Today in History: Ahmet Taner Kislali Killed by a Bomb Assassination

October 21 is the 294th (295th in leap years) day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days left until the end of the year is 71.

Events 

• 1520 - Ferdinand Magellan discovered the strait named after him in the south of South America.
• 1600 – The Battle of Sekigahara begins, which will end Japan's Sengoku Era and pass it to the Tokugawa period.
• 1805 – British fleet under Admiral Nelson defeats Napoleon's Combined Franco-Spanish Navy at Trafalgar in southwest Spain. Admiral Nelson also died in the war.
• 1854 – Upon the start of the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, was sent to Selimiye Barracks in Üsküdar with 38 other nurses.
• 1860 – Ahval, the first private political newspaper, began to be published. Its owner was Capanoğlu Agah Efendi from Yozgat.
• 1878 - In Germany, Otto von Bismarck enacted the Anti-Socialist Act of anti-communist character.
• 1879 - Thomas Edison invented the carbon filament electric light bulb.
• 1935 - Germany officially leaves the League of Nations.
• 1938 - The Japanese occupied the Chinese city of Canton.
• 1940 – by Ernest Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls The book was published in New York.
• 1944 – The Nemmersdorf Massacre against German civilians is committed by the Red Army.
• 1945 – Women in France gained the right to vote for the first time.
• 1945 – The census was conducted. It was announced that the population of Turkey was 18.871.203. The provincial population of Istanbul is 1.071.686.
• 1950 - Chinese troops invade Tibet.
• 1965 - Comet Ikeya seki passed within 450,000 kilometers of the Sun.
• 1969 – Under the leadership of Doğan Avcıoğlu Revolution newspaper began to be published.
• 1969 – Social democrat Willy Brandt is elected Chancellor (prime minister) in West Germany.
• 1971 - Pablo Neruda receives the Nobel Prize for Literature.
• 1972 – Professor Mümtaz Soysal by the Ankara Martial Law Command, Introduction to the Constitution He was arrested for making communist propaganda in his textbook.
• 1973 – Necmettin Erbakan was elected as the Chairman of the National Salvation Party.
• 1977 – The European Patent Institute (EPI) was founded.
• 1981 – The foundation of Atatürk Dam was laid by President Kenan Evren.
• 1983 - The meter, the measure of length, was redefined in terms of the speed of light, but the length remained the same. Accordingly, 1 meter is the distance traveled by light in the airless environment for 1/299,792,458 of a second.
• 1984 – Afşin-Elbistan Thermal Power Plant was opened.
• 1985 – German journalist and writer Günter Wallraff tells about his experiences as a Turkish worker. The Bottoms His work (Ganz Unten) was released.
• 1987 – F-16, the first fighter aircraft assembled in Turkey Fighting Falcon was flown with an official ceremony.
• 1990 – General census: Turkey's population is 56.473.035
• 1997 – Anadolu Agency started its uninterrupted broadcasting of news via satellite with a meeting attended by Prime Minister Mesut Yılmaz.
• 1998 – Parliament approved the enlargement of NATO. Thus, the approval of 16 alliance member countries was completed and the enlargement became certain.
• 1999 – 110 people were killed and 400 injured in a rocket attack on a crowded shopping center in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya.
• 1999 – Ahmet Taner Kislali was assassinated with a bomb.
• 2005 – Tarja Turunen, the vocalist of the famous Finnish rock band Nightwish for 9 years, was kicked out after her last concert with the group.
• 2007 – Public referendum of the 2007 Civil Constitution.
• 2007 – At around 00:20, PKK members infiltrated into Turkey from the north of Iraq, an armed attack was carried out from three different regions with a large group on a company that is the security element of the infantry battalion of the Turkish Armed Forces stationed in Dağlıca. The General Staff announced that 12 martyrs, 16 wounded and 32 PKK members were killed in the conflict. See. 21 October 2007 Hakkari PKK conflict article.

