Today in History: Antep Has Been Given the Title of Veteran by the Grand National Assembly of Turkey

February 8 is the 39nd day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days left until the end of the year is 326.

Railways

• February 8, 1918 1100 rails, 12 bridges, 25 telegraph pillars and 11 rails near Cüda Station were destroyed by Hicaz Railway on February 1200. Medina's contact with the north has come to a breaking point.

Events

• 1587 - Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, was beheaded. Queen Mary, who was executed after 19 years in prison, was accused of plotting to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I.
• 1904 – Russo-Japanese War begins when the Japanese make a surprise attack on the Chinese port of Port Arthur, destroying the Russian fleet and preventing its passage.
• 1915 – by DW Griffith Birth of a Nation (The Birth of a Nation) was shown for the first time in Los Angeles.
• 1919 – French General Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, who was appointed to Istanbul as the Commander of the Occupation Forces, entered Istanbul with his so-called show of strength by passing over the Turkish Flag with his horse.
• 1921 – Antep was given the title of “Gazi” by the Turkish Grand National Assembly.
• 1922 – The first issue of the newspaper “Gazisancak” was published in Gaziantep. The newspaper, which had 285 issues, was closed in 1925.
• 1922 – US President Warren G. Harding introduced the first radio at the White House.
• 1924 – Capital punishment: Nevada became the first state in the USA to carry out the death penalty by using gas.
• 1930 - Akşam The relay race organized by the newspaper was held with the participation of Galatasaray, Beşiktaş, Robert College, Fenerbahçe and İstanbulspor. Robert College won the race, with the fastest comeback at 26 minutes.
• 1935 – The 5th term elections for the Turkish Grand National Assembly were held. Turkish women used their right to vote and be elected for the first time. The Republican People's Party (CHF) continues to rule. 17 women deputies entered the Parliament for the first time. In the by-elections, this number reached 18. In this period, the ratio of female deputies to 395 deputies in the parliament is 4,5 percent.
• 1937 – The Forest Law was passed.
• 1951 – Sabiha Gökçen, Atatürk's adopted daughter and Turkey's first female fighter pilot, applied to join the Korean War as a pilot. Sabiha Gökçen's initiative was widely covered in the Western press. However, Gökçen's request could not be realized due to the absence of female pilots in the US Army.
• 1956 – The number of pages of newspapers is limited; Lotteries and jackpots are banned.
• 1956 – Pheasant Osman, king of swindlers, was caught in Bursa.
• 1958 - Bobby Fischer is only 15 years old and becomes World chess champion.
• 1962 – Police intervene in protesters against the Secret Army bombings in France; 8 people died.
• 1962 – The Tourism Bank of the Republic of Turkey started its activities.
• 1963 – All kinds of travel, financial and commercial relations between US citizens and Cuba were banned by the John F. Kennedy administration.
• 1963 – Baathist officers led by Abdüsselam Arif seized power in Iraq, Prime Minister Abdülkerim Kasım was killed.
• 1969 – TRT established television monitoring centers in 4 villages of Ankara to watch television broadcasts for the village.
• 1973 – The trial of retired Lieutenant General Cemal Madanoğlu, a former member of the National Unity Committee, and 31 of his friends began. Cemal Madanoğlu and his friends were accused of attempting to change all or part of the Constitution by dissolving the National Assembly.
• 1974 - The American space station Skylab returned to Earth after 84 days in space.
• 1974 – Military coup in Upper Volta.
