Today in History: Manisa Ethnography and Archeology Museum Robbed

September 15 is the 258th (259th in leap years) day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days left until the end of the year is 107.

Railways

• September 15, 1830 The first modern railway started with the opening of the Liverpool-Manchester line in England. This was followed by railways, the construction of which was started in 1832 in France and 1835 in Germany. The railway, which came into operation in America from 1830, was built in Russia after 1855.
• 15 SEPTEMBER 1862 Izmir -Easasoluğ line started to serve.
• September 15, 1917 650 rails, 4 bridges and telegraph poles were sabotaged on Hicaz Railway. On 19 September, Hanunda Sehilmatra Station fell into the hands of the rebels and 5701 rails were destroyed.
• 15 September 1935 Ergani-Osmaniye line was opened.

Events 

• 1656 - Köprülü Mehmed Pasha accepted the Grand Viziership.
• 1821 - Guatemala declared its independence from the Spanish Empire.
• 1821 - Costa Rica secedes from Spain.
• 1910 – The Ottoman Socialist Party was founded.
• 1916 – Battle of the Somme: The first tank in the war was used by British troops in the Somme, France, during World War I.
• 1917 – Prime Minister of the Provisional Government, Alexander Kerensky, proclaimed the Russian Republic.
• 1918 – The Caucasian Islamic Army, consisting of Ottoman, Azeri and Dagestan troops under the command of Nuri Pasha and Mürsel Baku, saved Baku from Russian and Armenian occupation as a result of the Battle of Baku, and waved the Ottoman flag in the city.
• 1923 – The first swimming race in Turkey was organized by Galatasaray Club in Istanbul-Buyukada.
• 1927 – Eskişehir Bank was established.
• 1928 - Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovered "mold" that can destroy many harmful bacteria and named it "penicillium notatum".
• 1929 – The first exhibition of the Independent Painters and Sculptors Association was opened in Ankara.
• 1944 – II. During World War II, on the most important day of the battle for Great Britain, Royal Air Force aircraft shot down 185 German aircraft belonging to the Luftwaffe.
• 1949 – Konrad Adenauer, who won the election, becomes the first Chancellor of West Germany.
• 1955 – The Decree on the Protection of the Value of the Turkish Currency entered into force.
• 1961 – Yassıada Court announced that 15 members of the closed DP were sentenced to death and 32 members to life imprisonment.
• 1962 – Maltepe Secondary School was opened.
• 1963 - Ahmed Ben Bella became the first President of Algeria.
• 1966 – In the Balkan Games held in Sarajevo, İsmail Akçay became the Balkan Champion and Hüseyin Aktaş became the second in the marathon branch.
• 1975 – Civil war broke out between Christians and Muslims in Beirut.
• 1975 – Pink Floyd's “Wish You Were Here” album has been released.
• 1980 – In the days following the 12 September Military Coup, strikes and lockouts were abolished; workers returned to work, mayors began to be removed from their posts and mostly officers were appointed in their place. The money of the Revolutionary Workers' Unions Confederation (DİSK), the Nationalist Confederation of Workers' Unions (MİSK) and Hak-İş was blocked in the banks, and union managers and workplace representatives began to surrender.
• 1982 - Israel occupied Beirut.
• 2002 – Manisa Ethnography and Archeology Museum was robbed. In the robbery, Hellenistic Marsyas and Roman Eros statues were stolen.

