Today in History: The Beatles Disbanded

December 24 is the 358th day of the year (359th in leap years) according to the Mildi calendar. Number of days left until the end of the year 7.

Railways

• 24 December 1941 Turkish-Bulgarian railway convention was signed in Sofia.

Events

• 1144 – Mosul Atabey İmadeddin Zengi conquered Urfa and put an end to the Urfa County.
• 1865 – Some former members of the Allied army set up a private social club in Pulaski (Tennessee, USA): Ku Klux
• Clan.1871 – by Giuseppe Verdi Aida His opera was performed for the first time in Cairo at the opening celebrations of the Suez Canal.
• 1923 – The Republic of Albania was proclaimed.
• 1931 – Turkey's first civil aviation club, Aero Club, was founded in Istanbul.
• 1941 - In World War II, Hong-Kong fell to the Japanese.
• 1943 - US President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed General Dwight D. Eisenhower to Command Allied Forces.
• 1947 – About 20 communists, led by guerrilla leader Markos Vafiadis, invade northern Greece. Free Greek Government Announced.
• 1951 – Libya declared its independence from France and the United Kingdom.
• 1963 – Bloody Christmas in Cyprus: In the Kumsal area of ​​Nicosia, Tabib Major Nihat İlhan's wife Mürüvet İlhan and their children Murat, Kutsi and Hakan were killed in a bathtub by Greek nationalists.
• 1963 – TRT Law was accepted.
• 1964 – Hurricane in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and Madras, India: 7 dead.
• 1966 – Soviet research station Luna 13 soft landing on the lunar surface.
• 1968 – The week of “No to the Common Market” began.
• 1974 - The Beatles disbanded.
• 1976 – When the Ministry of Industry and Trade did not accept the demand for a raise, Renault automobile production was stopped in Turkey.
• 1979 – All Teachers' Union and Solidarity Association (TÖB-DER) organized resistance and protest actions across Turkey on the anniversary of the Kahramanmaraş massacre. During the protests, 4 people died and 4000 people were detained. Ankara Martial Law Command closed the TÖB-DER Headquarters.
• 1979 – directed by Zeki Ökten Herd The film won the Grand Prize at the Royal Belgian Film Archives International Distinguished Films Competition.
• 1979 - The Soviet Union begins its invasion of Afghanistan. (See. Soviet-Afghan War)
• 1981 – Istanbul Martial Law Court Prosecutor demanded the death penalty for 52 DİSK executives, trade unionists.
• 1994 – The Republican People's Party and the Social Democratic Populist Party decided to merge.
• 1995 – Early general election was held. Welfare Party emerged as the first party in the election, DYP took the second place in terms of number of deputies and ANAP in terms of vote rate.
• 1997 – International terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, nicknamed Carlos the Jackal, was sentenced to life imprisonment by a French court for the 1975 murders of two French investigators and a Lebanese.
• 1998 – The 9th Penal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Appeals sentenced 33 people to death in the Sivas Massacre Case, procedural shortcomings due to broken. On 16 June 2000, Ankara SSC No. 1 declared that the case in which the Supreme Court of Appeals overturned the local court's decision twice. at his third trial He sentenced 33 defendants to death. On May 10, 2001, the Supreme Court upheld the death sentences of 31 people. The decision about 2 people was overturned.
• 2003 – One person died in the fire that broke out in the Modern Bazaar in Ankara. The market has become unusable.

