TTNET Joint Stock Company was Established

April 26 is the 116st day of the year (117nd in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 249 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

1865 – John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated US President Abraham Lincoln, is captured and killed by United States Army soldiers in rural northern Virginia after a twelve-day manhunt.
1870 – Dârülmuallimât (Girl Teacher's School) was opened in the Ottoman Empire. 32 female students were admitted with the exam.
1903 - The famous Spanish team Atlético Madrid is founded.
1912 – For the first time, Fesa Bey (Evrensev), an Ottoman pilot, flew over Turkish territory in an Ottoman airplane.
1930 – The liquor factory in Istanbul, Mecidiyeköy, was opened.
1937 – Bombardment of Guernica: Some volunteer airmen bombard the city of Guernica in the Basque region of Spain, at Hitler's request, in order to help General Franco.
1954 – The foundation of Burdur Sugar Factory was laid.
1954 - Geneva Conference on Korea and Indochina convened.
1961 – Supreme Election Board was established.
1964 – The United Republic of Tanzania is formed by the merger of the Republic of Tanganyika, the People's Republic of Zanzibar and Pemba. Julius Nyerere became President.
1966 – The 7,5 Richter scale earthquake that occurred in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, destroyed almost the entire city.
1967 – A painting by Pablo Picasso sells for $532.000, the highest ever price for a living artist.
1971 – Martial law was declared in 11 provinces. Minister of Justice İsmail Arar asked journalists, “Is there a revolt?” left the question unanswered. The provinces where martial law was declared for a month are: Ankara, Istanbul, Izmir, Adana, Diyarbakir, Eskisehir, Hatay, Kocaeli, Sakarya, Siirt, Zonguldak.
1971 – Martial Law closed the Revolutionary East Cultural Centers and Dev-Genç.
1972 – Writer Sevgi Soysal was sentenced to one year in prison.
1977 – The election bus of Republican People's Party leader Bülent Ecevit was shot in Niksar. 10 people were injured in the attack.
1978 – Dr. Cengiz Taşer was appointed as the General Manager of TRT.
1979 – Istanbul Martial Law Command declared that it banned May 1 Labor Day celebrations.
1986 – Chernobyl disaster: Turkey was also affected by the radioactive clouds that emerged due to the explosion that took place in the Chernobyl city of Ukraine (USSR), in which approximately 7 million people were harmed.
1988 – Medical Ethics Committee, Dr. He decided that the oleander extract, which Ziya Özel used in the treatment of cancer patients, was not a medicine.
1991 – Istanbul Çavuşoğlu High School became the World High School Basketball Champion.
1991 - 4 Azeri security guards were killed in the Karabakh region. The organization named "Karabakh Warriors" claimed responsibility for the incident.
1994 - A Chinese plane crashes in Japan, killing 264.
1994 – The first multiracial elections are held in the Republic of South Africa. The African National Congress, led by Nelson Mandela, won 62 percent of the vote.
1995 – Reuters reporter Fatih Sarıbaş and Agence France-Presse (French Press Agency) reporter Kadri Gürsel, who were kidnapped by PKK militants on March 31, were released.
1995 – Turkey's first female district governors, Elif Arslan and Özlem Bozkurt, started their duties.
1996 – Turkey's first overpass restaurant was opened in Sapanca by McDonald's on the TEM highway.
1997 – Industry Minister Yalım Erez and Health Minister Yıldırım Aktuna resigned, declaring that the Refahyol Government had destroyed the basic features of the Republic and brought harm, not benefit, for Turkey.
1999 – On the anniversary of the Chernobyl Disaster, hackers locked down computers. 300 thousand PCs were affected by the Chernobyl virus. There was great panic in thousands of companies. His bill is $100 million.
2000 – Eskişehir Deputy Mail Büyükerman resigned from DSP on the grounds that there was a reaction against his presidential candidacy.
2001 – Junichirō Koizumi of the Liberal Democratic Party becomes the first Japanese Prime Minister.
2004 – Black Sea residents filed a criminal complaint against Cahit Aral, Minister of Industry and Trade of the time, and Ahmed Yüksel Özemre, Head of Atomic Energy Authority, exactly 18 years after the Chernobyl disaster. Reason; Increase in cancer cases in the Black Sea.
2005 – The law, which was vetoed by President Ahmet Necdet Sezer, allowing 10 thousand police officers to be created and theology graduates to become police officers, was accepted in the Parliament.
2005 – The United Nations officially announced that CHP Istanbul Deputy Kemal Derviş was elected as the Head of the United Nations Development Programme.
2006 – TTNET Anonim Şirketi was established.
2007 – The Olympic Games fire was lit in Beijing.
2010 – In the Bilge Village of Mazıdağı District of Mardin, 7 of the 44 people arrested for the murder of 8 people, including 6 children, were given life imprisonment forty-four times. In the event that went down in history as the Bilge Village Massacre; A minor defendant was sentenced to 44 years in prison 15 times, and a defendant who had a gun in his home was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Births

