Today in History: A Military Plane Crashed Over Eskişehir 10 People Died Together With The Pilot

August 25 is the 237th (238th in leap years) day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days left until the end of the year is 128.

Railways

• 25 August 1922 Fourth Railway Union starts repairing Shepherds Station.

Events 

• 1499 – The Sapienza Naval Battle, which took place between the Ottoman Navy under the command of Küçük Davut Pasha and the Navy of the Republic of Venice, resulted in the Ottoman victory.
• 1554 – Battle of Muscat between the Ottomans and Portugal.
• 1758 – Seven Years' War: King of Prussia II. Frederick defeated the Russian army.
• 1768 - James Cook embarked on his first voyage.
• 1825 - Uruguay declared its independence from Brazil.
• 1830 - Belgian Revolution begins.
• 1925 – Mustafa Kemal Pasha, famous in İnebolu Türkocağı, with his civilian dress and “panama hat” Hat Speechgave it. The “Law on the Wearing of the Hat” was also adopted on November 25, 1925.
• 1933 - Italy and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact.
• 1933 - Earthquake in Sichuan-China: 9000 people died.
• 1936 – 16 of the Soviet Union's leading rulers are shot, including Stalin's former friends Grigori Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev.
• 1940 - Nazi German warplanes begin to bombard London.
• 1941 – The Battle of Kiev begins when Guderian's 2nd Panzer Group crosses the Desna River and attacks in the direction of Kiev.
• 1944 - Paris is liberated from German occupation.
• 1954 – A military plane crashed over Eskişehir; 10 people died, including the pilot.
• 1954 - Volkan magazine writer Nihat Yazar was sentenced to 2 years and 2 months in prison for insulting Atatürk.
• 1965 – Turkish Cinematheque Association was established.
• 1967 – In the 3st Extraordinary Congress of the Turkish Teachers' Union (TÖS), which lasted for 1 days, Fakir Baykurt was elected Chairman.
• 1968 – Koç Group brought shopping to Turkey with the 'Diners Club' credit card.
• 1970 – 18 thousand workers are on strike in 21 sugar factories.
• 1971 – published in Istanbul, in French Le Journal d'Orient newspaper closed. The newspaper was published for 54 years.
• 1971 – The bill that envisages the nationalization of private higher schools was enacted.
• 1981 - Voyager 2 passed by Saturn.
• 1991 - Belarus declared its independence from the USSR.
• 1997 - Kasparov was defeated 2-1 against Deep Blue, a chess-playing computer developed by IBM. This was the first time a world chess champion has lost to a computer.
• 1999 – It was enacted that women can retire at the age of 58 and men at the age of 60, on condition that they pay 7000 days of premium.
• 2000 – UEFA Cup champion Galatasaray won the UEFA Super Cup by beating Champions League Champion Real Madrid 2-1.
• 2010 – In China, the Brazilian-made Ebmraer 91 passenger plane belonging to Henan Airlines, with 190 people on board, crashed in the northeast of the country. 43 passengers lost their lives in the accident, 53 passengers survived.