Births

• 1166 – John the Homeless, King of England (signer of Magna Carta) (d. 1216)
• 1761 – III. Selim, 28th sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1808)
• 1791 – Eugène Scribe, French playwright and librarian (d. 1861)
• 1798 Adam Mickiewicz, Polish poet (d. 1855)
• 1818 – James Prescott Joule, English physicist (d. 1889)
• 1822 – Matthew Arnold, English poet and cultural critic (d. 1888)
• 1824 – Peter Cornelius, German composer, actor, musical writer, poet, and translator (d. 1874)
• 1837 – Elisabeth, Empress of Austria (d. 1898)
• 1837 – Viktor Janka von Bulcs, Hungarian botanist (d. 1890)
• 1845 – Fernand Cormon, French painter (d. 1924)
• 1845 – George I, King of Greece (d. 1913)
• 1867 – Tevfik Fikret, Turkish poet (d. 1915)
• 1868 – Emanuel Lasker, German world chess champion and mathematician (d. 1941)
• 1875 – Otto Ender, Austrian politician (d. 1960)
• 1876 ​​– Thomas Madsen-Mygdal, Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 1943)
• 1879 – Alexandrine, Queen of Iceland (d. 1952)
• 1881 – Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish poet (d. 1958)
• 1886 – Michael Curtiz, Hungarian-American Oscar Award-winning director (creator of “Casablanca”) (d. 1962)
• 1886 – Bogoljub Jevtić, Serbian politician and diplomat who served as prime minister of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (d. 1960)
• 1889 – Mario Bonnard, Italian actor, screenwriter, producer and film director (d. 1965)
• 1889 – Violet Piercy, English long-distance runner (d. 1972)
• 1897 – Koto Okubo has the title of World's Oldest Woman (d. 2013)
• 1901 – Alexander Fadeyev, Soviet writer (d. 1956)
• 1903 – Aliye Berger, Turkish engraver and graphic artist and painter (d. 1974)
• 1903 – Joseph Cornell, American sculptor (d. 1972)
• 1905 – Howard Hughes, American aviator and businessman (d. 1976)
• 1914 – Feridun Akozan, Turkish architect, academic and writer (d. 2007)
• 1914 – Zoya Bulgakova, Soviet Russian stage actress (d. 2017)
• 1914 Peter-Paul Goes, German actor (d. 1962)
• 1914 – Franco Lucchini, Italian World War II ace pilot (d. 2)
• 1915 – Tahir Alangu, Turkish literary historian and folklore researcher (d. 1973)
• 1915 – Teyfuk Abdul, Hero of the Soviet Union medal-winning Crimean Tatar soldier (d. 1945)
• 1916 – Carlo Rustichelli, Italian soundtrack composer (d. 2004)
• 1917 – Münir Ülgür, Turkish academic (d. 2007)
• 1922 – Ava Gardner, American actress (d. 1990)
• 1922 – Jonas Mekas, Lithuanian-American filmmaker, poet, and artist (d. 2019)
• 1924 – Josef Allerberger, German sniper (d. 2010)
• 1926 – Maria Janion, Polish academic, critic, literary theorist, and famous feminist (d. 2020)
• 1926 – Witold Pyrkosz, Polish actor (d. 2017)
• 1927 – Mary Higgins Clark, American short story writer and novelist (d. 2020)
• 1928 – Manfred Rommel, German politician (d. 2013)
• 1929 – Red Sullivan, Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach (d. 2019)
• 1931 – Alves Barbosa, Portuguese former cyclist (d. 2018)
• 1931 – Lech Trzeciakowski, Polish historian (d. 2017)
• 1934 – Stjepan Mesic, Croatian politician
• 1934 – René Garrec, French centre-right politician
• 1935 – Shusha Guppy, Iranian writer, editor, singer (d. 2008)
• 1938 – Philippe Nahon, French actor (d. 2020)
• 1938 – John Barnwell, English football player and manager
• 1938 – Ion Barbu, Romanian former football player (d. 2011)
