Radio and Television Supreme Board Established in Turkey — Radio and Television Supreme Council Established in Turkey

April 20 is the 110st day of the year (111nd in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 255 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

1792 - The administration of the First French Republic declared war on the Austrian Habsburg Monarchy. The French Revolutionary Wars began.
1841 - First detective novel, Morgue Street Murder published.
1862 - The first pasteurization experiment was carried out by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard.
1902 - Marie Curie and Pierre Curie succeed in refining radioactive radium chloride in their laboratory in Paris.
1924 – The 1924 Constitution came into effect in Turkey.
1924 – Bilecik became a province.
1926 - Western Electric and Warner Bros. companies introduced the Vitaphone device, which made it possible to add sound to the movie.
1933 – With the destruction of the Turkish cemetery in Razgrad, Bulgaria by a group of Bulgarians, the Razgrad Events began in Istanbul.
1940 - The first electron microscope is introduced in Philadelphia.
1942 - Izmir Trade Newspaper was established.
1967 – A passenger plane belonging to the Swiss Britannia company crashes in Toronto: 126 people are killed.
1968 – South African Airways Boeing 707 passenger plane crashes during takeoff from Windhoek city: 122 people are killed.
1970 – United States President Richard Nixon announces that another 150 United States force will be withdrawn from Vietnam.
1972 - Apollo 16 landed on the Moon.
1975 – The car of Turkey's Beirut Press Advisor is blown up by ASALA militants.
1978 – The Red Brigades announced that they would kill former Prime Minister of Italy, Aldo Moro, whom they kidnapped on March 16, if their imprisoned friends were not released.
1978 – A South Korean Airways Boeing 707 passenger plane is forced to land on a frozen lake near Murmansk by Soviet warplanes. Two passengers died and 107 survived.
1981 – Left-wing militants Ramazan Yukarıgöz, who killed the jeweler's son Hasan Kahveci and police officer Mustafa Kılıç, opened fire on the security forces and the public, and scanned the police car, on 17/18 January 1981, in the jewelry store robbery they attempted to find money for the communist organization they belonged to, Ömer Yazgan, Erdoğan Yazgan and Mehmet Kambur were sentenced to death.
1983 – 12th execution of the 44 September Coup: Şener Yiğit, who wanted to rape the daughter of the Austrian Ambassador who came to Fethiye on holiday in 1978 and killed his mother and daughter who opposed it, was executed.
1983 – The 12th execution of the September 45 Coup: Cafer Aksu (Altuntaş), who killed a person working in the field with a gun on April 2, 1977, after a blood feud, shot another person on the run with a shotgun from afar and injured him, then went to him and killed him with a gun. was executed.
The pianist Vladimir Horowitz, who left the Soviet Union in 1986 – 1925 and did not return, gave a concert again in the Soviet Union 61 years later.
1994 – Radio-Television Supreme Council was established in Turkey.
1998 – A Boeing 727-200 passenger plane belonging to Air France company crashed into the Cerro El Cable mountains after taking off from Bogota (Colombia): 53 people were killed.
1996 – The third largest entertainment center in the world and the first in Europe, Tatilya was opened in Istanbul.
1999 – Columbine High School massacre: High school students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 13, injured 24, and then committed suicide.
2005 – Turgut Özakman's story of the Turkish War of Independence in a fictional setting. Those crazy Turks book has been published.
2006 - Han Myeong-sook is inaugurated as South Korea's first female Prime Minister.

