On Jan. 20, 1981, the Iranian hostage crisis came to an end when the last of the hostages held in Tehran were released after 444 agonizing days.

On Sunday morning, Nov. 4, 1979, 3,000 university students, many armed, stormed the US Embassy in Tehran. Two weeks prior, President Jimmy Carter had allowed former Iranian head of state Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to enter the US for cancer treatment. The radical protesters took more than 90 hostages, including 63 Americans, planning a nonviolent three-day revolt using the hostages as leverage to demand the shah’s return for trial. But what unfolded was a 444-day saga that became known as the Iranian hostage crisis.

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