121 – Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor (d. 180)
757 – Hisham I, second Emir of Andalusia Umayyad State (d. 796)
764 – Hadi, Fourth Abbasid caliph (d. 786)
1319 – II. Jean, King of France (d. 1364)
1564 – William Shakespeare, English poet, playwright, and actor (d. 1616)
1575 - Marie de' Medici, King of France IV. Henry's second wife (d. 1642)
1710 – Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher (d. 1796)
1725 – Pasquale Paoli, Italian statesman and patriot (d. 1807)
1785 – John James Audubon, American painter (d. 1851)
1798 – Eugène Delacroix, French painter (d. 1863)
1822 Frederick Law Olmsted, American architect (d. 1903)
1856 Henry Morgenthau, American politician (d. 1946)
1865 – Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Finnish painter (d. 1931)
1879 – Eric Campbell, English-born silent film actor, theater actor (d. 1917)
1879 – Owen Richardson, English physicist (d. 1959)
1886 – Abdullah Tukay (Gabdulla Tuqay), Tatar poet (d. 1913)
1889 – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-born English philosopher (d. 1951)
1894 – Rudolf Hess, German politician and NSDAP Member of Parliament (d. 1987)
1896 – Ernst Udet, German Pilot (d. 1941)
1897 – Douglas Sirk, German-American film director (d. 1987)
1898 – Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish writer and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
1900 – Charles Francis Richter, American geoscientist and inventor (d. 1985)
1904 – Xenophon Zolotas, former prime minister of Greece (1989-90) and economist (d. 2004)
1905 – Jean Vigo, French director (d. 1934)
1907 – Ilias Tsirimokos, Greek politician (d. 1968)
1909 – Marianne Hoppe, German stage, film and television actress (d. 2002)
1911 – Paul Verner, German communist politician (d. 1986)
1914 – Bernard Malamud, American novelist and short story writer (d. 1986)
1917 – Ieoh Ming Pei, Chinese-American architect and Pritzker Architecture Prize winner (d. 2019)
1918 – Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch former athlete (d. 2004)
1925 – Michele Ferrero, Italian businessman (d. 2015)
1927 – Anne McLaren, English biologist and zoologist (d. 2007)
1927 – Harry Gallatin, American professional basketball player and coach (d. 2015)
1929 – Jerzy Turonek, Polish-Belarusian historian and writer (d. 2019)
1931 – John Cain, Australian politician (d. 2019)
1932 – Francis Lai, French composer (d. 2018)
1932 – Michael Smith, English-Canadian chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000)
1933 - Carol Burnett, American actress, variety artist, singer, and author
1933 – Arno Allan Penzias, German-American physicist and Nobel Prize winner in Physics (d. 2024)
1933 – Filiberto Ojeda Rios, Puerto Rican musician and leader of the Boricua People's Army, which fought for the independence of the island of Puerto Rico (d. 2005)
