Today in History: Turkish-Greek F-16 Planes Collided

May 23 is the 143st day of the year (144nd in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days left until the end of the year is 222.

Railways

• With the law numbered 23 May 1927 1042, "Public Railways and Ports Administration General" was established. (The organization that is the core of the current TCDD.)
• 23 May 1933 Filyos-Ereğli line of the construction of the port on the Eregli Law. The law on the operation of the Samsun-Çarşamba line by the GDY entered into force.

Events

• 1788 - South Carolina was admitted as a state.
• 1795 - Women are banned from attending meetings in France.
• 1856 - 42 The meteorite named Isis was discovered by NR Pogson.
• 1915 – The Kingdom of Italy joins the Allied Powers in World War I.
• 1919 – Sultanahmet Meeting was held to protest the occupation of İzmir by the Allied Powers, 200 thousand people attended the meeting.
• 1928 – Turkish Citizenship Law was accepted, dervish lodges and lodges were closed.
• 1938 – The contract for the purchase of Istanbul Electric Company by the Government was signed in Ankara.
• 1945 – Himmler, one of the National Socialist leaders, committed suicide with a cyanide capsule to avoid falling into the hands of the Allies.
• 1949 - Soviet leader Josef Stalin lifts the blockade of Berlin and World War II The Federal Republic was proclaimed in the west of Germany, which was divided into two after World War II.
• 1960 - Mossad agents capture Adolf Eichmann in Argentina, who is held responsible for the deaths of 6 million Jews. Eichmann was taken to Israel to stand trial.
• 1965 – The United States establishes the Inter-American Peace Corps, with the participation of Brazil, Honduras, Paraguay, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and El Salvador, to rescue foreigners, including their own citizens, from the civil war in the Dominican Republic.
• 1971 – A curfew was imposed in Istanbul. 25 soldiers and police searched the city.
• 1978 – The novel written by American Billy Hayes, who escaped from Imrali Prison, Midnight Express was transferred to the cinema. Turkey protested the film.
• 1982 – President General Kenan Evren spoke in Ankara: “The heart desires that all young people go to high school, even all young people go to university. This has not been seen anywhere else in the world. Not everyone who finishes high school can go to university.”
• 1992 – Galata Bridge, which served Istanbul for 117 years, was dismantled and withdrawn to the Golden Horn.
• 2002 – Akün Cinema, one of the oldest and largest cinemas in Ankara, is the unforgettable film of Ertem Eğilmez in 1975. hababam class He closed the curtains that he opened with the same film, never to be opened again.
• 2006 – Boeing 717 production ends.
• 2006 – Turkish-Greek F-16 planes collided.

