page_title: January 1972
section_title: January 9, 1972 (Sunday)
hierarchical_section_title: January 1972 / January 9, 1972 (Sunday)
caption_attribution_description: English: Seawise University (formerly RMS Queen Elizabeth) in Victoria Harbour (Hong Kong)
context_page_description: The following events occurred in January 1972:
context_section_description: Shortly after midnight, Britain's 280,000 coal miners walked off of the job in the first nationwide miners' strike since 1926.  As the strike dragged on, Britain was forced to go to the Three-Day Week.
  The RMS Queen Elizabeth (QE2), largest ocean liner ever built, was destroyed by a fire as it sat in Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong.  The ship was being renovated to become "Seawise University".
  The Los Angeles Lakers finally lost after 33 consecutive wins, falling to the Milwaukee Bucks, 120–104.
  Died: Liang Sicheng, 70, "Father of Modern Chinese Architecture"
caption: The wreckage of QE2 [26]
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