• 1939 – Dean Corll, American serial killer (d. 1973)
• 1940 – Anthony Fauci, American physician and immunologist
• 1940 – Jan Stráský, Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia
• 1940 - Bill Crothers, Canadian athlete
• 1940 - Janet Carroll, American actress
• 1941 – Miguel Ángel Tábet, Venezuelan theologian (d. 2020)
• 1942 – JB Dauda, ​​Sierra Leonean politician and economist (d. 2017)
• 1943 - Tarja Halonen, 11th and first female President of Finland
• 1945 – Lemmy Kilmister, English musician, founder of the heavy metal band Motörhead (d. 2015)
• 1946 – Andrew Yao, Chinese computer scientist
• 1946 - Roselyne Bachelot, French minister
• 1946 – Erwin Proll, Austrian politician
• 1946 – Uri Coronel, Dutch businessman and sports administrator (d. 2016)
• 1948 – Edwige Fenech, Italian actress and producer
• 1951 – Aliye Uzunatağan, Turkish theater, cinema and TV series actress
• 1951 – Jacques Gérault, French bureaucrat
• 1952 – Sarai Tzuriel, Israeli singer and actress
• 1952 – Alauddin Ali, Bangladeshi soundtrack composer and artistic director (d. 2020)
• 1953 – François Loos, French politician
• 1954 – Bozidar Alić, Croatian actor (d. 2020)
• 1954 – Ulrike Kriener, German actress
• 1955 – Philippe Étienne, French diplomat
• 1956 – Irene Khan, Bangladeshi lawyer and Secretary General of Amnesty International
• 1956 – Amur Cibali, Tunisian national football player
• 1957 - Hamid Karzai, Prime Minister of Afghanistan
• 1958 - Wang Luoyong, Chinese-American actor
• 1959 - Anil Kapoor, Indian actor
• 1960 – Lütfi Mestan, Turkish-Bulgarian politician
• 1961 – Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan
• 1961 – Wade Williams, American film and television actor
• 1961 – Mary Barra, chairman and general manager of General Motors Company (GM)
• 1962 – Kate Spade, American fashion designer and businesswoman (d. 2018)
• 1962 – Renaud Garcia-Fons, French folk and jazz contemporary double bass player
• 1962 – Bill Siegel, American documentary filmmaker and director (d. 2018)
• 1963 – Yurtsan Atakan, Turkish journalist and informatics writer (d. 2012)
• 1963 – Caroline Aherne, English comedian and actress (d. 2016)
• 1965 – Cengiz Bozkurt, Turkish actor
• 1965 – Rosario Bléfari, Argentine rock singer, songwriter, actor, and author (d. 2020)
• 1966 – Carolin Fink, German-Austrian actress
• 1968 – Nev, Turkish singer
• 1968 – Reha Yeprem, Turkish theater, model and actress
• 1968 – Choi Jin-sil, South Korean actress (d. 2008)
• 1968 – Winfried Frey, German actor, presenter and writer
• 1969 – Ed Miliband, British politician
• 1969 - Taro Goto, Japanese former football player
• 1969 - Ryuji Kato, Japanese former football player
• 1969 – Mark Millar, Scottish comic writer
• 1969 – Gintaras Staučė, former Lithuanian football player
• 1970 – Amaury Nolasco, Puerto Rican actress
• 1970 – Marco Minnemann, German drummer, composer
• 1970 – Takehiro Iwagiri, Japanese former football player
• 1970 – Tha Chill, American rapper and producer
• 1971 – Ricky Martin, Puerto Rican singer
• 1971 – Yorgo Alkeos, Greek singer
• 1971 – Miguel Lutonda, Angolan professional basketball player
• 1971 – Ömer Kılıç, Turkish retired football player
• 1972 – Álvaro Mesén, Costa Rican national football player
• 1973 – Stephenie Meyer, American writer
• 1973 – Eddie Pope, American football player
