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1.4 April

April 3 - Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title
April 17 - Pol Pot proclaims the "Democratic Republic of Kampuchea" in Cambodia and becomes its Prime Minister (1975- 1979).
April 24 - Six Red Army Faction terrorists take over West German embassy in Stockholm, take 11 hostages and demand release of the jailed members of RAF. They shoot embassy's military attaché Lieutenant Colonel Baron Andreas von Mirchbach and Dr. Heinz Hillegart. Shortly before midnight some of their explosives detonate and Swedish police exploit the situation to capture them
April 25 - Vietnam War: As North Vietnamese forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost ten years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.
April 30 - Vietnam War: The Vietnam War ends as Communist forces take Saigon and South Vietnam surrenders unconditionally.

1.5 May

May 12 - Mayaguez incident: The Cambodian navy seizes the American merchant ship SS Mayaguez in international waters
May 15 - The American merchant ship Mayaguez, seized by Cambodian forces, is rescued in operation by U.S. Navy and Marines. 38 are killed.
May 16 - India annexes Sikkim
May 16 - Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest
May 28 - 15 West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos thus creating the Economic Community of West African States.
May 30 - 1972 Olympic runner Steve Prefontaine dies in a car accident.

1.6 June

June 5 - The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War
June 19 - Lord Lucan found guilty in absentia of the murder of the nanny Sandra Rivett
June 28 - Mozambique gains independence from Portugal

1.7 July

July 4 - A Hamburg jury sentences Ludwig Hahn , the former head of Warsaw Gestapo, to life imprisonment
July 5 - Cape Verde gains independence after 500 years of Portuguese rule
July 6 - The Comoros declare their independence from France
July 12 - São Tomé and Príncipe declare independence
July 15 - Apollo Soyuz Test Project: Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft take off for U.S.-Soviet link-up in space
July 17 - Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations
July 31 - In Detroit, Michigan, Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa is reported missing.

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