Black Friday, a massacre by soldiers against protesters in Tehran, results in 88 deaths, it marks the beginning of the end of the monarchy in Iran.

Black Friday (1978)

Mass shooting of protesters in Pahlavi Iran on 8 September 1978

Black Friday was an incident on 8 September 1978 in Iran in which at least 64 and at most more than 100 people were shot dead and 205 injured by the Pahlavi military in Jaleh Square in Tehran. According to the military historian Spencer C. Tucker, 94 were killed on Black Friday,…