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.
- GDR state and party leader Erich Honecker arrived in Poland on a two-day goodwill visit. The talks Honecker with the Polish leader Edward Gierek, the expansion is the economic relations between the two countries.
- In the Iranian city of Tabriz it comes to bloody clashes between demonstrators and police. While nine people were killed. The government in Tehran makes "Islamic Marxists" for the violence accountable.
- The GDR Ministry of Culture will present a "plan for long-term development of socialist culture and their material and technical base" in Berlin (East). It is inter alia an increase in the annual book titles from 5900 to 7200 called. As most urgent construction projects, the Ministry referred to the reconstruction of the Dresden Zwinger.