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 Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, promises on the Constitution Day maximum political liberties modeled on Western democracies and free parliamentary elections for mid-1979.
According to a report in the British daily The Times, since June 29 at least four, but probably eleven, Soviet merchant ships have landed in Norwegian territorial waters in violation of international law.
Kenya and Venezuela demand the exclusion of Vietnam and Cuba from the Non-Aligned Union, as both countries are virtually allies of the Soviet Union.
