About the day » Sunday December 24, 1972Calender converter

• Vollaard, Oud-Beijerland († 1972)
• Manuel VROEMEN, Maastricht (NL/LI) († 1972)
• Adriaan Teun Willem Brederoo († 2018)
• Jentien Geertina (Jannet) Holtjer, Stadskanaal, Nederland († 2020)
• Rombout Donkervoort, 's-Gravenhage († 1972)
• Mikaël MELLAZA, Saint-Renan, 29260, Finistère, Bretagne, France († 2018)
• Mark Alan Janecek, Ridgewood, New Jersey († 2023)

• Antonie van Hattum (68), Dodewaard
• Christiaan Gerrit Noordam (89), Zoetermeer, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Allen W LYTLE (73), Thiensville, Ozaukee, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten
• Albert Wierbos (70), Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Vollaard (0), Oud-Beijerland
• Adriaantje Verkuil (84), Leiden
• Andries Schouten (76), Leiden
• Charles Francis Gravener (82), Colby, Thomas, Kansas
• Christiaan van Ooijen (84)
• Alvin LeRoy Oakes (64), White Cloud (Newaygo County) (Michigan)

• 1970 » Adam Haslett, American author and academic
• 1971 » Geoff Allott, New Zealand cricketer
• 1971 » Ricky Martin, Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1971 » Sascha Fischer, German rugby player
• 1972 » Álvaro Mesén, Costa Rican footballer
• 1972 » Klaus Schnellenkamp, Chilean businessman and author
• 1973 » Ali Salem Tamek, Moroccan activist
• 1973 » Liu Dong, Chinese-Spanish runner
• 1973 » Paul Foot, English comedian
• 1973 » Stephenie Meyer, American author and film producer

• 1967 » Burt Baskin, American businessman, co-founded Baskin-Robbins (b. 1913)
• 1969 » Alfred B. Skar, Norwegian journalist and politician (b. 1896)
• 1969 » Cortelia Clark, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1907)
• 1969 » Olivia FitzRoy, English soldier and author (b. 1921)
• 1969 » Stanisław Błeszyński, Polish-German entomologist and lepidopterist (b. 1927)
• 1971 » Maria Koepcke, German-Peruvian ornithologist and zoologist (b. 1924)
• 1972 » Gisela Richter, English-American archaeologist and historian (b. 1882)
• 1973 » Fritz Gause, German historian and author (b. 1893)
• 1975 » Bernard Herrmann, American composer and conductor (b. 1911)
• 1977 » Samael Aun Weor, Colombian author and educator (b. 1917)

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet Biesheuvel I, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 13.3 million citizens.
• February 15 » José María Velasco Ibarra, serving as President of Ecuador for the fifth time, is overthrown by the military for the fourth time.
• February 18 » The California Supreme Court in the case of People v. Anderson, (6 Cal.3d 628) invalidates the state's death penalty and commutes the sentences of all death row inmates to life imprisonment.
• May 30 » In Ben Gurion Airport (at the time: Lod Airport), Israel, members of the Japanese Red Army carry out the Lod Airport massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others.
• August 14 » An Ilyushin Il-62 airliner crashes near Königs Wusterhausen, East Germany, due to an in-flight fire, killing 156.
• September 15 » A Scandinavian Airlines System domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm is hijacked and flown to Malmö Bulltofta Airport.
• December 18 » Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will engage North Vietnam in Operation Linebacker II, a series of Christmas bombings, after peace talks collapsed with North Vietnam on the 13th.

The temperature on December 24, 1972 was between -1.2 °C and 0.7 °C and averaged -0.1 °C. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.