• 1976 – Winter Olympics held in Innsbruck were broadcast on TRT television.
• 1976 – England had to defend itself in Strasbourg. There were allegations about Britain that he tortured IRA (Irish Republican Army) defendants.
• 1977 – The price of Istanbul newspapers increased to 2 liras.
• 1977 – THY strike was postponed for the second time by the Council of Ministers.
• 1980: The Process Leading to the 12 September 1980 Coup in Turkey (1979 - 12 September 1980): 6 trucks selling food belonging to Migros were abducted in Istanbul, the food was looted, the trucks were destroyed. 4 stores were looted in Ankara.
• 1980 – 55 thousand workers made a one-day work stop in Izmir. The workers who took action were members of the unions affiliated with the Revolutionary Workers' Unions Confederation DİSK.
• 1980 – Tariş events: Tariş workers occupied some parts of the enterprise. Workers at Çiğli İplik Factory closed the factory doors and set up barricades.
• 1983 - President Kenan Evren said that abortion is not a sin. Evren would grant women the right to abortion on May 27, 1983.
• 1984 – Winter Olympic Games started in Sarajevo.
• 1985 – A measure was imposed on the properties of 66 managers of Hisarbank, Istanbul Bank and Ortadoğu İktisat Bank (Odibank). Ömer Çavuşoğlu, Ahmet Kozanoğlu, Melih Saydam and Özer Uçaran Çiller are among the bankers whose properties have been taken into custody.
• 1986 – After 6 years, the first workers' march was held in Balıkesir. About 5000 people participated in the march.
• 1989 – A Boeing 707 passenger plane crashes in the Azores, off Portugal: 144 people are killed.
• 1990 – Hope was lost from the 63 workers who were buried in Amasya Yeniceltek. The air shafts of the mine were concreted. The death toll in the firedamp explosion that occurred the day before has reached 66.
• 1991 – 81 poets published a joint poem they prepared by writing a line against the war.
• 1992 – Unal Erkan was appointed as the State of Emergency Regional Governor.
• 1994 – Erdal Çelik won the 16th International Cavon Song Contest. Çelik participated in the competition with the song "Like A Gift".
• 1994 – TEKEL products were increased by 13,04 to 16,67 percent.
• 1999 – King Hussein of Jordan was buried in a ceremony in Amman.
• 2000 – The 10th Chamber of the Council of State unanimously rejected the request of Merve Kavakçı, who was elected as Istanbul Deputy from the FP, to annul the Council of Ministers Decision regarding the loss of Turkish citizenship.
• 2001 – The lawsuit filed by the Bonn Chief Public Prosecutor's Office against former Prime Minister Helmut Kohl within the framework of the case regarding the dark donations to the Christian-Democratic Party (CDU) was closed with the payment of a fine of 150 thousand Euros.
• 2001 – President Ahmet Necdet Sezer did not sign the draft decree allowing the burials of Esad Coşan and his son-in-law Ali Yücel Uyarel to the Süleymaniye Mosque cemetery and sent it back to the Prime Ministry.
• 2001 – Ayşen Başaran's family, whose left arm was amputated at the elbow due to an incorrect injection in the SSK hospital in Lüleburgaz District of Kırklareli, was concluded in 1996. The compensation lawsuit filed against SSK was concluded. The court decided to pay the Başaran family 119 billion liras of non-pecuniary damages together with the legal interests.
• 2002 – The 6th Penal Chamber of the Supreme Court overturned the convictions regarding various prison sentences given to 5 defendants in the " Yüksekova Gang" case.
• 2002 - The Winter Olympics started in Salt Lake City.
• 2004 - American singer Beyoncé wins five Grammy Awards.
• 2005 – A ceasefire was reached with an agreement signed in Egypt between Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas.

