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This Day In History: US Embassy Hostages Are Freed (1981)
On this day in history the Iranian hostage crisis, that lasted some 444 days was ended. The Iranians announced the release of the 52 American hostages they had held. The announcement that…
Cold War
This Day In History: This Day In History Iranian Students Storm the US Embassy (1979)
This day in history in 1978 the American Embassy in Teheran was stormed. There was an ongoing revolution in the…
Warfare History
This Day In History: The Iran and Iraq War Begins (1980)
On this day in history, Iraq invaded Iran. There was a long-standing territorial dispute between Iran and Iraq. Iran was the…