50 years ago (55 photos)

A selection of photographs taken in December 1972.





December 1972 Vietnam. Photo by Ennio Iacobucci.



December 1, 1972. Westminster Abbey.



December 1, 1972 - the premiere of the American film "The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean" (The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean).



December 1972 Dancers Royes Fernandez and Sally Wilson in American Ballet Theater's production of Sea Change. Photo by Jack Mitchell.



December 2, 1972 Santaland, New York. Photo by Nick Machalaba.



December 2, 1972 Seoul, fire in the concert hall. A man throws a 6-year-old girl to the firemen. The girl was saved in a fire 50 people died.



December 2, 1972 Phu Jao, Vietnam. A man in the ruins of his house.



December 1972 Irkutsk. Photo by Mario De Biasi.



December 1972 Prague. Photo by Robert Schediwy.



December 4, 1972. Police Academy in New South Wales.



December 4, 1972. Newly elected Mayor of Toronto David Crombie and his wife Shirley embrace after learning of the victory. A photo Graham Bezant.



December 6, 1972 Monica. Photo by Werner Otto.



December 6, 1972 - the premiere of the French film "The tall blond in a black shoe" (Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire).



December 7, 1972. Chicago.



December 7, 1972. Roger Daltrey, The Who's frontman his home near Berwash in Sussex Weald, England. Victor's photo blackman.



December 8, 1972. Boeing 737-222 crash United Air Lines near Chicago. 45 dead, including two on earth. The cause of the disaster is the erroneous actions of the crew.



December 9, 1972 Kensington. Robert Wagner and his wife Natalie Wood. Photo by Harry Fox.



December 11, 1972. American actress Kim Novak at Heathrow Airport.



December 13, 1972. Vietnam.



December 1972 Paris. 20th Congress of the French Communist Party. Georges Marchais and Michal Suslov. Photo by Patrice Jarnoux.



December 13, 1972. West Germany. Scull, presumably Martin Bormann, found by workers on the railway station Lehrter on the border of East and West Berlin.



December 13, 1972. Vietnam.



December 13, 1972. Soviet cruise ship stewardesses liner "Shota Rustaveli". On this day, Rustaveli leaves for 9 day cruise to Fiji.



December 1972 Liverpool, Church Street.



December 14, 1972. American playwright and screenwriter Norman S. Wexler at the police station after being arrested and accused of interfering with the work of the aircraft crew and cruel dealing with a flight attendant.



December 15, 1972. Gina Lollobrigida and Hungarian singer Sarolta Zalatnay in Budapest.



December 15, 1972. Canada. The fuel truck is on fire. Photo by Graham Bezant



December 15, 1972. Vietnam.



December 1972 Apollo 17.



December 19, 1972. Bianca Jagger.



December 20, 1972. Stockholm. Jane Fonda at during press conference on US involvement in the Vietnam War. A photo Scanpix Sweden.



December 20, 1972. Australia, Royal Air Force Base Richmond. The last Australian soldiers left Vietnam.



December 20, 1972. Amsterdam. Moonstone.



December 20, 1972. League Cup semi-final. Chelsea vs Norwich City. The match was interrupted in the 85th minute due to fog.



December 22, 1972. London. Marc Bolan, T-Rex. Photo by Michael Putland.



December 22, 1972. London.



December 1972 Vietnam. South Vietnamese soldiers are watching the work of aviation. Photo by Ennio Iacobucci.



December 1972 Prague.



December 23, 1972. Andes. Survivors of Flight 571.



Wikipedia:

"The FH-227 Andes disaster (also known as the Miracle in the Andes) - aviation accident that occurred in the Andes on October 13, 1972.

aviation accident that occurred in the Andes on October 13, 1972. The Uruguayan Air Force Fairchild FH-227D operated an FAU charter flight 571 on the Montevideo-Mendoza-Santiago route, and on board were 5 crew members and 40 passengers (members of the rugby team "Old Christians, their relatives and sponsors). On approach to Santiago liner fell into a cyclone, crashed into a rock and collapsed at the foot of the mountain - an extinct Tinguiririka volcano. 12 people died in a fall and collision with rock, 5 more died later from wounds and cold. Then from the remaining 28 8 more survivors died during an avalanche that covered their "dwelling" from aircraft fuselage, and later 3 more died of wounds.

The survivors had a minimal supply of food, in addition, they had there were no heat sources necessary for survival in the harsh cold climate at an altitude of 3600 meters. Desperate for hunger and messages on the radio that “all activities to search for the missing aircraft stop", people began to eat the frozen bodies of their dead comrades. Rescuers did not learn about the survivors until 72 days later, when two passengers after a 10-day mountain crossing were met by a Chilean farmer who gave them first aid and informed the authorities about the rest passengers of Flight 571."

On December 26, 1972, Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States, died at the age of 88. Photo by Yousuf-Karsh.



December 27, 1972. British actor Robert Shaw on the set of The Hireling.



December 1972 Paris. Carolina de Monaco. Photo by Jean-Claude Deutsch.



December 1972 Salvador Allende and Fidel Castro, in Valle de Cuba.



December 1972 Simone Signoret on the set of the film "Burnt Farms" (Les Granges brûlées).



December 28, 1972. Londonderry, Northern Ireland.



December 28, 1972. Saratov.



December 1972 India. Photo by Ernst Haas.



December 29, 1972. London. Actresses participating in the production of the play "Oh, Calcutta!" and stagehand.



December 1972Saigon. Miss World 72, Australian Belinda Green, is heading to the Bob Hope Show. Photo by Ennio Iacobucci.



December 30, 1972. Amsterdam. Captain "Mi Amigo" Wang der Kamp, talking to a girl, possibly a journalist. On "Mi Amigo" operates a pirate radio station "Radio Caroline" - one of the most popular in Europe.



December 1972 Moscow.



December 31, 1972. Birmingham. Meeting of the New Year.



December 31, 1972. Referee Pamela Marlborough. Photo by P. Floyd.



December 1972 Volunteers at the Roadhouse mend clothes.



The Road House Charitable Society still exists in Michigan.

The goal of Roadside Home is to provide free clothing and small household items for children and adults. These services free for customers with limited funds to buy clothes, bedding and other essentials. People come after a family breakup, job loss, fire, or prolonged illness. We also serve the homeless, those who return to society from prison, people with mental health problems, recent immigrants and migrant workers.