Births

• 412 – Proclus, Greek philosopher (d. 485)
• 882 – Mohammed bin Togac, he was the founder of the Ihşidi dynasty who came from Fergana (d. 946)
• 1191 – II. Yaroslav, Grand prince of Vladimir from 1238 to 1246 (d. 1246)
• 1591 – Guercino, Italian painter (d. 1666)
• 1688 – Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish scientist (d. 1772)
• 1700 – Daniel Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1782)
• 1720 – Sakuramachi, 115th emperor of Japan in traditional succession (d. 1750)
• 1741 – André Ernest Modeste Grétry, French opera composer (d. 1813)
• 1787 – Giovanni Gussone, Italian academic and botanist (d. 1866)
• 1819 – John Ruskin, English writer, poet, art and society critic (d. 1900)
• 1823 – Károly Alexy, Hungarian sculptor (d. 1880)
• 1825 – Henry Walter Bates, English naturalist and explorer (d. 1892)
• 1828 Jules Verne, French writer (d. 1905)
• 1828 – Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, Prime Minister of Spain (d. 1897)
• 1830 – Abdulaziz, 32nd Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1876)
• 1834 – Dmitry Mendeleev, Russian chemist (d. 1907)
• 1845 – Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, Irish philosopher and political economist (d. 1926)
• 1845 – Anton Weichselbaum, Austrian pathologist and bacteriologist (d. 1920)
• 1851 – Kate Chopin, American short story writer (d. 1904)
• 1856 – Édouard Delamare-Deboutteville, French industrialist and engineer (d. 1901)
• 1856 – Léon Bakst, Russian artist (d. 1924)
• 1859 – Gabriele Reuter, German woman of letters (d. 1941)
• 1867 – Antonius Johannes Jurgens, German manufacturer (d. 1945)
• 1873 – Mehmed Reşit Bey, Ottoman soldier and statesman (d. 1919)
• 1876 ​​– Paula Modersohn-Becker, German painter (d. 1907)
• 1878 – Martin Buber, Jewish philosopher (d. 1965)
• 1880 – Franz Marc, German painter (d. 1916)
• 1880 – Malik Bushati, Prime Minister of Albania (d. 1946)
• 1883 – Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Austrian economist and political scientist (d. 1950)
• 1888 – Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian modernist poet, journalist, essayist, critic, academic (d. 1970)
• 1888 – Edith Evans, English film and stage actress (d. 1976)
• 1894 – King Vidor, American film director (d. 1982)
• 1895 – Horloogiyn Choibalsan, Mongolian communist politician and field marshal (d. 1952)
• 1897 – Zakir Hussein, 3rd President of India (d. 1969)
• 1903 – Tunku Abdulrahman, Prime Minister of Malaysia (d. 1990)
• 1906 – Chester Carlson, American physicist and inventor of the photocopy (d. 1968)
• 1921 – Kemal Kafalı, Turkish academic and Rector of ITU (d. 2008)
• 1921 – Lana Turner, American actress and actress (d. 1995)
• 1925 – Jack Lemmon, American actor (d. 2001)
• 1926 – Diamando Kumbaki, Greek partisan and activist (Greek Resistance partisan who fought against the Axis Powers during World War II) (d. 1944)
• 1931 – James Dean, American actor (d. 1955)
• 1931 – George Whitmore, American mountaineer and environmentalist (d. 2021)
• 1932 - John Williams, American composer
• 1933 – Uno Palu, Estonian decathlete
• 1934 – Erk Yurtsever, Turkish poet, writer and Turkologist (d. 2017)
• 1940 – Ted Koppel, American journalist
• 1941 – Nick Nolte, American actor
• 1944 – Roger Lloyd-Pack, English actor (d. 2014)
• 1946 – James Franklin Jeffrey, American diplomat and former US Ambassador to Ankara
• 1957 – Mehmet Ali Erbil, Turkish actor and showman
• 1961 – Vince Neil, American rock musician and vocalist of the band (Mötley Crüe)
• 1962 – Mehmet Çepic, Turkish actor and voice actor
• 1966 – Hristo Stoichkov, Bulgarian football player
• 1968 – Budi Anduk, Indonesian actor (d. 2016)
• 1970 – Cüneyt Özdemir, Turkish journalist, presenter and writer
• 1974 – Seth Green, American actor, comedian, voice actor, television producer, and screenwriter
• 1978 – Gökhan Tepe, Turkish singer, actor and composer
• 1980 – Bilge Kösebalaban, Turkish musician and Direc-t band guitarist and vocalist
• 1981 – Steve Gohouri, Ivory Coast football player (d. 2015)
• 1983 – Atiba Hutchinson, Canadian football player
• 1984 – Manon Flier, Dutch volleyball player
• 1987 – Carolina Kostner, Italian figure skater
• 1989 – Bronte Barratt, Australian swimmer
• 1990 – Ozan Kozan, Turkish radio host
• 1995 – Jordan Todosey, Canadian actor
• 1995 – Mijat Gaćinović, Serbian football player
• 1996 - Kennedy is a Brazilian football player.