• 1973 – Minehide Kimura, Japanese former football player
• 1974 – Marcelo Salas, Chilean football player
• 1974 – Ryan Seacrest, American radio host, host, and producer
• 1974 – Cristina Umana, Colombian actress
• 1974 – Fary Faye, Senegalese national football player
• 1974 – Ivan Ranđelović, former Serbian football player
• 1975 – Mariya Zakharova, Russian diplomat
• 1976 – Lynn Chen, American actress and musician
• 1976 - Carlos Henrique Raimundo Rodrigues, Brazilian former football player
• 1976 Lee Nurse, English cricketer (d. 2020)
• 1976 – Serkan Altunorak, Turkish actor and voice actor
• 1977 – Américo, Chilean singer
• 1977 – Berke Özgümüş, Turkish musician and drummer of Redd
• 1977 – Glen Salmon, South African national football player
• 1978 – Yıldıray Baştürk, Turkish football player
• 1978 – Souleymane Diawara, Senegalese national football player
• 1979 - Pang Qing, Chinese figure skater
• 1979 - Chris Hero, American professional wrestler
• 1979 – Tulin Özen, Turkish theater, cinema and television actress
• 1979 – Oğuzhan Bahadır, Turkish football player
• 1980 – Cemil Büyükdöğerli, Turkish actor and presenter
• 1980 – Stephen Appiah, Ghanaian football player
• 1980 – Maarja-Liis Ilus, Estonian singer
• 1980 – Andrew Barron, New Zealand national football player
• 1980 – Kenan Ece, Turkish actor
• 1980 – Eren Balkan, Turkish cinema, theater actor and translator
• 1980 – Nneka, Nigerian hip hop/soul singer, songwriter and actor
• 1981 – Dima Bilan, Russian singer
• 1981 – Justice Christopher, Nigerian national football player
• 1981 – Xatar, a Kurdish-German rapper
• 1981 – Shane Tuck, Australian football player
• 1981 – Alexander Wolfe, English singer-songwriter and musician
• 1982 – Mickaël Roche, Tahitian goalkeeper
• 1983 – Cao Lei, Chinese weightlifter
• 1984 – Burak Özçivit, Turkish TV series and film actor
• 1984 – Wallace Spearmon, American sprinter
• 1984 – Rogério Miranda Silva, Brazilian football player
• 1985 – Leo Silva, Brazilian football player
• 1986 – Theodor Gebre Selassie, Czech football player
• 1986 - Riyo Mori, Japanese model
• 1986 – Lee Yong, South Korean national football player
• 1986 – Gavintra Photijak, Thai model and actress
• 1986 – Kaan Yıldırım, Turkish actor
• 1988 – Emre Özkan, Turkish football player
• 1988 - Kohei Doi, Japanese football player
• 1988 – Stefanos Athanasiadis, Greek national football player
• 1988 – Dušan Cvetinović, Serbian football player
• 1988 – Simon Zenke, Nigerian football player
• 1988 – Nura, Arab-German rapper and songwriter
• 1989 – Diafra Sakho, Senegalese national football player
• 1991 – Louis Tomlinson, English singer and member of One Direction
• 1991 – Hafsa Şeyda Burucu, Turkish karate
• 1992 – Serge Aurier, Ivory Coast national football player
• 1992 – Michel Babatunde, Nigerian national football player
• 1992 – Mohammed Fatau, Ghanaian football player
• 1992 – PJ Hairston, American professional basketball player
• 1992 – Salim Cissé, Guinean football player
• 1993 – Yuya Kubo, Japanese football player
• 1993 – Michel Babatunde, Nigerian national football player
• 1993 – Prince-Désir Gouano, French football player
• 1994 - Ryosuke Kawano, Japanese football player
• 1995 – Fabrice Ondoa, Cameroonian national football player
• 1996 – Sümeyye İloğlu, Turkish national taekwondo player
• 1998 – Declan McKenna, English singer, songwriter, and musician

