Today in History: Ali Sami Yen Stadium Transferred to Galatasaray

March 9 is the 68th day of the year (69st in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days left until the end of the year is 297.

Railways

• 9 March The protocol for the Chester 1911 Chester Project was presented to the Parliament, but it was held for a long time and did not pass.

Events

• 1621 – Kos Celebi (Guzelce) Ali Pasha was removed from the position of grand vizier and Ohrid Huseyin Pasha was appointed instead.
• 1764 – Sultan III. Laleli Mosque, built by Mustafa, was opened to worship.
• 1788 – Barred spiral galaxy NGC 2841 is found.
• 1796 - Napoleon Bonaparte married Josephine.
• 1814 - At a time when the Napoleonic Armies were constantly defeated and withdrawn, the Congress of Vienna was convened.
• 1842 - Giuseppe Verdi's third opera Nabucco It was first staged in Milan.
• 1908 - Italian football club FC Internazionale Milano is founded.
• 1913 – Adapazarı Islamic Commercial Bank was established. (On March 31, 1937, its title was changed to Türk Ticaret Bankası A.Ş.)
• 1923 - Soviet leader Lenin lost the ability to speak after a stroke.
• 1929 – “Printing School” was opened in Istanbul.
• 1930 – Atatürk, after visiting the Antalya Museum, made investigations in Aspendos.
• 1935 - Hitler announces that he will create a new air force.
• 1943 – The 13th Government of Turkey under the Prime Ministry of Şükrü Saracoğlu resigned and the 14th Government of Turkey was established again under the Prime Ministry of Şükrü Saracoğlu.
• 1945 – 36 thousand toothbrushes from Palestine were launched.
• 1952 – Turkish fashion swept the United States of America. American fashion magazines became impassable with colors such as Istanbul Yellow, Turkish Red, Halva Beige, Fez Color. A firm launched cosmetics under the name of Harem.
• 1954 – Journalists' Association and Journalists' Union; They protested DP İzmir Deputy Halil Özyörük, who used the term "hide thighs" for the Registrars in a speech he made in the Assembly, with a telegram they sent to the Assembly and the DP General Presidency.
• 1954 – The law that imposes heavy penalties on those who commit crimes through broadcasting was passed by the Parliament.
• 1955 – The Soviet spies, Ivan Adamidi and Nikola Antonov, who were sentenced to death by the Military Court of Erzurum 9th Corps Command No. 2, were hanged.
• 1956 – Archbishop Makarios, leader of the Greek Cypriot Community, was exiled to the Seychelles by the British.
• 1956 – Ali Sami Yen Stadium was transferred to Galatasaray.
• 1957 – Sema Aran, the first female doctor officer of the Turkish army, started to work with the rank of lieutenant.
• 1959 – EOKA, which was established to connect Cyprus to Greece, accepted the British proposal; Georgios Grivas withdrew.
• 1961 – Cemal Gürsel, German journalists, "If the Parliament proposes, will you accept the Presidency?" He said, “I am ready to serve if the people, not the parliament, offer it”.
• 1965 – During the Zonguldak Coal Enterprises resistance, workers named Satilmis Tepe and Mehmet Çandar were killed. The miners working at the Ereğli Coal Enterprise in Kozlu, Zonguldak, went on strike despite the fact that Türk-İş and the Government considered it illegal. Striking miners prevented workers who wanted to work from going underground.
• 1967 – The construction of the escort frigate “TCG Berk (D-358)” was started at Gölcük Shipyard. The construction of Turkey's first frigate, built using its own resources, was completed in 1971.
• 1971 – 19 Justice Party members prepared a memorandum for the withdrawal of Süleyman Demirel.
• 1971 – The Office of the Chief Public Prosecutor applied to the Constitutional Court for the closure of the National Order Party (MNP).
• 1971 – Rector Erdal İnönü resigned from his position after the Board of Trustees dissolved the Academic Council at METU, which was under the control of the security forces.
• 1971 – An unsuccessful military coup attempt was made by the Turkish Armed Forces.
• 1974 – It was announced that employers owed 1,5 billion liras to SSK.
• 1978 – Nurettin Ersin was appointed to the Land Forces Command.
• 1979 – Right-wing activist Veli Can Oduncu, accused of killing 7 people, was sentenced to 16 years.
• 1983 – Former Minister of Public Works Selahattin Kılıç, who was on trial at the Supreme Court for abuse of office, was acquitted.
• 1983 – Belgrade attack: Turkey's Ambassador to Belgrade, Galip Balkar, was wounded by two attackers. The ambassador died two days later. The Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide and the ASALA organization claimed responsibility for the attack.
• 1984 – Turgut Özal said that there is no political crime in the Turkish Penal Code.
• 1986 – Prime Minister Turgut Özal, answering the accusations regarding the Law of Disgusting Publications, said, “Anyone who calls this law evil is an evil one.”
• 1991 – Crisis in the press business: Due to the investigation opened in England against Asil Nadir; More than 350 people were dismissed from the newspaper Günaydın, owned by a Cypriot businessman. In Güneş newspaper, 188 permanent and 350 non-staffed employees were cut off from the newspaper. Development publications reduced the number of employees from 400 to 300. Tercüman newspaper could not pay the salaries and bonuses of the employees.
• 1992 – Turkish warplanes bombarded two PKK camps in Northern Iraq.
• 1995 – The documents found by the Parliamentary Asset Investigation Commission in Germany revealed that the total amount of money managed by RP's Süleyman Mercümek in Turkey was 17 million Marks, and the fate of this money is unknown.
• 1996 – İrfan Çağırıcı, the head of the surgical team of the Islamic Movement Organization, who shot journalist Çetin Emec, who was killed in 1990, was caught in Istanbul.
• 2000 – In South Korea, 37-year-old Kim Kwang-Su, who did not stay in front of the computer for hours, died of extreme fatigue and stress.
• 2003 – In the parliamentary by-elections held in Siirt, the Chairman of the ruling AK Party, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, entered the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.
• 2004 – As a result of the bomb attack on a restaurant in Istanbul, 5 people were injured.
• 2007 – In Switzerland, Armenian circles genocide Labor Party leader Doğu Perinçek, who was on trial for violating the law that criminalizes the denial of his claim, was fined. At the end of the hearings that started on 6 March, the Lausanne Court sentenced Perinçek to a 90-day prison sentence of 100 thousand Swiss Francs, 115 Swiss Francs (approximately 9 YTL) each day, and suspended this sentence for two years.
• 2020 – Democracy and Atılım Party was founded.

