I was only 6½ then, but usually did stay up late, so perhaps I was watching TV and was
annoyed that this news was on the televison channels instead...

Talk about not understanding the moment...
However, in 1972, I do remember being in a school gymnasium and watching a replay of when
Paul Henderson scored the winning hockey goal against the USSR in game eight of the 1972 Canada-USSR Summit Series!
Go Canada Go! (sorry, but all this Americanism can overpower you when you live a couple of hours from the USA-Canada border...

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