Today in History: Seychelles Independence from the United Kingdom

June 29 is the 180nd day of the year (181rd in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days left until the end of the year is 185.

Railways

• 29 June 1933 Signing contract for the construction of Sivas-Erzurum railway.
• 29 June 1969 Dogu Express started operating with diesel locomotives until Erzurum.
• June 29, 2020, Turkey's first indigenous design and production process of the national electric train set was completed. With the ceremony held in Sakarya TÜVASAŞ, factory tests of the train, which was put on the tracks, began.

Events

• 1868 – Considered by Namık Kemal and Ziya Pasha to be the publication organ of the New Ottomans Society. Hürriyet newspaper began to be published in London.
• 1871 - The first trade union act is passed in the UK Parliament.
• 1880 - France annexed Tahiti.
• 1923 – Fenerbahçe won the "General Harrington Cup" with the Occupation Forces.
• 1925 – Sheikh Said, who was sentenced to death by the Diyarbakır Independence Court, and his men were executed.
• 1934 – Born in Bitlis, Zaro Ağa died at the age of 157. Internal organs were taken for examination.
• 1938 – General Directorate of Youth and Sports was established.
• 1938 – The Amnesty Law on those who were convicted by the decision of the Independence Courts and those on the list of 150 people was accepted in the Turkish Grand National Assembly.
• 1939 – Hatay State Assembly unanimously decided to join Turkey.
• 1954 – The Turkish Newspaper Owners' Union was founded.
• 1956 - American playwright Arthur Miller and actress Marilyn Monroe were married in London.
• 1969 – Galatasaray won the President's Cup in the final, where Metin Oktay played his last match.
• 1969 – Doğan Avcıoğlu won the Yunus Nadi Award with his book “Turkey's Order”.
• 1971 – With a decision taken by the Council of Ministers, poppy cultivation was banned in Turkey.
• 1974 - Isabel Perón was sworn in as Argentina's first female President. Her husband, former President Juan Peron, left his duties after his health deteriorated. He died two days later anyway.
• 1976 – Seychelles gained independence from the United Kingdom.
• 1982 – 7 people died in Istanbul due to the extreme heat.
• 1982 - Israel invaded Lebanon. Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin allowed the Palestinian guerrillas to leave Beirut.
• 1982 – Strategic Arms Limitation (START I) negotiations begin in Geneva.
• 1984 – A mixed economic protocol was signed between Turkey and the Soviet Union.
• 1986 – Argentina becomes World Football Champion after beating West Germany 3-2.
• 1986 – Released in Athens Mesimyrini In an article in the newspaper, it was demanded that the Turks of Western Thrace be dispersed and that as many Turks as there were in Western Thrace should go.
• 1987 – Cem Karaca returned to Turkey with the support of then Prime Minister Turgut Özal.
• 1990 – Civil war rages in Yugoslavia; The Federal Army is trying to suppress demands for independence in Slovenia and Croatia.
• 1992 - Algerian President Mohammed Budiaf was assassinated and died.
• 1995 – Ankara Metropolitan Municipality, the Hittite Sun in its emblem; He replaced it with a depiction symbolizing Kocatepe Mosque and Atakule.
• 1999 – Abdullah Öcalan was sentenced to death for treason.
• 2000 – A passenger boat sank with 500 passengers in Indonesia. There was no survivor of the accident.
• 2002 – Turkey placed 2002rd in 3 FIFA World Cup.
• 2008 – 2008 European Football Championship final; Spain defeated Germany to become European champions.
• 2011 – TFF made Ankaraspor return to the leagues by removing the expulsion decision.

Births

• 1326 – Murat I, 3rd Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1389)
• 1844 – Petar I (Petar Karadordevic), King of Serbia (d. 1921)
• 1844 – Pyotr Tkachev, Russian writer, critic, and revolutionary (d. 1886)
• 1849 – Sergei Vitte, Russian politician (d. 1915)
• 1873 – Leo Frobenius, German ethnologist (d. 1938)
• 1880 – Ludwig Beck, German soldier (d. 1944)
• 1886 – Robert Schuman, French politician (d. 1963)
• 1900 – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French writer (d. 1944)
• 1911 – Bernard Herrmann, American composer (d. 1975)
• 1919 – Slim Pickens, American actor (d. 1983)
• 1920 – Ray Harryhausen, American special effects artist and filmmaker (d. 2013)
• 1926 – Jabir Al Ahmed Al Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (d. 2006)
• 1929 – Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and author (d. 2006)
• 1931 – Sevim Burak, Turkish writer (d. 1983)
• 1941 – Jacques Toubon, French politician
• 1944 – Gary Busey, American film and stage actor
• 1945 – Ahmet Azcanlı, Turkish researcher and writer
• 1945 - Chandrika Kumaratunga, 5th President of Sri Lanka
• 1946 – Gitte Hænning, Danish singer
• 1948 – Sean Bergin, South African-Dutch musician (d. 2012)
• 1948 – Ian Paice, English drummer
• 1949 – Micky Arison, American businessman and owner of the NBA team Miami Heat
• 1953 Don Dokken, American singer
• 1954 – Júnior, Brazilian football player and manager
• 1956 – Pedro Santana Lopes, Portuguese lawyer and politician
• 1957 – Kurbankulu Berdimuhammedov, Turkmen politician and 2nd President of Turkmenistan
• 1958 - Rosa Mota, Portuguese former marathoner
• 1958 – Ralf Rangnick, German football player and manager
• 1961 Sharon Lawrence, American actress
• 1962 – Amanda Donohoe, British actress of film, stage and television
• 1966 – Unal Karaman, Turkish football player and coach
• 1972 – Serhat Tutumluer, Turkish actor
• 1978 – Nicole Scherzinger, American artist, dancer, songwriter, and singer
• 1979 – Barış Akarsu, Turkish pop and rock music singer and TV series actor (d. 2007)
• 1981 – Joe Johnson, American former national professional basketball player
• 1986 – José Manuel Jurado, Spanish football player
• 1988 – Éver Banega, Argentine football player
• 1988 – Elnur Mammadli, Azerbaijani judoka
• 1990 – Petar Škuletić, Serbian national football player
• 1991 – Suk Hyun-jun, South Korean football player
• 1991 – Kawhi Leonard, American basketball player
• 1992 – Adam G. Sevani, American actor and dancer
• 1994 - Camila Mendes, American actress
• 1997 – Rolando Mandragora, Italian football player

