Today in History: Boeing 707 Makes Its First Flight

July 15 is the 196th day of the year (197th in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days left until the end of the year is 169.

Railways

• 15 July 1998 Central Anatolia Blue Train services started.

Events

• 1099 – The Crusader Army captured Jerusalem in the First Crusade.
• 1521 – Conquest of the island as a result of the Siege of Herke.
• 1799 – The Rosetta Stone, inscribed in three languages, which will provide the deciphering of the hieroglyphic script, was accidentally found during the construction of a castle by a French soldier during Napoleon's Egypt Campaign.
• 1840 – The Treaty of London is signed between the Ottoman Empire, the United Kingdom, Prussia, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Tsarist Russia.
• 1870 - Georgia becomes the last Confederate state to be re-admitted to the United States after the American Civil War.
• 1886 – Women, Shukufezar He started a struggle against the phrase "long hair and short mind" in his magazine.
• 1926 – Police opened fire on demonstrators in Vienna, killing 89 people.
• 1933 – Art and literature magazine Presence started to be published.
• 1953 – Uşak became a province.
• 1954 - The Boeing 707 makes its first flight.
• 1955 - Eighteen Nobel Prize-winning scientists issue a declaration against nuclear weapons (Mainau Declaration). Thirty-four more scientists later joined them.
• 1974 – In Cyprus, the National Guard Regiment led by Greek officers overthrew President Makarios and proclaimed EOKA-B leader Nikos Sampson as President.
• 1981 – Right-wing militants Fikri Arkan and Kemal Özdemir, who were accused of the Sack Murder, who killed left-wing Veli Güneş and Halim Kaplan on the night of 14/15 October 1978 in Ankara, were sentenced to death.
• 1983 – Orly Airport attack: ASALA militants bombarded the Turkish Airlines Office in Paris' Orly Airport. 8 people died, 55 people were injured.
• 1997 - Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace was murdered outside his Miami, Florida home by a Filipino gay named Andrew Cunanan.
• 1997 - Slobodan Milosevic was elected President of Yugoslavia.
• 2008 – At least 60 people were killed when two suicide bombers staged an action against a military camp in the city of Baquba, 28 km northeast of Baghdad.  ^{Archived July 23, 2008 at the Wayback Machine.}
• 2016 – In Turkey, a military coup attempt was made by a group of soldiers from the TAF.

Births

• 1606 – Rembrandt, Dutch painter and printmaker (d. 1669)
• 1738 – Jacques-André Naigeon, French artist and atheist philosopher (d. 1810)
• 1798 – Alexander Gorchakov, Russian diplomat and statesman (d. 1883)
• 1899 – Remzi Oğuz Arık, Turkish archaeologist, writer and politician (d. 1954)
• 1919 – Iris Murdoch, Irish writer and philosopher (d. 1999)
• 1921 – Robert Bruce Merrifield, American biochemist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
• 1922 – Leon Lederman, American physicist (d. 2018)
• 1923 – İsmet Güney, Turkish Cypriot painter and cartoonist (d. 2009)
• 1927 – Carmen Zapata, American actress (d. 2014)
• 1930 – Jacques Derrida, French philosopher (d. 2004)
• 1931 – Clive Cussler, American novelist
• 1932 – Arjan Adarov, Altai writer (d. 2005)
• 1934 – Harrison Birtwistle, British opera and western classical composer (d. 2022)
• 1937 – Waylon Jennings, American singer-songwriter (d. 2002)
• 1939 – Yılmaz Köksal, Turkish cinema and TV series actor (d. 2015)
• 1940 – Robert Winston, British politician
• 1944 – Jan-Michael Vincent, American actor (d. 2019)
• 1946 – Achim Mentzel, German musician and actor (d. 2016)
• 1946 – Hassanal Bolkiah, 29th Sultan of Brunei
• 1946 – Linda Ronstadt, American female rock star
• 1948 – Sümer Tilmaç, Turkish actress (d. 2015)
• 1949 – Hilmi Guler, Turkish politician
• 1949 – Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates
• 1952 – Terry O'Quinn, American actor and Emmy Award winner
• 1954 – Mario Kempes, Argentine football player
• 1955 – Cevdet Şekerbegovic, Bosnian football player
• 1955 – Harun Kolçak, Turkish pop singer (d. 2017)
• 1956 – Joe Satriani, American guitarist
• 1958 – Bergen, Turkish singer (d. 1989)
• 1958 – Tyberii Korponai, Soviet-Ukrainian football player (d. 2021)
• 1959 - Vincent Lindon, French actor.
• 1961 – Jean-Christophe Grange, French crime writer
• 1961 – Lolita Davidovich, Canadian actress
• 1961 – Forest Whitaker, American actor
• 1962 – Metin Özülkü, Turkish musician
• 1962 – Settar Tanrıöğen, Turkish cinema and TV series actor
• 1963 – Brigitte Nielsen, Danish actress, model and singer
• 1964 – Galyn Görg, American actress and dancer (b. 2020)
• 1968 – Deniz Arcak, Turkish singer
• 1970 – Tarkan Gözübüyük, Turkish bass guitarist
• 1972 – İnci Türkay, Turkish TV actress
• 1973 - Brian Austin Green, American actor
• 1976 – Marco Di Vaio, Italian former international football player
• 1976 – Juan Francisco Garcia, Spanish football player
• 1976 – Gabriel Jesus Iglesias, American comedian and actor
• 1976 – Jim Jones, American hip hop artist
• 1976 – Diane Kruger, German model and actress
• 1977 – Canan Ergüder, Turkish actress
• 1977 Lana Parrilla, American actress
• 1979 – Alexander Frei, Swiss former national football player
• 1980 – Bruno Mbanangoyé Zita, Gabonese football player
• 1981 – Alou Diarra, French football player
• 1982 – Melis Birkan, Turkish TV series and film actress
• 1982 – Sinan Sofuoğlu, Turkish motorcycle racer (d. 2008)
• 1985 – Burak Yilmaz, Turkish football player
• 1986 – David Abraham, Argentine football player
• 1988 – Shkëlzen Gashi, Swiss football player
• 1989 – Alisa Kleybanova, Russian tennis player
• 1990 – Damian Lillard, American professional basketball player
• 1991 – Danilo, Brazilian national football player
• 1991 – Derrick Favors, American professional basketball player
• 1992 – Wayde van Niekerk, South African athlete
• 1993 – Ömer Arslan, Turkish football player
• 1994 – Pelin Bilgiç, Turkish basketball player
• 1995 – Elyar Fox, English singer-songwriter

