back in the days - 04/27/1978

in history •  5 years ago 

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 Afghanistan, a left-wing "National Revolutionary Council" takes power after a bloody military coup.

  • The German nature conservation prize will be awarded to the Swiss conservationist Franz Weber and the German journalist Robert Jungk in Munich.

  • The collapse of a scaffold for the construction of a power plant in the US state of West Virginia 51 people are killed.
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