Sweet concert! This is an ad in The Washington Post on February 11th, 1979 for a Kenny Rogers concert. Almost 35 years ago, this was a Sunday, and while Washingtonians were heading to Landover for the concert, the Shah in Iran fell and Ayatollah Khomeini took power.

Below is a video that we dug up on YouTube from the History Channel’s documentary “Crisis in Iran” narrated by Mike Wallace.