Today in History: Ankara-Istanbul Scheduled Flights Started

April 15 is the 105nd (106rd in leap years) day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days left until the end of the year is 260.

Railways

• 15 April 1933 The Samsun-Çarşamba line became a state-owned company by purchasing the shares of Samsun Coast Railways Inc. The line was built by Nemlizade and its Companions (1926 km.) In 36-year.
• 15 April 2004 began selling tickets on the Internet.

Events

• 1865 - Andrew Johnson becomes the 17th President of the United States.
• 1912 – On its maiden voyage with 2340 passengers, the Titanic transatlantic struck an iceberg south of Newfoundland and sank; In the incident, 1513 people died.
• 1920 - Two Italian immigrants, Sacco and Vanzetti, are arrested in Massachusetts for murder and extortion. Their execution seven years later, when there were deep doubts about their guilt, remained a disgrace to the American justice system.
• 1922 - Canadian scientists Frederick G. Banting and Charles H. Best found insulin used against diabetes.
• 1923 – The First Grand National Assembly of Turkey held its last session, taking the decision to hold new elections.
• 1925 – Sheikh Said, who started a rebellion in the East, was captured.
• 1929 – A tailoring school was opened in Istanbul.
• 1929 – First Young Painters Exhibition was opened in Ankara Ethnography Museum. The works of artists such as Nurullah Berk, Cevat Dereli and Refik Fazıl Epikman were exhibited.
• 1933 – Scheduled flights between Ankara and Istanbul started.
• 1945 – Olive oil started to be sold with a ration card.
• 1946 – Poet Necip Fazıl Kısakürek was sentenced to three and a half months in prison and a fine of 115 liras, on the grounds that he said that Sümerbank was not working as a state institution but as an organ of a party.
• 1946 – The National Library Preparatory Office was established. The library was opened to readers on August 16, 1948.
• 1952 – The US strategic bomber B-52 Stratofortress makes its maiden flight.
• 1955 – The first McDonald's opened in Des Plaines, Illinois, USA. The first day's earnings were $366,12.
• 1967 – Nearly 200 people protested the Vietnam War in New York and San Francisco.
• 1970 - The Japanese (Canon) produce the first electronic calculator that prints calculation results on heat-sensitive paper.
• 1978 – Turkish athlete Veli Ballı won the 9th International Westland Marathon held in the Netherlands.
• 1982 – In commemoration of the 70th birthday of North Korean leader Kim Il-sung, many structures were inaugurated in the country. The most famous of these structures are the Juche Tower and the Great Public Education House.
• 1983 – Istanbul Martial Law Command banned the printing, publication, distribution and possession of all kinds of works belonging to Yılmaz Güney and Cem Karaca, who were stripped of their citizenship.
• 1994 – GATT, the world's most comprehensive trade agreement, was adopted with the signatures of 120 countries.

