Editing 1972 (section)

=== March ===
{{Main|March 1972}}
* [[March 1]] – [[Juan María Bordaberry]] is sworn in as [[President of Uruguay]] amid accusations of electoral fraud.<ref>{{cite book|title=Foreign Economic Trends and Their Implications for the United States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UU99EAsO_soC&pg=PA4|year=1972|publisher=U.S. Department of Commerce, Industry and Trade Administration|pages=4}}</ref>
* [[March 2]]
** The [[Club of Rome]] presents the research results leading to its report ''[[The Limits to Growth]]'', published later in the month.<ref>{{cite book|author=Don McNeil|title=Interactive Statistics: Proceedings of the Applied Statistics Conference, Sydney, February 8–9, 1979|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MRrvAAAAMAAJ|year=1979|publisher=North-Holland Publishing Company|isbn=978-0-444-85412-4|page=114}}</ref>
** The ''[[Pioneer 10]]'' spacecraft is launched from [[Cape Kennedy]], to be the first man-made spacecraft to leave the [[Solar System]].
** [[Jean-Bédel Bokassa]] becomes President of the [[Central African Republic]].
* [[March 4]]
** [[Libyan Arab Republic|Libya]] and the [[Soviet Union]] sign a cooperation treaty.
** The [[Organisation of Islamic Cooperation|Organisation of the Islamic Conference]] Charter is signed (effective February 28, 1973).
* [[March 19]] – India and [[Bangladesh]] sign the [[Indo-Bangladeshi Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Peace]].
* [[March 22]] 
**The [[92nd U.S. Congress]] votes to send the proposed [[Equal Rights Amendment]] to the states for ratification.
**''[[Eisenstadt v. Baird]]'': The Supreme Court of the U.S. rules that unmarried people have the right to access contraception on the same basis as married couples
* [[March 25]] – "[[Après toi]]" sung by [[Vicky Leandros]] (music by Klaus Munro & Mario Panas, lyric by Klaus Munro & Yves Dessca) wins the [[Eurovision Song Contest 1972]] (staged in Edinburgh) for [[Luxembourg]].
* [[March 26]] – An [[avalanche]] on [[Mount Fuji]] in Japan kills 19 climbers.
* [[March 27]] – The [[First Sudanese Civil War]] ends.
* [[March 30]] – [[Vietnam War]]: The [[Easter Offensive]] begins after [[North Vietnam]]ese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of [[South Vietnam]]