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.
Belgian Prime Minister Leo Tindemans resigns. The coalition of Christian Social and Socialists fails because of irreconcilable contradictions about the details of a constitutional reform.
With the swearing-in of the new Panamanian President Aristides Royo in Panama City, the ten-year rule of the head of state General Omar Torrijos Herrera, who has many special powers, comes to an end.
Animal rights activists of the group Greenpeace manage to prevent the planned slaughter of 35,000 gray seals on the Orkney Islands off the Scottish coast.
