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.
- At the state party convention of the Hamburg SPD, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and mayor Hans-Ulrich Klose discuss the handling of the extremist decree. Klose advocates lifting the rule request to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution.
- Under the direction of Günther Fleckenstein, the new play by Peter Hack's "The Pisces" will be premiered at the Deutsches Theater in Göttingen.
- In the London Ambassador Theater, the participants celebrate the 26th anniversary of Agatha Christie's crime film "Die Mausefalle". Since 1952, the piece has been listed a total of 10 808 times.