Today in History: Osmaniye Became the 80th Province of Turkey

24 October, is the 297th (298th in leap years) day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. Number of days left until the end of the year68.

Railways

• October 24, 1870 The line extending from Sarımbe to Sofia via Nis, from Thessaloniki to Skopje, Mitrovica, Perelud, Sarajevo, Banaluka and Novi from the border with Austria was certified by the will of the sultan.
• 24th of October 1922 The entire Anatolian line (except Karaköy-Bilecik) and 26 km of the Izmir-Town extension line were put into operation in the 58 days that have continued since August 220, when the Great Offensive started. The repaired line is 150 km. The total distance of the repaired bridges is 900 m. The number of stations opened is 47.

Events 

• 1260 – Mamluk Sultan Seyfeddin Kutuz was murdered by his political rival Baybars.
• 1857 – The first football club, Sheffield FC, is founded.
• 1882 - German scientist Robert Koch discovered tuberculosis.
• 1911 - Orville Wright sets a new world record by hovering for 9 minutes and 45 seconds in an aircraft over North Carolina. This record will not be broken for 10 years.
• 1912 – The Battle of Kumanovo between the Ottoman and Serbian Armies in the First Balkan War ended with the victory of the Serbs.
• 1926 - Famous illusionist Harry Houdini made his last show at the Garrick Theater in Detroit, Michigan.
• 1929 - Stocks fell on the New York Stock Exchange. The crisis that followed this collapse process created a serious contraction in world foreign trade.
• 1935 - Italy invaded Ethiopia.
• 1935 – I. Congress of Municipalities started.
• 1939 - Nylons are first offered for sale in Wilmington.
• 1945 – The United Nations Charter is published and the UN is established.
• 1945 – II. During World War II, Fascist Party leader Vidkun Quisling, who helped the Nazis invade Norway and was later made Prime Minister of Norway by Hitler, was shot.
• 1947 – Walt Disney testified before the Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), giving the committee the names of some of his employees whom he believed were Communists.
• 1949 - Little Governor Ordinaryus, known as Prof. Dr. Fahrettin Kerim Gökay started his duty as the Governor and Mayor of Istanbul.
• 1956 – Journalist Bedii Faik was sentenced to 6 months in prison for insulting the President.
• 1964 - American human rights activist Martin Luther King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1965 – The census was conducted. Turkey's population: 31.391.207
• 1975 – Turkey's Ambassador to Paris İsmail Erez and his driver Talip Yener were murdered. The organization named 'Armenian Genocide Justice Commandos' claimed responsibility for the attack.
• 1980 – The Polish government legalizes the labor union Solidarność (Solidarity Union).
• 1991 – Journalist Uluç Gürkan and Foreign Ministry officer Hande Mumcu were acquitted in the Crypto case.
• 1992 – Hezarfen, Turkey's first private airport, was put into service in Istanbul Büyükçekmece.
• 1992 – Aachen Communiqué, Ulum al-hikme school
• 1996 – First Eurasian Islamic Council convened in Turkey.
• 1996 – Osmaniye became the 80th province of Turkey.
• 2000 - American rock band Linkin Park released their first studio album, Hybrid Theory. The album achieved sales of 25 million.
• 2003 - Concorde's last flight was between New York and London.

