Today in History: Istanbul University Faculty of Economics Established

December 14 is the 348th day of the year (349th in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days left until the end of the year is 17.

Railways

• 14 December 1925 In the cabinet of Ismet Pasha, Nafia Deputy Suleiman Sirri Bey passed away from pneumonia after a trip to study the railways of Samsun and Edirne. It is said that he owns the word ün weaving the country with iron nets “.

Events

• 557 – A major earthquake occurs in Constantinople.
• 1819 - Alabama becomes the 22nd state of the USA.
• 1900 - Scientist Max Planck presented his quantum theory to the Berlin Physical Union.
• 1911 – Norwegian Roald Amundsenreached the South Pole.
• 1927 – Chiang Kai-shek Forces in China suppress the communist uprising in Canton.
• 1936 – Istanbul University Faculty of Economics was established.
• 1939 - The Soviet Union was expelled from the League of Nations.
• 1954 – The Cyprus problem was discussed at the United Nations. Turkish delegate Selim Sarper said, “Cyprus is 40 miles from the Turkish coast. "This island, which is 600 miles from Greece, cannot belong to Greece," he said.
• 1955 – Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Romania and Spain are included in the United Nations.
• 1960 - The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) was founded. It was founded by 9 Common Market members and 7 member states of the European Free Trade Association EFTA, the United States of America and Canada. Turkey also signed the agreement.
• 1960 – Greek in the Bosphorus World Harmony and Yugoslav Peter Verovitz tankers collided. on the pier Tarsus 20 people died in the accident, which also caused the passenger ship to burn, and tons of oil spilled into the sea.
• 1962 - NASA's Mariner-2 spacecraft passed by the planet Venus. Mariner-2 sent information about Venus to Earth.
• 1977 – CHP's Aytekin Kotil became the Mayor of Istanbul.
• 1977 – directed by Tunç Okan “Bus“The movie was released.
• 1981 - Israel annexes the Syrian-controlled Golan Heights.
• 1983 – The 100-year-old Hasan First Mansion in Vaniköy, Istanbul, was completely burned in the fire.
• 1989 – The first democratic elections were held in Chile.
• 1990 – Polish football player Roman Kosecki transferred to Galatasaray for 2 million dollars; This figure was the highest transfer fee paid in Turkey to date.
• 1994 – One of the lawyers of the Democracy Party (DEP), Atty. Faik Candan was found murdered.
• 1994 - Action magazine began its publication life.
• 1995 – The Dayton Agreement is signed in Dayton-Ohio (USA) between the warring parties Alia Izetbegovic (Bosnia), Slobodan Milošević (Serbia), and Franjo Tuđman (Croatia). The war in the former Yugoslavia, which has been going on for the past three years, is over.
• 1996 – 100.000 people attended the “Democratic state, budget for the people” rally organized by the Confederation of Public Workers' Unions (KESK) in Ankara.
• 1999 – The leader of the organized crime organization Alaattin Çakıcı, who was extradited to Turkey from France, was brought to Turkey.
• 2000 – The mediation committee, which took action to end the hunger strike initiated by 18 detainees and convicts in 865 prisons and turned into a death fast on 20 November, took steps to end the strike. The meetings of the delegation with the detainees' representatives ended without any results.
• 2002 – Hans Blix, chief of UN weapons inspectors in Iraq, requested a list of scientists from Iraq who have worked in the past and present on chemical, biological, and ballistic missile programs.
• 2002 – In the 7th Ordinary Grand Congress of the DYP, Elâzığ deputy Mehmet Ağar was elected as the Chairman.

