Today in History: The Foundation of the Süleymaniye Mosque, the Work of Mimar Sinan, Was Laid

June 13 is the 164th day of the year (165th in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 201 days remaining until the end of the year.

Railways

• June 13, 1893 The Nafia Council has completed the final acceptance of all the shortcomings of the Mersin-Adana-Tarsus line and decided to return the 6.000 lira bail deposit in the joint stock company Bank-i Osmani. As per the contract, this acceptance was supposed to be in 1887. The company's failure to fulfill some of its commitments has extended the process.
• 13 June 1894 The Vertekop-Monastery section of the Thessaloniki-Monastery Line was opened.
• June 13, 1928 the Government of Turkey and the Ottoman Sensory-i Umumiyesi between patron PA-rise on the agreement reached Rumeli Railways bonds are evaluated separately from other liabilities and the value of the bonds remained as before. Bonds have no interest. Within this scope, the annual installment for all the states responsible for Ottoman debts is 270 thousand TL. d. The sum of the payments to be made by Turkey account with £ 62,23 168.033 falling 6.302.756 percent stake in Turkey's account is XNUMX pounds.
• 13 June 1985 The foundation of Iskenderun-Divrigi line signaling facilities was laid.

Events 

• 1381 – Peasant rebels led by Wat Tyler storm London, setting government buildings on fire, emptying prisons, and beheading the rich and judges.
• 1550 – The foundation of the Süleymaniye Mosque, the work of Mimar Sinan, was laid.
• 1859 – In the severe earthquake in Erzurum, more than half of the city was damaged and 3 people died.
• 1872 – Namik Kemal, Lesson published the newspaper. This idea newspaper was closed after 27 days.
• 1878 – Congress meets in Berlin to sign a peace treaty between the Ottoman Empire, Tsarist Russia, Great Britain, the German Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Kingdom of Italy, and France, called the Treaty of Berlin.
• 1891 – Istanbul Archeology Museum was opened to visitors.
• 1921 – Mustafa Kemal met with the French Representative Henry Franklin-Bouillon, who came to Ankara.
• 1924 – Gaston Doumergue is elected President of France.
• 1928 – A contract was signed between Turkey and the creditors of Düyunu Umumiye (Ottoman debts).
• 1934 - Adolf Hitler and Mussolini met in Venice, Italy. Later, while describing his impressions of this meeting, Mussolini would refer to Hitler as "the stupid little monkey".
• 1946 – Law No. 4936 giving autonomy to universities was accepted.
• 1951 – United States Secretary of State Dean Acheson asked the European members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to accept Turkey into the Pact.
• 1952 – The Intellectual Workers Law was passed.
• 1957 - Black leader Martin Luther King met with US Vice President Nixon.
• 1961 – The protocol regulating the principles of sending workers to West Germany was signed. The first group of workers departed by train on 24 June.
• 1962 – Osman Bölükbaşı and his friends, who left the Republican Peasant Nation Party, founded the Nation Party.
• 1963 – The trial of 1459 Military Academy students began.
• 1966 – Preparations started for the first closed-circuit television broadcast in Ankara.
• 1968 – The boycott and occupation actions that started in universities began to spread rapidly. After Istanbul, students boycotted classes in 10 faculties in Ankara. Ankara University Faculty of Science was occupied.
• 1969 – Two jet planes belonging to the Iraqi Air Force accidentally bombed Hakkari.
• 1971 – The Ministry of Culture was established. Talat Halman was appointed to the Ministry.
• 1972 – Boğaziçi University student Banu Ergüder was caught with a suitcase containing a corpse. Despite Ergüder's statement that he killed against rape, it was revealed that Zeynel Altındağ, a student from the same university, committed the murder due to organizational disagreement. Garbis Altınoğlu, who was involved in the murder of Adil Ovalıoğlu, who was wanted by the martial law, was also caught.
• 1972 – The death sentences of Necmi Demir, Kamil Dede and Ziya Yılmaz, who were convicted in the THKP-C trial, were overturned in the Supreme Court.
• 1973 – The Law on State Security Courts was accepted in the Turkish Grand National Assembly.
• 1977 – Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel resigned. The task of forming the government was given to the Chairman of the Republican People's Party, Bülent Ecevit.
• 1983 - The Pioneer 10 space probe becomes the first man-made object to leave the solar system.
• 1991 – The passport application was abolished between Turkey and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
• 1993 – Tansu Çiller was elected as the Chairman of the DYP, which was vacated by the election of Süleyman Demirel as President.
• 1993 - Kim Campbell is elected Canada's first female Prime Minister.
• 1996 - Cuban President Fidel Castro, Habitat II. He came to Istanbul to attend the City Summit.
• 2000 – Pope II. Mehmet Ali Ağca, who was imprisoned in Italy for the attempted assassination of Jean Paul, was extradited to Turkey.
• 2002 – The traditional Assembly “Loya Jirga” convened in Afghanistan and elected Hamid Karzai as the Head of the Interim Government.
• 2006 – The second season DVD of the American TV series MacGyver is released.
• 2009 – Iranian Presidential election results are announced. Mahmud Ahmadinejad won the election. As soon as the results were announced, protest demonstrations began in the country. It soon turned into a rebellion.
• 2013 – Sibel Siber became the first female prime minister of the TRNC.