Deaths

• 1204 – Nicholas, Byzantine emperor (b. ?)
• 1265 – Hulagu Khan, Mongolian Ruler, founder of the Ilkhanate State (b. 1217)
• 1587 – Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (b. 1542)
• 1640 – IV. Murat, 17th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1612)
• 1696 – Ivan V, Tsar of Russia (b. 1666)
• 1709 – Giuseppe Torelli, Italian composer (b. 1658)
• 1725 – Peter I, Tsar of Russia (b. 1672)
• 1751 – Nicola Salvi, Italian architect and sculptor (b. 1697)
• 1804 – Joseph Priestley, English chemist and philosopher (b. 1733)
• 1813 – Tadeusz Czacki, Polish historian, pedagogue, and parascientist (b. 1765)
• 1829 – Cristóbal Mendoza, first prime minister of Venezuela (b. 1772)
• 1849 – France Prešeren, Slovenian poet (b. 1800)
• 1860 – Carl Edvard Rotwitt, Danish politician (b. 1812)
• 1874 – David Strauss, German theologian and philosopher (b. 1808)
• 1885 – Nikolay Severtzov, Russian natural historian (b. 1827)
• 1886 – Ivan Aksakov, Russian journalist and political writer (b. 1823)
• 1894 – Robert Michael Ballantyne, Scottish writer (b. 1825)
• 1906 – Johanna Hiedler, maternal grandmother of Adolf Hitler (b. 1830)
• 1921 – Peter Alexeyevich Kropotkin, Russian writer and anarchist theorist (b. 1842)
• 1935 – Max Liebermann, German painter and graphic artist (b. 1847)
• 1936 – Charles Curtis, American lawyer and politician (b. 1860)
• 1945 – Robert Mallet-Stevens, French architect and designer (b. 1886)
• 1946 – Felix Hoffmann, German chemist, inventor, and pharmacist (b. 1868)
• 1954 – Abidin Daver, Turkish journalist and writer (b. 1886)
• 1957 – Walther Bothe, German mathematician, chemist, physicist, and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics (b. 1891)
• 1963 – Ali Saim Ülgen, Turkish architect and restorer (b. 1913)
• 1963 – Ernst Glaeser, German writer (b. 1902)
• 1974 – Fritz Zwicky, Swiss physicist and astronomer (b. 1898)
• 1978 – Ahmet Kemal Atay, Turkish academician and founder of Capa Medical Faculty Surgery Clinic (b. 1890)
• 1982 – Lauri Virtanen, Finnish athlete (b. 1904)
• 1990 – Del Shannon, American singer (suicide) (b. 1934)
• 1998 – Halldor Laxness, Icelandic writer and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1999 – Iris Murdoch, Irish writer and philosopher (b. 1919)
• 2001 – Ahmet Kabakli, Turkish journalist and writer (b. 1924)
• 2004 – Cem Karaca, Turkish rock music artist, composer, theater actor and film actor (b. 1945)
• 2007 – Anna Nicole Smith, American actress (b. 1967)
• 2007 – Haluk Cecan, Turkish underwater documentarian (b. 1946)
• 2010 – John Murtha, American politician (b. 1932)
• 2014 – Eşref Aydın, Turkish athlete (b. 1922)
• 2014 – Maicon is a Brazilian football player (b. 1988)
• 2015 – Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde, Finnish physician, author and ufologist (b. 1939)
• 2015 – Müzeyyen Senar, Turkish Classical Music artist (b. 1918)
• 2016 – Amelia Bence, Argentine actress (b. 1914)
• 2017 – Zeynep Işık, Turkish violinist (b. 1968)
• 2017 – Peter Mansfield, British scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Paul Lauterbur (b. 1933)
• 2017 – Alan Simpson, British screenwriter (b. 1929)
• 2018 – Ben Agajanian, American football player (b. 1919)
• 2018 – Zernigar Ağakişyeva is an Azerbaijani theater and film actress (b. 1945)
• 2018 – Jarrod Bannister, Australian javelin thrower (b. 1984)
• 2018 – Marie Gruber, German actress (b. 1955)
• 2018 – Lovebug Starski, American rapper (b. 1960)
• 2019 – Dick Kempthorn, Former American football player and businessman (b. 1926)
• 2019 – Walter Munk, American-Austrian oceanographer, geologist, academic, and scientist (b. 1917)
• 2019 – Sergey Yurski, Soviet-Russian actor, film director and screenwriter (b. 1935)
• 2020 – Robert Conrad, American actor, singer, and stuntman (b. 1935)
• 2020 – Paula Kelly, American actress, dancer, and singer (b. 1942)
• 2021 – Roza Akkucukova, Russian-Soviet pop singer (b. 1950)
• 2021 – Jean-Claude Carrière, Academy Honorary French novelist, screenwriter, actor, and director (b. 1931)
• 2021 – Carla Cimenti, Italian mountaineer (b. 1975)
• 2021 – Graham Day, English professional footballer (b. 1953)
• 2021 – Adam Kopczyński, Polish ice hockey player (b. 1948)
• 2021 – Cyril Mango, British expert on the history, art and architecture of the Byzantine Empire (b. 1928)
• 2021 – Rynagh O'Grady, Irish actor (b. 1951)
• 2021 – Mary Wilson, American vocalist (b. 1944)
• 2021 – Beatriz Yamamoto Cázarez, Mexican politician (b. 1957)