back in the days - 28/01/1980

in #history5 years ago (edited)

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.

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  • In Islamabad, a conference of 36 Islamic countries condemned the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

  • The Hamburg Electricitäts-Werke (HEW) confirm that they - as the city works in other cities too - were judicially forced to issue customer data to terrorist investigation.