Nazim Hikmet Started Hunger Strike in Bursa Prison — Nâzım Hikmet Starts Hunger Strike in Bursa Prison

March 29 is the 88th day of the year (89st in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 277 days remaining until the end of the year.

Railways

Haydarpaşa-İzmir line, which was built by the state on March 29, 1880, was rented to a British food store. Tenants would set up an Ottoman INC and pay 80 percent of their profits to the state.
2010 – In the suicide attacks in the Moscow metro, 40 people died.

Events

1430 – Ottoman armies conquered Thessaloniki and Ionia.
1461 – In the War of the Roses for the British throne, IV of the House of York Edward VI of the Lancaster family. Defeated Henry at the Battle of Towton.
1903 – Regular news flow begins between London and New York via Marconi's radio system.
1938 – The Military Academy Court sentenced Nâzım Hikmet to 28 years in prison.
1950 – Nâzım Hikmet started a hunger strike in Bursa Prison.
1957 – Upon the escalation of tension in Cyprus, a curfew was declared on the island.
1966 - Leonid Brezhnev was appointed First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Brezhnev condemned the US policy on Vietnam.
1968 – The first kidney transplant in Turkey was performed in Istanbul by Doctor Atıf Taykurt and his team.
1973 – Vietnam War: The last US troops also leave South Vietnam.
1979 – In Uganda, the Idi Amin regime is overthrown by a military coup. Idi Amin fled.
1982 - Canada gained its independence with the Canada Act.
1989 – The world's first tube quintuplets were born in London.
1989 – DYP Siirt Deputy Abdülrezzak Ceylan was killed by an accidental bullet while he was trying to prevent the debate in the Grand National Assembly that started with the insulting of Independent Siirt Deputy Zeki Çeliker to Siirt Deputy İdris Arıkan. ANAP Siirt Deputy İdris Arıkan was arrested after the incident. He was released after the court's decision that the incident occurred as a result of accident.
2004 – Bulgaria, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia are admitted to NATO.
2005 – It was revealed that Isparta's Sütçüler District Governor, Mustafa Altınpınar, ordered all public institutions and organizations in the district to destroy Orhan Pamuk's books by sorting them from libraries and libraries. Isparta Governor's Office canceled the order.
2006 – A total solar eclipse observed over most of the Earth.
2009 – Local elections took place in Turkey. AK Party became the first party with 38,39 percent of the votes. The CHP received 23,08 percent and the MHP 15,97 percent.

Births

1553 – Vicenzos Kornaros, Cretan writer (d. 1613)
1561 – Santorio Santorio, Italian physician (d. 1636)
1712 – Atike Sultan, III. Ahmed's daughter (d. 1738)
1790 – John Tyler, American politician and 10th President of the United States (d. 1862)
1824 – Ludwig Büchner, German philosopher and physicist (d. 1899)
1826 – Wilhelm Liebknecht, German journalist and politician (d. 1900)
1835 - Madeleine Smith, 1857th century Glasgow socialite accused in a sensational murder case in Scotland in 19
1869 – Kalust Sarkis Gulbenkian, Armenian businessman (d. 1955)
1873 Tullio Levi-Civita, Italian mathematician (d. 1941)
1883 – Memduh Şevket Esendal, Turkish writer (d. 1952)
1899 – Lavrenti Beria, Soviet politician and Chief of the Soviet Secret Police (d. 1953)
1902 – Marcel Aymé, French writer (d. 1967)
1915 – Antonio Hernández Gil, Spanish judge
1916 Eugene McCarthy, American politician (d. 2005)
1918 – Sam Walton, American businessman (d. 1992)
1921 – Jacqueline Joubert, French television producer, director, and presenter (d. 2005)
1927 – John Robert Vane, English pharmacologist (d. 2004)
1929 – Lennart Meri, Estonian writer, film director, and 2nd President of Estonia (d. 2006)
1937 – Gordon Milne, English football player
1939 – Terence Hill, Italian actor
1940 – Astrud Gilberto, Brazilian singer
1943 – John Major, British statesman and Prime Minister of Great Britain
1943 - Vangelis, Greek composer
1945 – Walt Frazier, American basketball player
1949 – Kayahan, Turkish composer and singer (d. 2015)
1950 – Mory Kanté, Malian musician
1952 – Teófilo Stevenson, Cuban amateur boxer (d. 2012)
1953 – Güher Pekinel, Turkish pianist
1953 – Süher Pekinel, Turkish pianist
1954 – Ahmed Doğan, Turkish-Bulgarian politician
1955 – Mehmet Gül, Turkish lawyer, politician and businessman (d. 2008)
1957 – Christopher Lambert, French actor
1963 - Elle Macpherson, Australian model, actress, philanthropist and businessperson
1967 – Michel Hazanavicius, French director, producer, screenwriter, and Academy Award winner for Best Director
1968 – Lucy Lawless, New Zealand actress and singer
1972 – Rui Costa, Portuguese football player
1972 – Sierra, American pornographic film actress
1973 - Brandi Love, American porn star
1973 – Marc Overmars, Dutch football player
1974 – Miguel Abrigo, Argentine football player
1976 – Jennifer Capriati, American tennis player
1980 – Mert Turak, Turkish actor
1981 – Nihal Yalçın, Turkish actress
1983 – Ezgi Mola, Turkish actress
1985 – Fernando Amorebieta, Venezuelan football player
1986 – Sylvan Ebanks-Blake, Jamaican-born English football player
1986 – Ivan Uhov, Russian high jumper
1987 – Dimitri Payet, French national football player
1987 – Romain Hamouma, French football player with Algerian passport
1988 – Lacey Pauletta, Bonaire football player
1988 – Sercan Konal, Turkish football player
1988 – Jesús Molina, Mexican football player
1988 – Andrei Ionescu, Romanian football player
1989 – James Tomkins, English football player
1990 – Carlos Pena, Mexican football player
1990 – Teemu Pukki, Finnish national football player
1991 – Fabio Borini, Italian football player
1991 – Irene, South Korean singer, rapper and actress
1991 – Hayley McFarland, American actress, singer, and dancer
1991 – N'Golo Kanté, French football player
1993 – Thorgan Ganael Francis Hazard, Belgian football player
1994 – Choi Jin-ri, South Korean actress, model, and singer (d. 2019)

