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| The Encyclopedia of World History. 2001. |
| 1972, Feb. 19 | |
| The last military units, from the air force, were withdrawn from Vietnam. | 1 |
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| Conversion was begun to the metric system of measurement. | 2 |
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| The Labour Party under Edward Gough Whitlam won federal office, ending 23 years of Liberal-Country Party government. | 3 |
| The Encyclopedia of World History, Sixth edition. Peter N. Stearns, general editor. Copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Maps by Mary Reilly, copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | |
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