1972 in the United Arab Emirates
The following lists events that happened during 1972 in the United Arab Emirates.
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Incumbents
- President: Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
- Prime Minister: Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum
Events
January
- January 24 - A month after bringing the Emirate of Sharjah into the United Arab Emirates, the emir, Khalid bin Mohammed Al Qasimi was assassinated in a coup attempt by the previous ruler, Saqr bin Sultan al-Qasimi, whom Khalid had overthrown in 1965. Saqr failed to regain the throne, and Sharjah has been ruled since then by Khalid's brother, Sultan bin Muhammad Al-Qasimi.[1]
February
- February 10 - The seventh sheikhdom, Ras al-Khaimah, joins the United Arab Emirates.[2]
March
gollark: Including stuff like "intergalactic birkeland currents", stars not running on fusion and their precise mechanisms being unknown, the atmosphere being held to Earth by opposing charges or something, that sort of thing.
gollark: It was some weird claim/set of claims that the universe somehow runs on electromagnetism and not gravity, essentially.
gollark: Do you not remember derp?
gollark: > imagine being a peasant who uses public transportYes, when I need to go somewhere I just teleport.
gollark: The CDC has a "disease of the week"?
References
- Kourosh Ahmadi, Islands and International Politics in the Persian Gulf (Routledge, 2008), p108
- "The Story of the U.A.E." Retrieved January 22, 2015.
- Air Disaster Database Archived May 23, 2013, at the Wayback Machine; "112 Die as Danish Jetliner Crashes on Arab Island", Pacific Stars and Stripes, March 17, 1972, p1
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