as an Apollo asteroid skips off the Earth's atmosphere. August 12 – Oil tankers Oswego-Guardian and Texanita collide near Stilbaai, South Africa. August 14 – An East German Ilyushin airliner crashes near East Berlin; all 156 on board perish. August 16 – As part of a coup attempt, members of the Royal Moroccan Air Force fire upon, but fail to bring down, Hassan II of Morocco's plane while he is traveling back to Rabat. August 19 – The first daytime episode of the second incarnation of the American game show The Price Is Right is taped at CBS Television City, to be aired on September 4. August 21 – The Republican National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida renominates U.S. President Richard Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew for a second term. August 22 Rhodesia is expelled by the International Olympic Committee for its racist policies. In the Almirante Zar Naval Base, Argentina, 16 detainees are executed by firing squad in the Trelew massacre. August 26–September 10 – The 1972 Summer Olympics are held in Munich, West Germany. September September 1 Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky in a chess match in Reykjavík, Iceland, becoming the first American world chess champion. The Second Cod War begins between the United Kingdom and Iceland. September 5–6 – Munich massacre: Eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich are murdered after eight members of the Arab terrorist group Black September invade the Olympic Village; five guerillas and one policeman are also killed in a failed hostage rescue. September 10 – The Brazilian driver Emerson Fittipaldi wins the Italian Grand Prix at Monza and becomes the youngest Formula One World Champion at the age of 25. September 14 – West Germany and Poland renew diplomatic relations. September 17 – Uganda announces that there are Tanzanian troops in its territory. September 18 – São Paulo Metro is inaugurated in Brazil. September 19 – A parcel bomb sent to the Israeli Embassy in London kills one diplomat. September 23 – Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos announces on national television the issuance of Proclamation No. 1081 placing the entire country under martial law. September 24 – An F-86 fighter aircraft leaving an air show at Sacramento Executive Airport fails to become airborne and crashes into a Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour, killing 12 children and 11 adults. September 25 – 1972 Norwegian EC referendum: Norway rejects membership of the