Births 

• 839 – III. Charles, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 888)
• 1773 – Thomas Young, English scholar and linguist (d. 1829)
• 1831 – James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish theoretical physicist, mathematician, and founder of electromagnetic theory (d. 1879)
• 1865 – William Butler Yeats, Irish poet and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1939)
• 1888 – Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet (d. 1935)
• 1897 – Paavo Nurmi, Finnish athlete (d. 1973)
• 1911 – Luis Alvarez, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics (d. 1988)
• 1917 – Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan writer (d. 2005)
• 1918 – Helmut Lent, Nazi Germany pilot (known as the night fighter) (d. 1944)
• 1925 – Jak Kamhi, Turkish businessman (d. 2020)
• 1928 – John Forbes Nash, American mathematician and Nobel Prize laureate in Economics (d. 2015)
• 1931 – Irvin D. Yalom, Russian-American psychiatrist, existentialist, psychotherapist, author, and educator
• 1935 – Mehmet Üstünkaya, Turkish businessman and Beşiktaş JK manager (d. 2000)
• 1937 – Alla Yoshpe, Russian pop singer (d. 2021)
• 1941 – Tony Hateley, English football player (d. 2014)
• 1943 Malcolm McDowell, English actor
• 1944 – Ban Ki-moon, South Korean politician and United Nations Secretary-General
• 1951 – Stellan Skarsgård, Swedish actress
• 1952 – Hikmet Körmükçü, Turkish theater, cinema and TV series actor and voice actor
• 1953 Tim Allen, American comedian and actor
• 1955 - Alan Hansen, Scottish football player
• 1958 – Füsun Demirel, Turkish theater, film and TV series actress and translator
• 1962 – Ally Sheedy is an American film and television actress.
• 1964 – Kathy Burke, English actress, comedian and theater director.
• 1965 – Vahide Perçin, Turkish theater, film and TV series actress
• 1966 – Grigori Perelman, Russian mathematician
• 1967 – Peter Buchman is an American screenwriter.
• 1970 – Julian Gil, Argentinian actor, former model
• 1971 – Jeffrey Pierce is an American actor and voice actor.
• 1971 – Tarık, Turkish singer
• 1972 – Ufuk Sarıca is a Turkish former basketball player.
• 1973 – Kasia Kowalska, Polish singer, songwriter, producer and actress
• 1973 – Ville Laihiala, Finnish musician and vocalist of Sentenced
• 1974 – Selma Björnsdóttir, Icelandic singer and actress
• 1974 – Takahiro Sakurai, Japanese voice actor
• 1975 – Jeff Davis, American writer and producer
• 1975 – Toni Ribas, Spanish porn actor
• 1978 – Richard Kingson, Ghanaian football player
• 1980 – Florent Malouda, French national football player
• 1980 – Sarah Connor, German singer
• 1981 – Chris Evans, American actor
• 1983 - Rebeca Linares, Spanish porn actress
• 1986 - Kat Dennings, American actress
• 1986 – Måns Zelmerlöw, Swedish singer, presenter and dancer
• 1989 – Diana Hajiyeva, Azerbaijani singer
• 1989 – Andreas Samaris, Greek football player
• 1989 – Hassan Whiteside, American professional basketball player
• 1990 – Aaron Johnson, English actor
• 1991 – Ryan Mason, English coach and former football player
• 1991 – Lorenzo Reyes, Chilean national football player
• 1992 – Kim Jin-su, South Korean national football player
• 1993 – Milan Jevtovic, Serbian football player
• 1993 – Thomas Partey, Ghanaian national football player
• 1993 – Denis Ten, Kazakh figure skater (d. 2018)
• 1995 – Petra Vlhová, Slovak World Cup alpine skier
• 1996 – Kingsley Coman, French football player
• 1997 – Arca Tülüoğlu, Turkish basketball player
• 2000 – Penny Oleksiak, Canadian freestyle and butterfly swimmer

