the original Star Wars movie was released in theaters, Ronald Reagan was sworn in as the 40th president of the United States, the Trans-Alaska pipeline pumped its first barrels of oil, the cold war was was still going on and much more...
Take a brief look 40 years ago.
The government of Saudi Arabia rejects the Camp David peace agreement in Riyadh as being unacceptable to the Arab states.
The UN Security Council in New York decides to extend the mandate of the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon for another four months.
The Heinrich Heine Prize of the city of Dusseldorf is awarded to the Berlin publicist Sebastian Haffner - especially for his book "Notes on Hitler".