Deaths

87 BC – Emperor Wu Ti, 7th Emperor of the Han Dynasty Chinese Empire (b. 156 BC)
57 – Guangwu, Emperor of China of the Han Dynasty and founder of the Eastern Han Dynasty (b. 5 BC)
1368 – Go-Murakami, 97th Emperor of Japan (b. 1328)
1721 – Charles Vane, English pirate (b. ?)
1772 – Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish scientist (b. 1688)
1792 – III. Gustav, King of Sweden (b. 1746)
1818 – Alexandre Pétion, 1st President of Haiti (b. 1770)
1891 – Georges Seurat, French painter (b. 1859)
1912 – Robert Falcon Scott, English explorer (b. 1868)
1939 – Hafiz İbrahim Demiralay, Turkish politician and cleric (b. 1883)
1956 – Fuat Uzkınay, Turkish director, producer and one of the first Turkish filmmakers (b. 1888)
1965 – Wilhelm Worringer, German art historian (b. 1881)
1966 – Abdullah Ziya Kozanoğlu, Turkish architect, novelist, comic writer and 11th President of Beşiktaş Gymnastics Club (b. 1906)
1970 – Ayşe Şekibe İnsel, Turkish politician (b. 1886)
1970 – Lev Kuleshov, Soviet film theorist and director (b. 1899)
1972 – Joseph Arthur Rank, English industrialist and filmmaker (b. 1888)
1980 – Mantovani, Italian-born English composer (b. 1905)
1982 – Carl Orff, German composer (Carmina Burana'creator) (b. 1895)
1984 – İlhami Bekir Tez, Turkish poet
1984 – Ömer Sami Coşar, Turkish journalist and writer
1989 – Mehmet Abdurrezak Ceylan, Turkish politician (b. 1951)
1987 – Akaki Shanidze, Georgian linguist and philologist (b. 1887)
1991 – Guy Bourdin, French inspirational stories (b. 1928)
1992 – Paul Henreid, Austrian actor (b. 1908)
1993 – Alfred Preis, Austrian architect (b. 1911)
1995 – Jimmy McShane, Northern Irish singer (b. 1957)
1999 – Gyula Zsengellér, Hungarian football player (b. 1915)
1999 – Joe Williams, American singer (b. 1918)
2000 – Mustafa Eremektar, Turkish cartoonist (b. 1930)
2002 – Erman Şener, Turkish film critic, journalist, screenwriter and book writer (b. 1942)
2009 – Vladimir Fedotov, Russian-born Soviet national football player and coach (b. 1943)
2009 – Andy Hallett, American actor and singer (b. 1975)
2009 – Maurice Jarre, French composer (b. 1924)
2012 – Luke Askew, American actor (b. 1932)
2012 – Hurşit Kemal Cantürk, Turkish politician (b. 1926)
2015 – Ayla Arslancan, Turkish film actress (b. 1936)
2016 – Patty Duke, American actress and writer (b. 1946)
2017 – Aleksey Abrikosov, Russian theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics (b. 1928)
2018 – Anita Shreve, American writer (b. 1946)
2018 – Sven-Olov Sjödelius, Swedish canoe racer (b. 1933)
2019 – Dobrica Erić, Serbian writer and poet (b. 1936)
2019 – Tao Ho, Hong Kong architect (b. 1936)
2019 – Shane Rimmer, Canadian actor, voice actor, and screenwriter (b. 1929)
2019 – Agnès Varda, French photographer and filmmaker (b. 1928)
2019 – Ed Westcott, American photographer (b. 1922)
2020 – Opoku Afriyie, Ghanaian national football player and manager (b. 1945)
2020 – Philip Anderson, Nobel Prize-winning American physicist (b. 1923)
2020 – Beryl Bernay, American journalist, animated filmmaker, painter, photographer, actress, and fashion designer (b. 1926)
2020 – José Luis Capón, Spanish former football player (b. 1948)
2020 – Jean-François Cesarini, French politician (b. 1970)
2020 – Patrick Devedjian, French politician (b. 1944)
2020 – Joe Diffie, American country music singer, songwriter, and guitarist (b. 1958)
2020 – Robert H. Garff, American businessman and politician (b. 1942)
2020 – Maria Mercader, American journalist and news producer (b. 1965)
2020 – Alan Merrill, American vocalist, guitarist, songwriter, actor, and model (b. 1951)
2020 – Tomas Oneborg, Swedish photographer (b. 1958)
2020 – Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer (b. 1933)
2020 – Francis Rapp, French historian and academic (b. 1926)
2020 – Isaac Robinson, American lawyer and politician (b. 1975)
2020 – Angelo Rottoli, Italian professional boxer (b. 1958)
2020 – Ken Shimura, Japanese comedian, actor, and voice actor (b. 1950)
2020 – Henri Tincq, French journalist (b. 1945)
2021 – Bashkim Fino, Albanian politician (b. 1962)
2022 – Miguel Van Damme, Belgian professional football player (b. 1993)
2022 – Jennifer Wilson, English actress (b. 1932)