1972

Equal Rights Amendment approved by Congress
Watergate break-in
Nixon reelected president
PLO terrorists murder eleven Israeli athletes at Munich Olympics
Nixon visits China
"The Turn of the Screw" by Joyce Carol Oates
"Chimera," "Dunyazadiad" by John Barth
"Learning from Las Vegas" by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott-Brown
"M*A*S*H" premieres
"Cabaret," directed by Bob Fosse
"The Godfather," directed by Francis Ford Coppola
"American Pie" by Don McLean