Births

• 1454 – Amerigo Vespucci, Italian merchant and cartographer (d. 1512)
• 1737 – Josef Mysliveček, Czech composer (d. 1781)
• 1749 – Honoré Gabriel Riqueti de Mirabeau, French politician (d. 1791)
• 1753 – Jean-Baptiste Kléber, French general (d. 1800)
• 1763 William Cobbett, English journalist (d. 1835)
• 1814 – Taras Grigorovich Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet and painter (d. 1861)
• 1850 – Hamo Thornycroft, British sculptor (d. 1925)
• 1856 – Edward Goodrich Acheson, American chemist (d. 1931)
• 1877 – Emil Abderhalden, Swiss biochemist and physiologist (d. 1950)
• 1881 – Ernest Bevin, English statesman (d. 1951)
• 1883 – Umberto Saba, Italian poet and novelist (d. 1957)
• 1886 – Werner Kempf, Nazi Germany's panzer general (d. 1964)
• 1890 – Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian politician (d. 1986)
• 1892 – Mátyás Rákosi, Hungarian communist leader (d. 1971)
• 1892 – Walter Miller, American silent film actor (d. 1940)
• 1895 – Albert Göring, German businessman (d. 1966)
• 1896 – Robert McAlmon, American author, poet, and publisher (d. 1956)
• 1918 – Mickey Spillane, American novelist (d. 2006)
• 1919 – Cengiz Dağcı, Tatar novelist (d. 2011)
• 1930 – Ornette Coleman, American jazz musician (d. 2015)
• 1934 – Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1968)
• 1943 – Bobby Fischer, American chess champion (d. 2008)
• 1950 – Etyen Mahçupyan, Turkish journalist and writer
• 1954 – Bobby Sands, Northern Irish politician and member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (d. 1981)
• 1960 – Želimir Željko Obradović, Serbian basketball coach and player
• 1964 – Juliette Binoche, French actress
• 1974 – Yuriy Bilonoh, Ukrainian shot putter
• 1975 – Juan Sebastián Verón, Argentine football player
• 1975 – Roy Makaay, Dutch football player
• 1977 – Atılay Uluışık, Turkish theater and TV series actor
• 1978 – Lucas Neill, Australian football player
• 1979 - Melina Perez, American professional wrestler
• 1979 – Oscar Isaac, Guatemalan actor and musician
• 1980 – Burçin Terzioğlu, Turkish TV series and film actress
• 1980 – Matthew Gray Gubler, American actor
• 1983 – Emre Kızılırmak, Turkish actress and model
• 1989 – Kim Tae-yeon, South Korean singer, dancer, and promotional model
• 1993 – Suga (Min Yoon-gi), South Korean rapper and member of BTS group

