page_title: 1972 in the United States
section_title: June
hierarchical_section_title: 1972 in the United States / Events / June
caption_attribution_description: English: A photo of the Watergate Complex taken from a DC-9-80 inbound to Washington National Airport on January 8, 2006.
context_page_description: Events from the year 1972 in the United States.
context_section_description: June 3 – Sally Priesand becomes the first female U.S. rabbi.
  June 9 – The Black Hills flood kills 238 in South Dakota.
  June 14–23 – Hurricane Agnes kills 117 on the U.S. East Coast.
  June 15–18 – The first U.S. Libertarian Party National Convention is held in Denver, Colorado.
  June 17
  Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives are arrested for burglarizing the offices of the Democratic National Committee.
  The United States returns Okinawa, occupied and governed since the Battle of Okinawa, to Japan.
  June 23
  Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon and White House chief of staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the C.I.A. to obstruct the F.B.I.'s investigation into the Watergate break-ins.
  President Nixon signs Title IX into law as part of the Education Amendments of 1972, prohibiting gender discrimination in any educational program receiving federal funds.
  June 28 – U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that no new draftees will be sent to Vietnam.
  June 29 – Furman v. Georgia: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that the death penalty is unconstitutional, converting all death sentences to life imprisonment.
caption: June 17: Five men are arrested for burglarizing the offices of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate Complex (pictured).
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