Today in History: Savarona Ship Transferred to Turkish Naval Forces

2 JulyIt is the 183st (184nd in leap years) day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 182 days remaining until the end of the year.

Railways

• 2 July 1890 İzmit-Adapazari Line (50 km) was completed and put into service with a state ceremony.
• 2 July The 1987 Railway Workers Union has decided to strike a general strike for the 40 thousand workers.

Events 

• 1698 - English inventor Thomas Savery patented the first steam engine.
• 1777 - Vermont becomes the first US region to abolish slavery.
• 1829 – A Russian Army of 25.000 men crossed the Balkans and took Burgas and Sliven.
• 1839 – 53 slaves aboard the Amistad, a slave ship, off Cuba.
• 1900 - Ferdinand von Zeppelin's aircraft was tested near Friedrichshafen, Germany, and was successful. The vehicle was given the name "Airship".
• 1917 – Greece declared war on the Ottoman Empire.
• 1932 – First Turkish History Congress convened in Ankara Community Center in the presence of Atatürk.
• 1932 - Keriman Halis was chosen as the Beauty Queen of Turkey.
• 1934 - The Night of the Long Knives ends with the death of Ernst Röhm.
• 1937 - Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan disappeared on their first world tour by plane.
• 1945 – Two people who killed 15 Greek refugees were executed under the Izmir Clock Tower.
• 1951 – The Savarona ship was transferred to the Turkish Navy.
• 1962 – The first store of the Walmart retail chain opens in Rogers, Arkansas.
• 1964 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, “outlawing racial discrimination in public places”Civil Rights Act“He signed.
• 1966 – Antalyaspor Club was founded.
• 1966 - France conducted the first nuclear bomb test in the Pacific on the island of Moruroa. The code name of the experiment was “Aldébaran”.
• 1972 – Bülent Ecevit was elected as the Chairman of the CHP.
• 1976 – North and South Vietnam, separated since 1954, unite to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
• 1978 – Charon moon of Pluto, which was considered a planet in those years, was discovered.
• 1985 - Andrey Gromiko is appointed President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet.
• 1986 – In the World Football Championship played in Mexico, Argentina became the champion.
• 1990 – Hajj stampede: pilgrims on their way to stoning demons in Mina are trapped in a tunnel; 1426 people died.
• 1992 – Turkey came fifth in the World Intelligence Games Championship and Congress held in New York for the first time as part of the Olympic Games.
• 1993 – Sivas Madımak Hotel was burned. 37 of the people in the hotel were burned to death.
• 2001 – “AbioCor”, the first artificial heart that has no connection with the outside after being placed in the thorax, was applied to a patient for the first time.
• 2002 - Steve Fossett became the first person to circumnavigate the globe in a balloon alone and without a break.
• 2003 – Directed by Ferzan Özpetek Opposite Window won five of the Globo D'Oro (Golden Globe) cinema awards, including the “Best Film Award”, for which the Foreign Press Center in Italy was a jury member.
• 2004 – 5.2 people died in the 18 magnitude earthquake that occurred in Doğubayazıt district of Ağrı.

Births 

• 419 – III. Valentinian, Western Roman Emperor (d. 455)
• 1714 – Christoph Willibald Gluck, German composer (d. 1787)
• 1843 – Antonio Labriola, Italian Marxist theorist and philosopher (d. 1904)
• 1862 – William Henry Bragg, English physicist (d. 1942)
• 1877 – Hermann Hesse, German writer, poet, and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)
• 1904 – René Lacoste, French tennis player and founder of Lacoste (d. 1996)
• 1906 Hans Bethe, German physicist (d. 2005)
• 1914 – Erich Topp, German U-boat commander (d. 2005)
• 1922 – Pierre Cardin, Italian-born French fashion designer
• 1923 – Wislawa Szymborska, Polish poet (d. 2012)
• 1925 – Patrice Lumumba, first Prime Minister of Congo DC (d. 1961)
• 1929 – Imelda Marcos, wife of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos
• 1930 – Karl Gerstner, Swiss graphic designer (d. 2017)
• 1930 – Carlos Menem, nicknamed El Turco, Argentine politician (d. 2021)
• 1936 – Omar Suleiman, Egyptian politician, diplomat, and army general (d. 2012)
• 1937 - Richard Petty, former NASCAR driver nicknamed "The King"
• 1939 – Sultan bin Mohammed al-Qasimi, b. January 25, 1972 Emir of Sharjah and Member of the Federal Supreme Council of the United Arab Emirates
• 1939 – Alexandros Panagoulis, Greek politician and poet (d. 1976)
• 1942 – Ahmet Türk, Turkish politician of Kurdish descent
• 1943 – Üstün Akmen, Turkish theater critic and writer (d. 2015)
• 1943 – Kevork Malikyan, Turkish-born English actor
• 1946 – Richard Axel, American scientist who won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Medicine
• 1946 – Ron Silver, American actor (d. 2009)
• 1946 – Timur Selçuk, Turkish pop music commentator, pianist and composer (d. 2020)
• 1947 – Larry David, American actor and producer (Seinfeld)
• 1952 – Ahmed Uyahya, Algerian politician
• 1957 – Bret Hart, Canadian author, actor, and retired professional wrestler
• 1963 – Rositsa Kirilova, Bulgarian singer
• 1970 – Yancy Butler, American actress
• 1973 – Çiğdem Vitrinel, Turkish director, screenwriter and producer
• 1975 - Elizabeth Reaser is an American actress.
• 1976 – Derya Büyükuncu, Turkish swimmer
• 1977 – Deniz Barış, Turkish football player
• 1979 - Rebecca Mader, English actress
• 1983 – Michelle Branch, American singer, songwriter, and actress
• 1984 – Maarten Martens, Belgian football player
• 1985 – Vlatko Ilievski, Macedonian singer (d. 2018)
• 1985 – Ashley Tisdale, American actress
• 1985 – Onur Tuna, Turkish cinema, theater and TV series actor
• 1986 Lindsay Lohan, American actress
• 1987 - Esteban Granero, Spanish football player
• 1987 – Ruslana Korşunova, Russian-born Kazakh model and model (d. 2008)
• 1988 – Lee Chung-yong is a South Korean football player.
• 1989 – Giant is an American electropop singer and songwriter.
• 1989 – Alex Morgan, American women's international football player
• 1990 – Roman Lob, German singer
• 1990 – Margot Robbie, Australian actress and producer
• 1993 – Ieva Zasimauskaitė, Lithuanian singer
• 1994 – Baba Rahman is a Ghanaian football player.
• 2001 – Abraham Attah is a Ghanaian actor who lived in the USA for his career and education.

