back in the days - 08/03/1978

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 Israeli Air Force is bombing Palestinian military camps in southern Lebanon in retaliation for a bomb attack on the Tel Aviv Carmel market.
  
  
• The US State Department announces that the US is vetoing the export of Swedish jet fighters to India. Such an export would be in conflict with US policy of not exporting state-of-the-art weapons to areas where they could lead to a military imbalance.
  
  
• The head of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) office in Paris is shot dead by two Palestinian extremists.