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.
