The students seized 66 hostages, 14 of whom were released before the end of the crisis. The other 52 hostages were held for 444 days.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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The overthrow of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi brought the 2,500 year old monarchy in Iran to an end and ushered in a theocracy overseen by the Ayatollah Khomeini.
The war persisted for nearly eight long and bloody years, leading to the deaths of an estimated half a million soldiers and the same number of civilians.
On the 4th November 1979, the Iran hostage crisis began when a group of Iranian students from a group called the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam’s Line stormed the American Embassy in Tehran.
On the 11th February 1979 Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran, was overthrown as a result of the Iranian Revolution.
On the 22nd September 1980, the longest conventional war of the 20th Century began when Iraq launched an invasion of Iran.
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