September 17, 1972 (Sunday)
- The television series M*A*S*H began an eleven season run, eight years longer than the Korean War which provided its setting.
- In the first release of prisoners of war since 1969, North Vietnam released three American POWs. Navy Lieutenants. Norris Charles and Markham Gartley, and Air Force Major Edward Elias were provided civilian clothes and then allowed to stay in Hanoi with an American welcoming team. Another 539 American POWs remained in captivity, and more than 1,000 Americans listed as missing in action were unaccounted for.
- Uganda was invaded, from Tanzania, by 1,000 soldiers of the "Uganda People's Militia". The Ugandan Army repelled the invasion after two weeks of fighting.
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“This seems a long while ago, and yet it happened since Milton wrote his Paradise Lost. But its antiquity is not the less great for that, for we do not regulate our historical time by the English standard, nor did the English by the Roman, nor the Roman by the Greek.... From this September afternoon, and from between these now cultivated shores, those times seemed more remote than the dark ages.”
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