Editing 1972 (section)

=== August ===
{{Main|August 1972}}
* [[August 4]]
** [[Expulsion of Asians from Uganda]]: Dictator [[Idi Amin]] declares that [[Uganda]] will expel 50,000 Asians with British passports to Britain within 3 months.<ref>{{cite book|author=New York University. International Law Society|title=New York University Journal of International Law & Politics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TPsdAAAAMAAJ|year=1972|publisher=New York University School of Law|page=603}}</ref> Most of their property is confiscated.
** [[August 1972 solar storms]]: A huge [[solar flare]] (one of the largest ever recorded) knocks out cable lines in the U.S. It begins with the appearance of sunspots on August 2; an August 4 flare kicks off high levels of activity until [[August 10]].
* [[August 10]] – [[1972 Great Daylight Fireball]]: A brilliant meteor is seen in the western U.S. and Canada as an [[Apollo asteroid]] skips off the Earth's atmosphere.<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.astrosociety.org/pubs/mercury/9806/impact.html|title=Observation of Meteoroid Impacts by Space-Based Sensors|first=Edward|last=Tagliaferri|publisher=astrosociety.org|journal=Mercury Magazine|volume=27|issue=6|pages=18|date=November–December 1998|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071020025037/http://www.astrosociety.org/pubs/mercury/9806/impact.html|archive-date=2007-10-20|bibcode=1998Mercu..27f..18T}}</ref>
* [[August 12]] – Oil tankers [[Oswego-Guardian–Texanita collision|''Oswego-Guardian'' and ''Texanita'' collide]] near [[Stilbaai]], South Africa.
* [[August 14]] – An [[East Germany|East German]] [[Ilyushin]] airliner crashes near [[East Berlin]]; all 156 on board perish.
* [[August 16]] – As part of a coup attempt, members of the [[Royal Moroccan Air Force]] fire upon, but fail to bring down, [[Hassan II of Morocco]]'s plane while he is traveling back to [[Rabat]].
* [[August 19]] – The first daytime episode of the second incarnation of the American game show ''[[The Price Is Right (U.S. game show)|The Price Is Right]]'' is taped at [[CBS Television City]], to be aired on September 4.<ref>{{Citation|last=MatchGameForever|title=Price Is Right First Episode (9-4-1972)|date=May 26, 2013|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UpXJTRFQdo|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/3UpXJTRFQdo|archive-date=2021-12-11|url-status=live|access-date=2018-09-22}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* [[August 21]] – The [[1972 Republican National Convention|Republican National Convention]] in [[Miami Beach, Florida]], renominates U.S. President [[Richard Nixon]] and Vice President [[Spiro Agnew]] for a second term.
* [[August 22]]
** [[Rhodesia]] is expelled by the [[International Olympic Committee]] for its racist policies.
** In the Almirante Zar Naval Base, Argentina, 16 detainees are executed by firing squad in the [[Trelew massacre]].
* [[August 26]]–[[September 10]] – The [[1972 Summer Olympics]] are held in [[Munich]], West Germany.