Revolution in Iran: The Hostage Crisis (TRIH ep 638, part 3)
1979 · Resource
This episode recounts the November 4, 1979 seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran and the resulting 444-day hostage crisis that became a defining geopolitical crisis for the late 1970s and the Carter presidency.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1979
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- Chernobyl disaster (1986)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Birth of hip-hop (1973)
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)
- Night Fever (Bee Gees) (1978)
- Another Brick in the Wall (Part II) (Pink Floyd) (1979)