Births

• 1452 – Leonardo da Vinci, Italian rönesans painter (d. 1519)
• 1469 - Guru Nanak Dev, first guru of the Sikhs (d. 1539)
• 1642 – II. Süleyman, 20th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1691)
• 1684 – Catherine I, Russian Tsarina (d. 1727)
• 1707 – Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician and physicist (d. 1783)
• 1710 – William Cullen, Scottish physician (d. 1790)
• 1741 – Charles Willson Peale, American painter, soldier, and naturalist (d. 1827)
• 1795 – Maria Schicklgruber, paternal grandmother of Adolf Hitler (d. 1847)
• 1800 – James Clark Ross, British naval officer (d. 1862)
• 1843 – Henry James, American author (d. 1916)
• 1856 – Jean Moreas, Greek-French poet (d. 1910)
• 1858 – Emile Durkheim, French sociologist (d. 1917)
• 1874 – Johannes Stark, German physicist (d. 1957)
• 1886 Nikolai Gumilev, Russian poet (d. 1921)
• 1896 – Victoria Hazan, Turkish singer, oud player and composer (d. 1995)
• 1905 – Zeki Faik Izer, Turkish painter (d. 1988)
• 1912 – Kim Il-sung, founder of North Korea (d. 1994)
• 1921 – Georgiy Beregovoy, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1995)
• 1932 – Anatoly Gromyko, Soviet-Russian scientist and diplomat (d. 2017)
• 1933 – Boris Strugatskiy, Soviet writer (d. 2012)
• 1933 Elizabeth Montgomery, American film and television actress (d. 1995)
• 1934 – Metin Ersoy, Turkish musician and singer (d. 2017)
• 1934 – Andrzej Kopiczyński, Polish actor (d. 2016)
• 1936 – Aydın Doğan, Turkish businessman and media magnate
• 1937 – Çetin İpekkaya, Turkish theater director and actor (d. 2016)
• 1939 – Claudia Cardinale, Tunisian-born Italian actress
• 1943 – Pınar Kür, Turkish writer
• 1945 – Istemihan Taviloğlu, Turkish composer and music educator (d. 2006)
• 1949 – Kadir İnanır, Turkish film actor
• 1950 – Josiane Balasko, French actress and director
• 1955 – Dodi Al Fayed, Egyptian-English businessman (d. 1997)
• 1959 – Emma Thompson, English actress and Academy Award winner
• 1963 – İrfan Şahin, Turkish TV personality
• 1966 – Samantha Fox, English female pop singer and model
• 1972 – Selda Özbek, Turkish cinema, theater and TV series actress
• 1973 – Cengiz Kapmaz, Turkish journalist and writer
• 1974 - Danny Pino is an American actor.
• 1974 – Danny Way, American professional skateboarder
• 1976 – Evrim Alataş, Kurdish-Turkish writer, journalist and critic (d. 2010)
• 1976 – Ragga Oktay, Turkish singer and actress
• 1978 – Luis Fonsi, Puerto Rican singer
• 1979 Luke Evans, Welsh actor
• 1979 – Nez, Turkish singer and dancer
• 1980 – Raül López, Spanish basketball player
• 1981 – Andrés D'Alessandro, Argentine football player
• 1982 – Albert Riera, Spanish football player
• 1982 – Seth Rogen, Canadian comedian, filmmaker, and actor
• 1983 - Alice Braga, Brazilian actress
• 1983 – Dudu Cearense, Brazilian national football player
• 1986 – Tom Heaton, English international football player
• 1986 – Sylvain Marveaux, French football player
• 1988 – Steven Defour is a Belgian former football player.
• 1990 – Emma Watson, English actress
• 1991 – Javier Fernández, Spanish figure skater
• 1994 – Shaunae Miller-Uibo, Bahamian sprinter who competed in the 200 and 400 meters
• 1995 – Leander Dendoncker, Belgian football player
• 1995 – Kim Namjoo, Korean singer and actor
• İpek Soylu, Turkish national tennis player
• Daiki Sakamoto, Japanese football player

