Video: Nixon visits Great Wall of China (at 1:47)
(Thursday, February 24, 1972) — U.S. President Richard M. Nixon visited the Great Wall of China today and called for an end to “walls of any kind between peoples.”
Category Archives: 1970s
California voids death penalty 40 years ago today (1972)
Video: Death penalty invalidated (at 9:14)
(Friday, February 18, 1972) — The California Supreme Court in the case of People v. Anderson invalidated the state’s death penalty today and commuted the sentences of all death row inmates, including members of the Charles Manson family, to life imprisonment.
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‘I’ll Never Leave You – Ever’ episode airs on ‘Night Gallery’ 40 years ago this hour (1972)
(Wednesday, February 16, 1972, 10:00 p.m. ET) — The wife of an elderly farmer who refuses to die decides to force nature’s hand with the help of an old crone skilled in the black arts on tonight’s episode of the NBC-TV anthology series Night Gallery.
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‘Sub-Station’ episode airs on ‘Adam-12’ 40 years ago this hour (1972)
(Wednesday, February 16, 8:00 p.m. ET) — On temporary assignment at LAX, Reed and Malloy have to save a stewardess who is taken hostage inside a lounge by a man desperately trying to get the attention of a television producer on tonight’s episode of the NBC-TV police drama Adam-12.
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‘Cabaret’ opens in U.S. theaters 40 years ago today (1972)
Video: 'Cabaret' trailer
(Sunday February 13, 1972) — Cabaret, a musical film set in Berlin during the Weimar Republic in 1931, under the ominous presence of the growing National Socialist Party, opened today in the U.S. (including the Ziegfeld Theater in New York City).
Produced and directed by Bob Fosse and starring Liza Minnelli, Michael York and Joel Grey, the film is loosely based on the 1966 Broadway musical of the same name.
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‘Where There’s Smoke, There’s Rhoda’ episode airs on ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show’ 40 years ago this hour (1972)
(Saturday, February 12, 1972, 9:30 p.m. ET) — When Rhoda’s apartment is destroyed by fire, she moves in with Mary. The two find that while they are best friends, they make awful roommates on tonight’s episode of the CBS-TV sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
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‘Edith Gets a Mink’ episode airs tonight on ‘All In The Family’ 40 years ago this hour (1972)
(Saturday, February 12, 1972, 8:00 p.m. ET) — Edith gets a package in the mail and discovers that it is a mink cape sent to her as a ‘thank you’ gift by her Cousin Amelia for Edith taking care of her after a surgery on tonight’s episode of the CBS-TV sitcom All In The Family.
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McCartney’s ‘Give Ireland Back to the Irish’ banned in Britain 40 years ago today (1972)
(Thursday, February 10, 1972) — 12 days after British paratroopers shot dead thirteen Catholics after a civil rights demonstration in Londonderry in what is known as Bloody Sunday, Paul McCartney’s new single Give Ireland Back to the Irish was banned on British airwaves (it would still be released Feb. 25, 1972).
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Lennon, Ono call for withdrawal of British troops from Northern Ireland 40 years ago today (1972)
Video: image from Feb. 5, 1972, at 1:03-1:04
(Saturday, February 5, 1972) — John Lennon and Yoko Ono were among 400 protesters outside the offices of the British Overseas Airways Corporation in New York. Their action is aimed towards the British policy in Northern Ireland, six days after the Bloody Sunday killings.
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‘Archie Sees a Mugging’ episode airs tonight on ‘All In The Family’ 40 years ago this hour (1972)
Video: 'Archie Sees a Mugging' (part 1)
(Saturday, January 29, 1972, 8:00 p.m. ET) — Archie and Mike head down to the store to get some items and on the way out Archie witnesses a mugging on tonight’s episode of the CBS-TV sitcom All In The Family. Continue reading ‘Archie Sees a Mugging’ episode airs tonight on ‘All In The Family’ 40 years ago this hour (1972)
