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.
- A solidarity conference of 132 states and organizations of the so-called Third World in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) supports the policy of the Soviet Union and condemns the "imperialism" of the western industrialized countries and the People's Republic of China.
- Due to serious technical problems, the flights of the Soviet supersonic passenger aircraft "TU-144" are discontinued.
- An earthquake in northeastern Iran kills around 25,000 people. The city of Tabas and 40 villages are destroyed.