Deaths

• 628 – Empress Suiko, 33rd ruler of Japan in the traditional succession order (b. 554)
• 1053 – Godwine, Earl of “Wessex” and father-in-law of Edward (Edward the Confessor) (b. 1001)
• 1446 – Filippo Brunelleschi, Italian architect (b. 1377)
• 1558 – Hürrem Sultan, married wife of Ottoman Sultan Süleyman I and the next sultan II. Selim's mother (b. 1502 or 1504)
• 1764 - Madame de Pompadour, King of France XV. Louis' most famous favorite (b. 1721)
• 1765 – Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian scientist (b. 1711)
• 1825 – Cristóbal Bencomo y Rodríguez, Spanish Catholic priest. VII. Fernando's confessor (b. 1758)
• 1865 – Abraham Lincoln, American lawyer, politician, and 16th President of the United States (b. 1809)
• 1888 – Matthew Arnold, English poet and cultural critic (b. 1822)
• 1889 – Reverend Damien, Belgian Roman Catholic priest and missionary (b. 1840)
• 1912 – Thomas Andrews, Irish naval engineer and businessman (b. 1873)
• 1912 – Luigi Gatti, Italian businessman and restaurateur (b. 1875)
• 1912 - Ann Elizabeth Isham, rms titanic a passenger on board his ship (b. 1862)
• 1912 – Edward Smith, British naval officer (b. 1850)
• 1912 – Thomas Byles, English Catholic priest (b. 1870)
• 1913 – Abdullah Tukay, Tatar poet (b. 1886)
• 1921 – Ahmet Anzavur, Ottoman officer and Kuva-i Inzibatiye commander (who started an uprising against the Kuva-yi Milliye movement) (b. 1885)
• 1927 – Gaston Leroux, French journalist and author (b. 1868)
• 1934 – Kemalettin Sami Gökçen, Turkish soldier, diplomat and politician (b. 1884)
• 1938 – César Vallejo, Peruvian poet and writer (b. 1892)
• 1942 – Robert Musil, Austrian novelist, storyteller, and essayist (b. 1880)
• 1948 – Radola Gajda, Czech military commander and politician (b. 1892)
• 1949 – Wallace Beery, American actor (b. 1885)
• 1968 – Selahattin Güngör, Turkish journalist, anecdote and story writer
• 1969 – Yusuf Kemal Tengirşenk, Turkish academic and politician (minister of the War of Independence and the Republic period) (b. 1878)
• 1975 – Richard Conte, American actor (b. 1910)
• 1980 – Jean-Paul Sartre, French existentialist philosopher, writer, and critic (b. 1905)
• 1986 – Jean Genet, French writer (b. 1910)
• 1990 – Greta Garbo, Swedish actress (b. 1905)
• 1995 – Yıldız Moran, Turkish photographer, lexicographer and translator (b. 1932)
• 1998 – Pol Pot, Cambodian communist leader (b. 1928)
• 2000 – Edward Gorey, American illustrator, author, and poet (b. 1925)
• 2000 – Hayati Hamzaoğlu, Turkish film actor (b. 1933)
• 2002 – Damon Knight, American science fiction writer (b. 1922)
• 2002 – Byron White, American lawyer and professional football player (b. 1917)
• 2004 – Suphi Karaman, Turkish soldier and politician (one of the leaders of the 27 May Coup) (b. 1920)
• 2009 – Salih Neftçi, Turkish economist and writer (b. 1947)
• 2011 – Vincenzo La Scola, Italian tenor (b. 1958)
• 2015 – Tadahiko Ueda, former Japanese international football player (b. 1947)
• 2017 – Allan Holdsworth, English guitarist, jazz fusion-rock musician and composer (b. 1946)
• 2017 – George Clifton James, American actor (b. 1921)
• 2017 – Emma Morano, Italian woman (until her death titled “Oldest Living Person”) (b. 1899)
• 2017 – Sylvia Moy, American record producer and songwriter (b. 1938)
• 2018 – Ronald Lee Ermey, former American soldier, actor, and voice actor (b. 1944)
• 2018 – Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday (often MAK Halliday), English linguist (b. 1925)
• 2018 – Vittoria Taviani, Italian films director (b. 1929)
• 2019 – Warren Adler, American playwright and poet (b. 1927)
• 2019 – Jerry Clack, American academic and human rights activist (b. 1926)
• 2019 – Owen Kay Garriott, American electrical engineer and NASA astronaut (b. 1930)
• 2020 – Adam Alsing, Swedish television and radio presenter (b. 1968)
• 2020 – Sean Arnold, English actor (b. 1941)
• 2020 – Ülkü Azrak, Turkish lawyer, academic (b. 1933)
• 2020 – Allen Daviau, American cinematographer (b. 1942)
• 2020 – William Delford Davis, American football player and businessman (b. 1934)
• 2020 – Bernard Deconinck, French road cyclist (b. 1936)
• 2020 – Brian Mannion Dennehy, American actor, producer, director, and screenwriter (b. 1938)
• 2020 – Henry Grimes, American jazz double bassist and violinist (b. 1935)
• 2020 – Dries Holten, Dutch singer (b. 1936)
• 2020 – John Houghton, Welsh atmospheric physicist (b. 1931)
• 2020 – Milena Jelinek, Czech-American playwright, screenwriter, and educator (b. 1935)
• 2020 – Lee Konitz, American jazz musician, composer, and alto saxophonist (b. 1927)
• 2020 – Gérard Mulumba Kalemba, Bishop of the Congolese Catholic Church. (b. 1937)
• 2020 – Bruce Myers, English actor and director (b. 1942)
• 2020 – John Pfahl, American photographer (b. 1939)
• 2020 – Shahin Shahablou, Iranian photographer, activist (b. 1964)
• 2021 – Luisa Revilla, Peruvian politician and LGBT rights activist (b. 1971)
• 2021 – Dimitrios Talaganis, Greek artist, architect, poet and urban planner (b. 1945)

Holidays and special occasions

• World Art Day
• Tourism Week (15-22 April)
• Growth Monitoring Day
• Withdrawal of Russian and Armenian troops from Ağrı (1918)