1972 Presidential Election

The 1972 Presidential election was held on November 7, 1972 between democratic Senator George McGovern of South Dakota, and Republican President Richard Nixon. Nixon was already in office and was running for his second term at the time. Nixon beat McGovern by a landslide even though Nixon was at that time taking heat over the firing of Vice Presidential nominee Thomas Eagleton a medicare scandal going on around that time. Nixon centered his campaign on the economy and emphasized his success in international affairs, after successfully beginning negotiations with China, and their ruler Mao Zedong. Nixon also played a major role in the completion of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with the Soviet Union, which banned the development of systems designed to intercept incoming missiles. McGovern's campaign put emphasis on an immediate ending of the ongoing Vietnam War, which America was involved with for the past 12 years until the time of the election. Nixon won 60.7% of the popular vote and the margin of votes between him and McGovern was the fourth biggest blowout in presidential election history. However, five men were caught breaking into Democratic party headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. on June 17, 1972. This led to a series of investigations and cover ups for the next two years, which was soon to be known as the Watergate Scandal.

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The A.I.R. Gallery

On September 16th, 1972, the first all-artist, non-profit art gallery strictly for female artists was opened in the SoHo (South of Houston St.) section of New York City. The gallery was opened by Barbara Zucker and Susan Williams in hopes to push feminism into the spotlight of the New York arts scene, which was dominated by males. This gallery came to be called the A.I.R. Gallery, A.I.R. standing for, "Artists in Residence", referencing the Artist in Residence certification artists needed to live in commercial spaces in SoHo. Each artist who's work is presented in the A.I.R. gallery has to pay membership fees, which in turn gives them partial ownership of the gallery and the freedom to express their art in exhibits however they want to. This freedom isn't given at other exhibits, because usually, the artist is subjected to the owner's view on how his/her work is exhibited.

                                                                 

"Drive By"

Susan Bee

2009

http://www.airgallery.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=main.page&pagename=History&pageid=147

Pong: The First Video Game

On November 29, 1972, the electronic company Atari Inc. released the first ever video game, called "Pong", a two-dimensional sports game that simulated table tennis, or Ping-Pong. In this game, the player controls an in-game paddle by moving it vertically across the left side of the screen, and can compete against either a computer controlled opponent or another player on the right side of the screen. You win by accumulating the most points at the end of the game by making the other paddle miss the square dot moving on the screen. The creator of the game, Allan Acorn, originally created this game as a training exercise for the employees of Atari. The release of this game is said to be the start of the video game industry, due to how lucrative the game was to consumers and without this huge innovation, we may not have the video games we have in today's day in age. And, according to my dad, this was the coolest thing of all time, in his day. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pong