1972

Season 3Episode 330 minSep 24, 2002
1972
After the government agrees that Ireland will join the European Economic Community, a referendum campaign follows at home. Labour and other left-wing groups oppose entry into the Common Market. The ruling Fianna Fail party urges people to vote 'Yes' . Fine Gael unites with Fianna Fail in campaigning for EEC entry. Ireland says 'Yes' to Europe by 1,041,880 votes to 211,888. In the American presidential campaign, Senator George McGovern leads the Democratic Party challenge. Vice-President Agnew and President Nixon go for re-election. Richard Nixon looks forward to four more years in office.Few people comment on a small break-in during the campaign... at the Democratic Party offices in Washington's Watergate Building... Unemployment hits hard in the West of Ireland. Thousands of people travel to England to look for jobs. The search for work divides many families across the Irish Sea. With their husbands abroad, many Irish mothers bring up their children alone. CALCUTTA: A group of nuns tends to the sick and dying. Mother Theresa returns to Ireland where she began her religious life 54 years ago. Derry, 30 January. Thirteen unarmed civil rights marchers are shot dead by British paratroopers. The Bloody Sunday deaths provoke immediate reactions of fury and disbelief. In Dublin, a crowd burns down the British Embassy in Merrion Square. A British inquiry into the killings is quickly established... ...and quickly concludes that at worst, firing 'bordered on the reckless'. No British soldier is ever convicted or even disciplined for his actions. Lord Widgery's report is widely dismissed as a whitewash. The Provisional IRA bombs a Belfast restaurant. 2 people are killed - 130 more are injured. The Official IRA strikes directly against a Parachute Regiment base. The 'no-warning' bomb kills five cleaning women, a gardener and a priest. Muhammad Ali, the former world heavyweight champion comes to Dublin to fight in Croke Park. Ali's opponent, Al 'Blue' Lewis, lasts until the eleventh round. A young man from Belfast wins the world snooker title. Alex Higgins is 23 years old. George Best runs into trouble at Manchester United. He is disciplined after repeated absences from the club. The 1972 Olympic Games open in Munich. Northern Ireland's Mary Peters wins gold in the pentathlon. Swimmer Mark Spitz wins a record seven gold medals. 17 year-old gymnast Olga Korbut wins a total of four medals. On 5 September, Arab extremists break into the Olympic Village. They shoot two Israeli athletes dead and take nine others hostage. West German authorities begin negotiations to free the athletes. The gunmen demand the release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israel and a safe passage out of West Germany. 17 hours after the beginning of the siege, the gunmen and their hostages are taken to a military airport. A shootout ends in disaster. All nine Israelis and a German policeman are killed. Five of the eight-man Arab gang also die. When another Arab gang hijacks a German airplane, the three surviving gunmen are freed. As the U.S. withdraws its last ground combat troops from Vietnam, North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces win victories over the South. America continues its bombing raids and napalm attacks. Richard Nixon becomes the first U.S. President to visit China. Mao Tse-Tung welcomes the President to the People's Republic. Ireland makes two constitutional changes in December. References to the 'special position of the Catholic Church' are removed. Another referendum reduces the voting age from 21 to 18. London imposes direct rule on Northern Ireland. Fifty years of Unionist domination come to an end. Republican and loyalist vigilantes set up 'no-go' areas. After secret peace talks fail, a brief IRA ceasefire collapses. 'BLOODY FRIDAY' 21 July. The Provisional IRA inflicts a new savagery on the people of Belfast . With minimal warning, it explodes 22 bombs in 75 minutes. Numerous hoax warnings add to the chaos on Belfast's...
1972 has aired on Sep 24, 2002 at 6:35 PM
Previous EpisodeNext Episode

Trailer

We do not have any trailers for this episode

Recently Updated Shows

Recently updated shows that might be of your interest.
Playing Gracie Darling
Running

Playing Gracie Darling

Playing Gracie Darling is set in a place where everyone knows each other, secrets are buried deep, and where being different is impossible to hide.

When Joni was 14, her best friend Gracie Darling disappeared during a séance and hasn't been seen since.

Twenty-seven years on, Joni is a child psychologist and has never forgiven herself for Gracie's disappearance.

Joni is haunted by her past when she receives a startling call from her childhood friend Jay, now a local cop, alerting her that another Darling girl has disappeared during a seance.

When Calls the Heart
Running

When Calls the Heart

When Calls the Heart is inspired by Janette Oke's bestselling book series about the Canadian West, the series tells the captivating story of Elizabeth Thatcher, a young teacher accustomed to her high society life, who receives her first classroom assignment in Coal Valley, a small coal mining town where life is simple, but often fraught with challenges. Upon arrival, Elizabeth befriends Abigail Stanton, a wife and mother whose husband, the foreman of the mine, along with a dozen other miners, has just been killed in an explosion. The newly widowed women find their faith is tested when they must go to work in the mines to keep a roof over their heads. Set against the wild canvas of a 19th century coal town, Elizabeth will have to learn the ways of the frontier if she wishes to thrive in the rural west on her own.

Alien: Earth
Running

Alien: Earth

When the mysterious deep space research vessel USCSS Maginot crash-lands on Earth, Wendy and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet's greatest threat.

The Rainmaker
Running

The Rainmaker

Fresh out of law school, Rudy Baylor goes head-to-head with courtroom lion Leo Drummond as well as his law school girlfriend. Rudy, along with his boss and her disheveled paralegal, uncover two connected conspiracies surrounding the mysterious death of their client's son.

GenreDrama
Mysteries of the Abandoned
Running

Mysteries of the Abandoned

Some of the world's most incredible engineering projects now lie in ruins. These deserted places are home to extraordinary mysteries and untold secrets, and we revisit them to understand how they were built, and why they were abandoned.

They were once some of the most advanced structures and facilities on the planet, standing at the cutting-edge of design and construction. Today they are abandoned, dangerous, some of them even deadly. From uninhabited cities to empty factories, these long-forgotten engineering marvels are scattered around the globe. Science Channel uncovers why some of the world's most advanced architectural achievements were eventually left behind in the all-new series Mysteries of the Abandoned.

Each of the six, hour-long episodes of Mysteries of the Abandoned features stories behind engineering wonders, why they were built, and the reasons they were eventually left to crumble. Each story recalls the people who originally designed the structure, their historical significance, and why they were ultimately no longer of use. The premiere episode explores California's Goat Canyon Trestle railway, known as the 'Impossible Railroad,' that required the biggest wooden trestle bridge in the world; Ukraine's Duga, the notorious anti-ballistic missile radar, known as the 'Russian Woodpecker,' that still stands in within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone; and the Grand Goulets Road in the French Alps, an astonishingly narrow and perilous mountain passageway.