Births 

• 1328 – Zhu Yuanzhang, founder and first emperor of the Ming Dynasty (d. 1398)
• 1449 – George Plantagenet, English kings IV. Edward and III. Richard's brother (d. 1478)
• 1581 – Domenichino, Italian painter (d. 1641)
• 1650 – Jean Bart, French admiral and pirate (d. 1702)
• 1675 – Higashiyama, 113th emperor of Japan in the traditional succession order (d. 1710)
• 1755 – Quatremère de Quincy, French writer, archaeologist, and art historian (d. 1849)
• 1757 – Pierre Augereau, French field marshal (d. 1816)
• 1772 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, critic, and philosopher (d. 1834)
• 1675 – Higashiyama, 113th emperor of Japan (d. 1710)
• 1772 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet (d. 1834)
• 1790 – Alphonse de Lamartine, French writer, poet, and politician (d. 1869)
• 1823 – Emilio Arrieta, Spanish composer (d. 1894)
• 1833 – Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemical engineer (d. 1896)
• 1846 – Edmondo De Amicis, Italian writer (d. 1908)
• 1868 – Ernest Swinton, English author and British Army officer (d. 1951)
• 1877 – Oswald Avery, Canadian physician and researcher (d. 1955)
• 1895 – Edna Purviance, American actress (d. 1958)
• 1898 – Eduard Pütsep, Estonian wrestler (d. 1960)
• 1908 – Niyazi Berkes, Turkish social scientist (d. 1988)
• 1910 – Nikos Engonopulos, Greek poet and painter (d. 1985)
• 1911 – Mary Blair, American artist (d. 1978)
• 1912 – Don Byas was an American jazz musician and tenor saxophonist (d. 1972)
• 1912 – Georg Solti, Hungarian-born conductor and opera conductor (d. 1997)
• 1914 – Martin Gardner, American math and science writer (d. 2010)
• 1914 – John Kluge, American businessman (d. 2010)
• 1917 – Dizzy Gillespie, American trumpet player (d. 1993)
• 1923 – Samvel Hachikyan, nicknamed “Iran's Hitchcock”, is an Iranian-Armenian film director and producer (d. 2001)
• 1925 – Celia Cruz, Cuban singer (d. 2003)
• 1928 – Whitey Ford, American former professional baseball player (d. 2020)
• 1928 – Eudóxia Maria Froehlich, Brazilian zoologist (d. 2015)
• 1929 – Pierre Bellemere, French writer, novelist, radio broadcaster, television presenter, television producer, director, and actor (d. 2018)
• 1929 – Ursula K. Le Guin, American author (d. 2018)
• 1930 – Ivan Silayev, Soviet Russian politician
• 1931 – Shammi Kapoor, Indian actor and director (d. 2011)
• 1932 – Pál Csernai, Hungarian football player and manager (d. 2013)
• 1933 - Paco Gento, Former Spanish national football player
• 1936 – Suna Kan, Turkish violin virtuoso
• 1942 – Christopher A. Sims, American economist
• 1943 – Tariq Ali, English writer
• 1945 – Nikita Mikhalkov, Russian actor and filmmaker
• 1948 – Mehmet Ali Yılmaz, Turkish politician and businessman
• 1949 – Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli politician and 9th Prime Minister of Israel
• 1952 Patti Davis, American actress and writer
• 1956 – Carrie Fisher, American actress, screenwriter, and author (daughter of film actress Debbie Reynolds) (d. 2016)
• 1957 – Wolfgang Ketterle, German physicist, professor
• 1958 – Andre Geim, Russian-British physicist
• 1959 – Ken Watanabe, Japanese film and theater actor
• 1964 – Jon Carin, American musician, composer, record producer
• 1964 – Levent Yuksel, Turkish singer
• 1965 – Ion Andoni Goikoetxea, Spanish national football player and manager
• 1967 - Paul Ince is an English football player and manager.
• 1970 – Louis Koo, Chinese actor
• 1975 – Henrique Hilário, Portuguese former football player
• 1980 – Aslı Altaylar, Turkish TV actress
• 1980 – Kim Kardashian, American actress, model, and singer
• 1981 – Nemanja Vidić, Serbian former football player
• 1982 – Matt Dallas, American actor
• 1983 – Amber Rose, American actress and model
• 1983 – Andy Marte, Dominican baseball player (d. 2017)
• 1984 – Kieran Richardson, English international football player
• 1989 – Sam Vokes, Welsh national football player
• 1990 – Bengali-Fodé Koita, Guinean football player
• 1991 – Artur Aleksanyan, Armenian Greco-Roman wrestler
• 1992 – Marzia Kjellberg, Italian internet celebrity, fashion designer and entrepreneur
• 1995 – Doja Cat, American rapper, singer, songwriter and producer

