Today in History: Mustafa Kemal Pasha got married to Latife Hanım in Izmir

January 29 is the 29th day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. Number of days remaining until the end of the year336.

Railways

• 29 January 1899 Haydarpaşa Port concession was given to the German-owned Anadolu Railway Company.
• 29 January 1993 began to process electric train between Ankara-Haydarpaşa.

Events

• 1595 – play by William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet, possibly performed for the first time.
• 1676 – III. Fyodor became Tsar of Russia.
• 1861 - Kansas joins the United States as the 34th state.
• 1886 - Karl Benz patented the first gasoline-powered automobile.
• 1916 – World War I: Paris is bombed for the first time by German zeppelins.
• 1923 – Mustafa Kemal Pasha married Latife Hanım in İzmir.
• 1928 – Bursa American College for Girls was closed by the decision of the Council of Ministers. It was alleged that Christianity propaganda was made in the school.
• 1930 – Spanish dictator General Miguel Primo de Rivera was forced to resign after student demonstrations; General Dámaso Berenguer was appointed Prime Minister.
• 1931 – In the Menemen Incident case, 37 people were sentenced to death and the decision was submitted to the Parliament for approval.
• 1932 – Eight hafizes read the Qur'an in Turkish at the Blue Mosque.
• 1934 - The first Turkish film to participate in an international festival Leblebici Horhor Agha'The shoot is over. Directed by Muhsin Ertuğrul, screenplay Mumtaz Osman Written under the pseudonym Nâzım Hikmet, the film was awarded the "Diploma of Honor" at the 2nd Venice Film Festival in the same year.
• 1937 – In the Soviet Union, 13 opponents of Stalin were sentenced to death.
• 1944 – The world's largest warship Missouri is launched.
• 1950 – earthquake in Iran; About 1500 people died.
• 1950 – The first tourist convoy after the war arrived in Istanbul.
• 1957 – The Convention on the Nationality of Married Women was opened for signature. Turkey has not ratified this convention.
• 1958 - Film actor Paul Newman married Joanne Woodward.
• 1964 – Winter Olympic Games started in Innsbruck (Austria).
• 1967 – Poet Hasan Hüseyin Korkmazgil was arrested. Kızılırmak He was accused of making communist propaganda in his poetry book.
• 1971 – Güven Party changed its name to National Trust Party.
• 1978 – Workers and Peasants Party of Turkey (TİKP) was founded. After the September 12 Coup, it was closed on October 16, 1981, along with other parties.
• 1978 - Sweden banned the use of aerosol sprays due to ozone depletion, becoming the first country to introduce such a ban.
• 1979 - Chinese Vice President Deng Xiaoping and United States President Jimmy Carter sign the treaty, which restarts diplomatic relations.
• 1983 – The 12nd, 32rd, 33th and 34th executions of the September 35 Coup: Left-wing militants Ramazan Yukarıgöz, who killed a jeweler and a police officer, opened fire on the security forces and the public, and scanned the police car, in the jewelry store robbery they attempted to find money for the communist organization they belonged to, Ömer Yazgan, Erdoğan Yazgan and Mehmet Kambur were executed in Izmit.
• 1986 – Yoweri Museveni takes office as President of Uganda.
• 1988 – The dollar jumped to 1.385 lira. Police raided Tahtakale and prevented foreign exchange exchange.
• 1996 - Jacques Chirac announces that France has ended nuclear tests.
• 2005 – After 55 years from China, the first flight to Taiwan was made.
• 2006 – An explosion occurred in a warehouse full of fireworks in Linzhou city of Henan province, China: 16 people were killed.
• 2009 – Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan discussed with Israeli President Shimon Peres at the press conference about the Palestinian events at the World Economic Forum held in Davos, Switzerland.

