Today in History: Istanbul-Halic Company Discontinued

November 23 is the 327th day of the year (328th in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days left until the end of the year is 38.

Railways

• 23 November 1938 Railway line reached Erzincan. On December 11, Sivas-Erzincan line was opened.
• 1936 – Hüseyin Cahit Yalçın brought Istanbul Governor Muhittin Üstündağ to court after a ten-para increase in tram fares was made in Istanbul.

Events

• 534 BC – Thespis becomes the first recorded person to play a character on stage.
• 1174 – Saladin Ayyubi enters Jerusalem and annexes it.
• Ishbiliye (Seville), ruled by Muslims since 1248 – 711; King of Castile and León III. Captured by Ferdinand. Only the Emirate of Ben-i Ahmer (Gırnata) remained under Muslim rule in Spain.
• 1889 - First automatic record players (show room jukebox), entered service in a saloon in San Francisco.
• 1925 – The Council of State (State Council) law was accepted.
• 1928 – İnhisarlar Administration (Tekel) started raki production.
• 1935 – Istanbul-Halic Company ceased to operate; Istanbul Municipality undertook the ferry services.
• 1936 - Published by Henry Luce Life The first issue of the magazine is out.
• 1938 - Adolf Hitler imposes a 5.000 percent tax on Jews owning over 20 marks.
• 1942 - Casablanca The movie premiered in New York.
• 1946 – French Navy shells Hải Phòng, Vietnam; 6.000 civilians died.
• 1954 – Bedii Faik World newspaper, he was arrested for allegedly insulting Minister of State Mükerrem Sarol.
• 1963 – BBC Television broadcast the first episode of Doctor Who, the world's longest-running science fiction television series.
• 1964 – The National Security Council meeting under the chairmanship of Prime Minister İsmet İnönü decided to increase the territorial waters of Turkey from 6 miles to 12 miles.
• 1967 – Cyrus Vance, the special representative of US President Johnson to Cyprus, came to Ankara to discuss the Cyprus crisis. Rolz Bennet and Vance, the special representative of UN Secretary-General U Thant, who later came to Turkey, went to Athens when their contacts could not get any results.
• 1968 – Aroma Fruit Juice factory was opened in Bursa.
• 1970 – The Additional Protocol, which envisages a 22-year transition period for Turkey's membership in the Common Market, was signed in Brussels.
• 1971 - Chinese representatives attend the UN and UN Security Council meetings for the first time.
• 1980 – Earthquake in Southern Italy: about 4.800 dead.
• 1985 – An Egyptian Airlines passenger plane, which was taking off from Athens to Cairo, was hijacked by gunmen and landed in Malta. 60 people were killed in the rescue attempt by Egyptian commandos.
• 1985 – Rahşan Ecevit was elected as the Chairman of the DSP.
• 1990 – Tansu Çiller joined politics from the DYP.
• 1992 – The Reformist Democracy Party was renamed the Nation Party.
• 1996 – The villagers in Bergama, who oppose the production of gold with cyanide, made a big demonstration.
• 1996 – An Ethiopian Airlines passenger plane was hijacked. The plane that ran out of fuel crashed into the Indian Ocean: 123 people died.
• 2003 – Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze resigns after mass protests escalate.
• 2003 – In the World High School Football Championship held in China, Trabzon High School became the champion for the first time by beating the host country representative 1-0.
• 2008 – Tuğba Karademir came second in women at the Figure Skating International Ondrej Nepela Memorial Cup, which is held every year in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, and brought Turkey the first medal in the adult category in an international competition in this sport in history.
• 2018 – The Welfare Party was officially established under the leadership of Fatih Erbakan with 99 founding members.

