20 Range, is the 354th (355th in leap years) day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. Number of days left until the end of the year11.
Events
- 1522 – Conquest of Rhodes: Suleiman the Magnificent accepted the surrender of the Knights of Rhodes and allowed them to evacuate the island. The Knights later settled in Malta.
- 1924 – NSDAP leader Adolf Hitler, imprisoned in Germany, is released on parole.
- 1924 – Kırkkilise's name was changed to Kırklareli.
- 1938 – The first electronic television system was patented.
- 1939 – The law regarding Turkey's participation in the International Wine Board in Paris was passed.
- 1942 – 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Erbaa-Niksar.
- 1945 – Sedat Simavi was appointed as the President of the Istanbul Press Association.
- 1945 – A midwife who was tried for alleged abortion was sentenced to 6 years in prison.
- 1947 – The appropriation of President İsmet İnönü's yachts was removed from the budget.
- 1951 – The EBR1 nuclear reactor in Arco (Idaho, USA) produces its first electricity.
- After the 1955-1954 elections, some deputies who left the DP founded the Freedom Party.
- 1961 – Direction magazine started to be published weekly under the management of Doğan Avcıoğlu.
- 1963 – The Berlin Wall opens for the first time to West Berliners so they can visit their relatives in the East for a day.
- 1964 – The opening of the Istanbul Ali Sami Yen Stadium was the scene of a disaster. Before the start of the Turkey-Bulgaria national match, the iron bars of one of the open stands were shattered as a result of the stampede: 83 people were injured.
- 1969 – Yıldız State Academy of Engineering and Architecture was closed. 7 people, including a police officer, were arrested for murdering student Battal Mehmetoğlu.
- 1970 – Doormen marched to be covered by Social Insurance.
- 1970 – Shots were fired on workers in Poland. Workers were protesting the rise in food prices. After the incident, Communist Party leader Władysław Gomułka resigned and was replaced by Edward Gierek.
- 1971 – Yahya Khan resigned in Pakistan, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto became President.
- 1971 - Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange is released.
- 1972 – Journalist Turhan Dilligil was sentenced to 21 months and 5 days in prison.
- 1973 - Spanish Prime Minister, Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, was killed in his car. The Basque Homeland and Freedom organization, whose short name is ETA, claimed responsibility for the assassination.
- 1984 – Police Organization was established in Northern Cyprus.
- 1985 – For the first time in Turkey, a woman gave birth to 8 children in a litter; Of the eight, 5 boys and 3 girls, 7 survived for one day and 1 for four days.
- 1987 – The Filipino cruise ship Dona Paz collided with the Vector tanker off Mindoro Island; Two explosions occurred and more than 3 people were killed.
- 1989 – Manuel Noriega, Panama's military dictator, is overthrown by American Troops.
- 1995 – NATO forces begin deploying in Bosnia.
- 1995 – An American passenger plane crashes into a mountain 50 km north of Cali (Colombia): 160 people are killed.
- 1996 – NeXT merged with Apple Computer, paving the way for the birth of Mac OS X.
- 1999 - NASA launched the ACRIMSat satellite into space to study the Sun's energy radiation.
- 2002 – The Middle East Four, comprising the United States, Russia, the EU and the UN, calls for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Palestine.
- 2016 – 42 people died in a firework explosion at the San Pablito market in Tultepec, Mexico.
Births
- 1494 – Oronce Finé, French mathematician and cartographer (d. 1555)
- 1537 – III. Johan, king of Sweden from 1568 until his death in 1592 (d. 1592)
- 1717 – Charles Gravier, Count of Vergennes, French statesman and diplomat (d. 1878)
- 1840 – Kazimierz Alchimowicz, Polish romantic painter (d. 1916)
- 1841 – Ferdinand Buisson, French politician (d. 1932)
- 1873 – Mehmet Âkif Ersoy, Turkish poet, writer and thinker (d. 1936)
- 1890 – Jaroslav Heyrovski, Czech chemist (d. 1967)
- 1894 – Robert Menzies, Australian lawyer and politician (d. 1978)
- 1898 – Konstandinos Dovas, Greek soldier and politician (d. 1973)
- 1898 – Irene Dunne, American actress (d. 1990)
- 1899 – Şerif İçli, Turkish composer and oud player (d. 1956)
- 1902 – George, fourth son of King George V and Queen Mary (d. 1942)
- 1904 – Yevgeniya Ginzburg, Russian writer (d. 1977)
- 1910 Helene Mayer, German fencer (d. 1953)
- 1915 – Aziz Nesin, Turkish writer and poet (d. 1995)
- 1917 – David Bohm, American physicist (d. 1992)
- 1917 – Audrey Totter, American actress (d. 2013)
- 1921 – George Roy Hill, American director (d. 2002)
- 1924 – Charlie Callas, American comedian and actor (d. 2011)
- 1926 – Geoffrey Howe, British politician (d. 2015)
- 1927 – Kim Young-sam, South Korean politician and democratic activist (d. 2015)
- 1932 – John Hillerman, American actor (d. 2017)
- 1934 - Valentin Krasnogorov, Russian writer