Births

• 359 – Gratian, Western Roman Emperor (d. 383)
• 1707 – Carl Linnaeus, Swedish biologist, physician, and physicist (d. 1778)
• 1734 – Franz Anton Mesmer, German physician (d. 1815)
• 1741 – Andrea Luchesi, Italian composer (d. 1801)
• 1810 – Margaret Fuller, American journalist and women's rights activist (d. 1850)
• 1826 – Adile Sultan, Turkish Divan literature poet (d. 1899)
• 1848 – Otto Lilienthal, German inventor (d. 1896)
• 1883 – Douglas Fairbanks, American actor, screenwriter, and director (d. 1939)
• 1891 – Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish author and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
• 1892 – Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish football player (d. 1922)
• 1897 – Hafiz Burhan, Turkish gazel chant and composer (d. 1943)
• 1898 – Georgios Grivas, Cypriot soldier and leader of the Greek terrorist organization EOKA (d. 1974)
• 1908 – John Bardeen, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics (d. 1991)
• Max Abramovitz, American architect (d. 2004)
• 1917 – Edward Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (d. 2008)
• 1921 – Grigori Chuhrai, Soviet director and screenwriter (d. 2001)
• 1926 – Desmond Carrington, British actor, radio broadcaster and presenter (d. 2017)
• 1931 – Michael Lonsdale, French actor and painter (b. 2020)
• 1933 - Joan Collins, English actress
• 1934 – Robert Moog, American electronics engineer and inventor (d. 2005)
• 1937 – Jorge Martínez Boero, Argentine speedway driver (d. 2004)
• 1947 – Michael Porter, American academic and economist
• 1949 – Hüsnü Mahalli, Turkish academic, journalist and writer of Syrian Turkmen descent
• 1950 – Richard Chase, American serial killer (d. 1980)
• 1951 – Anatoli Karpov, Russian Chess Grandmaster and World Chess Champion
• 1952 – Anne-Marie David, French singer
• 1952 – Hayati Yazıcı, Turkish politician
• 1955 – Mansur Yavaş, Turkish lawyer and politician
• 1957 – Jimmy McShane, Northern Irish singer (d. 1995)
• 1960 – Linden Ashby, American actor and martial artist
• 1964 – Ruth Metzler, Swiss politician
• 1964 – Ali İsmet Öztürk, Turkish aerobatic pilot
• 1965 – Tom Tykwer, German film director, screenwriter, and composer
• 1967 – Phil Selway, English musician
• 1971 – İlker Aksum, Turkish actor
• 1971 - Laurel Holloman, American actress
• 1972 - Rubens Barrichello, Brazilian Formula 1 driver
• 1972 – Burak Hakkı, Turkish actor
• 1972 – Stephanie Japp, Swiss actress
• 1972 – Selim Yuhay, Turkish architect
• 1974 – Jewel, American singer, songwriter, guitarist, actress, and poet
• 1976 – Ricardinho, Brazilian football player
• 1977 – Ilya Kulik, Russian figure skater
• 1977 – Şinasi Yurtsever, Turkish actress
• 1980 – Lane Garrison, American actress
• 1982 – Malene Mortensen, Danish singer
• 1983 – Heidi Range, English singer-songwriter
• 1984 – Hugo Almeida, Portuguese football player
• 1984 – Ushan Çakır, Turkish actor
• 1985 – Nicky Adler, German football player
• 1985 – Sekou Cissé, Ivory Coast national football player
• 1985 – Sebastián Fernández, Uruguayan football player
• 1985 – Ross Wallace, Scottish international football player
• 1986 – Natálya Anderle, Brazilian model
• 1986 – Ryan Coogler, American director and screenwriter
• 1986 – Gabriel Özkan is a Swedish football player.
• 1986 – Caner Özyurtlu, Turkish actor, screenwriter and director
• 1986 – Alex Renfroe, US-born Bosnian professional basketball player
• 1988 - Courtney Fortson is an American professional basketball player.
• 1988 – Merve Oflaz, Turkish actress
• 1988 – Angelo Ogbonna, Nigerian-born Italian national football player
• 1988 – Lorenzo De Silvestri, Italian national football player
• 1989 – Liza Helder, model from Aruba
• 1989 – Hussein Sha'an, Saudi national football player
• 1989 – Ezequiel Schelotto, Italian national football player
• 1989 – Jeffery Taylor is a Swedish/American professional basketball player.
• 1990 – Ricardo dos Santos, Brazilian surfer (d. 2015)
• 1991 - Nadine Ames, Indonesian model
• 1991 – Lena Meyer-Landrut, German artist and songwriter (2010 Eurovision winner)
• 1991 - Ryo Nagai is a Japanese football player.
• 1991 – Marko Šćepović, Serbian national football player
• 1991 - Hebert Silva Santos, Brazilian football player
• 1993 – Guillermo Fernández Hierro, Spanish national football player
• 1993 – Mohammed al-Sayari, Saudi national football player
• 1994 – Durgam Ismail is an Iraqi football player.
• 1995 - Younés Kaabouni is a French football player.
• 1996 – Emmanuel Boateng, Ghanaian football player
• 1996 – Caglar Soyuncu, Turkish football player
• 1997 – Joe Gomez, English international football player
• 2000 – Greta Bohacek, German child actress
• 2000 - Jaxson Hayes is an American professional basketball player.

