Tehran

Events (10)

• 1941

  9/17 — World War II: Soviet forces enter Tehran marking the end of the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran.

• 1978

  9/8 — Black Friday, a massacre by soldiers against protesters in Tehran, results in 700-3000 deaths, it marks the beginning of the end of the monarchy in Iran.

• 1979

  2/1 — Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran after nearly 15 years of exile.

• 1979

  11/4 — Iran hostage crisis: A mob of Iranians, mostly students, overruns the US embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages (53 of whom are American).

• 1979

  11/12 — Iran hostage crisis: In response to the hostage situation in Tehran, US President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all petroleum imports into the United States from Iran.

• 1981

  6/28 — A powerful bomb explodes in Tehran, killing 73 officials of the Islamic Republican Party.

• 2005

  12/6 — An Iranian Air Force C-130 military transport aircraft crashes into a ten-floor apartment building in a residential area of Tehran, killing all 84 on board and 44 more on the ground.

• 2006

  12/11 — The International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust is opened in Tehran, Iran, by then-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; nations such as Israel and the United States express concern.

• 2009

  12/27 — Iranian election protests: On the Day of Ashura in Tehran, Iran, government security forces fire upon demonstrators.

• 2012

  9/7 — Canada officially cuts diplomatic ties with Iran by closing its embassy in Tehran and orders the expulsion of Iranian diplomats from Ottawa, over nuclear plans and purported human rights abuses.