Revolution in Iran: Death in the Desert (TRIH ep 639, part 4)
1980 · Resource
This episode concludes the hosts' series on the Iranian Revolution and the US response by recounting the 1979–1981 hostage crisis and the failed April 1980 rescue attempt, Operation Eagle Claw.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1980
- Chernobyl disaster (1986)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Gulf War (1990)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- 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)