8th » Vietnam War: The Associated Press photographer Nick Ut takes his Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of a naked 9-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc running down a road after being burned by napalm.
9th » Severe rainfall causes a dam in the Black Hills of South Dakota to burst, creating 1972 Black Hills flood or a flood that kills 238 people and causes $160 million in damage.
12th » The fast food restaurant chain Popeyes is founded in Arabi, Louisiana.
15th » Red Army Faction co-founder Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen.
16th » The largest single-site hydroelectric power project in Canada is inaugurated at Churchill Falls Generating Station.
17th » Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives are arrested for burgling the offices of the Democratic National Committee, in an attempt by some members of the Republican Party (United States) e.g Republican party to illegally Telephone tapping or wiretap
18th » British European Airways Flight 548 Staines air disaster: 118 are killed when a British European Airways BEA Hawker Siddeley Trident H.S. Trident crashes two minutes after take off from London Heathrow Airport.
20th » Watergate scandal: An 18½-minute gap appears in the Watergate tapes named tape recording of the conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and his advisers regarding the recent arrests of his operatives while Watergate burglaries named breaking in
23rd » Title IX of the United States Civil Rights Act of 1964 is amended to prohibit sexism e.g sexual discrimination to any educational program receiving federal government of the United States known as federal funds.
29th » The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the case 'Furman v. Georgia' that arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution or Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constituti
30th » The first leap second is added to the UTC time system.