About the day » Thursday August 24, 1972Calender converter

• Levenloos Kind Swannet, Turnhout
• Pascal Schots (***), Heerlen,6400,Limburg,Nederland
• Robert Dale Veldkamp, Luverne, Rock County, Minnesota († 2021)
• Annette de Gier, Delft († 1972)
• carla katharina dorothea bartelina (carla) sijben, venlo
• Charles Guilluame Roberts, Cape Town
• William Krijthe († 1972)

• Archibald Jackson Ferguson (72), Kingston, Frontenac, Ontario, Canada
• Adrianus van Helvoort (82), Reusel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bouwe Anes Strikwerda (80)
• Bouwe Anes Strikwerda (80)
• Adrianus Alfonsus Cools (70), Tilburg
• Annechien Santing (77), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Catharina Sinke (76), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Annechien Santing (77), Emmen
• Annechien Santing (77), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Alida VAN DER ENG (85), Uitgeest

• 1969 » Jans Koerts, Dutch cyclist
• 1970 » Rich Beem, American golfer
• 1970 » Tugay Kerimoğlu, Turkish footballer and manager
• 1972 » Ava DuVernay, American director and screenwriter
• 1972 » Jean-Luc Brassard, Canadian skier and radio host
• 1972 » Todd Young, American politician
• 1973 » Andrew Brunette, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1973 » Dave Chappelle, American comedian, actor, producer and screenwriter
• 1973 » Inge de Bruijn, Dutch swimmer
• 1974 » Jennifer Lien, American actress

• 1967 » Henry J. Kaiser, American businessman, founded Kaiser Shipyards and Kaiser Aluminum (b. 1882)
• 1974 » Alexander P. de Seversky, Russian-American pilot and businessman, co-founded Republic Aviation (b. 1894)
• 1977 » Buddy O'Connor, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1916)
• 1978 » Louis Prima, American singer-songwriter, trumpet player, and actor (b. 1910)
• 1979 » Hanna Reitsch, German soldier and pilot (b. 1912)
• 1980 » Yootha Joyce, English actress (b. 1927)
• 1982 » Félix-Antoine Savard, Canadian priest and author (b. 1896)
• 1983 » Kalevi Kotkas, Estonian-Finnish high jumper and discus thrower (b. 1913)
• 1983 » Scott Nearing, American economist, educator, and activist (b. 1883)
• 1985 » Paul Creston, American composer and educator (b. 1906)

• 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.
• May 5 » Alitalia Flight 112 crashes into Mount Longa near Palermo, Sicily, killing all 115 aboard, making it the deadliest single-aircraft disaster in Italy.
• June 20 » Watergate scandal: An 18½-minute gap appears in the tape recording of the conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and his advisers regarding the recent arrests of his operatives while breaking into the Watergate complex.
• July 11 » The first game of the World Chess Championship 1972 between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky starts.
• September 29 » China–Japan relations: Japan establishes diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China.
• October 11 » A race riot occurs on the United States Navy aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off the coast of Vietnam.
• November 23 » The Soviet Union makes its final attempt at successfully launching the N1 rocket.

The temperature on August 24, 1972 was between 8.4 °C and 20.5 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (46%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.