1979: Shah of Iran flees into exile. The Shah of Iran has fled the country following months of increasingly violent protests against his regime. Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi and his wife, Empress Farah, left Tehran and flew to Aswan in Egypt. The couple's three youngest children were flown to the United States yesterday.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Uruguay is a country in Southern South America, bordering the South Atlantic Ocean, between Argentina and Brazil. It is located in the Southern Hemisphere on the Atlantic seaboard of South America between 53 and 58 west longitude and 30 and 35 south latitude.ruguay is the smallest Spanish-speaking nation in South America with a land area of 173,620 km 2 (67,035 sq mi) and a water area of 2,600 km 2 (1,004 sq mi).
For other uses, see Montevideo (disambiguation). Montevideo (Spanish pronunciation: [monteÎ²iËÃ°e.o]) is the capital and largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2011 census, the city proper has a population of 1,319,108 (about one-third of the country's total population) in an area of 201 square kilometres (78 sq mi).