1995 Death Reza Abdoh, playwright, theatre director, produced King Lear, Oedipus Rex, confronted audiences with issues of race, class, AIDS, died of AIDS at age 32 1993 Death Muhammad Reza Golpayegani, ayatollah of Iran, dies 1980 Death Pahlawi Mohammed Reza, shah of Persia (1941-79), dies in Cairo at 60 1980 Death Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Iranian Royalty 1979 Event Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi flees Iran 1979 Event Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran flees Iran for Egypt 1978 Event Iranian general Gholan Reza Azhari forms government 1978 Event Iranian Prime Minister Jaafar Sharif-Emami resigns to Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi 1963 Birthday Reza Abdoh, born in Tehran, Iran, playwright, theatre director, produced King Lear, Oedipus Rex, confronted audiences with issues of race, class, AIDS 1960 Birthday Reza Pahlavi, Iran, son of Shah of Iran 1944 Death Reza Sjah Pahlawi, Reza Chan, cossack officer/shah of Persia, dies 1941 Event Shah of Iran abdicates throne to his son Reza Pahlawi 1926 Event Uprising against Reza Shah Pahlawi in Persia 1926 Event Persian cossack officer Reza Chan crowns himself Shah Palawi 1925 Event Cossack officer/ex-premier Reza Chan becomes shah of Persia 1925 Event Cossack officer Reza Chan replaces sultan Ahmad Shah in Persia 1919 Birthday Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Aryamehr, Shah of Iran, 1941-79 1919 Birthday Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Iranian Royalty 1878 Birthday Reza Sjah Pahlawi, Reza Chan, shah of Iran