Today in History: First Heart Transplant in Turkey

November 22 is the 326th day of the year (327th in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days left until the end of the year is 39.

Railways

• November 22, 1922 in Lausanne, Ismet Pasha in Western Thrace railway up to the plebiscite and Mustafapaşa Kuleliburgaz requested to remain in Turkey.

Events 

• 1497 - Portuguese navigator Vasco de Gama arrived at the Cape of Good Hope.
• 1617 – Mustafa I became Sultan. The throne passed from father to son, this time passed to the brother. Mustafa I, who was mentally ill, was deposed 3 months later, ascended to the throne again in 1622, and was deposed again in 1623.
• 1909 – The Department of Dentistry of the Faculty of Medicine was established.
• 1922 – Liberation of Havsa district of Edirne province from Greek occupation.
• 1922 – In Egypt, Howard Carter, along with his assistant George Herbert de Carnarvon, opened the tomb of pharaoh Tutankhamun.
• 1925 – Demonstrations against the Hat Revolution continue; Demonstrations were held in Kayseri.
• 1928 – Ravel's BoléroIt was staged for the first time in Paris.
• 1936 – Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil's last memories, “Palace and Beyond”, Cumhuriyet was published in the newspaper.
• 1940 – II. With the outbreak of World War II in the Balkans, the Council of Ministers of Turkey declared martial law in the provinces of Thrace as well as Istanbul and Kocaeli.
• 1943 - Lebanon gained its independence from France.
• 1948 – Turkey's second economics congress, the 1948 Turkish Economics Congress, was convened. In the congress, the policy of statism was criticized and the encouragement of private entrepreneurship was requested.
• 1950 – The World Peace Council awarded the International Peace Prize to Nâzım Hikmet from Turkey, Pablo Picasso from Spain, Pablo Neruda from Chile, Paul Robeson from America and Wanda Jakubowska from Poland.
• 1952 - Homeland newspaper's editor-in-chief Ahmet Emin Yalman was attacked with guns.
• 1963 - United States President John F. Kennedy was killed in Dallas. That same day, his deputy, Lyndon B. Johnson, became President.
• 1968 – The first heart transplant was performed in Turkey. After the operation performed by Doctor Kemal Beyazıt and his team, the patient survived for 18 hours.
• 1975 – Monarchy returns to Spain; Juan Carlos becomes King of Spain.
• 1979 – The International Monetary Fund, the IMF, demanded that the Turkish lira be devalued again.
• 1982 – Writer Tezer Özlü won the “Malbug Award” in Germany.
• 1984 – Turkey's term presidency was discussed at the Council of Europe. When no conclusion could be reached, Foreign Minister Vahit Halefoğlu left the meeting.
• 1986 - Mike Tyson becomes the world's youngest heavyweight champion at age 20.
• 1995 – The first feature-length animated film created entirely with computer support. Toy Story given for display.
• 2005 - Angela Merkel becomes Germany's first female chancellor.

