Today in History: Ajda Pekkan Wins 7 Gold Medals at the 2th World Popular Song Contest

November 13 is the 317th day of the year (318th in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days left until the end of the year is 48.

Railways

• 13 November 1889 63 increased by 114 on average in the agricultural production. XNUMX increased in the places where the railroad passes.

Events

• 1805 - The French Army under Napoleon Bonaparte enters Vienna.
• 1885 – The Serbian-Bulgarian War begins.
• 1907 - Paul Cornu achieves the first helicopter flight.
• 1918 – Occupation of Istanbul Port by the Allies. At the end of World War I; The Allied Navy, which Atatürk said, "They go as they come," anchored in the Bosphorus.
• 1920 – 41 thousand representatives from 5 countries attended the opening of the League of Nations in Geneva.
• 1922 – Liberation of Tekirdag.
• 1925 – The first exhibition of the Surrealists was opened at midnight in Paris Galerie Pierre.
• 1942 – The law on giving free clothes and shoes to civil servants was passed.
• 1945 - De Gaulle is elected President of France.
• 1956 - The US Supreme Court declares the invalidity of the law in the state of Alabama leading to black and white discrimination in buses.
• 1960 - Sammy Davis, Jr. married Swedish actress May Britt. Interracial marriage is still illegal in 50 of the 31 US states.
• 1960 – 14 members of the National Unity Committee were expelled from the committee. These people were sent abroad.
• 1966 – Buildings and cars belonging to Americans were destroyed in Adana, on the grounds that American privates molested women.
• 1966 - An Israeli unit of tanks and armored vehicles crossed the Jordanian border and attacked the village of Samu with a population of 4.000 and destroyed the inhabitants of the village.
• 1968 – The Federation of Religious Officials was closed.
• 1968 – At the Congress of the Workers' Party of Turkey, Mehmet Ali Aybar was re-elected as the Chairman.
• 1970 – Hurricane Bhola at 150 miles per hour struck East Pakistan's Ganges delta (now Bangladesh). About 500.000 people died in one night. It is considered the greatest natural disaster of the 20th century.
• 1970 – In Syria, Hafez Assad staged a coup.
• 1976 – The UN General Assembly adopted the bill, which foresees the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Cyprus and the return of refugees.
• 1977 – Ajda Pekkan won 7 Gold Medals at the 2th World Popular Song Contest.
• 1983 – Supreme Election Board announced the final results of the first election held after the September 12 Coup: ANAP 211 deputies, HP 117, MDP 71 deputies.
• 1985 – Nevado del Ruiz volcano in Colombia erupted. The disaster, which killed 23 people, became the second deadliest volcanic disaster of the 20th century.
• 1995 – Açık Radyo started its broadcasting life.
• 1995 – 7 people died in an attack carried out with bomb-laden vehicles in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia.
• 2002 - Iraq adopts the UN resolution requiring weapons inspectors to return to the country after a four-year hiatus.
• 2007 – For the first time, an Israeli President (Shimon Peres) spoke in the Parliament.
• 2009 – NASA, which bombed the south pole of the Moon in the hope of finding water, announced that there is a significant amount of water on the Moon at the press conference, where it announced the results of the impact.
• 2015 – 132 people died in the coordinated terrorist attacks on concert halls, stadiums, restaurants and bars in Paris in the evening.

