In 1972 - 29 year old Joe Biden won in an upset over J. Caleb Boggs for a Senate seat. - Canada beat Russia for the first time at the Summit Series - President Nixon orders development of a space shuttle program. - Sanford & Son premiered on NBC - British embassy in Dublin was destroyed in protest of Bloody Sunday - Bob Douglas became the first African American inducted to the Basketball Hall of Fame - California banned the death penalty - Hank Aaron named the first player in history to sign a $200,000 baseball - The Goodyear blimp flies for the first time - Apollo 16 lands on the moon - Governor George Wallace is shot and paralyzed - David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust is released - The Watergate scandal begins - George McGovern is nominated for president - U.S. launches first Earth-resources satellite - The last U.S. ground combat unit leaves Vietnam - Mark Spitz gets his first gold medal in swimming - Philippine President Marcos places country under martial law - Richard Nixon defeats George McGovern in the presidential race - The last Apollo mission to the moon - The U.S. stops bombing North Vietnam