Editing 1972 (section)

=== November ===
{{Main|November 1972}}
* November – The [[Saitama Seibu Lions#Nishitetsu Lions (1951–1972)|Nishitetsu Lions]] baseball club, part of the [[Nippon Professional Baseball|NPB]]'s [[Pacific League]], is sold to the Fukuoka Baseball Corporation, a subsidiary of [[Nishi-Nippon Railroad]]. The team is renamed the Taiheiyo Club Lions.
* [[November 7]] – [[1972 United States presidential election]]: [[United States Republican Party|Republican]] incumbent [[Richard Nixon]] defeats [[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]] Senator [[George McGovern]] in a landslide. The election has the lowest voter turnout since [[1948 United States presidential election|1948]], with only 55 percent of the electorate voting.
* [[November 11]] – [[Vietnam War]]: [[Vietnamization]] – The [[United States Army]] turns over the massive Long Binh military base to [[South Vietnam]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=George Moss|author2=Paul Alwyn Conway|title=A Vietnam Reader: Sources and Essays|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mUIuAQAAIAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Prentice Hall|isbn=978-0-13-946625-0|page=324}}</ref>
* [[November 14]] – The [[Dow Jones Industrial Average]] closes above 1,000 (1,003.16) for the first time.<ref>{{cite book|author=Hsuan Owyang|title=From Wall Street to Bukit Merah: Strategies of a Corporate Leader|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LUuKoB_zQmQC|year=1998|publisher=Times Books International|isbn=978-981-204-969-8|page=61}}</ref>
* [[November 16]] – The [[United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization]] adopts the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage.<ref>{{cite web|title=Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage|url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/conventiontext/|author=UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)|publisher=UNESCO World Heritage Centre|access-date=October 17, 2012|date=November 16, 1972}}</ref>
* [[November 19]] – [[Seán Mac Stíofáin]], a leader of the [[Provisional Irish Republican Army]], is arrested in [[Dublin]] after giving a radio interview to [[RTÉ]] and charged with being a member of the IRA.
* [[November 28]] – The last executions in Paris, France. Roger Bontems and Claude Buffet – the Clairvaux Mutineers – are guillotined at [[La Santé Prison]] by chief executioner [[André Obrecht]]. Bontems, found not guilty of murder by the court, is condemned as Buffet's accomplice. President [[Georges Pompidou]], in private an abolitionist, upholds both death sentences in deference to French public opinion.<ref>{{cite book|author=Council of Europe|title=The Death Penalty: Beyond Abolition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zKsfGi3y3YgC&pg=PA194|date=January 1, 2004|publisher=Council of Europe|isbn=978-92-871-5333-3|pages=194}}</ref>
* [[November 29]]
** The "tea house" Mellow Yellow opens on the river [[Amstel]] in [[Amsterdam]], pioneering the legal sale of [[Cannabis (drug)|cannabis]] in the Netherlands.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/book/nov29.html|title=*Ø* Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine &#124; Book of Days &#124; November 29 &#124; International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People Die Grünen Petra Kelly|publisher=Wilsonsalmanac.com|access-date=2012-05-17|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120924071355/http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/book/nov29.html|archive-date=September 24, 2012}}</ref>
** [[Atari, Inc.|Atari]] in the United States release the production version of ''[[Pong]]'', one of the [[first video game]]s to achieve widespread popularity in both the [[Arcade game|arcade]] and [[Video game console|home console]] markets, devised by [[Nolan Bushnell]] and [[Allan Alcorn]].<ref>{{cite book|title=[[Ultimate History of Video Games]]|first=Steven|last=Kent|author-link=Steven L. Kent|chapter=And Then There Was Pong|publisher=Three Rivers Press|isbn=0-7615-3643-4|year=2001}}</ref>