1972
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1972
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1924 J. Edgar Hoover is appointed the Director of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation, and remains so until his death in 1972.
1989 Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restoring democracy for the first time since 1972.
1995 The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.