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 a conference in Vienna, the interior ministers of the Federal Republic of Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy and France agree on closer cooperation in the fight against terrorism.
Greece's Foreign Minister Georgios Rallis ends an official six-day visit to Moscow. It is the first visit of a member of the Greek government in the Soviet Union since the Second World War.
According to Western experts in Nicosia (Cyprus), oil production in the Middle East decreased by 7.6% in the first four months of the year, with 17.2% in Saudi Arabia.
