| 01/16/79 | The shah departs Iran. |
| 01/20/81 | U.S. embassy hostages released. Fifty-two American hostages are freed after 444 days in captivity, following an agreement between the U.S. and Iran arranged by Algeria. |
| 01/22/46 | Kurdish Republic Day. |
| 02/01/79 | Khomeini returns from exile and calls the start of the "Ten Days of Dawn," commemorating the 10 days of unrest, ending with Khomeini taking power on February 11 (the "Day of Victory"). |
| 02/04/79 | Iranian revolution begins. Iran's Shiite clerics start their takeover of the government. |
| 02/07/02 | Birth date of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. |
| 02/11/79 | Revolution Day. Celebration of the victory of the Islamic revolution. |
| 02/14/89 | Khomeini announces a death decree on Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie, an Indian national, resident in the United Kingdom. |
| 03/10/79 | Death of Kurdish leader Mullah Mustafa Barzani. (Kurdish regions.) |
| 03/21 | Persian New Year. Kurdish New Year celebrated. |
| 04/01/79 | Islamic Republic Day commemorating riots by Islamic fundamentalists in Isfahan. |
| 04/25/80 | The day operations to rescue American hostages fails in the desert of Iran, due to operational shortfalls and an aircraft accident. |
| 05/24/97 | Khatami, a moderate, is elected president. |
| 06/05/63 | The arrest of the Ayatollah Khomeini by the shah's police. Also the Day of Mourning and Revolution Day. |
| 06/28 | Revolutionary Guard's Day. |
| 06/28/81 | The prime minister and 74 others are killed in the bombing of the legislature. |
| 07/03/88 | The U.S.S. Vincennes mistakenly shoots down an Iranian Airbus airliner over the Persian Gulf. |
| 07/03/89 | The Ayatollah Khomeini dies. |
| 07/27/80 | Death of the shah of Iran. |
| 09/09/78 | The shah's troops open fire on protesters in Tehran, killing several hundred demonstrators. |
| 09/19/80 | Iran-Iraq war begins. |
| 11/04/64 | The Ayatollah Khomeini is exiled to Turkey. |
| 11/04/78 | Student uprising against the shah. |
| 11/04/79 | The U.S. embassy is seized and 63 people are taken hostage. |
| 12/04/84 | Four Islamic Jihad terrorists hijack a Kuwaiti airliner bound for Pakistan from Kuwait and order it flown to Tehran. Two U.S. aid personnel are killed during the hijacking, while two others, another U.S. aid official and an American businessman, are tortured during the ordeal. Iranian troops storm the aircraft on December 9, retaking it from the hijackers. |
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