Births

702 – Cafer-i Sadik, Shiite imam who gave his name to the Islamic jurisprudence sect Jafari (d. 765)
1761 – Shah Sultan, III. Mustafa's daughter (d. 1803)
1808 – III. Napoleon, French politician and World War II. Imperial Emperor (d. 1873)
1840 – Odilon Redon, French painter (d. 1916)
1889 – Adolf Hitler, Austrian-born German politician and writer, Führer of Nazi Germany (d. 1945)
1893 – Harold Lloyd, American comedian (d. 1971)
1893 – James Bedford, American scientist (d. 1967)
1893 – Joan Miro, Catalan surrealist painter (d. 1983)
1910 – Fatin Rüştü Zorlu, Turkish politician and bureaucrat (d. 1961)
1916 – Nesibe Zeynalova, Azerbaijani actress (d. 2004)
1918 – Kai Siegbahn, Swedish physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 2007)
1920 - John Paul Stevens, an American lawyer and jurist. (d. 2019)
1923 – Oktay Akbal, Turkish journalist and writer (d. 2015)
1923 – Mother Angelica, American Catholic nun (d. 2016)
1923 – Tito Puente, Puerto Rican-American Latin jazz musician (d. 2000)
1924 – Nina Foch, Dutch-born American actress, educator, and film director (d. 2008)
1925 – Elena Verdugo, American actress (d. 2017)
1927 – Omar Aggad, Saudi Arabian philanthropist and businessman of Palestinian descent (d. 2018)
1927 Phil Hill, American former Formula 1 driver (d. 2008)
1927 – Alex Müller, Swiss physicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics (d. 2023)
1929 – Domenico Corcione, Italian soldier and politician (d. 2020)
1929 – Ringaudas Songaila, Lithuanian communist politician, veterinarian (d. 2019)
1933 - Kristaq Dhamo, an Albanian actor and film director
1937 – Yılmaz Onay, Turkish writer, director and translator (d. 2018)
1937 – George Takei, American actor, director, writer, and activist
1938 – Betty Cuthbert, Australian former female athlete (d. 2017)
1939 – Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norwegian politician
1941 – Ryan O'Neal, American actor
1942 – Arto Paasilinna, Finnish novelist (d. 2018)
1943 – Abdullah Kiğılı, Turkish businessman and founder of Kiğılı clothing stores
1943 Edie Sedgwick, American actress (d. 1971)
1945 – Michael Brandon, American actor
1945 – Thein Sein, a Burmese politician
1947 - Viktor Suvorov is a Soviet Military Intelligence officer
1949 Veronica Cartwright, American actress
1949 – Massimo D'Alema, Italian politician
1949 – Jessica Lange, American actress and winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
1949 – Mahmut Cevher, Turkish actor
1950 Steve Erickson, American writer
1950 – Alexander Lebed, Russian soldier and politician (d. 2002)
1951 – Luther Vandross, American singer, songwriter, and record producer (d. 2005)
1951 – Haluk İmga, Turkish bureaucrat and politician
1955 – Svante Pääbo, Swedish biologist, geneticist, and Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine
1956 – Peter Chelsom, English director and actor
1958 – Galip Tekin, Turkish comics (d. 2017)
1963 – Rachel Whiteread, British artist
1964 – Andy Serkis, English actor
1964 – Rosalynn Sumners, American figure skater
1966 – David Chalmer, Australian philosopher and cognitive scientist
1966 – David Filo, US computer engineer
1967 – Mike Portnoy, American drummer
1970 – Shemar Moore, American actress, model, presenter
1971 – Hilal Özdemir, Turkish musician and Turkish folk music artist
1972 – Carmen Electra, American model, actress, and singer
1972 – Željko Joksimović, Serbian singer and composer
1975 – Esra Dalfidan, Turkish-German jazz singer
1975 – Michael Render, stage name Killer Mike, American hip hop artist and actor
1976 – Aldo Bobadilla, Paraguayan football player
1976 – Ali Atay, Turkish actor and musician
1979 – Beduk, Turkish musician
1980 – Jasmin Wagner, German female singer, actress and TV presenter
1983 – Miranda Kerr, Australian model
1984 – Bárbara Lennie Holguín, Spanish actress
1987 – Chun Woo-hee, South Korean actress
1987 – Anna Rossinelli, Swiss singer-songwriter
1989 - Carlos Valdes, American actor, musician, and singer
1990 – Lu Han, Chinese singer and actor
1993 – Petrus Boumal, Cameroonian national football player
1993 - Takuma Arano, Japanese football player
1995 – Charline Mignot, Swiss photographer and singer
1997 – Alexander Zverev Jr., German tennis player
2001 – Reyhan Asena Keskinci, Turkish actress

