September 12, 1972 (Tuesday)
- Nearly four years after it was proposed by President Nixon, the federal revenue sharing plan, which would transfer $5.3 billion of U.S. government revenues to state and local governments, was approved by the Senate, 64–20. The measure had passed the House, 275–122, on June 22.
- The attack on two British fishing trawlers, by the Icelandic gunboat ICGV Aegir, triggered the second Cod War between the UK and Iceland.
- The television show Maude premiered on CBS-TV at 8:00 pm, opposite the premiere on ABC of Temperatures Rising.
- Born: Budi Putra, Indonesian journalist, in Payakumbuh
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Famous quotes containing the word september:
“April is in my mistress’ face,
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Within her bosom is September,
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Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse, The. E. K. Chambers, comp. (1932)