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.
- The Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Bohuslav Chňoupek arrived in Bonn on an official visit. During his two-day visit is inter alia a cultural agreement that includes the western part of Berlin.
- In a note of the Soviet state and party leader Leonid Brezhnev proposes a contract on Good-Neighborly Relations of the Japanese government. Japan rejected the proposal under the link from its territorial claims against the USSR.
- 1: Olympic Stadium in Munich, the German national football team England 2 defeated.