September 21, 1972 (Thursday)
- Ferdinand Marcos, the President of the Philippines, appeared on television to announce that he had proclaimed martial law under Proclamation No. 1081. The pretext was the attempted assassination of Defense Secretary Juan Ponce Enrile, but the proclamation had been signed the day before. Enrile's driver was killed during the staged attack.
- Born: Liam Gallagher, British singer (Oasis); Jon Kitna, American quarterback, in Tacoma
- Died: Ben Kiwanuka, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Uganda, kidnapped from his courtroom on this day by Ugandan soldiers, and never seen again.
- Died: Henry de Montherlant, 76, French writer (suicide)
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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.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)