Deaths

• 1661 – Jules Mazarin, Italian politician (b. 1602)
• 1791 – Jean-André Venel, Swiss physician (b. 1740)
• 1821 – Nicholas Pocock, English artist (b. 1740)
• 1823 – Hans Conrad Escher von der Linth, Swiss scientist, civil engineer, businessman, cartographer, painter, and politician (b. 1767)
• 1825 – Anna Laetitia Barbauld, English writer (b. 1743)
• 1836 – Destutt de Tracy, French philosopher and pioneer of the idea of ​​ideology (b. 1754)
• 1847 – Mary Anning, British fossil collector, fossil dealer, and paleontologist (b. 1799)
• 1851 – Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist and chemist (b. 1777)
• 1888 – Wilhelm I, King of Prussia and first German Emperor (b. 1797)
• 1895 – Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer (b. 1836)
• 1897 – Cemaleddin Efghani, Iranian activist and philosopher (b. 1838)
• 1925 – Willard Metcalf, American artist (b. 1858)
• 1947 – Evripidis Bakircis, Greek military officer and politician (b. 1895)
• 1952 – Alexandra Kollontai, Soviet writer (b. 1872)
• 1956 – Ali Akbar Dihhoda, Iranian linguist (b. 1879)
• 1958 – Goro Yamada, Japanese former football player (b. 1894)
• 1964 – Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, German general (b. 1870)
• 1965 – Ömer Altuğ, Turkish composer (b. 1907)
• 1967 – Vala Nureddin, Turkish journalist and writer (b. 1901)
• 1970 – Doris Doscher, American actress and model (b. 1882)
• 1981 – Max Delbrück, German biologist and Nobel Prize laureate in Medicine or Physiology (b. 1906)
• 1983 – Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1988 – Kurt Georg Kiesinger, German politician (b. 1904)
• 1988 – Stefan Ryniewicz, Polish diplomat, undersecretary (b. 1903)
• 1989 – Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer (b. 1946)
• 1992 – Menachem Begin, Israeli politician and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1913)
• 1994 – Charles Bukowski, American author and poet (b. 1920)
• 1994 – Fernando Rey, Spanish actor (b. 1917)
• 1996 – George Burns, American actor and singer (b. 1896)
• 1997 – Jean-Dominique Bauby, French journalist and writer (printed with the help of eyelids) Butterfly and Diving Suit author of the novel) d. 1952)
• 2004 – Albert Mol, Dutch artist (b. 1917)
• 2013 – Max Jakobson, Finnish diplomat and journalist (b. 1923)
• 2016 – Yaşar Kaya, Turkish politician (b. 1938)
• 2018 – Oguz Turkmen, Turkish journalist
• 2020 – Şevket Kazan, Turkish lawyer, politician and former Minister of Justice (b. 1933)
• 2021 – Agustín Alberto Balbuena, Argentine football player (b. 1945)

Holidays and special occasions

• The liberation of Çat district of Erzurum from Russian and Armenian occupation (1918)
• Liberation of Çayeli district of Rize from Russian and Armenian occupation (1918)