Births

• 354 – Augustine, North African theologian (d. 430)
• 1312 – III. Edward, King of England (d. 1377)
• 1486 – Johann Eck, German Christian Theologian (d. 1543)
• 1559 – VII. Albert, duke of Austria for several months in 1619 (d. 1621)
• 1572 – Kirillos I, 190th Ecumenical Patriarch of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (d. 1638)
• 1760 – Jiaqing, seventh emperor of China's Qing Dynasty (d. 1820)
• 1785 – Caroline Lamb, English noblewoman and author (d. 1828)
• 1813 – II. Petar Petrović Njegoš, a Montenegrin chief of state, bishop of the Montenegrin Orthodox Church, writer, poet and philosopher (d. 1851)
• 1814 – Joseph Hooker, American general (d. 1879)
• 1833 – Edwin Booth, American actor (d. 1893)
• 1838 – Joseph F. Smith, 6th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1918)
• 1848 – Albert I, 29th Prince of Monaco (d. 1922)
• 1850 – Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author (d. 1894)
• 1856 – Louis Brandeis, American lawyer (d. 1941)
• 1878 – Max Dehn, German mathematician (d. 1952)
• 1893 – Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1986)
• 1894 – Arthur Nebe, SS General of Nazi Germany (d. 1945)
• 1896 – Nobusuke Kishi, Japanese politician and 56th and 57th Prime Minister of Japan (post World War II war crimes convict) (d. 1987)
• 1899 – Iskander Mirza, first president of Pakistan (d. 1969)
• 1906 Hermoine Baddeley, English character actor (d. 1986)
• 1912 – Sıtkı Koçman, Turkish businessman, industrialist and philanthropist (d. 2005)
• 1913 – Lon Nol, Cambodian politician and general (d. 1985)
• 1914 – Amelia Benim, Argentine actress (d. 2016)
• 1923 – Linda Christian, American actress (d. 2011)
• 1929 – Nazmi Bari, Turkish former national tennis player (d. 2008)
• 1930 – Adrienne Corri, British actress (d. 2016)
• 1932 – Fahrettin Aslan, Turkish casino operator and owner of Maksim Casino (d. 2005)
• 1934 – Garry Marshall, American actor and producer (d. 2016)
• 1935 – Aykut Sporel, Turkish radio programmer
• 1935 - Tom Atkins, American actor
• 1936 – Dacia Maraini, Italian writer
• 1938 – Jean Seberg, American actor (d. 1979)
• 1939 – Karel Brückner, Czech former football player and manager
• 1940 – Saul Kripke, American philosopher and logician
• 1941 – Mel Stottlemyre, American former professional baseball player and coach (d. 2019)
• 1943 – Roberto Boninsegna, Italian national football player
• 1943 – Mustafa Abdulcemil Kirimoglu, President of the Crimean Tatar National Assembly
• 1943 – Howard Wilkinson, English football player and manager
• 1947 – Joe Mantegna, American Tony-winning actor, filmmaker, writer, and director
• 1953 - Frances Conroy, American actress
• 1953 – Andres Manuel López Obrador, Mexican politician
• 1954 – Chris Noth, American actor
• 1955 – Whoopi Goldberg, American actress, comedian, and Oscar winner
• 1959 - Caroline Goodall, English actress
• 1961 – Metin Uca, Turkish presenter, writer and voice actor
• 1967 – Juhi Chawla, Indian actress
• 1967 – Jimmy Kimmel, American actor, comedian, and voice actor
• 1967 – Steve Zahn, American actor and comedian
• 1969 – Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Dutch-American activist, author, and former Dutch lawmaker
• 1969 – Gerard Butler, Scottish actor
• 1970 – Ajlan Büyükburç, Turkish musician (d. 1999)
• 1970 – Yulia Graudyn, Russian athlete
• 1972 – Takuya Kimura, Japanese singer and actress
• 1975 – Ivica Dragutinović, Serbian former defender
• 1975 – James Kyson Lee, American actor
• 1975 – Quim, Portuguese goalkeeper
• 1976 – Albina Akhatova, Russian biathlete
• 1977 Kiele Sanchez, American actress
• 1977 – Huang Xiaoming, Chinese actress, singer and model
• 1979 - Metta World Peace, American professional basketball player
• 1980 – Monique Coleman, American actress
• 1982 - Kumi Kōda, Japanese singer and actress
• 1984 – Lucas Barrios, Argentinean Paraguayan national football player
• 1984 – İsmail Demirci, Turkish cinema and TV series actor
• 1993 – Julia Michaels, American singer-songwriter
• 1999 - Lando Norris, British Formula 1 driver
• 2002 – Emma Raducanu, British professional tennis player