Births

• 1749 – VII. Christian, king of Denmark and Norway (d. 1808)
• 1750 – Bailey Bartlett, American politician (d. 1830)
• 1782 – Daniel Auber, French composer (d. 1871)
• 1810 – Eduard Kummer, German Mathematician (d. 1893)
• 1838 – Edward Morley, American physicist and professor of chemistry (d. 1923)
• 1843 – William McKinley, 25th President of the United States (d. 1901)
• 1860 – Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (d. 1904)
• 1862 Frederick Delius, English post-romantic composer (d. 1934)
• 1866 – Romain Rolland, French novelist, daramaturg, and essayist (winner of the 1915 Nobel Prize in Literature) (d. 1944)
• 1870 – Süleyman Nazif, Turkish poet, writer and statesman (d. 1920)
• 1874 – John D. Rockefeller Jr., American businessman (d. 1960)
• 1884 – Rickard Sandler, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1964)
• 1888 – Wellington Koo, President of China (d. 1985)
• 1892 – Gyula Moravcsik, Hungarian byzantineologist (d. 1972)
• 1911 – Peter von Siemens, German businessman (d. 1986)
• 1925 – Robert Crichton, American novelist (d. 1993)
• 1927 – Urkiye Mine Balman, Turkish Cypriot poet and teacher
• 1926 – Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics (d. 1996)
• 1932 – Erdal Alantar, Turkish painter (d. 2014)
• 1945 – Alexander Gutman, Russian director (d. 2016)
• 1945 – Tom Selleck, American actor
• 1945 – Maresa Hörbiger, well-known Austrian actress
• 1947 – Linda B. Buck, American scientist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine
• 1954 – Oprah Winfrey, American host and actress
• 1955 – Liam Reilly, Irish singer (d. 2021)
• 1960 – Gia Carangi, USA's first supermodel (d. 1986)
• 1962 – Olga Tokarczuk, Polish poet, writer and Nobel Prize laureate
• 1964 – İhsan Dağ, Turkish academic, writer and Zaman newspaper columnist
• 1968 – Hakan Meriçliler, Turkish actor
• 1972 – Engin Günaydın, Turkish actor
• 1980 – Ivan Klasnić, Croatian football player
• 1988 – Aydın Yılmaz, Turkish football player
• 1988 – Denys Boyko, Ukrainian football player
• 1996 – Melis Alpacar, Turkish volleyball player
• 1996 – Orkan Cinar, Turkish football player
• 1984 – Oğuzhan Uğur, Turkish Musician

Deaths

• 1430 – Andrey Rublyov, Russian painter (b. 1360)
• 1678 – Giulio Carpioni, Italian painter and painting cliché (b. 1613)
• 1820 – III. George, King of England (b. 1738)
• 1830 – Ernst Moritz Arndt, German poet and politician (b. 1769)
• 1848 – Joseph Görres, German writer and journalist (b. 1776)
• 1888 – Edward Lear, English artist, illustrator, musician, writer, and poet (b. 1812)
• 1890 – Eduard Georg von Wahl, Baltic German surgeon (b. 1833)
• 1899 – Alfred Sisley, British painter (b. 1839)
• 1919 – Franz Mehring, German politician, historian, and literary critic (b. 1846)
• 1934 – Fritz Haber, German chemist (b. 1868)
• 1941 – Yannis Metaxas, Greek general and statesman (b. 1871)
• 1946 – İsmail Fenni Ertuğrul, Turkish mystic, philosopher and writer (b. 1855)
• 1950 – Ahmed al-Jaber al-Sabbath, Sheikh of Kuwait (b. 1885)
• 1957 – Ziya Osman Saba, Turkish poet and writer (b. 1910)
• 1963 – Robert Frost, American poet (b. 1874)
• 1964 – Alan Ladd, American actor (b. 1913)
• 1980 – Jimmy Durante, American actor, comedian, singer, and pianist (b. 1893)
• 1991 – Tarık Zafer Tunaya, Turkish academic (b. 1916)
• 1997 – Metin Bükey, Turkish composer and musician (b. 1933)
• 2003 – Natalia Dudinskaya, Russian ballerina (b. 1912)
• 2005 – Ephraim Kishon, Israeli writer and director (b. 1924)
• 2005 – Saliha Nimet Altınöz, Turkish educator (one of the first teachers of the Republic of Turkey) (b. 1914)
• 2007 – Hasan Kavruk, Turkish painter (b. 1918)
• 2007 – Edward Robert Harrison, British astronomer and cosmologist (b. 1919)
• 2013 – Arif Peçenek, Turkish football player and coach (d. 1959)
• 2014 – Ayşe Nana, Armenian-Turkish-Italian actress and dancer (b. 1936)
• 2016 – Jacques Rivette, French film director (b. 1928)
• 2019 – Jane Aamund, Danish journalist and author (b. 1936)
• 2019 – George Fernandes, Indian politician, author, trade unionist, agronomist and journalist (b. 1930)
• 2019 – James Ingram, American soul musician and producer (b. 1952)

Holidays and special occasions

• Western Thrace Turks National Resistance Day