Deaths

• 1839 – Hamparsum Limonciyan, Ottoman Armenian composer and music teacher (b. 1768)
• 1861 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (b. 1806)
• 1886 – Adolphe Monticelli, French painter (b. 1824)
• 1895 – Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist (b. 1825)
• 1925 – Sheikh Said, Turkish professor of Zaza descent, mystic, and leader of the rebellion named after him (b. 1865 or 1866)
• 1933 – Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, American actress (b. 1887)
• 1934 – Zaro Ağa, Turkey's longest living person (157-160 years believed to have lived) (b. 1774 or 1777)
• 1940 – Paul Klee, Swiss painter (b. 1879)
• 1941 – Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1860)
• 1945 – Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley, German far-right activist (b. 1897)
• 1946 – Arthur Castrén, Finnish politician (b. 1866)
• 1955 – Max Pechstein, German painter and printmaker (b. 1881)
• 1957 – Kingorō Hashimoto, Japanese soldier and politician (b. 1890)
• 1965 – Martin Dunbar-Nasmith, British admiral (b. 1883)
• 1967 – Jayne Mansfield, American actress (b. 1933)
• 1975 – Tim Buckley, American singer, songwriter, and guitarist (b. 1947)
• 1978 – Bob Crane, American actor (b. 1928)
• 1982 – Henry King, American film director (b. 1886)
• 1983 – Luis Buñuel, Spanish director and screenwriter (b. 1900)
• 1989 – Tahsin Saraç, Turkish poet, writer and translator (b. 1930)
• 1990 – Irving Wallace, American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1916)
• 1992 – Mohammed Budiaf, President of Algeria (assassinated) (b. 1919)
• 1995 – Lana Turner, American actress (b. 1921)
• 1999 – Allan Carr, American film producer (b. 1937)
• 2000 – Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor (b. 1922)
• 2002 – François Périer, French actor (b. 1919)
• 2002 – Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (b. 1928)
• 2003 – Katharine Hepburn, American actress (b. 1907)
• 2007 – Orhan Doğan, Turkish lawyer and politician of Kurdish origin (b. 1955)
• 2008 – Don S. Davis, American actor and painter (b. 1942)
• 2009 – Jean-Paul Roux, French orientalist and Turkologist (b. 1925)
• 2011 – Kaya Köstepen, Turkish football player (b. 1934)
• 2013 – Jim Kelly, American martial arts master, actor, and athlete (b. 1946)
• 2015 – Hisham Barakat, Attorney General of Egypt from 2013 to 2015 (b. 1950)
• 2015 – Josef Masopust, Former Czechoslovak national football player and manager (b. 1931)
• 2015 – Charles Pasqua, French statesman (b. 1927)
• 2016 – Nezih Tuncay, Turkish theater, cinema and TV series actor (b. 1945)
• 2018 – Arvid Carlsson, Swedish scientist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1923)
• 2018 – Chantal Garrigues, French actress (b. 1944)
• 2018 – Helen Griffin, Welsh actress, screenwriter and playwright (b. 1959)
• 2018 – Liliane Montevecchi, French-Italian singer, dancer and actress (b. 1932)
• 2018 – Derrick O'Connor, Irish character actor (b. 1941)
• 2018 – Irena Szewińska, Former Polish Olympic female track and field athlete (b. 1946)
• 2019 – Yevheniya Dembska, Ukrainian actress (b. 1920)
• 2019 – Gary Duncan, American rock guitarist and singer (b. 1946)
• 2019 – Jesper Langberg, Danish actor (b. 1940)
• 2019 – Jeon Mi-seon, South Korean actress (b. 1970)
• 2019 – Guillermo Mordillo, Argentine animator and comics artist (b. 1932)
• 2020 – Efraín Barquero, Chilean poet (b. 1931)
• 2020 – Carl Reiner, American comedian, actor, and voice actor (b. 1922)

Holidays and special occasions

• World Industrial Design Day