Births 

• 15 – Vitellius, Roman Emperor (d. 69)
• 51 – Domitian, Roman Emperor (d. 96)
• 1632 – Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch scientist (d. 1723)
• 1775 – Bahadır Shah II, Last Mughal ruler, poet, musician, and calligrapher (d. 1862)
• 1798 – Massimo d'Azeglio, Italian statesman, writer, and painter (d. 1866)
• 1804 – Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist (d. 1891)
• 1855 – James S. Sherman, American politician (d. 1912)
• 1886 – Grigol Orconikidze, communist leader of the USSR Politburo (d. 1937)
• 1891 – Rafael Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic from 1930-1961 (d. 1961)
• 1913 -Tito Gobbi, Italian opera baritone (d. 1984)
• 1915 – Bob Kane, American comics writer and illustrator (d. 1915)
• 1921 – RK Laxman, Indian writer, cartoonist (d. 2015)
• 1922 – Mao Anying, son of Mao Zedong who died in the Korean War (d. 1950)
• 1924 – Fuat Sezgin, Turkish academic and Islamic scholar (d. 2018)
• 1925 – Bob Azzam, Egyptian-born French singer of Lebanese descent (d. 2004)
• 1925 – Luciano Berio, Italian avant-garde composer, conductor, theorist, and teacher (d. 2003)
• 1926 – İlhan Ayverdi, Turkish linguist (d. 2009)
• 1927 – Gilbert Bécaud, French singer, composer, and film actor (d. 2001)
• 1927 – Jean-Claude Pascal, French singer and actor (d. 1992)
• 1929 – George Crumb, 20th century classical composer
• 1930 – Johan Galtung, Norwegian sociologist
• 1930 – Sultan Ahmed Shah, Sultan of the Malaysian State of Pahang (d. 2019)
• 1931 – Sofia Gubaidulina, Tatar composer
• 1932 – Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist inducted into the Nobel Prize winners list in 1991 (d. 2007)
• 1932 – Robert Alexander Mundell, Canadian economist (d. 2021)
• 1933 – Suna Pekuysal, Turkish cinema and theater actress (d. 2008)
• 1936 – David Nelson, American actor (d. 2011)
• 1938 – Stephen Resnick, North American economist (d. 2013)
• 1939 – F. Murray Abraham, American Syriac actor
• 1942 – Maggie Blye, American actress (d. 2016)
• 1947 – Kevin Kline, American actor and winner of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
• 1949 – Keith Rowley, current Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
• 1953 – Christoph Daum, German coach
• 1954 – Malcolm Turnbull, Australian politician who served as Australia's 29th Prime Minister from 2015 to 2018
• 1958 – Hasan Cihat Örter, Turkish musician, composer and writer
• 1959 – Levent Gök, Turkish lawyer and politician
• 1964 – Grant Gee, British film and video clip director
• 1964 – Serhat, Turkish singer, producer and presenter
• 1965 – Kyriakos Velopoulos, Greek politician
• 1966 – Roman Abramovich, Russian businessman
• 1966 Andrea Bonelli, Argentine actress
• 1966 – Merav Michaeli, Israeli politician, journalist
• 1966 – Ragıp Savaş, Turkish theater and TV series actor
• 1967 – Jacqueline McKenzie, famous Australian actress
• 1970 – Fernanda Venturini, Brazilian volleyball player
• 1971 - Caprice Bourret is an American businesswoman, model, actress, and television personality.
• 1973 – Kurt Kuenne, American filmmaker and composer
• 1973 – Jackie McNamara, Scottish international football player
• 1975 - Juan Pablo Ángel, Colombian football player
• 1976 – Carlos Almeida, Angolan basketball player
• 1977 – Iván Kaviedes, Ecuadorian national football player
• 1979 – Ayşe Özyılmazel, Turkish singer and columnist
• 1980 – Matthew Amoah, Ghanaian football player
• 1980 – Monica, American singer, songwriter, record producer, actress
• 1981 – Kemal Aslan, Turkish football player
• 1981 – Tila Nguyen, Vietnamese-American model, singer, and host
• 1982 – Adil Abbas, Bahraini football player
• 1983 – Adrienne Bailon, American singer, actress, and television host
• 1983 – Özgürcan Çevik, Turkish actor
• 1984 – Antonio Ferreira, Brazilian football player
• 1985 - Wayne Rooney, English football player
• 1985 - Oscar Wendt, Swedish football player
• 1986 – Aubrey Graham, Canadian rapper, singer and actress
• 1986 – John Ruddy, English international football player
• 1986 – Tila Tequila, American singer and model
• 1987 – Anthony Vanden Borre, Belgian international football player
• 1987 – Charlie White, American figure skater
• 1989 – PewDiePie, Swedish YouTuber
• 1989 – Eliza Taylor, Australian actress
• 1990 – Ilkay Gundogan is a Turkish-German national football player.
• 1991 – Bojan Dubljevic is a Montenegrin professional basketball player.
• 1992 - Ding Liren, Chinese chess grandmaster
• 1992 – Emel Sığırcı, Turkish female basketball player
• 1994 – Chrystal Soo Jung is a South Korea-based Korean-American singer and actress.
• 1997 – Claudia Fragapane, British artistic gymnast

