Today in History: Women's Football Match Was Held at Istanbul Dolmabahçe Stadium for the First Time

July 4 is the 185nd (186rd in leap years) day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 180 days left until the end of the year.

Railways

• 4 July 1887 An agreement was reached on the railway connection between the Ottoman Empire and Serbia. According to this, customs, municipal police, mail and telegraph treatments were identified.
• July 4, 1941 Law No. 4095 on the repair of the non-Turkish part between Uzunköprü and Svilingrad by the State Railways.

Events

• 1054 – Supernova named SN 1054 has been observed by the Chinese, Japanese, Iranians, Arabs, and Native Americans. Located near the constellation Taurus and consisting of the remnants of the Crab Nebula, this celestial event was visible in daylight for months.
• 1187 – Battle of Hattin: Salahaddin Ayyubi defeated the Crusaders in Hattin.
• 1776 - American Declaration of Independence; The American Congress declared its independence from Great Britain. It is celebrated as the founding day of the USA.
• 1802 – The United States Military Academy opened in West Point, New York.
• 1810 - France occupied Amsterdam.
• 1826 - The second (John Adams) and third President (Thomas Jefferson) of the United States died on the same day.
• 1827 - Slavery is outlawed in New York.
• 1865 – Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland His novel was published.
• 1898 – Wrestler Koca Yusuf died when the ship 'La Burgogne' sank in the Atlantic Ocean on his return to the USA.
• 1918 – Ottoman Sultan VI. Mehmet ascended the throne.
• 1918 – Bolsheviks, Russian Tsar II. They killed Nikolas and his family.
• 1921 - Karamursel was liberated from enemy occupation.
• 1924 – Antalya was liberated from enemy occupation.
• 1932 – Interior Minister Şükrü Kaya became the first person to go from Ankara to Istanbul by car.
• 1932 - American gangster Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years in prison.
• 1934 - Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard patented the 'chain reaction' model, which would later be used in the construction of the atomic bomb.
• 1946 – Ankara University was founded.
• 1946 – The United States recognizes the independence of the Philippines after 381 years of almost uninterrupted colonial rule.
• 1948 – Turkey – United States Economic Cooperation Agreement was signed.
• 1954 – Women's football match was held in Istanbul Dolmabahçe Stadium.
• 1959 – After Alaska joins the United States as the 49th state, the new 49-star flag is introduced to citizens in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• 1960 – After Hawaii joined the United States as the 50th state, today's 50-star flag was introduced to citizens in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The 49th star flag was adopted 1 year ago today.
• 1968 – Workers occupied the Derby Tire Factory in Kazlıçeşme, Istanbul. The occupation lasted 5 days.
• 1981 – Ballerina Galina Çursina from the Soviet Bolshoi Ballet Ensemble, participating in the 9th International Istanbul Film Festival, applied for asylum from the American Consulate.
• 1982 - Four Iranian diplomats were kidnapped in Lebanon.
• 1987 – Former Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie, nicknamed "The Butcher of Lyon", is sentenced to life imprisonment at the end of his trial in France.
• 1994 – Undersecretary of the Embassy of Turkey in Athens, Ömer Haluk Sipahioğlu, died as a result of an armed attack in Athens. The assassination was claimed by the 17 November Organization.
• 1995 – Turkish Armed Forces launched the cross-border “Ejder Operation” against the PKK.
• 1996 – Ankara State Security Court arrested People's Democracy Party (HADEP) Chairman Murat Bozlak and 39 party leaders.
• 1997 - NASA's "Pathfinder" research robot landed on the surface of Mars.
• 1997 – In the "Sivas Massacre" trial at Ankara No. 1 DGM, the Prosecutor demanded death penalty for 38 defendants.
• 2003 – The Sack incident (or Sack incident, in English: “The Hood event”) occurred in Northern Iraq and had a wide impact in the Turkish public.
• 2007 – Singer and actor Barış Akarsu was seriously injured in a traffic accident and died in a coma for 5 days.
• 2012 - God particle discovered.

Births

• 1330 – Ashikaga Yoshiakira, second shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate (d. 1367)
• 1546 – ​​III. Murat, 12th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1595)
• 1804 – Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author (d. 1864)
• 1807 – Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian hero (d. 1882)
• 1822 – Eugène Guillaume, French sculptor (d. 1905)
• 1826 – Stephen Foster, American musician and songwriter (d. 1864)
• 1868 – Henrietta Swan Leavitt, American astronomer (d. 1921)
• 1872 – Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States (d. 1933)
• 1891 – Georges Duthuit, French art critic and writer (d. 1973)
• 1896 – Mao Dun, Chinese writer (d. 1981)
• 1900 – Robert Desnos, French poet (d. 1945)
• 1907 Gordon Griffith, American director (d. 1958)
• 1910 Gloria Stuart, American actress (d. 2010)
• 1910 – Robert K. Merton, American sociologist (d. 2003)
• 1921 – Gérard Debreu, French-American mathematician and economist (d. 2004)
• 1924 - Eva Marie Saint, American Academy Award-winning film actress
• 1926 – Alfredo Di Stéfano, Argentine football player (d. 2014)
• 1927 - Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress
• 1927 – Neil Simon, American playwright (d. 2018)
• 1928 – Giampiero Boniperti, Italian football player and Member of Parliament
• 1931 – Stephen Boyd, Northern Irish-born English actor (d. 1977)
• 1937 – Thomas Nagel, American philosopher
• 1937 – Sonja, wife of King Harald V and queen of Norway since January 17, 1991
• 1938 Bill Withers, American singer (d. 2020)
• 1942 – Floyd Little, American professional football player (d. 2021)
• 1949 – Horst Seehofer, German politician from CSU
• 1952 – Álvaro Uribe, Colombian politician and President of Colombia from 2002 to 2010
• 1959 – Victoria Abril, Spanish actress and singer
• 1961 – Ferenc Gyurcsany, Prime Minister of Hungary
• 1962 – Frédéric Auburtin, French director
• 1964 – Edi Rama, Albanian politician
• 1965 – Regina, Slovenian singer
• 1965 – Tracy Letts, American actress, playwright
• 1972 – Nina Badrić, Croatian singer
• 1978 – Tansu Biçer, Turkish theater and film actress
• 1981 – Froso Papaharalambus, Greek singer
• 1981 – Tahar Rahim, Algerian-French actor
• 1983 - Isabeli Fontana, Brazilian supermodel
• 1983 – Mossoró, Brazilian football player
• 1984 - Jin Akashi, Japanese actor
• 1984 – Lee Je-hoon, South Korean actor
• 1986 – Ömer Faruk Asik, Turkish basketball player
• 1988 – Selcuk Balci, Turkish singer
• 1988 – Tarık Ündüz, Turkish actor
• 1990 – David Kross, German actor
• 1990 – Fredo Santana, American rapper (d. 2018)
• 1994 – Agnete Johnsen, Norwegian singer
• 1994 – Era Istrefi, Albanian singer
• 1995 – Post Malone, American singer

