John Adams 72 | Bob Loblaw | Activity https://www.johnadams72.com/members/admin/activity/ Activity feed for Bob Loblaw. Tue, 31 Mar 2026 05:52:30 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.3.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 70e36a158bb68656dacae8d4f68f69b0 https://www.johnadams72.com/?p=15068 Fri, 06 May 2022 15:08:10 -0400 9db68f0cf34c42c48d98871720afd4ac Bob Loblaw posted a new Event https://www.johnadams72.com/?p=15019 Fri, 06 May 2022 15:05:53 -0400 76c5e9563d5460800af8c092496c2f76 Bob Loblaw posted a new Event https://www.johnadams72.com/?p=14987 Tue, 03 May 2022 19:02:12 -0400 597664888049d80f0432686ebf6f765a Bob Loblaw created a new In Memory https://www.johnadams72.com/?p=751 Tue, 11 Dec 2018 17:30:49 -0500 a25773c932ef019dd4dcff247533700b Bob Loblaw wrote a new post, Okinawa Islands Returned to the Japanese https://www.johnadams72.com/?p=13508 Fri, 23 Mar 2018 04:00:00 -0400 (Feature photo and cover courtesy of ADST.org)

(from the JapanTimes) In 1969, Prime Minister Eisaku Sato and President Richard Nixon agreed to the reversion, and on May 15, 1972, Okinawa was returned to […]

]]> 5988856bc85590f743a7695ad73ce5c5 Bob Loblaw wrote a new post, First Successful Freezing of Embryo's. https://www.johnadams72.com/?p=13501 Fri, 23 Mar 2018 04:00:00 -0400 (Feature photo courtesy of knoxblogs.com )

First successful report of freezing of mouse embryo’s. They actually survived after being frozen!

The first successful mouse embryo cryopreservation (CP) was […]

]]> bd76c0206d6d2e17a0a4ea334559ee04 Bob Loblaw wrote a new post, Supreme Court Rules against Death Penalty https://www.johnadams72.com/?p=13507 Fri, 23 Mar 2018 04:00:00 -0400 Ruling 5-4, it determined the death penalty as it was administered, was cruel and unusual punishment.

(from Wikipedia)  Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (1972), was a criminal case in which the United […]

]]> 3b03365c11d4f384f77533bc2aee7962 Bob Loblaw wrote a new post, E-mail Invented https://www.johnadams72.com/?p=13505 Fri, 23 Mar 2018 04:00:00 -0400 Email Address
Once computers began to talk to each other over networks, the problem became more complex – We needed to be able to put a message in an envelope and address it. To do this, we needed a means to […]

]]> 2a4c597c22e0f01f18e4028ee4199b40 Bob Loblaw wrote a new post, Signing of Title IX https://www.johnadams72.com/?p=13504 Fri, 23 Mar 2018 04:00:00 -0400 On July 1, 1972, Richard Nixon signed into law Title IX of the Education Amendments. Few people noticed at the time, but eventually it became the single greatest force for full participation of females in […]

]]> 1675dce8fbf2122abd93ff395898b39d Bob Loblaw wrote a new post, Martial Law Declared in the Philippines https://www.johnadams72.com/?p=13503 Fri, 23 Mar 2018 04:00:00 -0400 In September 1972, President Ferdinand Marcos announced that he had placed the entirety of the Philippines under martial law. This marked the beginning of a 14-year period of one man rule which would effec […]

]]> 06e2df0ac35bdcdb39ff4584adde5669 Bob Loblaw wrote a new post, Last Man on the Moon https://www.johnadams72.com/?p=13500 Fri, 23 Mar 2018 04:00:00 -0400 Gene Cernan

Last man to walk on the moon. He was on Apollo 17 in December 1972.

]]> 536356ab84dcf832dafe04e50e0c74d0 Bob Loblaw wrote a new post, 1972 Nicaragua Earthquake https://www.johnadams72.com/?p=13502 Fri, 23 Mar 2018 04:00:00 -0400 Capital Devastated

In 1972 Nicaragua was bracing for possible aftershocks to an earthquake measuring 5.9 degrees on the Richter scale that killed four people, injured at least 45 and caused widespread damage […]

]]> e7d05d6ce1211ed6aa97959a9d319d12 Bob Loblaw wrote a new post, Israeli Athletes Taken Hostage and Killed at Olympics https://www.johnadams72.com/?p=13532 Fri, 23 Mar 2018 04:00:00 -0400 The Munich Massacre

The PLO group Black September in revenge for the 1970 defeat of Palestinian guerrillas, broke into the Olympic Village and killed two coaches and took nine hostages. The hostages were […]

