Timeline November 1972

Events in November 1972 6

• 1972 Idi Amin expels Ugandan Asians Dictator orders 90-day expulsion of tens of thousands Ugandan President Idi Amin announced the expulsion of the country's Asian minority, giving them ninety days to leave. Around 60,000 people, many of Indian and Pakistani descent, lost their businesses and property and fled, most resettling in Britain. The expulsion devastated Uganda's economy.
• 1972 James Taylor marries Carly Simon Celebrity couple Marries the singer Carly Simon.
• 1972 Nixon re-elected in landslide Incumbent wins 49 of 50 states over McGovern Richard Nixon defeated Democratic challenger George McGovern in one of the largest landslides in U.S. presidential history, winning the electoral college 520 to 17. The victory came just months after the Watergate break-in, whose implications were not yet widely understood by voters.
• 1972 HBO launches as first pay-TV network Time Inc. debuts subscription cable television service Home Box Office began broadcasting to a small number of cable subscribers in Pennsylvania, becoming the first successful pay-television network in the United States. It initially showed feature films and live sports events not available on broadcast television. HBO later grew into a major producer of original programming.
• 1972 The Allman Brothers Band's Berry Oakley dies Three blocks away The bassist dies in a motorcycle crash near where Duane died.
• 1972 Atari releases Pong Coin-operated arcade game launches the video game industry Atari installed its first Pong arcade cabinet, a simple tennis-style video game created by Allan Alcorn under Nolan Bushnell's direction. Its runaway popularity in bars and arcades helped establish video games as a mass-market industry. Atari followed with a home console version in 1975.