Deaths

• 943 – Taejo, founder of the Goryeo Dynasty, which ruled Korea between the 10th and 14th centuries (b. 877)
• 975 – Gwangjong, fourth king of the Goryeo Kingdom (b. 925)
• 1200 – Alaeddin Tekiş ruled the state of Khwarezmshahs between 1172 and 1200.
• 1546 – ​​Barbaros Hayreddin Pasha, Ottoman sailor and captain of the sea (b. 1478)
• 1826 – John Adams, 2nd President of the United States (b. 1735)
• 1826 – Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States (b. 1743)
• 1831 – James Monroe, 5th President of the United States (b. 1758)
• 1848 – François-René de Chateaubriand, French novelist and politician (b. 1768)
• 1881 – Johan Vilhelm Snellman, Finnish writer and statesman (b. 1806)
• 1891 – Hannibal Hamlin, 15th vice president of the United States (b. 1809)
• 1898 – Koca Yusuf, legendary Turkish wrestler from Deliorman (b. 1857)
• 1905 – Élisée Reclus, French geographer, historian, author, vegetarian, anarchist (b. 1830)
• 1910 – Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (b. 1835)
• 1934 – Marie Curie, Polish-French chemist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1867)
• 1938 – Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player (b. 1899)
• 1943 – Cevat Abbas Gürer, Turkish soldier, politician, and Mustafa Kemal Pasha's Chief Adjutant (b. 1887)
• 1943 – Władysław Sikorski, Polish soldier and politician (b. 1881)
• 1946 – Othenio Abel, Austrian paleontologist and evolutionary biologist (b. 1875)
• 1963 – Bernard Freyberg, British general (b. 1889)
• 1968 – Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke, German general and writer (b. 1889)
• 1979 – Theodora Kroeber, American author and anthropologist (b. 1897)
• 1992 – Astor Piazzola, Argentine composer and bandoneon player (b. 1921)
• 1995 – Eva Gabor, Hungarian-American actress, businesswoman, and singer (b. 1919)
• 1995 – Bob Ross, American painter and television personality (b. 1942)
• 1999 – Sevim Tuna, Turkish singer (b. 1934)
• 2003 – Ahmet Orhan Arda, Turkish master architect and architect of Anıtkabir (b. 1911)
• 2003 – André Claveau, French singer, actor (b. 1911)
• 2003 – Barry White, American singer (b. 1944)
• 2003 – Tomris Uyar, Turkish short story writer and translator (b. 1941)
• 2007 – Barış Akarsu, Turkish pop and rock music singer and TV series actor (b. 1979)
• 2008 – Ali Yaramancı, Turkish soldier, engineer and scientist (b. 1917)
• 2008 – Evelyn Keyes, American actress (b. 1916)
• 2009 – Brenda Joyce, American actress (b. 1917)
• 2009 – Kurtuluş Türkgüven, Turkish musician (b. 1954)
• 2010 – Füsun Akatlı, Turkish critic, writer and lecturer (b. 1944)
• 2010 – Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, Lebanese Muslim cleric (b. 1935)
• 2011 – Otto von Habsburg, also known by the royal name Otto, Archduke of Austria (b. 1913)
• 2011 – Pablo McNeil, former Jamaican sprinter and now sprint coach (b. 1939)
• 2013 – Bernie Nolan, Irish singer and actress (b. 1960)
• 2015 – Daniel Quinn, American actor (b. 1956)
• 2016 – Abbas Kiarostami, Iranian director, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1940)
• 2016 – Halis Tümley, Turkish musician (b. 1956)
• 2017 – Hakan Balamir, Turkish film actor (b. 1945)
• 2018 – Georges-Emmanuel Clancier, French journalist, poet and novelist (b. 1914)
• 2018 – Ernst W. Hamburger, German-Brazilian physicist (b. 1933)
• 2019 – Chris Cline, American billionaire industrialist, businessman, and philanthropist (b. 1958)
• 2019 – Eduardo Fajardo, Spanish actor (b. 1924)
• 2019 – Arturo Fernández Rodríguez, Spanish actor (b. 1929)
• 2019 – Pierre Lhomme, French film and cinematographer, screenwriter (b. 1930)
• 2020 – Brandis Kemp, American actress (b. 1944)
• 2020 – Bhakti Charu Swami, disciple of AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, spiritual leader and founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) (b. 1945)
• 2020 – Mary Twala, South African actress (b. 1939)