Deaths 

• 645 – Yincu Khan is a Sir-Tartush khan who ruled in the north of the Central Asian steppes.
• 1125 – Kosmas of Prague, Bohemia-born priest, writer, and historian (b. 1045)
• 1422 – VI. Charles, king of France from 1380-1422 (b. 1368)
• 1500 – Go-Tsuchimikado, 103rd emperor of Japan in the traditional succession order (b. 1442)
• 1558 – Julius Caesar Scaliger, French philologist and astrologer (b. 1484)
• 1600 – Ōtani Yoshitsugu, a Japanese samurai (b. 1558/1565)
• 1765 – Giovanni Paolo Pannini, Italian painter and architect (b. 1691)
• 1805 – Horatio Nelson, British admiral (b. 1758)
• 1907 – George Frederick Bodley, British architect (b. 1827)
• 1921 – Karl Eugen Dühring, German philosopher and economist (b. 1833)
• 1931 – Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian writer (b. 1862)
• 1939 – Platon Alekseevich Oyunskiy, Field Turk literary man, philologist and politician (b. 1893)
• 1942 – Mustafa Durak Sakarya, Turkish politician (b. 1876)
• 1948 – Ernst von Aster, German philosopher (b. 1880)
• 1956 – Hakkı Tarık Us, Turkish journalist (b. 1889)
• 1969 – Jack Kerouac, American author (b. 1922)
• 1969 – Wacław Sierpiński, Polish mathematician (b. 1882)
• 1971 – Naoya Shiga, Japanese writer (b. 1883)
• 1976 – Mualla Sürer, Turkish theater and cinema artist (b. 1902)
• 1977 – Ferit Tuzun, Turkish composer (b. 1929)
• 1978 – Anastas Mikoyan, Armenian Soviet politician (b. 1895)
• 1980 – Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician, medical theorist, and professor of medicine (b. 1906)
• 1984 – François Truffaut, French film director (b. 1932)
• 1990 – Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, Indian Guru, spiritual teacher (b. 1921)
• 1996 – Kriton Curi, Greek-Turkish academic and environmentalist (b. 1942)
• 1999 – Ahmet Taner Kışlalı, Turkish academic, journalist and writer (assassinated) (b. 1939)
• 2003 – Elliott Smith, American musician and singer (b. 1969)
• 2004 – Hasan Nail Canat, Turkish writer (b. 1943)
• 2006 – Sandy West, American singer, musician, and composer (b. 1959)
• 2011 – Hikmet Bila, Turkish journalist and Vatan Newspaper columnist (b. 1954)
• 2012 – George McGovern, American historian, author (b. 1922)
• 2014 – Ben Bradlee, journalist who was executive editor of The Washington Post from 1968 to 1991 (b. 1921)
• 2014 – Mohammad Reza Mahdevi Kani, former prime minister of Iran (b. 1931)
• 2014 – Gough Whitlam, Australian politician and lawyer who served as the 21st Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1916)
• 2016 – Frenchy Martin, Former Canadian professional wrestler and wrestling manager (b. 1947)
• 2017 – Martin Eric Ain, American musician (b. 1967)
• 2017 – Rosemary Leach, English stage, film and television actress (b. 1935)
• 2017 – Lech Ordon, Polish actor (b. 1928)
• 2017 – Gilbert Stork, American scientist (b. 1921)
• 2018 – Harry L. Ettlinger, American engineer and scientist (b. 1926)
• 2019 – Gilberto Aceves Navarro, Mexican painter, sculptor, and academic (b. 1931)
• 2019 – Josip Elic, American actor and dubbing artist (b. 1921)
• 2019 – Jerry Fogel, American actor and comedian (b. 1936)
• 2020 – Marge Champion, American dancer, choreographer, and actress (b. 1919)
• 2020 – Paul Leduc, Mexican film director (b. 1942)
• 2020 – Arolde de Oliveira, Brazilian politician, soldier, and economist (b. 1937)
• 2020 – Viola Smith, American musician and drummer (b. 1912)

Holidays and special occasions 

• Storm: Vintage Storm
• Back to the Future Day (October 21, 2015)