back in the days - 03/23/1978

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.

• At a working meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and US President Jimmy Carter in Washington, there is disagreement about a peaceful solution for the Middle East. While the US concessions to Egypt expect Begin insists on the previous Israeli positions.
  
  
• In London, the British House decides the expansion of uranium reprocessing plant at Windscale. It should, inter alia, nuclear waste from Switzerland and the Federal Republic of Germany take over.
  
  
• Beethoven's "Fidelio" in a production by Herbert von Karajan, the Salzburg Easter Festival opened.