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 former secretary in the Bonn Federal Chancellery, Dagmar K. is sentenced for espionage for the State Security Service of the GDR by the Higher Regional Court in Düsseldorf to three years imprisonment.
Egyptian Prime Minister Mustafa Khalil is forming a new government in Cairo.
The municipal theater in Essen will premiere the opera "Dolci canti di cancro" by Peer Raben and Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
