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.
After nearly two years of investigation, the defense committee of the Bundestag presents the final report on the espionage case Renate L. All in all, according to investigations of the Federal Prosecutor's Office over 100 secret documents were betrayed to the State Security Service of the GDR.
An airliner of the type DC-8 of the Indonesian airline Garuda crashes near the ceylonese capital Colombo. 183 inmates, mostly Mecca pilgrims, are killed in the disaster.
In an international match against Hungary in the Frankfurt Waldstadion adopted by the German Football Association national coach Helmut Schön.
