Editing 1972 (section)

=== June ===
{{Main|June 1972}}
* June – [[Ba'athist Iraq|Iraq]] [[nationalization|nationalizes]] the [[Iraq Petroleum Company]].
* [[June 3]] – [[Sally Priesand]] becomes the first American woman (and the second known woman anywhere) to be ordained as a [[rabbi]] within Judaism.<ref>{{cite news|last=Blau|first=Eleanor|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/06/04/archives/1st-woman-rabbi-in-us-ordained-she-may-be-only-the-second-in.html|title=1st Woman Rabbi in U.S. Ordained; She May Be Only the Second in History of Judaism|newspaper=The New York Times|date=June 4, 1972|access-date=2009-09-17}}</ref>
* [[June 5]]–[[June 16|16]] – The [[United Nations Conference on the Human Environment]] is held in Stockholm, [[Sweden]]
* [[June 8]]
** Seven men and three women hijack a plane from [[Czechoslovakia]] to West Germany.
** [[Vietnam War]]: [[Associated Press]] photographer [[Nick Ut]] takes his [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning photograph of a naked nine-year-old [[Phan Thi Kim Phuc]] running down a road after being burned by [[napalm]].
* [[June 9]] – The [[Black Hills flood]] kills 238 in [[South Dakota]].
* [[June 11]] – [[Henri Pescarolo]] (France) and co-driver former [[List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions|World Drivers' Champion]] [[Graham Hill]] (Britain) win the [[1972 24 Hours of Le Mans|24 Hours of Le Mans]] in the [[Equipe Matra Sports|Equipe Matra]] MS670.
* [[June 12]] – [[Popeyes]] was formed in Arabi, Louisiana, a suburb of New Orleans, Louisiana, in St. Bernard Parish.
* [[June 14]]–[[June 23|23]] – [[Hurricane Agnes]] kills 117 on the U.S. East Coast.
* [[June 14]] – [[Japan Airlines Flight 471]] crashes outside New Delhi airport, killing 82 of 87 occupants.
* [[June 16]] – 108 die as two passenger trains hit the debris of a collapsed railway tunnel near [[Soissons]], France.
* [[June 17]]
** [[Watergate scandal]]: Five [[White House]] operatives are arrested for burgling the offices of the [[Democratic National Committee]].
** [[Chile]]an president [[Salvador Allende]] forms a new government.
* [[June 18]]
** [[Staines air disaster]]: 118 die when a British European Airways [[Hawker Siddeley Trident|Trident 1]] jet airliner crashes two minutes after takeoff from [[London Heathrow Airport]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Staines air crash: Memorial held for one of UK's worst air crashes|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-surrey-61822837|publisher=BBC News|access-date=June 21, 2022|date=June 18, 2022}}</ref>
** [[Germany national football team|West Germany]] beats the [[USSR national football team|Soviet Union]] 3–0 in the final to win [[1972 European Football Championship|Euro '72]].
** Hong Kong's worst flooding and landslides in recorded history with {{convert|653.2|mm}} of rainfall in the previous three days. 67 people die due to building collapses in Mid-levels districts landslide and building collapses, with a further 83 due to flooding-related fatalities. It is the second worst fatality due to building collapses, and the worst flooding in Hong Kong's recorded history.
* [[June 23]]
** [[Watergate scandal]]: U.S. President [[Richard M. Nixon]] and [[White House]] chief of staff [[H. R. Haldeman]] are taped talking about using the [[Central Intelligence Agency|C.I.A.]] to obstruct the investigation by the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|F.B.I.]] into the Watergate break-ins.
** The United Kingdom [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]], [[Anthony Barber]], announces a decision for the [[pound sterling]] to move to a [[floating exchange rate]]. Although intended to be temporary, this remains permanent.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/23/newsid_2518000/2518927.stm|title=Chancellor orders pound flotation|work=On This Day|publisher=BBC News|access-date=2008-01-27|date=June 23, 1972|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080307113551/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/23/newsid_2518000/2518927.stm|archive-date=2008-03-07|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Foreign exchange controls]] are applied to most members of the [[sterling area]].
* [[June 30]] – The [[International Time Bureau]] adds the first [[leap second]] (23:59:60) of this year to [[Coordinated Universal Time]] (UTC).