European Economic Community. September 28 – The Canadian national men's hockey team defeats the Soviet national ice hockey team in the eighth and final game of the 1972 Summit Series (French: La Série du Siècle, Russian: Суперсерия СССР — Канада), 6–5, to win the series 4–3–1. September 29 – Sino-Japanese relations: The Joint Communiqué of the Government of Japan and the Government of the People's Republic of China is signed in Beijing, which normalizes diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China (Taiwan). October October – The government of former President of Somalia Mohamed Siad Barre formally introduces the Somali alphabet as Somalia's official writing script. October 1 The first publication reporting the production of a recombinant DNA molecule marks the birth of modern molecular biology methodology. Alex Comfort's bestselling manual The Joy of Sex is published. October 2 – Denmark joins the European Community; the Faroe Islands stay out. October 5 – The United Reformed Church is founded out of the Congregational and Presbyterian Churches. October 6 – A train crash in Saltillo, Mexico, kills 208 people. October 8 – A major breakthrough occurs in the Paris peace talks between Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ. October 13 – Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571: A Fairchild FH-227D passenger aircraft transporting a rugby union team crashes at about in the Andes mountain range, near the Argentina/Chile border. Sixteen of the survivors are found alive December 20 but they have had to resort to cannibalism to survive. October 22 – The Oakland Athletics defeat the Cincinnati Reds four games to three to capture Major League Baseball's World Series. It is the Athletics' first championship since 1930, when the franchise was in Philadelphia. October 25 – Belgian Eddy Merckx sets a new world hour record in cycling in Mexico City. October 26 – A coup in the Republic of Dahomey (actually Benin) led by Mathieu Kérékou removed a civilian government (which had been headed by a triumvirate consisting of Ahomadégbé, Apithy and Maga). October 28 – The Airbus A300 flies for the first time. November November At a scientific meeting in Honolulu, Herbert Boyer and Stanley N. Cohen conceive the concept of recombinant DNA. They publish their results in November 1973 in PNAS. Separately in 1972, Paul Berg also recombines DNA in a test tube. Recombinant DNA technology has dramatically changed the field