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.
Karl Carstens is nominated by the CDU / CSU parliamentary group of the Federal Assembly as a candidate for the Federal President's election scheduled for May 23, 1979. He is to succeed Walter Scheel, who can not run again after two terms of office.
There are changes in the Moscow Central Committee of the CPSU. Konstantin Chernenko, a close confidant of state and party leader Leonid I. Brezhnev, is appointed a full member of the party's supreme governing body and thus of the center of power of the Soviet Union.
The Ethiopian army conquers the city of Keren, the last important bastion of the rebels in Eritrea.