1936 – Yılmaz Karakoyunlu, Turkish politician and writer (d. 2024)
1937 – Jean-Pierre Beltoise, French Formula 1 racer (d. 2015)
1938 – Duane Eddy, American rock and roll guitarist
1940 – Giorgio Moroder, Italian songwriter, DJ, record producer, artist
1941 – Claudine Auger, French actress (d. 2019)
1942 – Manfred Korfmann, German archaeologist (d. 2005)
1942 – Bobby Rydell, American rock and roll singer, drummer, and actor (d. 2022)
1943 – Peter Zumthor, Swiss architect
1946 – Robert Anker, Dutch writer (d. 2017)
1949 – Carlos Bianchi, Argentine professional football player and manager
1951 – Nuri Alço, Turkish film actor
1954 – Akrep Nalan, Turkish pop music singer (d. 2022)
1956 – Emrehan Halıcı, Turkish politician
1956 – Koo Stark, American photographer and actor
1958 – Giancarlo Esposito, American actor
1959 – Gulenay Kalkan, Turkish actress
1960 – HG Carrillo, American author (d. 2020)
1961 – Anthony Cumia, American radio host
1961 – Joan Chen, People's Republic of China-American film actress and director
1963 – Jet Li, Chinese martial arts actor and actor
1964 – Mark Esper, American politician and businessman
1965 – Kevin James, American actor and comedian
1967 – Marianne Jean-Baptiste, English actress
1967 – Kane, Spanish-American wrestler and actor
1970 – Melania Trump, Slovenian-American model and wife of Donald Trump
1970 – Ümit Sayın, Turkish singer
1970 – Tionne Watkins, American singer
1972 – Kiko, Spanish football player
1975 – Joey Jordison, American musician and Slipknot drummer (d. 2021)
1976 – Catie Lazarus, American author, comedian and talk show host (d. 2020)
1976 – Nefise Karatay, Turkish actress, model and presenter
1977 Jason Earles, American actor
1977 – Tom Welling, American actor
1978 Stana Katic, Canadian actress
1978 – Peter Madsen, Danish football player
1980 – Jordana Brewster is an American actress.
1980 – Umut Sarikaya, Turkish cartoonist
1980 – Channing Tatum, American actor and filmmaker
1981 - Mrs. Dynamite, English hip-hop musician and rapper
1983 - Jessica Lynch, former corporal of the U.S. Armed Forces Engineering Corps
1985 – Anduele Pryor, Dutch football player
1986 – Lior Refaelov, Israeli football player
1987 - Coke is a Spanish football player.
1987 - Jessica Lee Rose, American actress
1988 – Manuel Viniegra, Mexican football player
1989 - Daesung is a South Korean singer and actor.
1992 - Delon Wright, American professional basketball player
1993 – Gizem Örge, Turkish volleyball player
1994 – Daniil Kvyat, Russian Formula 1 driver
1995 – Tilbe Şenyürek, Turkish basketball player
1996 – Yuma Suzuki, Japanese football player
1997 – Shunta Shimura, Japanese football player
2001 – Ekrem Sancaklı, Turkish basketball player
2001 – Thiago Almada, Argentinian football player