Deaths

1248 – Güyük Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, eldest son and successor of Ögeday, the great khan of the Mongols (b. 1206)
1284 – Hōjō Tokimune, eighth shikken of the Kamakura shogunate (b. 1251)
1314 – Pope Clement V; real name Bertrand de Goth, pope of the Roman Catholic Church (b. 1264)
1521 – Emperor Zhengde, 10th emperor of China's Ming Dynasty (b. 1491)
1707 – Johann Christoph Denner, German inventor and instrument maker (invented the clarinet) (b. 1655)
1750 – Jean Louis Petit, French surgeon and inventor of the screw tourniquet (b. 1674)
1769 – Pontiac, chief of the Otava natives (b. 1720)
1836 – Johann I, prince of Liechtenstein (b. 1760)
1887 – Muhammed Şerif Pasha, Turkish-Egyptian statesman (b. 1826)
1909 – Abdul Kerim, Indian servant and secretary (b. 1863)
1912 – Bram Stoker, Irish writer (b. 1847)
1918 – Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics (b. 1850)
1927 – Enrique Simonet, Spanish painter (b. 1866)
1932 – Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician (b. 1858)
1939 – William Mitchell Ramsay, Scottish archaeologist and New Testament scholar (b. 1851)
1948 – Mitsumasa Yonai, 26th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1880)
1951 – Ivanoe Bonomi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1873)
1977 – Sepp Herberger, German football player and coach (b. 1897)
1990 – Şefik Bursalı, Turkish painter (b. 1903)
1991 – Don Siegel, American film director (b. 1912)
1992 – Benny Hill, English comedian, actor, and singer (b. 1924)
1993 – Cantinflas, Mexican comedian and actor (b. 1911)
1995 – Milovan Djilas, Yugoslav politician of Montenegrin descent (b. 1911)
1999 – Erol Akyavaş, Turkish painter (b. 1932)
1999 – Tekin Aral, Turkish cartoonist (b. 1941)
1999 – Richard Erwin Rood, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)
2002 – Pierre Rapsat, Belgian singer (b. 1948)
2003 – Daijiro Kato, Japanese professional motorcycle racer (b. 1976)
2006 – Kathleen Antonelli, Irish-American computer scientist (b. 1921)
2008 – Gazanfer Bilge, Turkish wrestler and World and Olympic champion (b. 1924)
2011 – Tim Hetherington, British-American journalist and photojournalist (b. 1970)
2012 – Ayten Alpman, Turkish singer (b. 1929)
2012 – Sadettin Bilgiç, Turkish politician (b. 1920)
2013 – Günseli Başar, Turkish model (b. 1932)
2013 – Yakup Tahincioğlu, Assyrian origin Turkish industrialist and businessman (b. 1933)
2014 – Mithat Bayrak, Turkish national wrestler (b. 1929)
2014 – Rubin Hurricane Carter, Hurricane nicknamed middleweight boxer (b. 1937)
2016 – Guy Hamilton, British film director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
2016 – Chyna, American professional wrestler (b. 1970)
2016 – Atilla Özdemiroğlu, Turkish composer, lyricist and musician (b. 1943)
2016 – Victoria Wood, English actress, comedian, singer, screenwriter, songwriter and director (b. 2016)
2017 – Marta Magdalena Abakanowicz, Polish weaver and sculptor (b. 1930)
2017 – Roberto Ferreiro, Argentine football player and manager (b.1935)
2017 – Cuba Gooding Sr., American singer and actor (b. 1944)
2017 – Germaine Mason, Jamaican-British high jumper (b. 1983)
2017 – Kristine Jepson, American mezzo soprano and opera singer
2018 – Avicii, Swedish DJ, Music producer (b. 1989)
2018 – Roy Thomas Frank Bentley, English former football player and manager (b. 1924)
2018 – Pavel Šrut, Czech poet, translator and writer of children's stories (b. 1940)
2019 – Joe Armstrong, British computer engineer, scientist, and academic (b. 1950)
2019 – Jarosław Biernat, former Polish football player (b. 1960)
2019 – Luděk Bukač, Czech ice hockey player and coach (b. 1935)
2019 – Reggie Cobb, American Football player (b. 1968)
2019 – Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Iranian female painter and art collector (b. 1922)
2020 – Heherson Alvarez, Filipino politician (b. 1939)
2020 – Herman Glenn Carroll, American author (b. 1960)
2020 – Claude Evrard, French actor (b. 1933)
2020 – Tom Lester, American actor (b. 1938)
2020 – Tom Mulholland, Welsh football player (b. 1936)
2020 – Gabriel Retes, Mexican film director, writer, producer and actor (b. 1947)
2020 – Manjeet Singh Riyat, emergency care counselor in the UK (b. 1967/68)
2020 – Jiří Toman, Czech-born Swiss lawyer and professor (b. 1938)
2020 – Arsen Yegiazarian, Armenian chess player (b. 1970)
2021 – Idriss Déby, Chadian politician and soldier (b. 1952)
2021 – Wiesława Mazurkiewicz-Lutkiewicz, Polish theater, film and television actor (b. 1926)
2021 – Les McKeown, Scottish pop singer (b. 1955)
2021 – Listianto Raharjo, Indonesian national football player (b. 1970)
2022 – Hilda Bernard, Argentinean actress (b. 1920)
2022 – Olle Goop, Swedish chariot racer and trainer (b. 1943)
2022 – Antonín Kachlík, Czech film director, screenwriter and politician (b. 1923)