-President Nixon visits China

Officialy opening talks between the two countries,.

-Idi Amin orders all Asians out of Uganda

In order to distract the people from the collapsing economy, 'Idi Amin ordered all asian non-citizens out of the country.

-The European Airbus takes its maiden flight

The first European wide-body passenger plane, designed in part by five different countries.

-HBO (Home Box Office) subscription cable TV launch
-First commercially successful game (Pong) released
-Nike running shoes hit the market
-George McGovern dropped his running mate

After it was revealed that his running mate, Thomas Eagleton had electric-shock therapy to treat depression

-George Wallace shot while campaigning

While campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination, he was shot and permanently paralyzed.

-Last Apollo mission to the moon
-Riichard Nixon visits the Soviet Union

Richard Nixon becomes the first US president to visit the Soviet Union.

-EPA bans use of DDT
-Federal Express is founded
-Bobby Fischer beats Soviet Spassky
-The book , Joy of Sex, is released
-Okinawan islands returned to the Japanese
-Supreme Court rules against death penalty
-E-Mail invented
-Last man on the moon Eugene Cernan

He was on Apollo 17 on December 1972.