Births 

• 601 – Ali bin Abu Talib, 656th Islamic Caliph of the Islamic State from 661-4 (d. 661)
• 767 – Saichō, Japanese Buddhist monk, founder of the Tendai sect of Buddhism (d. 822)
• 1254 – Marco Polo, Italian traveler (d. 1324)
• 1587 – Mohammed Baqir Mirza, Safavid Prince (d. 1615)
• 1613 – François de La Rochefoucauld, French writer (d. 1680)
• 1666 – Sophia Dorothea of ​​Celleli, cousin and wife of George I of England and elector of Hanover (1660-1727) (d. 1726)
• 1759 – Cornelio Saavedra, a merchant, capitular member, and statesman from the United Provinces of Río de la Plata (d. 1829)
• 1789 – James Fenimore Cooper, American author (d. 1851)
• 1813 – Adolphe Joanne, French geographer and writer (d. 1881)
• 1829 – Manuel Tamayo y Baus, Spanish dramatist (d. 1898)
• 1830 – Porfirio Díaz, President of Mexico (d. 1915)
• 1857 – William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States (d. 1930)
• 1881 – Ettore Bugatti, Italian automobile manufacturer (d. 1947)
• 1890 – Agatha Christie, English writer (d. 1976)
• 1894 – Jean Renoir, French film director (d. 1979)
• 1901 – Kemalettin Kamu, Turkish poet and politician (d. 1948)
• 1904 – II. Umberto, last king of Italy (d. 1983)
• 1906 – Jacques Becker, French film director (d. 1960)
• 1907 – Fay Wray, Canadian-American actress (d. 2004)
• 1913 - Johannes Steinhoff, II. German Air Force ace pilot during World War II (d. 1994)
• 1914 – Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentine short story writer (d. 1999)
• 1914 – Orhan Kemal, Turkish writer (d. 1970)
• 1918 – Margot Loyola, Chilean folk singer, musician, and musicologist (d. 2015)
• 1919 – Fausto Coppi, Italian former professional road cyclist and track bike racer (d. 1960)
• 1924 – György Lázár, Hungarian engineer and politician
• 1926 – Antonio Carrizo, Argentinian presenter (d. 2016)
• 1926 – Shohei Imamura, Japanese film director (d. 2006)
• 1926 – Jean-Pierre Serre, French mathematician
• 1928 – Cannonball Adderley, American jazz alto saxophonist (d. 1975)
• 1929 – Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics (d. 2019)
• 1929 – John Julius Norwich, British historian, travel writer, and television personality (d. 2018)
• 1929 – Mümtaz Soysal, Turkish lawyer and politician (d. 2019)
• 1929 – Nejat Saydam, Turkish cinema director, screenwriter and actor (d. 2000)
• 1932 – Neil Bartlett, English chemist (d. 2008)
• 1936 – Ashley Cooper, Australian tennis player (d. 2020)
• 1937 - Robert Lucas, Jr. American economist
• 1937 – Fernando de la Rúa, Argentine politician (d. 2019)
• 1941 – Flórián Albert, Hungarian football player (d. 2011)
• 1941 – Signe Toly Anderson, American singer (d. 2016)
• 1941 – Yuriy Norstein, Russian animation artist
• 1941 – Viktor Zubkov, Russian politician and businessman
• 1942 – Ksenia Milicevic is a French painter.
• 1944 – Graham Taylor, English former football player and manager (d. 2017)
• 1945 - Carmen Maura, Spanish actress
• 1945 – Jessye Norman, American opera singer (d. 2019)
• 1945 – Hans-Gert Pöttering, German politician
• 1946 – Mesut Mertcan, Turkish presenter and newscaster (d. 2017)
• 1946 – Tommy Lee Jones, American actor and director
• 1946 – William Oliver Stone, American director, screenwriter, producer, and Academy Award winner
• 1947 – Theodore Long, American wrestler
• 1951 – Johan Neeskens is a Dutch football player.
• 1954 – Hrant Dink, Turkish Armenian journalist and Agos newspaper's Editor-in-Chief (d. 2007)
• 1955 – Zeljka Antunovic, Croatian centre-left politician
• 1955 – Abdul Kadir, Pakistani professional International cricketer (d. 2019)
• 1956 George Howard, American musician (d. 1998)
• 1958 – Joel Quenneville, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1959 – Abdullayeva, daughter of Khurshid Lutfali, Azerbaijani pianist
• 1959 – Mark Kirk is a retired American politician and lawyer.
• 1960 – Lisa Vanderpump, British restaurateur, author, actress and television personality
• 1964 – Robert Fico, Slovak politician
• 1969 – Kurthan Yılmaz, Turkish football player
• 1971 - Josh Charles is an American actor.
• 1972 - Letizia Ortiz, King of Spain VI. Felipe's wife and queen of Spain
• 1973 - Daniel, a member of the Swedish royal family
• 1973 – Songül Karlı, Turkish folk music artist and presenter
• 1977 – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian writer.
• 1977 - Jason Terry, American professional basketball player
• 1978 – Eidur Gudjohnsen, Icelandic football player
• 1979 - Dava Annable is an American actress.
• 1979 - Carlos Ruiz is a Guatemalan international football player.
• 1980 – Mike Dunleavy, Jr. is an American professional basketball player.
• 1983 – Georges Akieremy, Gabonese football player
• 1984 – Harry, son of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales, sixth in line to the British throne
• 1985 – Cyhi the Prynce, American rapper and songwriter
• 1986 – George Watsky, American rap artist and poet
• 1987 – Aly Cissokho is a French football player of Senegalese origin.
• 1988 - Chelsea Staub, American actress
• 1993 – JP Tokoto, American professional basketball player
• 1994 – Luis Mago, Venezuelan football player
• 1995 – Gökdeniz Varol, Turkish football player
• 1995 – Awer Mabil, Australian football player

