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TIL about the 1977 Washington DC hostage taking incident, where a slinter group of the Nation of Islam stormed city hall, a Jewish center, and as Islamic center. They took 149 hostages, two of whom were killed, and demanded the cancellation of a movie about the family of Mohammad.

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