December 6, 1972 (Wednesday)
- The United Nations, through UNESCO, voted to fund the restoration of Borobudur, a Buddhist shrine constructed in the 9th century in Indonesia. The work was completed in 1983.
- Died: Janet Munro, 38, British actress, of alcohol-related myocarditis
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“For I have lost the race I never ran,
A rathe December blights my lagging May;”
—Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849)