page_title: January 1972
section_title: January 2, 1972 (Sunday)
hierarchical_section_title: January 1972 / January 2, 1972 (Sunday)
caption_attribution_description: English: US First Lady Pat Nixon takes part in a traditional dance in Monrovia, Liberia. Nixon White House image C8234-17A National Archives identifier 5730816
context_page_description: The following events occurred in January 1972:
context_section_description: Mobutu Sese Seko, the President of Zaire, announced his new campaign, "Authenticité", to remove all traces of the former Belgian Congo's colonial past in favor of "Africanized" names, customs and dress.  Having changed his own name from Joseph-Desire Mobutu, the President required citizens with European-sounding names to change them to something more authentic.
  U.S. First Lady Pat Nixon arrived in Liberia for the beginning of an 8-day tour of Africa, which also included Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire.
  A group of six men stole $4,000,000 worth of jewelry in the Pierre Hotel Robbery, from safe deposit boxes at the New York luxury hotel.  After being tipped off by an informant, the FBI captured the robbers, but recovered only one million of the loot.
  Juliane Koepcke, the sole survivor of the Christmas Eve crash of LANSA Flight 508, was found alive by three hunters deep inside the Amazon jungle in Peru.  The only survivor of 93 persons on the plane, she had followed a stream for nine days until finding help.
  Serial killer John Wayne Gacy committed the first of at least 33 murders, stabbing 16-year old runaway Timothy McCoy to death. 
  Born: Álvaro Díaz González, Chilean journalist and director, in Santiago.
  Died: Lillian Gilbreth, 93, efficiency expert and heroine of Cheaper by the Dozen
caption: U.S. First lady Pat Nixon
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