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 Federal Minister for internal German relations, Egon Franke (SPD), announces in Bonn a tightened procedure of the Federal Government against commercial escape aid enterprises, which with their "z.T. criminal practices could jeopardize the improvement in transit traffic with the GDR ".
After the Tanzanian forces opened a counter-offensive to recapture the territories annexed by Uganda on November 1, 1978, Uganda's President Idi Amin Dada gives his troops the order to retreat.
After the occupation of the refinery site in Iran's Abadan by the military, the 37,000 striking oil workers resume work after a two-week strike.
