5 - The last [[murder]] attributed to the [[Freeway Phantom]] takes place when the body of Diane Denise Williams is discovered dumped alongside I-295, just south of the District line in Washington D.C.
*September 5 to 6 - The [[Munich Massacre]]: during the 1972 Summer Olympics, the Palestinian terrorist group [[Black September]] takes eleven Israeli Olympic team members hostage and kills them along with a West German police officer.
*September 23 - President of the Philippines [[Ferdinand Marcos]] [[Proclamation No. 1081|declares martial law]].
*October 5 - The [[National Rally]] is founded by [[Jean-Marie Le Pen]].
*December 4 - 7-year Steven Stayner is abducted in Merced, California by child molester [[Kenneth Parnell]]. He would remain held captive for 7 years.
*December 20 - The [[Annie's Bar Massacre]]: a group of [[Ulster Defence Association]] fighters enter a pub in Derry, Northern Ireland and kill 5 people (4 Catholics and 1 Protestant.)
*December 28 - [[Kim Il-sung]] is sworn in as the first President of North Korea.

==Births==

=== Villain births ===
*January 1 - [[Aliaskhab Kebekov]]
*February 6 - [[Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman|Lev Parnas]]
*March 25 - [[Naftali Bennett]]
*April - [[Billy Roper]]
*April 1 - [[Florin Cîțu]]
*April 24 - [[Mauricio Paredes Bugueño]]
*May 1 - [[Ramzi bin al-Shibh]]
*June 1 - [[Mokhtar Belmokhtar]]
*June 25 - [[Saif al-Islam Gaddafi]]
*August 14 - [[Hani Hanjour]]
*September 4 - [[Robert Bowers]]
*October 24 - [[Scott Peterson]]
*Unknown - [[Anthony Morley]]
*Unknown - [[Jamar Pinkney Sr.]]
*Unknown - [[Samir Shabazz]]

=== Victim births ===
* January 8 - Andrew James Knox
* February 9 - Jonelle Matthews
* May 21 - The Notorious B.I.G.
* July 21 - Denise Closs 
* September 18 - Diane Cho 
* October 3 - Amy Nicole Jarret (9/11 Victim)
* October 9 - Etan Patz
* December 12 - Brandon Teena
* December 13 - Tina Isa
* Unknown - Beutis Amarasinghe

==Deaths==
===Villain deaths===
*March 8 - [[Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski]]
*April 27 - [[Kwame Nkrumah]]
*May 2 - [[J. Edgar Hoover]]
*May 6 - [[Deniz Gezmiş]]
*May 31 - [[Lee Roy Martin]]
*September 6 - [[Luttif Afif]]
*December 21 - [[Paul Hausser]]

===Victim deaths===
*January 2 - Timothy McCoy
*September 5 - Diane Denise Williams
*September 22 - Benedicto Kiwanuka