Deaths

• 867 – Nicholas I was Pope from 24 April 858 until his death
• 1093 - III. Malcolm, king of Scots from 1058 to 1093 (b. 1031)
• 1143 – Fulk, King of Jerusalem from 1131 until his death
• 1359 – II. Ivan, grand prince of Moscow and Vladimir (b. 1326)
• 1460 – Henrique the sailor, Prince of Portugal (b. 1394)
• 1727 – Sophia Dorothea of ​​Celleli, cousin and wife of George I of England and elector of Hanover (1660-1727) (b. 1660)
• 1770 – George Grenville, English politician and Prime Minister (b. 1712)
• 1828 – Andre Joseph Abrial, French politician (b. 1750)
• 1849 – William Etty, English painter (b. 1787)
• 1868 – Gioacchino Rossini, Italian composer (b. 1792)
• 1899 – Ulrike von Levetzow, German writer (b. 1804)
• 1903 – Camille Pissarro, French painter (b. 1830)
• 1943 – Sadri Ertem, Turkish short story and novelist and Kütahya deputy (b. 1898)
• 1949 – Hıfzı Tevfik Gönensay, Turkish educator and literary historian (b. 1892)
• 1954 – Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, German cavalry officer and Generalfeldmarschall of Nazi Germany (b. 1881)
• 1957 – Nuri Demirağ, Turkish businessman and politician (b. 1886)
• 1958 – Iskander Mirza, first president of Pakistan (b. 1899)
• 1963 – Margaret Murray, English Egyptologist, archaeologist, anthropologist, historian, and folklorist (b. 1863)
• 1970 – Ali Ekber Tufan, Turkish politician (b. 1870)
• 1971 – Celal Esat Arseven, Turkish art historian (b. 1876)
• 1974 – Vittorio de Sica, Italian director (b. 1902)
• 1974 – Karen Silkwood, American trade unionist and activist (b. 1946)
• 1975 – Olga Berggolts, Soviet poet (b. 1910)
• 1979 – Dimitri Psathas, Greek writer (b. 1907)
• 1980 – Mehmet Zahid Kotku, Turkish mystic and writer (b. 1897)
• 1989 – II. Franz Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein from 1938 until his death (b. 1906)
• 1989 – Rohana Wijeweera, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1943)
• 1994 – Nedim Günsür, Turkish painter (b. 1924)
• 2001 – Cornelius Warmerdam, American athlete (b. 1915)
• 2002 – Juan Alberto Schiaffino, former football player and coach of Uruguayan descent and Italian citizenship (b. 1925)
• 2004 – Ol' Dirty Bastard, American rapper and producer (b. 1968)
• 2004 – Carlo Rustichelli, Italian soundtrack composer (b. 1916)
• 2005 – Eddie Guerrero, American wrestler (b. 1967)
• 2011 – Kaşif Kozinoğlu, Turkish soldier and Head of Foreign Operations Department of the National Intelligence Organization (b. 1955)
• 2014 – Alexander Grothendieck, German-French mathematician (b. 1928)
• 2016 – Laurent Pokou, former Ivory Coast national football player (b. 1947)
• 2016 – Leon Russell, American country-rock musician (b. 1942)
• 2017 – Thomas J. Hudner Jr., officer and naval aviator in the United States Navy (b. 1924)
• 2017 – Alina Janowska, Polish actress (b. 1923)
• 2018 – Lucho Gatica, Chilean singer, actor and television host (b. 1928)
• 2018 – Marcella Jeandeau, Former Italian female Olympic athlete (b. 1928)
• 2018 – Katherine MacGregor, American actress (b. 1925)
• 2019 – Kieran Modra, Australian Paralympic swimmer, athlete and racing cyclist (b. 1972)
• 2019 – Raymond Poulidor, former professional road cyclist (b. 1936)
• 2019 – Niall Tóibín, Irish comedian and actor (b. 1929)
• 2020 – Attila Horváth, Hungarian discus thrower (b. 1967)
• 2020 – Peter Sutcliffe, British serial killer also known as the "Yorkshire Ripper" (b. 1946)
• 2021 – Wilbur Smith, Rhodesian writer (b. 1933)

Holidays and special occasions

• World Kindness Day
• Liberation of Tekirdag