Births

• 1009 – Go-Suzaku, 69th emperor of Japan in the traditional succession order (d. 1045)
• 1503 – Nostradamus, French astrologer and physicist (d. 1566)
• 1546 – ​​Tycho Brahe, Danish astrologer (d. 1601)
• 1631 – Anne Conway, English philosopher (d. 1679)
• 1640 – Aphra Behn, English playwright, poet, translator (d. 1689)
• 1853 – Errico Malatesta, Italian anarchist writer (d. 1932)
• 1864 – Frank Campeau, American actor (d. 1943)
• 1870 – Karl Renner, President of Austria (d. 1950)
• 1883 – Morihei Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist and founder of Aikido (d. 1969)
• 1887 – Xul Solar, Argentine painter and sculptor (d. 1963)
• 1895 – VI. George, Sovereign of the United Kingdom (d. 1952)
• 1895 – Paul Eluard, French poet (d. 1952)
• 1897 – Kurt Schuschnigg, Austrian politician (d. 1977)
• 1901 – Paulos, king of Greece (1947-1964) (d. 1964)
• 1908 – Morey Amsterdam, American actor and comedian (d. 1996)
• 1909 – Edward Lawrie Tatum, American geneticist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1975)
• 1911 – Spike Jones, American singer (d. 1965)
• 1911 - Hans von Ohain, one of the inventors of the jet engine (d. 1998)
• 1914 – Karl Carstens, president of West Germany from 1979-1984 (d. 1992)
• 1915 – Rashid Behbudov, Azerbaijani actor and singer (d. 1988)
• 1915 – Dan Dailey was an American dancer and actor (d. 1978)
• 1920 – Clark Terry, American Swing, legendary trumpeter from the bebop era (d. 2015)
• 1922 – Nikolay Basov, Soviet physicist and instructor (d. 2001)
• 1924 – Gohar Gasparyan, Armenian-Egyptian opera singer (d. 2007)
• 1924 – Raj Kapoor, Indian actor and director (d. 1988)
• 1932 - Abbe Lane is an American singer and actress.
• 1932 – Étienne Tshisekedi, Democratic Congolese politician (d. 2017)
• 1934 - Shyam Benegal, Indian film director
• 1935 Lee Remick, American actress (d. 1991)
• 1946 Jane Birkin, English singer, actress and director
• 1946 – Oral Calislar, Turkish journalist and columnist
• 1946 – Patty Duke, American actress and writer (d. 2016)
• 1947 – Dilma Rousseff, Bulgarian-Brazilian economist, politician, and Brazil's first female President
• 1948 – Selda Bağcan, Turkish musician
• 1948 – Lester Bangs, American music critic, author, and musician (d. 1982)
• 1949 – Bill Buckner, American professional baseball player (d. 2019)
• 1949 – Cliff Williams, English bassist of the Australian hard rock band AC/DC
• 1951 – Nükhet Ruacan, Turkish jazz artist (d. 2007)
• 1954 – Steve MacLean, Canadian astronaut
• 1960 – Chris Waddle, English international footballer and manager
• 1966 Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Danish female politician
• 1966 – Tim Skold, Swedish musician
• 1969 - Natascha McElhone, English actress
• 1969 – Arthur Numan, Dutch national football player and manager
• 1970 – Anna Maria Jopek, Polish singer
• 1976 - Santiago Ezquerro, Spanish football player
• 1978 – Zdeněk Pospěch, Czech national football player
• 1978 - Patty Schnyder, Swiss tennis player
• 1979 – Jean-Alain Boumsong, French national defender
• 1979 – Michael Owen, English football player
• 1980 – Didier Zokora, Ivory Coast football player
• 1982 – Steve Sidwell, English football player
• 1983 – Stéphanie Frappart, French football referee
• 1984 - Jackson Rathbone, American actor
• 1985 – Gaye Aksu, Turkish singer
• 1985 – Jakub Blaszczykowski, Polish football player
• 1988 – Nicolas Batumi is a French professional basketball player.
• 1988 - Vanessa Hudgens, American singer and actress
• 1989 – Lee Jinki is a South Korean singer, host, and actress.
• 1991 – Stefflon Don, English rapper
• 1991 – Offset, American rapper and songwriter
• 1992 - Ryo Miyaichi, Japanese football player
• 1993 – Antonio Giovinazzi, Italian Formula 1 driver

Deaths

• 872 – II. Hadrian, Pope from 14 December 867 to 14 December 872 (b. 792)
• 1293 – Halil is the Turkish sultan (b. ?)
• 1476 – III. Vlad Vlad the Impaler, Prince of Wallachia (b. 1431)
• 1542 – James V, king of Scotland from 9 September 1513 until his death (b. 1512)
• 1591 – John of the Cross, Spanish Carmelite priest, mystic (b. 1542)
• 1788 – III. Carlos, King of Spain (b. 1716)
• 1788 – Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer (b. 1714)
• 1799 – George Washington, founder and first president of the United States (b. 1732)
• 1873 – Louis Agassiz, American zoologist, glaciologist, and geologist (b. 1807)
• 1883 – Henri Martin, French historian and politician (b. 1810)
• 1963 – Dinah Washington, American blues and jazz singer (b. 1924)
• 1978 – Edmundo Suárez, Spanish football player and manager (b. 1916)
• 1980 – Semih Sezerli, Turkish film actor (b. 1930)
• 1984 – Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish writer and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
• 1989 – Andrey Saharov, Russian physicist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1921)
• 1990 – Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss author, playwright, and painter (b. 1921)
• 1993 – Myrna Loy, American actress (b. 1905)
• 1995 – Gülay Uğurata, Turkish pianist and musician (b. 1940)
• 1997 – Stubby Kaye, American comedian, actor, and voice actor (b. 1918)
• 2001 – WG Sebald, German writer and literary scholar (b. 1944)
• 2003 – İrfan Özbakır, Turkish composer and oud player (b. 1926)
• 2005 – Rodney William Whitaker (under the pen name Trevanian), American author (b. 1931)
• 2006 – Ahmet Ertegün, Turkish songwriter and businessman, founder of Atlantic Records (b. 1923)
• 2013 – Peter O'Toole, Irish actor best known for "Lawrence of Arabia" (b. 1932)
• 2013 – Teoman Koman, Turkish soldier (b. 1936)
• 2015 – Sian Blake, English actor (b. 1972)
• 2016 – Bernard Fox, Welsh actor and dubbing artist (b. 1927)
• 2016 – Päivi Paunu, Finnish singer (b. 1946)
• 2016 – Ahmed Rateb, Egyptian actor (b. 1949)
• 2017 – Bob Givens, American animator, character designer and cartoonist (b. 1918)
• 2017 – Tamio Ōki, Japanese actor, voice actor, and storyteller (b. 1928)
• 2017 – Neeraj Vora, Indian filmmaker, director, screenwriter and actor (b. 1963)
• 2018 – Jean-Pierre Van Rossem, Belgian economist, criminologist, author and politician (b. 1945)
• 2019 – Anna Karina, Danish actress, screenwriter, singer and director (b. 1940)
• 2019 – Bernard Lavalette, French theater, film and television actor (b. 1926)
• 2019 – Panamarenko, Belgian sculptor and designer (b. 1940)
• 2020 – Gérard Houllier, former French football player, manager (b. 1947)
• 2020 – Piotr Machalica, Polish actor (b. 1955)
• 2020 – Paulo César dos Santos, Brazilian singer and percussionist (b. 1952)
• 2020 – Hanna Stankówna, Polish theater, film and TV actress (b. 1938)
• 2020 – Erkut Taçkın, Turkish musician (b. 1942)
• 2020 – Huang Zongying, Chinese actress and writer (b. 1925)

Holidays and special occasions

• World Apes Day