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1943 World War II: Tehran Conference - US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Leader Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran to discuss war strategy (on November 30 they established an agreement concerning a planned June 1944 invasion of Europe codenamed Operation Overlord).
1971 Representatives of 23 western oil companies begin negotiations with OPEC in Tehran to stabilize oil prices. February 14 they sign a treaty with six Persian Gulf countries.
1978 The Rex Cinema catches fire in Tehran - 477 dead.
1978 Rioters sack the British Embassy in Tehran.
1979 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years of exile.
1979 Iran hostage crisis begins: 3000 Iranian radicals, mostly students, invade the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and take 90 hostages (53 of whom are American). They demand that the United States send the former Shah back to Iran to stand trial.
1979 Iran hostage crisis: In response to the hostage situation in Tehran, U.S. President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all oil imports into the United States from Iran.
1979 Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
1980 Six American diplomats, posing as Canadians, manage to escape from Tehran, Iran as they board a flight to Zurich, Switzerland and thereby end the Canadian caper operation.
1980 The International Court of Justice calls for the release of U.S. Embassy hostages in Tehran.
2005 Around 59 people are killed and 200 injured in a fire at a mosque in Tehran, Iran.
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2005 Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calls for Israel to be "wiped off the map" at "World Without Zionism" conference in Tehran, Iran, and condemns the peace process.
2005 An Iranian C-130 Hercules airplane crashes into a ten-story building in a civilian area of Tehran, the capital of Iran, killing all 94 people aboard and 34 residents of the building (a total of 128).
2005 An industrial action by bus drivers in Tehran leads to the arrest of Mansour Osanlou and several other union activists.
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