October 31, 1972 (Tuesday)
- In the last major loss of American life in the Vietnam War, 22 servicemen were killed when their Chinook helicopter was shot down by a heat seaking missile.
- Born: Matt Dawson, English national rugby union team player, in Birkenhead
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“The autumnal change of our woods has not yet made a deep impression on our own literature yet. October has hardly tinged our poetry.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)