September 30, 1972 (Saturday)
- Roberto Clemente made his 3,000th hit, which would also prove to be his very last. Clemente was killed in a plane crash at the end of the year.
- Dr. Irving Selikoff of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine addressed the annual National Cancer Conference in Los Angeles, and announced the increase in cases of mesothelioma among men who had been exposed to asbestos 30 years earlier during World War II.
- Born: Shaan (Shantanu Mukherjee), Indian singer, in Khandwa
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