December 27, 1972 (Wednesday)
- The Environmental Protection Agency issued new regulations requiring unleaded gasoline to be available in all American stations no later than July 1, 1974, with a limit 0.05 grams of lead per gallon.
- Nineteen people were killed near Fort Sumner, New Mexico, when a church bus was struck by a cattle truck. The bus was one of two the Woodlawn Baptist Church of Austin, Texas, carrying a youth group to a ski resort.
- New constitutions took effect, independently of each other, in both South Korea and North Korea.
- Born: Colin Charvis, Welsh rugby player, in Sutton Coldfield
- Died: Lester B. Pearson, 75, 14th Prime Minister of Canada (1963–1968); Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1957.
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Famous quotes containing the word december:
“For I have lost the race I never ran,
A rathe December blights my lagging May;”
—Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849)