Deaths

757 – Pope II. Stephanus, Pope and first ruler of the Papal States (b. ??)
1192 – Go-Shirakawa, 77th emperor of Japan in traditional succession (b. 1127)
1392 – Jeong Mong-ju, Korean philosopher and statesman during the Goryeo Dynasty (b. 1338)
1444 – Robert Campin, Flemish painter (b. 1378)
1478 – Giuliano de' Medici, second child of Piero de' Medici and Lucrezia Tornabuoni (b. 1453)
1478 – Jacopo de' Pazzi. Head of the Pazzi Family in 1464 (b. 1423)
1489 – Ashikaga Yoshihisa, ninth shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate (b. 1465)
1815 – Carsten Niebuhr, German mathematician, cartographer, and explorer (b. 1733)
1865 – John Wilkes Booth, American stage actor (who assassinated US President Abraham Lincoln) (b. 1838)
1910 – Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian author, poet, politician, and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832)
1920 – Srinivasa Aiyangar Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (b. 1887)
1936 – Samipaşazade Sezai, Turkish storyteller and novelist (b. 1859)
1940 – Carl Bosch, German chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
1943 – Naşit Özcan, Turkish theater actor and veil master (b. 1886)
1951 – Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist (b. 1868)
1956 – Gustav Oelsner, German architect and urban planner (b. 1879)
1960 – Wander Johannes de Haas, Dutch physicist and mathematician (b. 1878)
1966 – Tom Florie, American football player (b. 1897)
1969 – Morihei Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist and founder of Aikido (b. 1883)
1979 – Julia Bell, British human genetics researcher (b. 1879)
1980 – Cicely Courtneidge, English actress (b. 1893)
1981 – Jim Davis, American actor (b. 1909)
1984 – Count Basie, American jazz pianist and conductor (b. 1904)
1984 – Helge Løvland, Norwegian decathlete (b. 1890)
1985 – Aylin Urgal, Turkish pop music artist (b. 1951)
1986 – Broderick Crawford, American actor (b. 1911)
1989 – Lucille Ball, American actress and comedian (b. 1911)
1991 – Carmine Coppola, American composer, music producer, songwriter (b. 1910)
1994 – Masutatsu Oyama, founder of Kyokushin-kai karate (b. 1923)
1999 – Jill Dando, British journalist and television presenter (b. 1961)
2002 – Orhan Elmas, Turkish actor and director (b. 1927)
2003 – Yun Hyon-seok, South Korean Gay poet and writer (b. 1984)
2004 – Hubert Selby Jr., American author (b. 1928)
2005 – Elisabeth Domitien, Central African Republic's first and only female prime minister (b. 1925)
2005 – Maria Schell, Austrian actress (b. 1926)
2006 – Ali Ekber Çiçek, Turkish folk singer (b. 1935)
2008 – Árpád Orbán, Hungarian football player (b. 1938)
2009 – Macha Béranger, born: Michele Riond), French radio host and actor (b. 1941)
2012 – Şahap Kocatopçu, Turkish politician (b. 1916)
2014 – Gerald Guralnik, American, Brown University faculty physicist (b. 1936)
2014 – Rashad Harden, American hip hop musician and DJ (b. 1979)
2015 – Jayne Meadows (born: Jane Cotter), American actress (b. 1919)
2016 – Vincent Darius, Granada clergyman (b. 1955)
2016 – Arne Elsholtz, German actor and voice actor (b. 1944)
2017 – Moïse Brou, Gabonese national football player born in Ivory Coast (b. 1982)
2017 – Jonathan Demme, American director (b. 1944)
2018 – Jean Duprat, French politician (b. 1936)
2018 – Yoshinobu Ishii, Japanese former international football player and manager (b. 1939)
2018 – Gianfranco Parolini, Italian film director, screenwriter and actor (b. 1925)
2019 – James Banks, American football player (b. 1964)
2019 – Elina Bistritskaya, Soviet-Russian actress (b. 1928)
2019 – Nasser Farbod, Iranian politician and senior military officer (b. 1922)
2019 – Jessie Lawrence Ferguson, black American actress (b. 1942)
2019 – Mae Schmidle, American politician (b. 1926)
2019 – Ellen Schwiers, German actress (b. 1930)
2020 – Emilio S Allué, Spanish Catholic bishop (b. 1935)
2020 – Laura Bernal, Argentine diplomat (b. 1956)
2020 – Giulietto Chiesa, Member of the European Parliament (b. 1940)
2020 – Miquéias Fernandes, Brazilian politician and lawyer (b. 1950)
2020 – Aarón Hernán, Mexican theater, film and television actor (b. 1930)
2020 – Claudio Risi, Italian film director (b. 1948)
2020 – Badruddin Shaikh, Indian politician and member of the Indian National Congress (b. 1952)
2020 – Henri Weber, French politician (b. 1944)
2021 – Vassos Lyssarides, Greek Cypriot doctor and politician (b. 1920)
2021 – Florence Piron, French-born Canadian anthropologist, academic, and ethicist (b. 1966)
2022 – Ann Davies, English actress (b. 1934)
2022 – İsmail Ogan, Olympic Games champion Turkish wrestler (b. 1933)

Holidays and special occasions

Pharmacy Technicians Day
World Intellectual Property Day
World Pilots Day
Storm: The End of Sitte-i Sevr
World Jealousy Day