Today in History: A Group of Soldiers in the TAF Attempted a Coup

📩 15/07/2021 10:42

July 15 is the 196nd (197rd in leap years) day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 169 days left until the end of the year.

Railways

• 15 July 1998 Central Anatolia Blue Train services started.

Events 

• 1099 – The Crusader Army captured Jerusalem in the First Crusade.
• 1521 – Conquest of the island as a result of the Siege of Herke.
• 1799 – The Rosetta Stone, inscribed in three languages, which will provide the deciphering of the hieroglyphic script, was accidentally found during the construction of a castle by a French soldier during Napoleon's Egypt Campaign.
• 1840 – The Treaty of London is signed between the Ottoman Empire, the United Kingdom, Prussia, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Tsarist Russia.
• 1870 - Georgia becomes the last Confederate state to be re-admitted to the United States after the American Civil War.
• 1886 – Women, Shukufezar He started a struggle against the phrase "long hair and short mind" in his magazine.
• 1910 – Ciragan Palace in Istanbul, built by Sultan Abdulaziz, burned down.
• 1926 – Police opened fire on demonstrators in Vienna, killing 89 people.
• 1933 – Art and literature magazine Presence started to be published.
• 1953 – Uşak became a province.
• 1954 - The Boeing 707 makes its first flight.
• 1955 - Eighteen Nobel Prize-winning scientists issue a declaration against nuclear weapons (Mainau Declaration). Thirty-four more scientists later joined them.
• 1974 – In Cyprus, the National Guard Regiment led by Greek officers overthrew President Makarios and proclaimed EOKA-B leader Nikos Sampson as President.
• 1983 – Orly Airport attack: ASALA militants bombarded the Turkish Airlines Office in Paris' Orly Airport. 8 people died, 55 people were injured.
• 1997 - Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace was murdered outside his Miami, Florida home by a Filipino gay named Andrew Cunanan.
• 1997 - Slobodan Milosevic was elected President of Yugoslavia.
• 2008 – At least 60 people were killed when two suicide bombers staged an action against a military camp in the city of Baquba, 28 km northeast of Baghdad. ^{Archived July 23, 2008 at the Wayback Machine.}
• 2016 – In Turkey, a military coup attempt was made by a group of soldiers from the TAF.

Births 

• 1606 – Rembrandt, Dutch painter and printmaker (d. 1669)
• 1738 – Jacques-André Naigeon, French artist and atheist philosopher (d. 1810)
• 1798 – Alexander Gorchakov, Russian diplomat and statesman (d. 1883)
• 1899 – Remzi Oğuz Arık, Turkish archaeologist, writer and politician (d. 1954)
• 1919 – Iris Murdoch, Irish writer and philosopher (d. 1999)
• 1921 – Robert Bruce Merrifield, American biochemist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
• 1922 – Leon Lederman, American physicist (d. 2018)
• 1923 – İsmet Güney, Turkish Cypriot painter and cartoonist (d. 2009)
• 1930 – Jacques Derrida, French philosopher (d. 2004)
• 1931 – Clive Cussler, American novelist
• 1932 – Arjan Adarov, Altai writer (d. 2005)
• 1937 – Waylon Jennings, American singer-songwriter (d. 2002)
• 1939 – Yılmaz Köksal, Turkish cinema and TV series actor (d. 2015)
• 1940 – Robert Winston, British politician
• 1944 – Jan-Michael Vincent, American actor (d. 2019)
• 1946 – Linda Ronstadt, American female rock star
• 1948 – Sümer Tilmaç, Turkish actress (d. 2015)
• 1949 – Hilmi Guler, Turkish politician
• 1952 – Terry O'Quinn, American actor and Emmy Award winner
• 1954 – Mario Kempes, Argentine football player
• 1955 – Cevdet Şekerbegovic, Bosnian football player
• 1955 – Harun Kolçak, Turkish pop singer (d. 2017)
• 1956 – Joe Satriani, American guitarist
• 1958 – Bergen, Turkish singer (d. 1989)
• 1959 - Vincent Lindon, French actor.
• 1961 – Jean-Christophe Grange, French crime writer
• 1961 – Lolita Davidovich, Canadian actress
• 1961 – Forest Whitaker is an American actor.
• 1962 – Metin Özülkü, Turkish musician
• 1962 – Settar Tanrıöğen, Turkish cinema and TV series actor
• 1963 – Brigitte Nielsen, Danish actress, model and singer
• 1964 – Galyn Görg, American actress and dancer (b. 2020)
• 1968 – Deniz Arcak, Turkish singer
• 1970 – Tarkan Gözübüyük, Turkish bass guitarist
• 1972 – İnci Türkay, Turkish TV actress
• 1973 - Brian Austin Green is an American actor.
• 1976 – Marco Di Vaio is an Italian former international football player.
• 1976 – Juan Francisco Garcia, Spanish football player
• 1976 – Gabriel Jesus Iglesias, American comedian and actor
• 1976 – Jim Jones, American hip hop artist
• 1976 – Diane Kruger, German model and actress
• 1977 – Canan Ergüder, Turkish actress
• 1977 Lana Parrilla, an American actress
• 1979 – Alexander Frei is a former Swiss national football player.
• 1980 – Bruno Mbanangoyé Zita, Gabonese football player
• 1981 – Alou Diarra, French football player
• 1982 – Melis Birkan, Turkish TV series and film actress
• 1982 – Sinan Sofuoğlu, Turkish motorcycle racer (d. 2008)
• 1985 – Burak Yilmaz, Turkish football player
• 1986 – David Abraham, Argentine football player
• 1988 – Shkëlzen Gashi is a Swiss football player.
• 1989 – Alisa Kleybanova, Russian tennis player
• 1990 - Damian Lillard is an American professional basketball player.
• 1991 – Danilo is a Brazilian international football player.
• 1991 – Derrick Favors, American professional basketball player
• 1992 – Wayde van Niekerk, South African athlete
• 1993 – Ömer Arslan, Turkish football player
• 1994 – Pelin Bilgiç, Turkish basketball player
• 1995 – Elyar Fox, English singer-songwriter

