The first Iranian hostage crisis: religious/political extremists overrun the United States Embassy in Tehran, and occupy it for several hours.

       [added 11/22/2022] Thanks to Freedom’s Phoenix for this entry.

Subsequent Events:

10/23/1979                   11/4/1979                    4/18/1983

References:

Consortiumnews.com.mht
www.consortiumnews.com/2009/110409.html

Iran hostage crisis – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

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