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Events on Friday 26 May 1972 3
1972Grateful Dead's Europe '72 tourLive triple albumA celebrated tour released as a triple live album.
1972Exile on Main St.Tenth album — May 26, 1972Exile on Main St. was released on May 26, 1972, recorded in the basement of Keith Richards' villa in the south of France while the band were tax exiles. Initially received mixed reviews, it is now widely regarded as their masterpiece and one of the greatest rock albums ever made.
1972SALT I and Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty signedNixon and Brezhnev cap the US-Soviet arms racePresident Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev signed the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in Moscow. The agreements froze the number of strategic ballistic missile launchers each side could deploy. It marked a high point of Cold War detente.