Deaths 

• 1036 – Zahir, seventh caliph of the Fatimid Caliphate during 1021-1036 (b. 1005)
• 1231 – Antonio of Padova, Franciscan priest, spiritual doctrinaire, renowned preacher and miracle worker (b. 1195)
• 1645 – Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese swordsman (b. 1584)
• 1933 – Şeref Bey, Turkish football player, coach and football referee (founder and first captain of Beşiktaş football branch) (b. 1894)
• 1948 – Osamu Dazai, Japanese writer (b. 1909)
• 1965 – Refik Fersan, Turkish composer and musicologist (b. 1893)
• 1965 – Martin Buber, philosopher born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (b. 1878)
• 1974 – Turgut Zaim, Turkish painter and decorator (b. 1906)
• 1977 – Matthew Garber, English actor (b. 1956)
• 1978 – Paul Wittek, Austrian historian, orientalist and writer (b. 1894)
• 1982 – Khaled bin Abdul Aziz, King of Saudi Arabia (b. 1912)
• 1986 – Benny Goodman, American musician (b. 1909)
• 1987 – Cemil Meriç, Turkish writer and translator (b. 1916)
• 1987 – Geraldine Page, American actress (b. 1924)
• 1992 – Pumpuang Duangjan, Thai singer (b. 1961)
• 1996 – Mükerrem Berk, Turkish flutist (b. 1917)
• 1998 – Lucio Costa, Brazilian architect and urban planner (b. 1902)
• 2000 – Ágnes Ságvári, Hungarian historian and academic (b. 1928)
• 2005 – Álvaro Cunhal, Portuguese communist politician (b. 1912)
• 2005 – Jesús Moncada was a Spanish writer in the Catalan language (b. 1941)
• 2005 – Lane Smith, American actor (b. 1936)
• 2006 – Charles Haughey, Prime Minister of Ireland (b. 1925)
• 2009 – Mitsuharu Misawa, Japanese professional wrestler (b. 1962)
• 2010 – Combo Ayouba, Comorian soldier and politician (b. 1953)
• 2012 – Roger Garaudy, French thinker and writer (b. 1913)
• 2012 – William Knowles, American chemist (b. 1917)
• 2013 – Mohammed al-Hilayvi, former Saudi national football player (b. 1971)
• 2014 – Gyula Grosics, Former Hungarian goalkeeper (b. 1926)
• 2014 – Sara Widén, Swedish soprano and opera singer (b. 1981)
• 2015 – Sergio Renán, Argentine film director and actor (b. 1933)
• 2016 – Ofelia Hambardzumyan, Armenian folk singer (b. 1925)
• 2017 – Yōko Nogiwa, a Japanese actress (b.1936)
• 2017 – Ulf Stark, Swedish writer and screenwriter (b. 1944)
• 2018 – Alfredo Pasillas is a Mexican professional wrestler. (b. 1966)
• 2018 – Anne Donovan, American former women's basketball player and coach (b. 1961)
• 2018 – DJ Fontana, American musician (b. 1931)
• 2018 – Charles Vinci, Former Olympic and World Champion American weightlifter (b. 1933)
• 2019 – Pat Bowlen, American sports executive and businessman (b. 1944)
• 2019 – Edith González, Mexican telenovela and film actress (b. 1964)
• 2019 – Şeref Has, Turkish former national football player, coach (b. 1936)
• 2020 – Sheikh Md Abdullah, Bangladeshi politician and lawyer (b. 1945)
• 2020 – Sabiha Khanum, Pakistani actress (b. 1935)
• 2020 – Mohammed Nasim, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1948)
• 2020 – Jean Raspail, French writer, traveler and explorer (b. 1925)