1972-5

昭和47年

5/1 月

シチズン時計が「コスモトロン<スペシャル>」を発売。

5/5 金

アリタリア航空DC-8機、パレルモ西で衝突事故、115名死亡。

5/7 日

大阪吉野ミュージック劇場に出演中のストリッパー一条さゆりが公然わいせつ罪現行犯で逮捕される。

5/8 月

伊東深水、没。74歳（誕生:明治31(1898)/02/04）。日本画家。

5/10 水

中滝製薬工業の販売部門を分離してカネボウ薬品販売設立（1974年、鐘紡への吸収合併を機にカネボウ薬品に社名変更）。

5/12 金

日本・インドネシア共同声明が発表され、アサハン開発計画などで合意する。

5/13 土

大阪南区の千日デパートビルで火災が発生し、118人が死亡する。

5/13 土

千日デパート火災（死者118人）。

5/14 日

リトアニア・カウナスで、学生のロマス・カランタがソ連による支配に抵抗し、焼身自殺。

5/15 月

午前0時、沖縄返還。沖縄県が発足する。

1972

5/1 Mon

Different Times opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 24 performances

5/1 Mon

North Vietnamese troops occupy Quang Tri Activities Committee

5/1 Mon

Pulitzer prize awarded to Wallace Stegner (Angle of Repose)

5/1 Mon

Radio's Mutual Black Network premieres

5/2 Tue

Electrical fire in Sunshine Silver mine. 126 die (Kellogg Idaho)

5/2 Tue

Lt General Vernon A Waltersp~ USAp~ becomes deputy director of CIA

5/2 Tue

US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

5/4 Thu

Vietcong forms revolutionary government in Quang Tri South Vietnam

5/4 Thu

"The Don't Make A Wave Committeep~ a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971p~ officially changes its name to ""Greenpeace Foundation""."

5/5 Fri

Alitalia DC-8 crashes west of Palermo Sicily: killing 115

1972

5/2 Tue

"Stone the Crows lead guitarist Les Harvey is electrocuted on stage during a show in Swansea, Wales, by touching a poorly connected microphone. Harvey died in a hospital a few hours later. The band's lead singer, Maggie Bell, Harvey's longtime girlfriend,

5/8 Mon

Billy Preston becomes the first rock performer to headline at New York's Radio City Music Hall

5/27 Sat

"The Opryland USA country music theme park opens in Nashville, Tennessee."

6/

Founding member Roy Wood leaves the Electric Light Orchestra line-up just as the band scores its first hit single.

6/3 Sat

"The Rolling Stones open their North American tour in Vancouver, Canada."

6/10 Sat

Elvis does the first of four concerts at the Madison Square Garden in New York City. He sells out all the shows in one day.

6/14 Wed

"Simon & Garfunkel reunite briefly to perform live at Madison Square Garden at a campaign benefit for Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern. Other performers include Peter, Paul and Mary and Dionne Warwick."

7/24 Mon

"Bobby Ramirez, the drummer for Edgar Winter's White Trash, is beaten to death in a Chicago bar fight, reportedly because his hair was too long."

8/5 Sat

"Clive Davis signs Aerosmith to Columbia Records at Max's Kansas City in New York, NY."

8/30 Wed

"John Lennon and Yoko Ono headline the ""One To One Concert"" at Madison Square Garden to benefit mentally handicapped children. Elephant's Memory, Roberta Flack, Stevie Wonder and Sha Na Na also perform."

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