September 19, 1972 (Tuesday)
- A parcel bomb sent to the Israeli Embassy in London killed Ami Schachori, the agricultural attaché, who was scheduled to return home after four years abroad. Another bomb arrived at the Israeli Embassy in Paris later in the day, but was disarmed. Both packages had been sent from Amesterdam. Other packages were delivered the next day in New York and Montreal, and defused.
- Oakland A's used 30 players in a 15-inning game against the Cubs (MLB record)
- Born Ashot Nadanian, Armenian chess player, in Baku
- Died Robert Casadesus, 73, French pianist
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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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