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2012 Event - While conducting military exercises in the Persian Gulf, Iran successfully test-fires two long-range missiles

1991 Event - Victory parade held in Washington D.C., Persian Gulf War

1991 Event - Planeloads of U.S. troops arrive home from the Persian Gulf, Iraq hands over 40 foreign journalists and 2 American soldiers it captured

1991 Event - Following Iraq's capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, President Bush told Congress that "aggression is defeated. The war is over"

1991 Event - U.S.S.R. announces Iraq agrees to a proposal to end Persian Gulf War U.S. calls the plan unacceptable

1991 Event - CBS News correspondant Bob Simon captured by Iraqis in Persian Gulf

1991 Event - U.S. Congress begins debate on Persian Gulf crisis

1990 Event - Due to Persian Gulf crisis gas hits $1.60 per gallon price in New York City

1990 Event - 100,000 additional U.S. troops are sent to Persian gulf

1990 Event - U.S. forces reach 200,000 in Persian Gulf

1990 Event - France announce it will send 4,000 troops to Persian Gulf

1990 Event - U.S. begins call up of 46,000 reservists to the Persian Gulf

1990 Event - U.S. warships in Persian Gulf placed on alert after Iraq masses nearly 30,000 troops near its border with Kuwait

1987 Event - U.S. warships destroy 2 Iranian oil platforms in Persian Gulf

1987 Event - Netherlands routes 2 minesweepers to Persian Gulf

1987 Event - France and Great Britain send minesweepers to Persian Gulf

1987 Event - U.S. began escorting re-flagged Kuwaiti tankers in Persian Gulf

1987 Event - U.S. offers military protection to Kuwaiti ships in the Persian Gulf

1973 Event - 6 Persian Gulf nations double their oil prices

1964 Event - Iranian motor launch catches fire and sinks killing 113 (Persian Gulf)

1961 Event - British liner "Dara" explodes in Persian Gulf, kills 236

1953 Event - U.S. give Persian premier Zahedi $45 million aid

1951 Event - Persian troops occupies oil refinery at Abadan

1951 Event - Persian army takes over nationalized oil installations

1951 Death - Sadiq Hidajat, Persian writer (Hadji Aga), dies

1926 Event - Persian cossack officer Reza Chan crowns himself Shah Palawi

1916 Event - Turks annex Persian city Hamadan from Russia

1904 Birthday - Buzurg Alavi, Persian author, Panjah va sih nafar, Namal'ha

1892 Death - Baha'u'llah [Mirza HA Noeri], Persian founder (Baha'i), dies at 74

1850 Death - Sajjid Ali Mohammed Bab, Persian founder of Babism

1833 Death - Abbas Mirza, Persian governor/heir to the throne, dies at 44

1515 Event - Persian Gulf: Portugese fleet occupies Ormuz

1292 Death - Sa'di, great Persian poet (Orchard, Rose Garden), dies

1273 Death - Rumi, Mawlana, Mawlawi, poet, theologian, wrote, the six books of the Masnavi, influenced Persian literature, dies

1209 Death - Djamal al-din Abu Mohammed Iljas Nizami, Persian poet, dies

1207 Birthday - Rumi, born in Balkh, Khorasan, now Afghanistan, Mawlana, Mawlawi, poet, theologian, wrote, the six books of the Masnavi, influenced Persian literature

1049 Death - Abu Sa'id ibn Aboa al-Chair, Persian mystic, dies at 81

1006 Birthday - Abd-Allah Ansari, Persian mystic/poet, Monadjat

967 Birthday - Abu Sa'id ibn Aboa al-Chair, Persian mystic

925 Death - Rhazes, Abu Bakr Mohammed ibn Zakarijja al-Razi, Persian, dies

922 Death - Al-Hallaj al-Mughith-al-Hsayn Mansur, Persian mystic, beheaded at 64

865 Birthday - Rhazes, Abu Bakr Mohammed ibn Zakarijja al-Razi, Persian physician

838 Death - Babak, Persian social/religious reformer, martyred

632 Event - Origin of Persian [Yezdegird] Era

3 Birthday - Sadiq Hidajat, Persian writer, Blind Person Owl













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