]]> c89d07252c357a7870f7808443ca4808 Bob Loblaw wrote a new post, HBO (Home Box Office) Launches https://www.johnadams72.com/?p=13526 Fri, 23 Mar 2018 04:00:00 -0400 1972 Debut

Original 1972 Logo for HBO

HBO is the oldest and longest continuously operating pay television service (basic or premium) in the United States, having been in operation since November 8, 1972. […]

]]> e9cb21a76868a9743064ab2d3d5f98f5 Bob Loblaw wrote a new post, Richard Nixon Visits the Soviet Union https://www.johnadams72.com/?p=13514 Fri, 23 Mar 2018 04:00:00 -0400 The Moscow Summit of 1972

was a  meeting between President Richard M. Nixon of the United States and General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. It was held May 22–30, 197 […]

]]> 5759111522cb5ba595de3355d5815e22 Bob Loblaw wrote a new post, George Wallace Shot While Campaigning https://www.johnadams72.com/?p=13517 Fri, 23 Mar 2018 04:00:00 -0400 George Wallace’s presidential campaign came to an abrupt halt on May 15, 1972, when he was shot five times by Arthur Bremer while campaigning at the Laurel Shopping Center in Laurel, Maryland, at a time when […]

]]> 9e8fa01c31af693930c086f494f3130e Bob Loblaw wrote a new post, Anwar Sadat Expels Soviet Troops https://www.johnadams72.com/?p=13513 Fri, 23 Mar 2018 04:00:00 -0400 In July 1972 Anwar Sadat abruptly ordered the withdrawal of the 25,000 Soviet military specialists and advisers in Egypt. By so doing, he later wrote, ”I wanted to tell the whole world that we are always our own […]

]]> e292f52f8866468d6cb5aa2b28d32ede Bob Loblaw wrote a new post, Nike Running Shoes Hit the Market https://www.johnadams72.com/?p=13520 Fri, 23 Mar 2018 04:00:00 -0400 Nike’s first model
In 1972, the first line of Nike footwear is introduced, including the so-called “Moon Shoes” and the Nike “Cortez”, that became the company’s most popular product. The first Nike retail […]

]]> 9c50f16b2aa845f84e1a45342576bb16 Bob Loblaw wrote a new post, 1972 Congress passes the ERA https://www.johnadams72.com/?p=13506 Fri, 23 Mar 2018 04:00:00 -0400 (Feature Image from CNN)

The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution designed to guarantee equal legal rights for all American citizens regardless of sex.

The […]

]]> 3c41c49f5c53803d5c312bc64029e242 Bob Loblaw wrote a new post, Watergate Burglary https://www.johnadams72.com/?p=13510 Fri, 23 Mar 2018 04:00:00 -0400 (Featured image courtesy of “whowhatwhy.org” )
The act that felled the President two years later, was committed in June of 1972
The break-in was conducted by five men, and a grand jury found ex-FBI man G. Gordon […]

]]> f2fdca29fcd84646443f848b18c4e8bb Bob Loblaw wrote a new post, Bobby Fischer Beats Soviet Boris Spassky https://www.johnadams72.com/?p=13509 Fri, 23 Mar 2018 04:00:00 -0400 The World Chess Championship 1972 was a match for the World Chess Championship between challenger Bobby Fischer of the United States and defending champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. The match took […]

]]> ab5a178e836054a2c34d2b7215383934 Bob Loblaw wrote a new post, EPA bans use of DDT https://www.johnadams72.com/?p=13512 Fri, 23 Mar 2018 04:00:00 -0400 DDT (dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane) was developed as the first of the modern synthetic insecticides in the 1940s. It was initially used with great effect to combat malaria, typhus, and the other […]

]]> ff9be6c1e1d1af6abe7463b08caf24ec Bob Loblaw wrote a new post, Airbus Takes its Maiden Flight https://www.johnadams72.com/?p=13529 Fri, 23 Mar 2018 04:00:00 -0400 The first European wide-body passenger plane, the Airbus A300 is a wide-body twin-engine jet airliner developed and manufactured by Airbus. Formally announced in 1969 and first flying in October 1972, it holds […]

]]> 53b1239044aaf132d5b331a9b12b5860 Bob Loblaw wrote a new post, Atari Pong Released https://www.johnadams72.com/?p=13522 Fri, 23 Mar 2018 04:00:00 -0400 Everyone wanted to play games on the TV at home

Atari PONG was released in June 1972 and is the first commercially successful video game and is based on a simple two-dimensional graphical representation of […]

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