Deaths 

• 1215 – Eisai, Japanese Buddhist monk of the late Heian and early Kamakura periods (b.
• 1511 – Hadim Ali Pasha, Sultan II. Ottoman statesman who served as grand vizier twice during the reign of Bayezid 1501-1503 and 1506-1511
• 1566 – Nostradamus, French physician, pharmacist, seer, and astrologer (b. 1503)
• 1582 – Akechi Mitsuhide was a samurai general of the Sengoku period in Japan (b. 1528)
• 1778 – Jean Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher (b. 1712)
• 1798 – John Fitch, American watchmaker and inventor (b. 1743)
• 1843 – Samuel Hahnemann, German physician (b. 1755)
• 1850 – Robert Peel, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1788)
• 1915 – Porfirio Díaz, President of Mexico (b. 1830)
• 1924 – Matsukata Masayoshi, fourth prime minister of Japan (b. 1835)
• 1934 – Ernst Röhm, German officer, politician, founder and commander of SA (b. 1887)
• 1949 – Georgi Dimitrov, founder of socialist rule in Bulgaria and first Prime Minister (b. 1882)
• 1955 – Fatma Seher Erden (Kara Fatma), Turkish female soldier, heroine of the Turkish War of Independence and Medal of Independence (b. 1888)
• 1961 – Ernest Hemingway, American author (b. 1899)
• 1973 – Betty Grable, American actress (b. 1916)
• 1977 – Vladimir Nabokov, Russian writer (b. 1899)
• 1989 – Andrey Gromiko, Soviet diplomat and Foreign Minister (b. 1909)
• 1989 – Franklin Schaffner, American film director (b. 1920)
• 1989 – Hasan Esat Işık, Turkish politician and diplomat (b. 1916)
• 1991 – Lee Remick, American actress (b. 1935)
• 1993 – Asım Bezirci, Turkish writer (b. 1927)
• 1993 – Behçet Sefa Aysan, Turkish poet (b. 1949)
• 1993 – Hasret Gültekin, Turkish artist (b. 1971)
• 1993 – Muhlis Akarsu, Turkish folk poet (b. 1948)
• 1993 – Nesimi Çimen, Turkish folk poet (b. 1931)
• 1994 – Andrés Escobar, Colombian national football player (b. 1967)
• 1996 – Saniye Can, Turkish Folk Music artist (b. 1930)
• 1997 – James Stewart, American actor (b. 1908)
• 1999 – Mario Puzo, American author and Academy Award winner for Best Adapted Screenplay (b. 1920)
• 2002 – Earle Brown, American composer (b. 1926)
• 2004 – John Cullen Murphy, American comics (Prince Valiant'in (Hero Prince) illustrator) (b. 1919)
• 2007 – Beverly Sills, American soprano (b. 1929)
• 2010 – Beryl Bainbridge, English novelist (b. 1932)
• 2011 – Itamar Franco, Brazilian politician (b. 1930)
• 2011 – Özcan Tekgül, Turkish belly dance artist, film and theater actor (b. 1941)
• 2013 – Douglas Engelbart, Norwegian-American inventor (b. 1925)
• 2013 – Fevziye Fuad, first wife of the Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (b. 1921)
• 2016 – Caroline Aherne, British comedian and actress (b. 1963)
• 2016 – Michael Cimino, Academy Award-winning American director (b. 1939)
• 2016 – Roger Dumas, French actor (b. 1932)
• 2016 – Rudolf Kalman, Hungarian-American mathematical systems theorist (b. 1930)
• 2016 – Michel Rocard, French politician and Prime Minister of France (b. 1930)
• 2016 – Elie Wiesel, Romanian-born Jewish writer and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1928)
• 2017 – Chris Roberts, German singer and actor (b. 1946)
• 2019 – Şeref Bakşık, Turkish politician (b. 1927)
• 2019 – Costa Cordalis, Greek-German musician, singer and skier (b. 1944)
• 2019 – Lee Iacocca, American businessman (b. 1924)
• 2019 – Lis Verhoeven, German actress and theater director (b. 1931)
• 2019 – Bruce Wallrodt, Australian Paralympic athlete (b. 1951)
• 2020 – Nikolay Kapustin, Russian composer and pianist (b. 1937)
• 2020 – Wanderley Mariz, Brazilian politician and lawyer (b. 1940)
• 2020 – Tilo Prückner, German actor (b. 1940)