Deaths

• 230 – Urbanus I was a pope who served between 222-230
• 1125 – Heinrich V, King of Germany and Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1086)
• 1370 – Togon Temür, last Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty (b. 1320)
• 1523 – Ashikaga Yoshitane, 10th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate (b. 1466)
• 1524 – Ismail I, leader of the Safavid Order, founder and first ruler of the Safavid State (b. 1487)
• 1701 – William Kidd, Scottish sailor and pirate (b. 1645)
• 1857 – Augustin Louis Cauchy, French mathematician (b. 1789)
• 1874 – Sylvain Van de Weyer, Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1802)
• 1886 – Leopold von Ranke, German historian (b. 1795)
• 1906 – Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian dramatist (b. 1828)
• 1911 – John Douglas, English architect (b. 1830)
• 1934 – Bonnie Parker, American bank robber and outlaw (b. 1910)
• 1934 – Clyde Barrow, American bank robber and outlaw (b.1909)
• 1937 – John D. Rockefeller, American industrialist (b. 1839)
• 1942 – Georges Politzer, French Marxist writer and philosopher (b. 1903)
• 1943 – Kenan Hulusi Koray, Turkish story writer and member of the community called Yedi Meşaleciler (b. 1906)
• 1944 – Sevket Dag, Turkish painter (b. 1876)
• 1945 – Heinrich Himmler, German politician, soldier, and SS leader in Nazi Germany (b. 1900)
• 1953 – Ali Rıza Çevik, Turkish bureaucrat (b. 1888)
• 1960 – Soghomon Tehlirian, grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1896)
• 1987 – Şemsi Bedelbeyli, Azerbaijani theater director and actor (b. 1911)
• 1991 – Kemal Satır, Turkish politician (b. 1911)
• 1992 – Atahualpa Yupanqui, Argentine composer (b. 1908)
• 1996 – Tanju Okan, Turkish singer, musician and film actor (b.1938)
• 1999 – Owen Hart, Canadian professional WWE wrestler (b. 1965)
• 2002 – Sam Snead, American golfer (b. 1912)
• 2003 – Jean Yanne, French actor, writer, film director and composer (b. 1933)
• 2006 – Kazimierz Górski, coach of the Poland national football team (b. 1921)
• 2007 – Kei Kumai, Japanese film director (b. 1930)
• 2009 – Roh Moo-hyun, 16th (former) president of South Korea (b. 1946)
• 2011 – Nasser Hejazi, Iranian former national football player and manager (b. 1949)
• 2011 – Xavier Tondo, Spanish cyclist (b. 1978)
• 2013 – Cemal Güvenç, Turkish painter and art educator (b. 1925)
• 2013 – Hayri Kozakçıoğlu, Turkish bureaucrat and politician (b. 1938)
• 2013 – Georges Moustaki, Greek-French singer (b. 1934)
• 2013 – Sami Soylu, Turkish lawyer (b. 1918)
• 2015 – Moyra Caldecott, English writer (b. 1927)
• 2015 – John Carter, American actor (b. 1927)
• 2015 – Anne Meara, American actress and comedian (b. 1929)
• 2015 – John Forbes Nash, American mathematician and Nobel Prize laureate in Economics (b. 1928)
• 2016 – İbrahim Bodur, Turkish businessman (b. 1928)
• 2016 – John Brophy, Canadian former hockey player and coach (b. 1933)
• 2017 – Olivier de Berranger, French Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1938)
• 2017 – Kofi Bucknor, Ghanaian actor (b. 1953)
• 2017 – Aleksandr Burdonski, Soviet-Russian theater director (b. 1941)
• 2017 – Akif Emre, Turkish journalist and writer (b. 1957)
• 2017 – Roger Moore, English actor (b. 1927)
• 2017 – Kaoru Yosano, Japanese politician (b. 1938)
• 2018 – Antonio Horvath, Chilean politician (b. 1950)
• 2018 – Luis Possada Cariles, American intelligence officer (b. 1928)
• 2018 – Daniel Robin, French former wrestler (b. 1943)
• 2019 – Dumiso Dabengwa, Zimbabwean soldier, former minister and politician (b. 1939)
• 2019 – Hosei Norota, Japanese politician and minister (b. 1929)
• 2019 – Beaton Tulk, Canadian politician and bureaucrat (b. 1944)
• 2020 – Alberto Alesina, Italian political economist, writer and academic (b. 1957)
• 2020 – Ashley Cooper, Australian tennis player (b. 1936)
• 2020 – Mory Kanté, Guinean singer, kora musician and songwriter (b.1950)
• 2020 – Hana Kimura, Japanese female professional wrestler (b. 1997)
• 2020 – Jitendra Nath Pande, Indian professor of medicine (b. 1941)
• 2020 – Luigi Simoni, Italian former football player and manager (b. 1939)
• 2020 – Jerry Sloan, American professional former basketball player and basketball head coach (b. 1942)
• 2021 – Eric Carle, American author and illustrator of children's books (b. 1929)
• 2021 – Lorrae Desmond, Australian actress, singer, record producer, television presenter, radio broadcaster and playwright (b. 1929)
• 2021 – Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Brazilian architect (b. 1928)
• 2021 – Max Mosley, British Racing Driver (b. 1940)
• 2021 – Shanti Pahadia, Indian female politician (b. 1934)
• 2021 – Nina Shatskaya, Soviet-Russian actress (b. 1940)

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