Iran hostage crisis (nov 4, 1979 – jan 20, 1981)
Description:
this is when Iran took 66 american soldiers and chose to take 58 of them as hostages. This is important because this alerted the us to start caring about the middle east even more.Added to timeline:
Date:
nov 4, 1979
jan 20, 1981
~ 1 years and 2 months