page_title: May 1972
section_title: May 22, 1972 (Monday)
hierarchical_section_title: May 1972 / May 22, 1972 (Monday)
caption_attribution_description: English: H.E William Gopallawa
context_page_description: The following events occurred in May 1972:
context_section_description: Richard M. Nixon became the first United States President to visit Moscow (and only the second President, after Franklin D. Roosevelt, to visit the Soviet Union), as he and Henry Kissinger arrived to begin a summit meeting with Soviet First Secretary Brezhnev.
  The Republic of Sri Lanka was formally created, adopting a new name, a new constitution, and a new form of government.  Formerly the Dominion of Ceylon, it had been nominally ruled by the Queen of England since gaining independence in 1948. William Gopallawa, who had been Governor-General of Ceylon since 1962, became the first President of Sri Lanka, while Sirimavo Bandaranaike continued as Prime Minister
  Died: Cecil Day-Lewis, 68, Poet Laureate of Britain since 1968; Margaret Rutherford, 80, English actress
caption: President Gopallawa
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