Births

• 912 – Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 973)
• 968 – Zhenzong, third emperor of China's Song Dynasty (d. 1022)
• 1221 – Alfonso X, king of Castile from 1252-1284 (d. 1284)
• 1272 – Mahmud Ghazan, 7th Ruler of the Mongol Ilkhanate Empire (d. 1304)
• 1690 – Ernst Johann von Biron, Duke of Courland and Semigallia (d. 1772)
• 1718 – Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix, French astronomer (d. 1802)
• 1760 – François-Noël Babeuf, French writer (d. 1797)
• 1804 – Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States (d. 1869)
• 1837 – Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics (d. 1932)
• 1859 Billy The Kid, American thief and murderer (d. 1881)
• 1860 – Hjalmar Branting, Swedish Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 1925)
• 1876 ​​- Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (d. 1946)
• 1887 – Boris Karloff, English actor (d. 1969)
• 1887 – Henry Moseley, English physicist (d. 1915)
• 1888 – Harpo Marx, American actor and comedian (d. 1964)
• 1890 – Johannes Krüger, German architect (d. 1975)
• 1896 – Klement Gottwald, Czech statesman and journalist (d. 1953)
• 1910 – Ekrem Zeki Ün, Turkish composer, conductor and violin educator (d. 1987)
• 1919 – Peter Frederick Strawson, British philosopher (d. 2006)
• 1933 – Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist, activist, and author (d. 1977)
• 1938 – Herbert Achternbusch, German writer
• 1942 – Lars-Erik Berenett, Swedish actor (d. 2017)
• 1945 – Mohammed Avad Taceddin, Egyptian physician, academic and politician
• 1946 – Bora Ayanoğlu, Turkish singer, composer and actress
• 1946 – Necmiye Alpay, Turkish linguist, translator and writer
• 1950 – Chuck Schumer, US politician
• 1954 – Pete Allen, English jazz clarinet, alto and saxophone musician
• 1955 – Steven Brust is an American fantasy and science fiction writer.
• 1955 – Ludovico Einaudi, Italian pianist and composer
• 1959 - Jason Alexander, American comedian
• 1961 – Keith Ablow, American psychiatrist
• 1962 – Nicolás Maduro, President of Venezuela
• 1964 – Aytuğ Aıcı, Turkish academic and politician
• 1964 – Don Cheadle, American actor
• 1966 – Vincent Cassel, French actor
• 1968 – Kirsty Young, Scottish-English radio and TV presenter
• 1969 – Olivier Beretta, racing driver from Monaco
• 1970 – Oded Fehr is an Israeli film and TV actor.
• 1971 - Khaled al-Muwallid, Saudi national football player
• 1971 – Chris Hardwick, American comedian, actor, and voice actor
• 1972 – Chris Adler, American drummer
• 1976 – Cüneyt Çakır, Turkish football referee
• 1976 – Murat Salar, German-Turkish football player and coach
• 1978 – Ali Güneş, Turkish former national football player
• 1978 – Tommy Marth, American saxophonist (d. 2012)
• 1979 - Kelly Brook, British model and actress
• 1979 – Nihat Kahveci, Turkish football player
• 1980 – Ishmael Beah, Sierra Leonean writer and human rights activist
• 1980 – Özlem Düvencioğlu, Turkish actress
• 1981 Nick Carle, Australian football player
• 1982 – Asafa Powell, Jamaican sprinter
• 1984 – Lucas Grabeel, American actor and singer
• 1990 – Alena Leonova, Russian figure skater
• 1992 – Go Eun-bi, South Korean singer and dancer (d. 2014)
• 1992 – Miley Cyrus, American actress and singer