Births 

• 1787 – Rasmus Christian Rask, Danish linguist, philologist (d. 1832)
• 1808 – Thomas Cook, English clergyman and businessman (founder of the travel company "Thomas Cook", better known by his name) (d. 1892)
• 1809 – Bénédict Morel, French physician (d. 1873)
• 1819 – George Eliot, English writer (d. 1880)
• 1847 – Richard Bowdler Sharpe, English zoologist and ornithologist (d. 1909)
• 1852 – Paul d'Estournelles, French diplomat and politician (d. 1924)
• 1856 – Heber J. Grant, 7th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1945)
• 1861 – III. Ranavalona, ​​queen who reigned from 1883 to 1897 as the last monarch of the Merina Kingdom (d. 1917)
• 1868 – John Nance Garner, politician who served as Vice President of the United States from 1933 to 1941 (d. 1967)
• 1869 – André Gide, French writer and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1951)
• 1869 – Valdemar Poulsen, Danish engineer and inventor (d. 1942)
• 1877 – Endre Ady, Hungarian poet (d. 1919)
• 1877 – Joan Gamper, Swiss football player, club president and club founder (d. 1930)
• 1881 – Enver Pasha, Ottoman soldier and politician (d. 1922)
• 1890 – Charles de Gaulle, French soldier, politician, and President of France (d. 1970)
• 1891 – Edward Bernays, US sociologist and psychologist (d. 1995)
• 1893 – Lazar Kaganovich, Soviet politician and statesman (d. 1991)
• 1901 – Joaquín Rodrigo, Spanish composer (d. 1999)
• 1902 - Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, II. French general during World War II (d. 1947)
• 1904 – Louis Néel, French physicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics (d. 2000)
• 1909 – Mikhail Mil, Soviet aerospace engineer (d. 1970)
• 1911 – Ralph Guldahl, American golfer (d. 1987)
• 1913 – Benjamin Britten, English pianist (d. 1976)
• 1914 – Colonel Peter Townsend, British officer, ace pilot, courtier, and author (d. 1995)
• 1917 – Andrew Huxley, English physiologist, biophysicist, and Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2012)
• 1922 – Fikret Amirov, composer of the Soviet era in Azerbaijan (d. 1984)
• 1923 – Arthur Hiller, Canadian television and film director (d. 2016)
• 1923 – Rosy Varte, French actress (d. 2012)
• 1924 Geraldine Page, American actress (d. 1987)
• 1932 – Robert Vaughn, American actor (d. 2016)
• 1935 – Lüdmila Belousova, Russian figure skater (d. 2017)
• 1937 – Nikolay Kapustin, Russian composer and pianist (d. 2020)
• 1940 – Terry Gilliam, American film director
• 1940 – Andrzej Zulawski, Polish-born film director (d. 2016)
• 1941 – Tom Conti, Scottish actor of Italian-Irish descent
• 1943 Billie Jean King, American former tennis player
• 1947 – Nevio Scala, Italian football man and former football player
• 1948 – Radomir Antić, Serbian former football player and manager (d. 2020)
• 1948 – İlhan Kesici, Turkish politician
• 1950 - Paloma San Basilio, Spanish Latin pop singer
• 1950 – Volkan Bozkır, Turkish lawyer, diplomat and politician
• 1954 – Paolo Gentiloni, Italian politician and former journalist
• 1955 – Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu, Turkish businessman and President of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB)
• 1958 - Jamie Lee Curtis is an American actress.
• 1961 – Mariel Hemingway, American actress and writer
• 1964 – Robbie Slater, Australian international footballer
• 1965 – Mads Mikkelsen, Danish actress
• 1967 – Boris Becker, German tennis player
• 1967 – Mark Ruffalo, American actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1968 – Sidse Babett Knudsen, Danish actress
• 1968 – Bennu Yıldırımlar, Turkish actress
• 1969 – Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French cartoonist
• 1974 – David Pelletier, Canadian ice skater
• 1976 – Torsten Frings, German football player
• 1976 – Ville Valo, Finnish soloist and guitarist
• 1977 – Kerem Gonlum, Turkish basketball player
• 1978 - Karen O, American singer and keyboardist
• 1978 – Francis Obikwelu, Nigerian athlete
• 1981 – Song Hye-kyo, South Korean actress
• 1982 – Yakubu Aiyegbeni is a former Nigerian football player.
• 1983 Sei Ashina, Japanese actress (d. 2020)
• 1983 - Corey Beaulieu is an American guitarist.
• 1984 – Scarlett Johansson, American actress
• 1985 – Hande Doğandemir, Turkish actress
• 1985 – Asamoah Gyan, Ghana national football player
• 1985 – Dieumerci Mbokani, Congolese national football player
• 1986 – Oscar Pistorius, South African paralympic runner
• 1987 – Marouane Fellaini, Moroccan-Belgian football player
• 1988 – Atiye, Turkish singer
• 1988 – Jamie Campbell Bower, English actress, singer and model
• 1989 - Chris Smalling, English football player
• 1989 – Gabriel Torje is a Romanian football player.
• 1991 - Tarik Black is an American professional basketball player.
• 1991 – Erik Sabo, Slovak football player
• 1993 – Adèle Exarchopoulos, Greek-French actress
• 1994 – Dacre Montgomery, Australian actor, poet and songwriter
• 1995 - Katherine McNamara, an American actress
• 1996 – Hailey Baldwin, an American model, actress, presenter
• 2001 – Chenle, Chinese singer and actor