Deaths

• 1015 – Vladimir I, first major prince of Kyiv to convert to Christianity (b. 958)
• 1274 – Bonaventura – Franciscan Cardinal, philosopher and thinker (b. 1217)
• 1485 – Sinan, II. Mehmed's son (b. 1455)
• 1542 - Lisa del Giocondo, member of the Florentine Gherardini family (by Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa (b. 1479) (b. XNUMX)
• 1626 – Isabella Brant, first wife of the Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens, who made several portraits (b. 1591)
• 1695 – Eremya Çelebi Kömürciyan, Armenian poet, historian, translator and printer (b. 1637)
• 1861 – Adam Czartoryski, Polish statesman and politician (b. 1770)
• 1857 – Carl Czerny, Austrian pianist, composer, and music teacher (b. 1791)
• 1868 – William Thomas Green Morton, American physician (b. 1819)
• 1879 – Johann Friedrich von Brandt, German natural historian and zoologist (b. 1802)
• 1890 – Gottfried Keller, Swiss poet and politician (b. 1819)
• 1904 – Anton Chekhov, Russian short story and playwright (b. 1860)
• 1916 – Ilya Mechnikov, Ukrainian microbiologist (b. 1845)
• 1919 – Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist (b. 1852)
• 1927 – Constance Markievicz, Irish revolutionary and patriotic suffragette (former Irish Minister of Labor) (b. 1868)
• 1929 – Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian writer (b. 1874)
• 1939 – Paul Eugen Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1857)
• 1940 – Robert Pershing Wadlow, tallest recognized person in medical history (b. 1918)
• 1941 – Walter Ruttmann, German director (b. 1887)
• 1942 – Roberto María Ortiz, Argentine lawyer and politician (b. 1886)
• 1948 - John J. Pershing, American soldier. Commander of the American Expeditionary Forces sent to Europe during World War I (b. 1860)
• 1956 – Cemil Cahit Toydemir, Turkish soldier and politician (b. 1883)
• 1969 – Peter van Eyck, German-American actor (b. 1911)
• 1975 – Fahri Belen, Turkish soldier and politician (b. 1893)
• 1976 – Joachim Peiper, Waffen-SS Colonel (b.1915)
• 1977 – Konstantin Fedin, Russian novelist, literary scholar and poet (b. 1892)
• 1977 – Esat Mahmut Karakurt, Turkish writer (b. 1902)
• 1979 – Juana de Ibarbourou, Uruguayan poet (one of South America's most famous female poets) (b. 1895)
• 1979 – Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Mexican politician (b. 1911)
• 1980 – Abdurrahman Köksaloğlu, Turkish politician (b. 1930)
• 1988 – Tore Keller, Swedish football player (b. 1905)
• 1989 – Nesuhi Ertegün, Turkish-American music producer and founder of Atlantic Records (b. 1917)
• 1992 – Hammer DeRoburt, Nauruan politician (b. 1922)
• 1997 – Chingiz Mustafayev, Azerbaijani journalist (b. 1960)
• 1997 – Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer and businessman (b. 1946)
• 2010 – Osman Nami Osmanoğlu, Ottoman Prince and radiology graduate engineer (b. 1918)
• 2010 – Selmi Andak, Turkish composer and columnist (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Celeste Holm, American stage, film and television actress (b. 1917)
• 2014 – Faruk Ilgaz, Turkish sportsman (b. 1922)
• 2016 – Ömer Halisdemir, Turkish soldier (b. 1974)
• 2016 – Nevzat Yalçıntaş, Turkish bureaucrat and politician (b. 1933)
• 2017 – Anne Buttimer, Irish geographer (b. 1938)
• 2017 – Martin Landau, American actor (b. 1928)
• 2018 – Ronny Fredrik Ansnes, Norwegian cross country skier (b. 1989)
• 2019 – Rex Richards, British scientist and academic (b. 1922)
• 2019 – Olga Vyalikova, Soviet Russian theater and film actress (b. 1954)
• 2020 – Carlotta Barilli, Italian actress (b. 1935)
• 2020 – Severino Cavalcanti, Brazilian politician (b. 1930)
• 2020 – Igor Chernyh, Russian cinematographer (b. 1932)
• 2020 – Toke Tufukia Talagi, Niueli politician (b. 1951)