On the day that president reagan was inagurated, which nation released 66 hostages that had been held prisoner, up until that day.

On Jan. 20, 1981, as Reagan was giving his inaugural speech, IRAN released 66 Americans hostages who were in that condition for 444 days and were placed on a plane in Tehran. Reagan announced their release later in the afternoon at a Congressional luncheon. The Iran Hostage Crisis began on Nov. 4, 1979, when a group of abundant hundred militant Islamic students broke into the United States embassy in Tehran and took its tenants hostage.