Births 

• 1530 – IV. Ivan, Tsar of Russia (known as Ivan the Terrible) (d. 1584)
• 1707 – Louis I of Spain from January 15, 1724 until his death in August that year (d. 1724)
• 1744 – Johann Gottfried Herder, German philosopher, theologian, poet, and man of letters (d. 1803)
• 1767 – Louis de Saint-Just, French politician and leader of the French Revolution (d. 1794)
• 1785 – Adam Wilhelm Moltke, Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 1864)
• 1786 – Ludwig I, King of Bavaria (d. 1868)
• 1819 – Allan Pinkerton, American private detective (d. 1884)
• 1837 – Bret Harte, American author and poet (d. 1902)
• 1841 – Emil Theodor Kocher, Swiss physician, medical researcher (d. 1917)
• 1845 – II. Ludwig was the 10th Sovereign of the Kingdom of Bavaria from 1864 March 13 to 1886 June 4 (d. 1886)
• 1850 – Charles Robert Richet, French physiologist (d. 1935)
• 1862 – Louis Barthou, French politician (d. 1934)
• 1882 – Seán T. O'Kelly, Irish politician (d. 1966)
• 1898 – Helmut Hasse, German mathematician (d. 1979)
• 1900 – Hans Adolf Krebs, German medical and biochemist (d. 1981)
• 1911 – Võ Nguyên Giáp, Vietnamese soldier and Commander of communist North Vietnamese Troops in the Vietnam War (d. 2013)
• 1912 – Erich Honecker, German politician (d. 1994)
• 1913 – Walt Kelly, American animator and cartoonist (d. 1973)
• 1916 – Frederick Chapman Robbins, American microbiologist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2003)
• 1916 – Van Johnson, American actor (d. 2008)
• 1918 – Leonard Bernstein, American composer and conductor (“West Side Story" West Side Story also composed the music for the movie) (d. 1990)
• 1919 – George Corley Wallace, Democratic Party politician who served four terms as Alabama state governor (d. 1998)
• 1921 – Monty Hall, Canadian-born producer, actor, singer and sports commentator (d. 2017)
• 1923 – Álvaro Mutis, Colombian writer, poet, columnist, publisher, filmmaker (d. 2013)
• 1928 – Kayo Dottley, Former American football player (d. 2018)
• 1928 - Herbert Kroemer, Nobel Prize-winning German physicist
• 1930 – Sean Connery, Scottish actor and Oscar winner (d. 2020)
• 1931 – Mustafa Kayabek, Turkish poet and writer (d. 2015)
• 1933 - Tom Skerritt, Emmy Award-winning American character actor
• 1934 – Hashemi Rafsanjani, Iranian statesman and 4th President of Iran (d. 2017)
• 1938 – David Canary, American actor (d. 2015)
• 1938 Frederick Forsyth, English writer
• 1940 – Wilhelm von Homburg, German wrestler, boxer, and actor (d. 2004)
• 1941 – Ali Eşref Dervişyan, Iranian story writer, educator and academic
• 1944 – Jacques Demers, Canadian senator and ice hockey coach
• 1944 – Pat Martino, American jazz musician
• 1949 – Martin Amis, English writer
• 1949 – John Savage is an American actor.
• 1950 – Ayhan Sicimoğlu, Turkish musician and traveler
• 1951 – Rob Halford, English singer-songwriter
• 1952 – Kurban Berdiyev, Turkmen football player and FK Rostov coach
• 1954 – Elvis Costello, English songwriter
• 1956 – Takeshi Okada, Japanese former international football player
• 1958 – Tim Burton, American film director
• 1961 Billy Ray Cyrus, American actor and singer
• 1961 – Joanne Whalley, English actress and singer
• 1962 – Vivian Campbell is an Irish guitarist.
• 1962 – Deliverye Nesrin, Bangladeshi writer and former doctor
• 1963 – Miro Cerar, a Slovenian lawyer and politician
• 1966 - Derek Sherinian, American musician
• 1967 – Giovanni Perricelli, Italian athlete
• 1967 – Mireya Luis, Cuban volleyball player
• 1967 – Jeff Tweedy, Grammy Award-winning songwriter, musician, and record producer
• 1968 – Rafet El Roman, Turkish singer, composer, lyricist and actor
• 1969 – Esin Moralıoğlu, Turkish model, photomodel, film and TV series actress
• 1970 – Claudia Schiffer, German model and actress
• 1972 – Gülben Ergen, Turkish singer, presenter and TV actress
• 1972 – Tuncay Güney, Turkish spy, journalist and TV personality
• 1973 – Fatih Akin, Turkish film director
• 1974 – Ege Göktuna, Turkish musician, lawyer and academician
• 1976 – Alexander Skarsgård, Swedish actor
• 1977 Jonathan Togo, American actor
• 1979 – Sebnem Bozoklu, Turkish actress
• 1979 - Marlon Harewood, English football player
• 1981 Rachel Bilson, American actress
• 1981 – Seçkin Özdemir, Turkish actress, presenter and DJ
• 1987 – Seray Altay, Turkish volleyball player
• 1987 – Blake Lively, American actress
• 1987 – Amy Macdonald, Scottish singer-songwriter
• 1989 – Hiram Mier, Mexican national football player
• 1990 – Aras Bulut Iynemli, Turkish TV series actor
• 1992 – Ricardo Rodríguez, Swiss national football player
• 1993 – Büşra Develi, Turkish actress
• 1994 – Cenk Şeker, Turkish football player
• 1998 – China Anne McClain is an American young singer-songwriter.

