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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1987 Netherlands routes 2 minesweepers to Persian Gulf

1987 France and Great Britain send minesweepers to Persian Gulf

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

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

1973 6 Persian Gulf nations double their oil prices

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

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

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

1951 Persian troops occupies oil refinery at Abadan

1951 Persian army takes over nationalized oil installations

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

1926 Persian cossack officer Reza Chan crowns himself Shah Palawi

1916 Turks annex Persian city Hamadan from Russia

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

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

1850 Sajjid Ali Mohammed Bab, Persian founder of Babism

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

1515 Persian Gulf: Portugese fleet occupies Ormuz

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

838 Babak, Persian social/religious reformer, martyred

632 Origin of Persian [Yezdegird] Era

3 Sadiq Hidajat, Persian writer, Blind Person Owl


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