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Oct 5: Vice Pres Agnew charges McGovern offers US electorate a 'philosophy of defeat' that has served to make him 'popular in certain segments of N Vietnamese society,' speech, Oct 4, Rapid City, SD
US Sen on Oct 4 approves provision to create Fed corp for custodial day care of children of working mothers; supporters of quality day care legis, arguing that mere custodial care could be more harmful than helpful, sought to delete provision
J Ford, 30-yr-old black, is sworn in as Mayor of Tuskegee, Ala, on Oct 2; Tuskegee is viewed as emerging nerve center of black pol power in Ala; 80% of Tuskegee's 11,000 residents are Negro and blacks control virtually every pol office
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Price Comm on Oct 4 publishes new rule requiring cos that have made so-called pooling-of-interest acquisitions of other cos, or what comm defines as 'spinoff divestitures, to recompute base period and current profit margins taking changes into account; cos wishing to make such recomputations previously required comm permission; new rule apparently is response to complaints of some cos that their base-period profit margins reflect low profit or money-losing operations they had dropped; comm also sets up 10-day ruling procedure to advise eligible cos weighing acquisition or divestiture not covered by basic rule as to whether they can get exception; eligible deals will have to involve 10% change in base-period margins
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 4, 1972, covering October 5, 1972.
Chicago
Leon Russell
Rod Stewart
Cheech & Chong
Elton John
1972Annely Akkermann, Estonian banker and politician[†]
Annely Akkermann is an Estonian politician who served as minister of finance in the government of Prime Minister Kaja Kallas between 19 October 2022 and 17 April 2023.
1972Aaron Guiel, Canadian baseball player[†]
Aaron Colin Guiel is a Canadian former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball for the Kansas City Royals and New York Yankees from 2002 to 2006 and in Nippon Professional Baseball for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows from 2007 to 2011.
1972Grant Hill, American basketball player and actor[†]
Grant Henry Hill is an American professional basketball executive and former player who is a co-owner of the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and a part-owner of Orlando City SC of Major League Soccer (MLS) and Orlando Pride of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). He is also part of an ownership group that purchased the Baltimore Orioles in 2024. Hill also works as a basketball analyst for CBS and Turner Sports.
1972Thomas Roberts, American journalist and actor[†]
Thomas Albert Roberts is an American television journalist who served as a news anchor for MSNBC, a cable-news channel. He ended his seven-year stint anchoring MSNBC Live, the daytime news platform of NBC News, on weekends from 5-7pm ET. Before that he was anchor of Way Too Early and a contributor to Morning Joe. He was also an NBC News correspondent and a fill-in anchor on Today and NBC Nightly News. On November 18, 2017, it was announced that Roberts had decided to leave MSNBC for other endeavors. On August 14, 2020, it was announced that Roberts will be the host of season four of DailyMailTV.
In 1972, the world population was approximately 3,844,917,680 people[†]