Deaths 

• B.C. 79 – Gaius Plinius Secundus, author, naturalist, Roman Emperor, and philosopher best known for writing Naturalis Historia (b. 23 BC)
• 383 – Gratian, Western Roman Emperor (b. 359)
• 1258 – Georgios Mouzalon, II. Theodoros (h. 1254-1258) high-ranking ruler of the Nicaean Empire (b. 1220)
• 1270 – IX. Louis, 9th King of France, member of the Capet Dynasty (b. 1214)
• 1603 – Ahmed al-Mansur, sixth and Saadi ruler of Morocco from 1578 to 1603 (b. 1549)
• 1688 – Henry Morgan, Welsh sailor (b. 1635)
• 1699 – Christian V, reigned as King of Denmark and Norway from 1670 to 1699 (b. 1646)
• 1774 – Niccolò Jommelli, Italian composer (b. 1714)
• 1776 – David Hume, Scottish philosopher and historian (b. 1711)
• 1794 – Leopold August Abel, German violinist and composer (b. 1718)
• 1819 – James Watt, Scottish inventor and engineer, developer of the modern steam engine (b. 1736)
• 1822 – William Herschel, German-born English astronomer (b. 1738)
• 1836 – William Elford Leach, English ethnomologist, zoologist, and encyclopedist (b. 1791)
• 1845 – Antoine Risso, Nissart naturalist (b. 1777)
• 1867 – Michael Faraday, English scientist (b. 1791)
• 1900 – Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (b. 1844)
• 1904 – Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter (b. 1836)
• 1908 – Henri Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1852)
• 1921 – Nikolay Gumilev, Russian poet (b. 1886)
• 1925 – Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austrian field marshal (b. 1852)
• 1935 – Mack Swain, American stage and screen actor (b. 1876)
• 1936 – Grigori Zinoviev, Ukrainian revolutionary and Soviet communist leader (b. 1883)
• 1936 – Lev Kamenev, Soviet communist leader (b. 1883)
• 1942 – George, fourth son of King George V and Queen Mary, a member of the British royal family (b. 1902)
• 1943 – Paul Freiherr von Eltz-Rübenach, Minister of Transport in Nazi Germany (b. 1875)
• 1956 – Alfred Kinsey, American biologist, professor of entomology and zoology (b. 1894)
• 1963 – Suphi Kaner, Turkish actress, director, screenwriter and producer (suicide) (b. 1933)
• 1967 – Paul Muni, American actor (b. 1895)
• 1967 – George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party (b. 1918)
• 1973 – Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám, Hungarian politician (b. 1875)
• 1976 – Eyvind Johnson, Swedish author and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• 1977 – Károly Kós, Hungarian architect, writer, illustrator, politician (b. 1883)
• 1979 – Stan Kenton, American jazz musician, composer, conductor (b. 1911)
• 1982 – Abdülbaki Gölpınarlı, Turkish literary historian and translator (b. 1900)
• 1984 – Truman Capote, American author (b. 1924)
• 1984 – Viktor Chukarin, Soviet gymnast (b. 1921)
• 1992 – Nisa Serezli, Turkish cinema, theater actress and voice actor (b. 1924)
• 1993 – Ali Avni Çelebi, Turkish painter (b. 1904)
• 1998 – Lewis F. Powell Jr. was an American lawyer who served as a U.S. Supreme Court Justice from 1971 to 1987 (b. 1907)
• 2001 – Aaliyah, American singer and actress (b. 1979)
• 2001 – Üzeyir Garih, Turkish businessman and writer (b. 1929)
• 2006 – Silva Gabudikyan, Armenian poet (b. 1919)
• 2008 – Kevin Duckworth, American basketball player (b. 1964)
• 2009 – Edward Kennedy, American politician and brother of President John F. Kennedy (b. 1932)
• 2010 – Deniz Gönenç Sümer, Turkish theater artist (b. 1984)
• 2011 – Sevinç Aktansel, Turkish actress (b. 1937)
• 2012 – Neil Armstrong, American astronaut (first man to set foot on the Moon) (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Gilmar, former Brazilian football player (b. 1930)
• 2016 – James Cronin, American nuclear physicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics (b. 1931)
• 2016 – Maria Eugénia, Portuguese television and film actress (b. 1927)
• 2016 – Marvin Kaplan, American actor (b. 1927)
• 2016 – Sonia Rykiel, French fashion designer (b. 1930)
• 2017 – Mesut Mertcan, Turkish presenter and reporter (b. 1946)
• 2018 – Dieudonné Bogmis, Cameroonian catholic bishop and clergyman (b. 1955)
• 2018 – John McCain, American soldier and politician (b. 1936)
• 2018 – Lindsay Kemp, English dancer, actor, dance teacher, mime and choreographer (b. 1938)
• 2019 – Gül Çiray Akbaş, Turkish middle-distance runner (b. 1939)
• 2019 – Mona Lisa, Filipino actress (b. 1922)
• 2019 – Ferdinand Piëch, Automobile engineer and automotive executive (b. 1937)
• 2020 – Mónica Jiménez, Chilean female politician (b. 1940)