Deaths 

• 668 – II. Konstans (“Bearded Constantine”), last Byzantine Emperor to hold the title of Roman Consul (b. 630)
• 921 – Ludmila, Czech Christian saint and martyr of faith (b. 860)
• 1326 – Dmitri, Grand Prince of Moscow (b. 1299)
• 1510 – Catherine of Genoa, Italian mystic (b. 1447)
• 1559 – Izabela Jagiellonka, wife of King Janos I of Eastern Hungary (b. 1519)
• 1700 – André Le Nôtre, landscape and garden architect to King Louis XIV (b. 1613)
• 1794 – Abraham Clark, American politician (b. 1725)
• 1842 – Francisco Morazán, Central American politician (b. 1792)
• 1859 – Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English mechanical and civil engineer (b. 1806)
• 1864 – John Hanning Speke, English explorer (b. 1827)
• 1883 – Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist (b. 1801)
• 1885 – Jumbo, Barnum Circus' famous African-born elephant (trainwreck) (b. 1860)
• 1891 – Ivan Goncharov, Russian writer (b. 1812)
• 1913 – Arminius Vambery, Hungarian orientalist (b. 1832)
• 1921 – Roman Ungern von Sternberg, a Baltic-German-Russian captain and lieutenant general who ruled Mongolia from March to August 1921 (b. 1886)
• 1926 – Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German philosopher (b. 1846)
• 1929 – Fehime Sultan, daughter of Ottoman Sultan Murad V (b. 1875)
• 1945 – André Tardieu, Three-time Prime Minister of France (3 November 1929 – 17 February 1930, 2 March – 4 December 1930, 20 February – 10 May 1932) (b. 1876)
• 1945 – Anton Webern, Austrian composer (b. 1883)
• 1956 – Abdurrahman Vefik Sayın, Ottoman statesman, economist, educator and writer (b. 1857)
• 1964 – Alfred Blalock, American scientist and physician (b. 1899)
• 1972 – Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, 2nd President of Iceland (b. 1894)
• 1972 – Baki Süha Ediboğlu, Turkish poet and writer (b. 1915)
• 1972 – Ulvi Cemal Erkin, Turkish composer (b. 1906)
• 1973 – VI. Gustaf Adolf, King of Sweden (b. 1882)
• 1978 – Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer (b. 1898)
• 1980 – Bill Evans was an American jazz pianist and composer (b. 1929)
• 1983 – Murat Sarıca, Turkish writer and lecturer (b. 1926)
• 1985 – Wolfgang Abendroth, German lawyer and historian of social policy (b. 1906)
• 1985 – Cootie Williams, American Jazz, Jump Blues and Rhythm and blues Trumpeter (b. 1911)
• 1989 – Robert Penn Warren, American poet and fiction writer (b. 1905)
• 1995 – Gunnar Nordahl, Swedish football player (b. 1921)
• 2002 – Şükran Güngör, Turkish theater and cinema artist (b. 1926)
• 2006 – Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and author (b. 1929)
• 2007 – Colin McRae, Scottish World champion WRC driver (b. 1968)
• 2008 – Rick Wright, English musician (b. 1943)
• 2017 – Izidoro Kosinski, Roman Catholic Brazilian bishop (b. 1932)
• 2017 – Albert Speer, German architect and urban planner (b. 1934)
• 2017 – Harry Dean Stanton, American actor and musician (b. 1926)
• 2018 – Warwick Estevam Kerr, Brazilian genetic engineer, entomologist, and professor (b. 1922)
• 2018 – José Manuel de la Sota, Argentine politician (b. 1949)
• 2018 – Dudley Sutton, English actor (b. 1933)
• 2019 – Leah Bracknell, English actress (b. 1964)
• 2019 – Şazliye Saide Ferhat, Former Tunisian first lady (b. 1936)
• 2019 – David Hurst, German actor and theater producer (b. 1926)
• 2019 – Phyllis Newman, American actress and singer (b. 1933)
• 2019 – Ric Ocasek, American rock musician, record producer, and painter (b. 1944)
• 2019 – Andrés Sardá Sacristán, Spanish textile engineer and fashion designer (b. 1929)
• 2019 – Mike Stefanik, Former American professional speedway (b. 1958)
• 2020 – Faith Alupo, Ugandan politician (b. 1983)
• 2020 – Suna Kıraç, Turkish businessperson and Koç Holding Deputy Chairman of the Board (b. 1941)
• 2020 – Momcilo Krajisnik, Former Bosnian Serb politician (b. 1945)
• 2020 – Moussa Traoré, Malian soldier and politician (b. 1936)

Holidays and special occasions 

• Free Money Day
• World Democracy Day