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Thirty-nine American hostages from the hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days.
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TWA Flight 847
1985 aircraft hijacking
TWA Flight 847 was a regularly scheduled Trans World Airlines flight from Cairo to San Diego with en route stops in Athens, Rome, Boston, and Los Angeles. On the morning of June 14, 1985, Flight 847 was hijacked soon after take off from Athens. The hijackers demanded the release…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Beirut
Capital and largest city of Lebanon
Beirut is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. As of 2014, Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, just under half of Lebanon's population, which makes it the fourth-largest city in the Levant region and the sixteenth-largest in the Arab world. The city is situated…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)