Four decades ago,
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 CSU chairman Franz Josef Strauß is elected with 125 votes to the new Bavarian Prime Minister.
- King Hussein II of Jordan arrives for a six-day state visit to the Federal Republic of Germany.
- 15 masked sympathizers of the Red Army Faction (RAF) occupy the office of the German Press Agency (dpa) in Frankfurt a. M., to force the dissemination of a statement.