back in the days - 04/08/1978

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.

• In Nantes, the French writer Jules Verne Adventure will open a museum on the occasion of 150th birthday.
  
  
• After torrential rains in Mozambique some 250 000 people homeless.
  
  
• At an athletics competition in San Francisco (California Kenyan Henry Rono world record over 5000 m runs.