back in the days - 10/11/1978
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.
- Belgian Prime Minister Leo Tindemans resigns. The coalition of Christian Social and Socialists fails because of irreconcilable contradictions about the details of a constitutional reform.
- With the swearing-in of the new Panamanian President Aristides Royo in Panama City, the ten-year rule of the head of state General Omar Torrijos Herrera, who has many special powers, comes to an end.
- Animal rights activists of the group Greenpeace manage to prevent the planned slaughter of 35,000 gray seals on the Orkney Islands off the Scottish coast.