Deaths 

• 1015 – Vladimir I is the first major prince of Kiev to adopt Christianity (b. 958)
• 1274 – Bonaventura – Franciscan Cardinal, philosopher and thinker (b. 1217)
• 1485 – Sinan, II. Mehmed's son (b. 1455)
• 1542 - Lisa del Giocondo, member of the Florentine Gherardini family (by Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa (b. 1479) (b. XNUMX)
• 1626 – Isabella Brant was the first wife of the Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens, who painted several portraits (b. 1591)
• 1695 – Eremya Çelebi Kömürciyan, Armenian poet, historian, translator and printer (b. 1637)
• 1861 – Adam Czartoryski, Polish statesman and politician (b. 1770)
• 1857 – Carl Czerny, Austrian pianist, composer, and music teacher (b. 1791)
• 1868 – William Thomas Green Morton, American physician (b. 1819)
• 1879 – Johann Friedrich von Brandt, German natural historian and zoologist (b. 1802)
• 1890 – Gottfried Keller, Swiss poet and politician (b. 1819)
• 1904 – Anton Chekhov, Russian short story and playwright (b. 1860)
• 1916 – Ilya Mechnikov, Ukrainian microbiologist (b. 1845)
• 1919 – Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist (b. 1852)
• 1927 – Constance Markievicz, Irish revolutionary and patriotic suffragette (former Irish Minister of Labor) (b. 1868)
• 1929 – Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian writer (b. 1874)
• 1939 – Paul Eugen Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1857)
• 1940 – Robert Pershing Wadlow is the tallest recognized person in the history of medicine (b. 1918)
• 1941 – Walter Ruttmann, German director (b. 1887)
• 1942 – Roberto María Ortiz was an Argentine lawyer and politician (b. 1886)
• 1948 - John J. Pershing, American soldier. Commander of the American Expeditionary Forces sent to Europe during World War I (b. 1860)
• 1956 – Cemil Cahit Toydemir, Turkish soldier and politician (b. 1883)
• 1969 – Peter van Eyck, German-American actor (b. 1911)
• 1975 – Fahri Belen, Turkish soldier and politician (b. 1893)
• 1976 – Joachim Peiper, Waffen-SS Colonel (b.1915)
• 1977 – Konstantin Fedin, Russian novelist, literary scholar and poet (b. 1892)
• 1977 – Esat Mahmut Karakurt, Turkish writer (b. 1902)
• 1979 – Juana de Ibarbourou, Uruguayan poet (one of South America's most famous female poets) (b. 1895)
• 1979 – Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, Mexican politician (b. 1911)
• 1980 – Abdurrahman Köksaloğlu, Turkish politician (b. 1930)
• 1988 – Tore Keller, Swedish football player (b. 1905)
• 1989 – Nesuhi Ertegün, Turkish-American music producer and founder of Atlantic Records (b. 1917)
• 1992 – Hammer DeRoburt, Nauruan politician (b. 1922)
• 1997 – Chingiz Mustafayev, Azerbaijani journalist (b. 1960)
• 1997 – Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer and businessman (b. 1946)
• 2010 – Osman Nami Osmanoğlu, Ottoman Prince and radiology graduate engineer (b. 1918)
• 2010 – Selmi Andak, Turkish composer and columnist (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Celeste Holm, American stage, film and television actress (b. 1917)
• 2014 – Faruk Ilgaz, Turkish sportsman (b. 1922)
• 2016 – Ömer Halisdemir, Turkish soldier (b. 1974)
• 2016 – Nevzat Yalçıntaş, Turkish bureaucrat and politician (b. 1933)
• 2017 – Anne Buttimer, Irish geographer (b. 1938)
• 2017 – Martin Landau, American actor (b. 1928)
• 2018 – Ronny Fredrik Ansnes is a Norwegian cross country skier (b. 1989)
• 2019 – Rex Richards, British scientist and academic (b. 1922)
• 2019 – Olga Vyalikova, Soviet Russian theater and film actress (b. 1954)
• 2020 – Carlotta Barilli, Italian actress (b. 1935)
• 2020 – Severino Cavalcanti, Brazilian politician (b. 1930)
• 2020 – Igor Chernyh, Russian cinematographer (b. 1932)
• 2020 – Toke Tufukia Talagi, Niueli politician (b. 1951)