Deaths 

• 996 – Hugues Capet, King of France (b. 939)
• 1260 – Kutuz, soldier and statesman of Turkish origin
• 1537 - Jane Seymour, VIII. Henry's third wife after the execution of Anne Boleyn (b. 3)
• 1601 – Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer (b. 1546)
• 1655 – Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, mathematician, and Catholic priest (b. 1592)
• 1725 – Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer (b. 1660)
• 1799 – Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian composer and violinist (b. 1738)
• 1842 – Bernardo O'Higgins, Chilean soldier and politician (b. 1778)
• 1870 – Charles Joseph Minard, French civil engineer (b. 1781)
• 1886 – Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust, German and Austrian statesman (b. 1809)
• 1914 – Colin H. Campbell, Canadian politician (b. 1914)
• 1938 – Ernst Barlach, German expressionist sculptor and writer (b. 1870)
• 1939 – Salih Hulusi Kezrak, Turkish soldier and politician (b. 1864)
• 1944 – Louis Renault, French businessman who founded Renault company (b. 1877)
• 1945 – Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian politician and leader of the Norwegian Fascist Party (b. 1887)
• 1948 – Franz Lehar, Austrian composer (b. 1870)
• 1958 – George Edward Moore, English philosopher (b. 1873)
• 1961 – Clem Stephenson, English football player and manager (b. 1890)
• 1966 – Sofia Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician and historian (b. 1896)
• 1969 – Behçet Kemal Çağlar, Turkish poet (b. 1908)
• 1971 – Jo Siffert, Swiss auto racing driver (b. 1936)
• 1972 – Jackie Robinson was the first African American professional baseball player (b. 1919)
• 1974 – David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1908)
• 1975 – İsmail Erez, Turkish diplomat and former Turkish Ambassador to Paris (b. 1919)
• 1976 – Sevinç Tevs, Turkish singer (b. 1930)
• 1989 – Jerzy Kukuczka, Polish mountaineer (b. 1948)
• 1991 – Gene Roddenberry, American author and screenwriter (b. 1921)
• 1994 – Raúl Juliá, Puerto Rican film actor (b. 1940)
• 2001 – Jaromil Jireš, director associated with the Czechoslovak New Wave movement (b. 1935)
• 2002 – Hernán Gaviria, Colombian former football player (b. 1969)
• 2002 – Harry Hay, American LGBT rights activist (b. 1912)
• 2005 – Rosa Parks, American human rights activist (b. 1913)
• 2006 – William Montgomery Watt, Scottish historian, orientalist, Anglican priest, and academic (b. 1909)
• 2011 – John McCarthy, American computer scientist (b. 1927)
• 2013 – Antonia Jane Bird, British television and film director (b. 1951)
• 2014 – Mbulaeni Tongai Mulaudzi, South African middle-distance runner (b. 1980)
• 2014 – Marcia A. Strassman, American actress and singer (b. 1948)
• 2015 – Maureen O'Hara, Irish-American actress and singer (b. 1920)
• 2016 – Jorge Luis Batlle Ibáñez, Uruguayan statesman, lawyer, and journalist (b. 1927)
• 2016 – Robert Thomas Velline, American pop-rock singer (b. 1943)
• 2017 – Ibrahim Ashtiani, former Iranian national football player (b. 1942)
• 2017 – Inga Borg, Swedish artist and author of children's books (b. 1925)
• 2017 – Robert “Bob” Guillaume, American stage and television actor (b. 1927)
• 2017 – Antoine Dominique “Fats” Domino, American black rock and roll, reggae music artist (b. 1928)
• 2018 – Carmen Alborch, Spanish politician (b. 1947)
• 2018 – Anatoli Gladilin, Soviet-Russian poet and writer (b. 1935)
• 2018 – Wah Wah Watson is an American soul-jazz-funk-dance artist (b. 1950)
• 2018 – Tony Joe White, American rock-funk-blues musician, songwriter, and singer (b. 1943)
• 2019 – Walter Franco, Brazilian singer, songwriter, composer and musician (b. 1945)
• 2020 – Prince Perseverance of Brunei, Brunei prince and filmmaker (b. 1982)
• 2020 – Joel Molina Ramírez, Mexican politician and educator (b. 1942)
• 2020 – Krisztián Veréb, Hungarian speed canoe (b. 1977)

Holidays and special occasions 

• United Nations Day
• World Knowledge Development Day
• World Polio Day