September 24, 1972 (Sunday)
- An F-86 fighter aircraft crashed into a Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour in Sacramento, killing 12 children and 11 adults. The store, located across a highway from the edge of an airport runway, had at least 100 people inside at the time.
- Japan's Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka arrived in Beijing, where he was welcomed by China's Premier, Zhou Enlai.
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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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