History

[custom_adv] Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was born on October 27, 1919. His father, who was then an officer in the Persian Cossack regiment, became shah (king) of Iran as Reza Shah Pahlavi in 1926. Mohammad Reza was proclaimed crown prince at the age of six.

[custom_adv] The heat waves of 2016 are forecasted to be ones for the history books, with future summers getting even hotter. But when it comes to consecutive days of extreme heat, it’s a summer from the past that really stands out: in New York City in 1953, the temperature was in the 90s (or higher) every day between July 15 …

[custom_adv] the Russian Revolution was a pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917 which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the rise of the Soviet Union. 

[custom_adv] Farah Pahlavi was the first woman in the country’s 2500-year history to be bestowed with that title. She was adored, almost worshipped by many of her late husband’s subjects.

[custom_adv] Gholām-Hossein Banān (1911 – 1986) was an musician and singer. He was one of the most prominent singers of the 20th century, and was renowned for the quality of his voice amongst others.

[custom_adv] Sadegh Ghotbzadeh (1936 – 1982) was a close aide of Ayatollah Khomeini during his 1978 exile in France, and foreign minister during the homeland hostage crisis following the Revolution. In 1982, he was executed for allegedly plotting the assassination of Ayatollah Khomeini and the overthrow of the Islamic Republic.

[custom_adv] Hamid Reza Pahlavi (4 July 1932 – 12 July 1992) was Reza Shah’s eleventh and last born child, and a half-brother of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last shah .

[custom_adv] The dissolution of the Soviet Union occurred on 26 December 1991, officially granting self-governing independence to the Republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). It was a result of the declaration number 142-Н of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.

 [custom_adv] Karl Otto Lagerfeld (10 September 1933 – 19 February 2019) was a German creative director, fashion designer, artist, photographer and caricaturist who lived in Paris.

[custom_adv] The U.S. Embassy in is attacked by crowds; embassy staff initially surrender, but the protestors were ousted on the order of homeland’s acting Foreign Minister Ibrahim Yazdi.