A 30-Year Memory: News and News

Yes, I am playing catch up. Two news events took place a day apart 30-years ago. The results of the first are still reverberating. The second, still keeping us up-to-date on those reverbs.

November 4 - Iran hostage crisis begins: 3,000 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 of Iran back to stand trial.

November 5 - The radio news program Morning Edition premieres on National Public Radio.