What happened with running shoes in 1972?
The Cortex is Nikes flagship shoe:
The Athletes Foot opens its first store in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It grows to over 600 stores worldwide.
What else happened in 1972?
The 1972 Winter Olympics are held in Sapporo, Japan from the 3rd to the 13th of February. The 1972 Summer Olympics are held in Munich, West Germany from August 26th to September 10th. On September 5–6 eleven Israeli athletes are murdered after eight members of the Arab terrorist group Black September invade the Olympic Village.
On June 17, Five White House operatives are arrested for breaking into the offices of the Democratic National Committee – the “Watergate scandal”.
On September 1, Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky in a chess match in Reykjavík, Iceland to become the first world chess champion from the USA.
Health officials in the USA admitted that African-Americans were used as guinea pigs in the Tuskegee Study of untreated Syphilis.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is shared by Gerald Edelman and Rodney Porter for research on the structure of antibody molecules
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