Deaths

• 1521 – Bıyıklı Mehmed Pasha, Turkish soldier and statesman
• 1524 – Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer and traveler (b. 1468)
• 1541 – Andreas Karlstadt, German Christian Theologian (b. 1486)
• 1638 – Tayyar Mehmed Pasha is an Ottoman statesman. (D. ?)
• 1813 – Go-Sakuramachi, 117th ruler of Japan in the traditional succession order (b. 1740)
• 1824 – Pushmataha, Indian chief (b. 1764)
• 1840 – François Fulgis Chevallier, French botanist (b. 1796)
• 1850 – Frédéric Bastiat, French economist and theorist (b. 1801)
• 1863 – William Makepeace Thackeray, English writer (b. 1811)
• 1872 – William John Macquorn Rankine, Scottish engineer, physicist, and mathematician (b. 1820)
• 1876 ​​– Narcyza Żmichowska, Polish novelist and poet (b. 1819)
• 1889 – Charles Mackay, Scottish poet, author, journalist, and songwriter (b. 1814)
• 1909 – Nicolaas Pierson, Dutch economist and Liberal statesman (b. 1839)
• 1913 – Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup, Danish politician (b. 1825)
• 1935 – Alban Berg, Austrian composer (b. 1885)
• 1938 – Bruno Taut, German architect (b. 1880)
• 1940 – Cezmi Erçin, Turkish politician (b. 1894)
• 1942 – François Darlan, French admiral and politician (b. 1881)
• 1945 – Mehmet Rıza Dinçay, Turkish politician (b. 1874)
• 1947 – Helen Bradford Thompson Woolley, American psychologist (b. 1874)
• 1950 – Lev Berg, Russian geographer, biologist, and ichthyologist (b. 1876)
• 1951 – Gustav Haloun, Czech sinologist (b. 1898)
• 1959 – Edmund Goulding, English film director, playwright, and theater director (b. 1891)
• 1959 – Ali Seyfi Tülümen, Turkish bureaucrat (b. 1909)
• 1962 – Reşide Bayar, wife of the 3rd President of the Republic of Turkey Celal Bayar (b. 1886)
• 1963 – Burhanettin Uluç, Turkish military veterinarian and politician (b. 1902)
• 1967 – Hüseyin Özbay, Turkish politician (b. 1913)
• 1973 – Necati Çiller, Turkish journalist and bureaucrat (b. 1898)
• 1975 – Bernard Herrmann, American composer (b. 1911)
• 1977 – Edmund Veesenmayer, German politician, military officer (SS-Brigadeführer), and war criminal (b. 1904)
• 1979 – Sona Hajiyeva, Azerbaijani actress (b. 1907)
• 1979 – Şadi Çalık, Turkish sculptor (b. 1917)
• 1979 – Rudi Dutschke, German sociologist (Germany's best-known leader in the student movements of the 1960s) (b. 1940)
• 1979 – Francine Faure, French pianist and mathematician (b. 1914)
• 1980 - Karl Dönitz, German Navy Commander, Grand Admiral and II. President of Germany at the end of World War II (b. 1891)
• 1981 – Özer Baykay, Turkish lecturer, economist, politician, writer (b. 1946)
• 1982 – Louis Aragon, French writer (b. 1897)
• 1984 – Edoardo Detti, Italian architect and urban planner (b. 1913)
• 1984 – Peter Lawford, English actor (b. 1923)
• 1984 – Sami Zan, Turkish Anatomy professor, academic (b. 1921)
• 1984 – Mazhar Özkol, Turkish politician (b. 1912)
• 1987 – Joop den Uyl, Dutch politician and Prime Minister (b. 1919)
• 1987 – Thérèse Bertrand-Fontaine, French physician (b. 1895)
• 1992 – Peyo, Belgian cartoonist (b. 1928)
• 1994 – Rossano Brazzi, Italian actor and singer (b. 1916)
• 1994 – John Osborne, English playwright, screenwriter, and political activist (b. 1929)
• 1995 – Carlos Lapetra, Spanish former football player (b. 1938)
• 1996 – Étienne Dailly, French senator, lawyer (b. 1918)
• 1997 – Toshirō Mifune, Japanese actor (b. 1920)
• 1997 – Mario Ferrari Aggradi, Italian politician, former minister (b. 1916)
• 1998 – Matt Gillies, Scottish football player and manager (b. 1921)
• 1999 – João Figueiredo, 30th President of Brazil (b. 1918)
• 1999 – Maurice Couve de Murville, French politician and former prime minister (b. 1907)
• 2003 – Herman Keiser, American golfer (b. 1914)
• 2004 – Anthony Meyer, British politician, diplomat (b. 1920)
• 2005 – George Gerbner, Hungarian-American professor of communication science (b. 1919)
• 2008 – Harold Pinter, English writer and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1930)
• 2008 – Samuel P. Huntington, American political scientist (b. 1927)
• 2009 – Rafael Caldera, Venezuelan politician (b. 1916)
• 2010 – Frances Ginsberg, American opera singer (b. 1955)
• 2010 – Ljubomir Ćipranić, Serbian actor (b. 1936)
• 2010 – Ferruh Başağa, Turkish painter (b. 1914)
• 2011 – Johannes Heesters, Dutch actor, singer and comedian (b. 1903)
• 2012 – Jack Klugman, American actor and Emmy award winner (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Charles Durning, American film, stage and television actor (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Capital Steez, an American hip hop artist (b. 1993)
• 2014 – Jacques Garelli, French philosopher and poet (b. 1931)
• 2014 – Rubén Amorín, Uruguayan footballer, coach and sportswriter (b. 1927)
• 2015 – Ömer Akbel, Turkish ambassador (b. 1940)
• 2016 – Richard Adams, English writer (b. 1920)
• 2016 – Rick Parfitt, English rock musician and guitarist (b. 1948)
• 2017 – Heather Menzies, American actress, model, and activist (b. 1949)
• 2018 – Jozef Adamec, Slovak former football player, manager (b. 1942)
• 2018 – Martha Érika Alonso, Mexican politician and bureaucrat (b. 1973)
• 2018 – Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas, Mexican former politician and bureaucrat (b. 1968)
• 2018 – Dionne Rose-Henley, Jamaican female Olympic athlete (b. 1969)
• 2019 – Nur Ali Tabende, Iranian human rights activist (b. 1927)
• 2019 – Allee Willis, American songwriter, set designer, writer, collector, and director (b. 1947)
• 2020 – Benedicto Bravo, Mexican professional football player (b. 1962)
• 2020 – Ivry Gitlis, Israeli violinist, pedagogue, writer and actor (b. 1922)
• 2020 – Aleksandar Ivoš, Serbian-born Yugoslav national football player (b. 1931)
• 2020 – Milorad Janković, former Yugoslav national football player (b. 1940)
• 2020 – BJ Marsh, American politician and businessman (b. 1940)
• 2020 – Vincent Mhlanga, Swaziland politician (b. ?)
• 2020 – David Sneddon, former Scottish professional football player and manager (b. 1936)

Holidays and special occasions

• christmas (nativity day) eve