Deaths

• 955 – Eadred, King of England from 946 until his death in 955 (b. 923)
• 1407 – Louis I, Duke of Orléans (b. 1372)
• 1572 – Agnolo Bronzino, Italian painter (b. 1503)
• 1616 – Richard Hakluyt, English writer (b. 1552)
• 1682 – Claude Lorrain, French painter (b. 1604)
• 1814 – Elbridge Gerry, American politician and 5th vice president of the United States (b. 1744)
• 1856 – Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, Austrian historian and diplomat (b. 1774)
• 1890 – III. Willem, King of the Netherlands (b. 1817)
• 1963 – Georg-Hans Reinhardt, commander in Nazi Germany (b. 1887)
• 1948 – Uzeyir Hajibeyov, Azerbaijani Soviet composer (b. 1885)
• 1971 – Hasan Vasfi Sevig, Turkish lawyer and politician (b. 1887)
• 1973 – Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actress (b. 1889)
• 1974 – Aman Andom, Ethiopian soldier and politician (b. 1924)
• 1976 – Andre Malraux, French thinker and writer (b. 1901)
• 1979 – Merle Oberon, English film actress (b. 1911)
• 1990 – Roald Dahl, Welsh novelist and short story writer (b. 1916)
• 1991 – Klaus Kinski, German film actor (b. 1926)
• 1992 – Vasfi Rıza Zobu, Turkish theater artist (b. 1902)
• 1993 – Ünal Cimit, Turkish ceramic artist (b. 1934)
• 1995 – Louis Malle, French film director (b. 1932)
• 1998 – Yavuz Gökmen, Turkish journalist (b. 1946)
• 2001 – Aşık Hüdai (real name Sabri Orak), Turkish folk poet (b. 1940)
• 2002 – Roberto Matthew, Chilean painter (b. 1911)
• 2005 – Carl H. Fischer, American botanist (b. 1907)
• 2006 – Philippe Noiret, French film actor (b. 1930)
• 2006 – Alexander Litvinenko, Russian spy (b. 1962)
• 2006 – Anita O'Day, American singer (b. 1919)
• 2011 – Şükran Ay, Turkish classical music artist (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Larry Hagman, American film and television actor (b. 1931)
• 2013 – Jay Leggett, American comedian and actor (b. 1963)
• 2013 – Tuncay Özinel, Turkish comedian, theater, cinema and TV series actor (b. 1942)
• 2013 – Costanzo Preve, Italian Marxist thinker and political theorist (b. 1943)
• 2014 – Hélène Duc, French actress (b. 1917)
• 2014 – Pat Quinn, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and sports administrator (b. 1943)
• 2015 – Kamran Inan, Turkish diplomat, lawyer and politician (b. 1929)
• 2015 – Douglass North, American economist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920)
• 2015 – Seyfi Tatar, Turkish national boxer (b. 1945)
• 2016 – Rita Barberá, Spanish politician and former governor of Valencia (b. 1948)
• 2016 – Karin Johannisson, Swedish historian of ideas, professor of the History of Science and Ideas at Uppsala University (b. 1944)
• 2016 – Jerry Tucker, American actor (b. 1925)
• 2017 – Stela Popescu, Romanian actress, philanthropist and television presenter (b. 1935)
• 2018 – Bernard Gauthier, former French male cyclist (b. 1924)
• 2018 – Bujor Hălmăgeanu, Romanian former international football player and manager (b. 1941)
• 2018 – Mick McGeough, Canadian ice hockey referee (b. 1956)
• 2018 – Bob McNair, American philanthropist (b. 1937)
• 2018 – Nicolas Roeg, English film and cinematographer (b. 1928)
• 2019 – Asunción Balaguer, Veteran Spanish actor (b. 1925)
• 2019 – Francesc Gambús, Spanish politician (b. 1974)
• 2019 – Catherine Small Long, American soldier and politician (b. 1924)
• 2020 – Karl Dall, German comedian, actor, singer and television presenter (b. 1941)
• 2020 – David Dinkins, former mayor of New York from 1990-1993 (b. 1927)
• 2020 – Tarun Gogoi, Indian politician and lawyer (b. 1934)
• 2020 – Yasumi Kobayashi, Japanese author of horror, science fiction, and mystery (b. 1962)
• 2020 – Nikola Spasov, Bulgarian professional football player and manager (b. 1958)
• 2020 – Viktor Zimin, Russian politician (b. 1962)