The January 2, 1972 was a Sunday under the star sign of ♑. It was the 1 day of the year. President of the United States was Richard M. Nixon.
If you were born on this day, you are 54 years old. Your last birthday was on the Friday, January 2, 2026, 185 days ago. Your next birthday is on Saturday, January 2, 2027, in 179 days. You have lived for 19,909 days, or about 477,837 hours, or about 28,670,243 minutes, or about 1,720,214,580 seconds.
Date: 03 January 1972
Vu Van Thai says he is unaware of nature of charges against him in Pentagon case and so cannot respond to them; admits being friend of Ellsberg and meeting with him in context of Ellsberg's activities concerning Vietnam; says if he were called on to testify he would need authorization of UN Sec Gen
Date: 02 January 1972
By THOMAS MEEHAN
Thomas MEEHAN
T Meehan article on columnist A Buchwald; illus
Date: 03 January 1972
Special to The New York Times
Italian Govt makes $160-million in state funds available to its 79 daily newspapers and magazine indus; papers showed no profit in '71; Italian Journalists Guild pres G Gonella says papers do not want outright state subsidy for fear of end to free press
Date: 02 January 1972
NAACP Legal Defense and Educ Fund and Ill Div of ACLU files suit in US Dist Ct, Ill, challenging fed prison rule barring inmates from sending lrs to news media or being int by reporters
Date: 03 January 1972
By FOX BUTTERFIELDSpecial to The New York Times
Investigations link missing journalist C Mueenuddin to murder of Bengalis through membership in fanatic Moslem orgn Al-Bader; captured Al-Bader member says Mueenuddin masterminded orgn and diary of Mueenuddin's roommate lists names of Al-Bader members and amts they contributed to orgn; evidence shows Al-Bader was equipped and directed by group of W Pakistani officers; papers found in desk of W Pakistan Maj Gen Farman Ali were series of cryptic references to Al-Bader
Date: 02 January 1972
By FRANK J. PRIAL
Frank PRIAL
MTA and NYCTA officials refuse to comment on repts that NYC transit turnstiles are being converted to accept smaller tokens
Date: 02 January 1972
Freedom House, in rept on '71 developments, calls '71 yr in which superpowers began to stir out of positions they had occupied for a generation; says prime impetus came from Nixon 'bombshells,' including announcement of planned trips to Peking and Moscow
Date: 03 January 1972
By IRVING SPIEGEL
Irving SPIEGEL
Mayor Lindsay temporarily suspends wkly TV show on WNEW-TV, local NYC station, because he is announced candidate for '72 Dem Pres nomination; has appeared in 150 programs since '67; holds he is running for Pres to help improve condition of NYC; illus before show
Date: 03 January 1972
Nixon illus
Date: 02 January 1972
Former US Consul Gen in Dacca H D Spivak reptdly calls on Bangladesh Foreign Min A Samad to exch New Year's greeting in 1st pub contact between US official and Bangladesh govt