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Events on Thursday 6 December 1984 1
1984Kuwait Airways Flight 221 hijackedSix-day hostage crisis in TehranHijackers seized a Kuwait Airways flight and forced it to Tehran, killing two American passengers during a six-day standoff. The hijacking was linked to demands for the release of prisoners held in Kuwait over the 1983 Kuwait bombings.