Deaths 

• 950 – Lothair II, King of Italy (b. 926)
• 1318 – Mikhail Yaroslavich, prince of Tver from 1285 to 1318 (b. 1271)
• 1617 – Ahmet I, 14th sultan of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1590)
• 1718 – Blackbeard (Blackbeard), English pirate (b. 1680)
• 1774 – Robert Clive, British major general (b. 1725)
• 1836 – Karl Daub, German philosopher (b. 1765)
• 1875 – Henry Wilson, 18th vice president of the United States (b. 1812)
• 1893 – Alexandre Kazbegi, Georgian novelist and playwright, poet, translator and theater actor (b. 1848)
• 1902 – Walter Reed, American bacteriologist (b. 1851)
• 1913 – Hitotsubashi Yoshinobu, Japanese soldier and politician (b. 1837)
• 1916 – Jack London, American author (suicide) (b. 1876)
• 1919 – Francisco Pascasio Moreno, Argentine geologist, anthropologist, and explorer (b. 1852)
• 1926 – Dervish Khan, classical Persian music composer and tar virtuoso (b. 1872)
• 1934 – Philippe Berthelot, French diplomat (b. 1866)
• 1941 – Werner Molders, World War II. Was a Nazi Germany Luftwaffe Ace Pilot during World War II (b. 1913)
• 1943 – Lorenz Hart, American songwriter (b. 1895)
• 1944 – Arthur Stanley Eddington, English astrophysicist (b. 1882)
• 1944 – Joseph Caillaux, French Prime Minister (b. 1863)
• 1946 – Otto Georg Thierack, German Nazi politician and lawyer (b. 1889)
• 1948 – Ömer Fahreddin Türkkan, Turkish soldier and diplomat (Defense of Medina) (b. 1868)
• 1962 – René Coty, last president of the Fourth Republic in France (b. 1882)
• 1963 – Aldous Huxley, English writer (b. 1894)
• 1963 – Clive Staples Lewis, Irish writer and lecturer (b. 1898)
• 1963 – John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States and Pulitzer Prize winner (b. 1917)
• 1972 – Horia Hulubei, Romanian physicist (b. 1896)
• 1976 – Sevgi Soysal, Turkish writer (b. 1936)
• 1980 – Mae West, American actress and writer (b. 1893)
• 1981 – Hans Adolf Krebs, German medical and biochemist (b. 1900)
• 1988 – Luis Barragán, Mexican architect (b. 1902)
• 1988 – Raymond Dart, Australian anatomist and anthropologist (b. 1893)
• 1993 – Anthony Burgess, English novelist and critic (b. 1917)
• 1994 – Asuman Korad, Turkish theater actor (b. 1934)
• 1997 – Michael Hutchence, Australian musician, actor and INXS lead singer (suicide) (b. 1960)
• 2000 – Emil Zátopek, Czech athlete (b. 1922)
• 2007 – Maurice Béjart, French-Swiss dancer, choreographer, and opera director (b. 1927)
• 2007 – Verity Lambert, English television and film producer (b. 1935)
• 2008 – MC Breed is an American rap singer and musician (b. 1971)
• 2011 – Svetlána Allilúyeva, daughter of Soviet president Josef Stalin and his second wife, Nadejda Allilúyeva (b. 1926)
• 2011 – Sena Jurinac, Croatian-Austrian opera singer (b. 1921)
• 2011 – Lynn Margulis, American biologist, taxonomist, bacteriologist, theorist (b. 1938)
• 2015 – Kim Young-sam, South Korean politician (b. 1927)
• 2017 – George Avakian, American record producer, artist manager, author, educator, and manager (b. 1919)
• 2017 – Dmitri Hvorostovski, Russian baritone, international opera singer (b. 1962)
• 2017 – Juan Luis Maurás, Chilean lawyer and politician (b. 1922)
• 2018 – Soslan Andiyev, Soviet-Russian heavyweight wrestler of Ossetian descent (b. 1952)
• 2019 – Jean Douchet, French film director, screenwriter, writer, historian, film critic and educator (b. 1929)
• 2019 – Daniel Leclercq, French football player and manager (b. 1949)
• 2019 – Gugu Liberato, Brazilian television host, businessman, singer, actor and producer (b. 1959)
• 2020 – Muharrem Fejzo, Albanian film director (b. 1933)
• 2020 – Elena Hrenova, Moldovan politician (b. 1950)
• 2020 – Mustafa Nadarević, Bosnian-Croatian theater and television actor (b. 1943)
• 2020 – Yuriy Pleshakov, Ukrainian professional football player (b. 1988)

Holidays and special occasions 

• Lebanon – Independence Day (gained independence from France in 1943).
• Dentists' Day and Community Oral and Dental Health Week