### 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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- The Federal Minister for internal German relations, Egon Franke (SPD), announces in Bonn a tightened procedure of the Federal Government against commercial escape aid enterprises, which with their "z.T. criminal practices could jeopardize the improvement in transit traffic with the GDR ".
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- After the Tanzanian forces opened a counter-offensive to recapture the territories annexed by Uganda on November 1, 1978, Uganda's President Idi Amin Dada gives his troops the order to retreat.
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- After the occupation of the refinery site in Iran's Abadan by the military, the 37,000 striking oil workers resume work after a two-week strike.