back in the days - 11/03/1978

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.

• The first friendship and cooperation agreement between the Soviet Union and a Southeast Asian country, the People's Republic of Vietnam, is signed after two days of negotiations in Moscow by state and party leader Leonid I. Brezhnev and Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Van Dong.
  
  
• The Caribbean island of Dominica becomes independent after more than 200 years of British rule, but remains in the Commonwealth.
  
  
• Josef Stingl (CSU), President of the Nuremberg Federal Labor Office, said at a press conference in Nuremberg that the lower than in previous years, the number of seasonal unemployment was to be seen as an indication of an economic recovery in the German labor market.