- 1939 – Kathryn Joosten, American actress (d. 2012)
- 1942 – Bob Hayes, American athlete (d. 2002)
- 1942 – Jean-Claude Trichet, President of the European Central Bank from 2003 to 2011
- 1946 – Uri Geller, Israeli entertainer
- 1947 – Gigliola Cinquetti, Italian singer, presenter and journalist
- 1948 – Onno Tunç, Armenian-born Turkish musician and composer (d. 1996)
- 1948 – Abdulrazak Gurnah, Tanzanian writer and Nobel Prize winner for Literature
- 1948 - Alan Parsons, English sound engineer, musician and record producer
- 1948 – Mitsuko Uchida, Japanese pianist
- 1949 – Soumaïla Cisse, Malian politician (d. 2020)
- 1952 – Jenny Agutter, British film and TV actress
- 1954 – Sandra Cisneros, American writer
- 1955 – Martin Schulz, German politician
- 1955 – Binali Yıldırım, Turkish politician, former Minister of Transport of Turkey, 3rd Chairman of the AK Party and Prime Minister of Turkey
- 1956 – Mohammed Veled Abdulaziz, Mauritanian soldier and politician
- 1956 – Blanche Baker, American actress and filmmaker
- 1956 – Anita Ward, American singer and musician
- 1957 – Anna Vissi, Greek singer
- 1959 – Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, Polish politician
- 1960 – Kim Ki-duk, South Korean director, screenwriter, and producer
- 1965 – Alpaslan Dikmen, Turkish photojournalist, founder of Galatasaray supporter group UltrAslan (d. 2008)
- 1966 – Ahmet Yenilmez, Turkish theater actor, actor, poet and writer
- 1968 – Joe Cornish, English comedian and filmmaker
- 1968 – Fatih Mehmet Maçoğlu, Turkish laboratory and politician
- 1968 - Karl Wendlinger, Austrian former Formula 1 driver
- 1969 - Alain de Botton, English writer
- 1972 – Anders Odden, Norwegian musician
- 1972 – Anja Rücker, German athlete
- 1975 – Bartosz Bosacki, Polish football player
- 1977 – Kerem Kabadayı, Turkish writer, drummer and founding member of the Turkish rock band Mor ve Ötesi
- 1978 – Geremi Njitap, Cameroonian football player
- 1980 – Israel Castro, Mexican football player
- 1980 – Ashley Cole, English football player
- 1980 – Martin Demichelis, Argentine football player
- 1983 – Gia Allemand, American television star and model (d. 2013)
- 1983 – Jonah Hill, American actress
- 1990 – JoJo, American pop and R&B singer, songwriter, and actress
- 1991 – Fabian Schär, Swiss football player
- 1991 – Jorginho, Italian national football player
- 1992 – Kseniya Makarova, Russian figure skater
- 1997 – Suzuka Nakamoto, Japanese singer and model
- 1998 – Kylian Mbappé, French football player
Deaths
- 217 – Zephyrinus, pope (b. ?) circa 199-217
- 1355 – Stefan Dušan, Ruler of the Kingdom of Serbia from 1331 to 1355 (b. 1308)
- 1552 – Katharina von Bora, wife of Martin Luther, leader of the Reformation (b. 1499)
- 1590 – Ambroise Paré, French physician (known as the “father of modern surgery”) (b. 1510)
- 1722 – Kangxi, fourth emperor of China's Qing Dynasty (b. 1654)
- 1783 – Antonio Soler, Spanish Catalan Hieronymite monk, musician, and composer (b. 1729)
- 1849 – William Miller, American Baptist preacher (b. 1782)
- 1862 – Robert Knox, Scottish surgeon, anatomist, and zoologist (b. 1791)
- 1877 – Heinrich Ruhmkorff, German scientist and inventor (b. 1803)
- 1917 – Lucien Petit-Breton, French racing cyclist (b. 1882)
- 1921 – Julius Richard Petri, German bacteriologist, military physician, and surgeon (b. 1852)
- 1929 – Émile Loubet, President of France (b. 1838)
- 1936 – Elsa Einstein, second wife and cousin of Albert Einstein (b. 1876)
- 1937 – Erich Ludendorff, German general (b. 1865)
- 1939 – Hans Langsdorff, German naval officer (b. 1894)
- 1944 – Merna Kennedy, American actress (b. 1908)
- 1956 – Paul Bonatz, German architect (b. 1877)
- 1966 – Albert Göring, German businessman (b. 1895)
- 1968 – John Steinbeck, American author and Nobel Prize winner for Literature (b. 1902)
- 1968 – Max Brod, Jewish-German writer
- 1973 – Luis Carrero Blanco, Spanish politician (b. 1904)
- 1973 – Bobby Darin, American singer, songwriter, and actor (b. 1936)
- 1974 – Rajani Palme Dutt, British journalist (b. 1896)
- 1982 – Arthur Rubinstein, Polish-born American piano virtuoso (b. 1887)
- 1984 – Stanley Milgram, American social psychologist (b. 1933)
- 1984 – Dmitri Ustinov, Red Army commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1908)
- 1989 – Laika Karabey, Turkish composer and tanburi (b. 1909)
- 1993 – Hulusi Kentmen, Turkish theater and film actress (b. 1912)
- 1993 – Nazife Güran, Turkish composer (b. 1921)
- 1994 – Dean Rusk, American politician and former Secretary of State (b. 1909)
- 1996 – Carl Sagan, American astronomer (b. 1934)
- 1998 – Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, English physiologist and biophysicist (b. 1914)
- 2001 – Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese poet and politician (b. 1906)
- 2007 – Savaş Dinçel, Turkish actor, cartoonist and film director (b. 1942)
- 2008 – Robert Mulligan, American screenwriter and filmmaker (b. 1925)
- 2009 – Brittany Murphy, American actress and voice actor (b. 1977)
- 2012 – Kamil Sönmez, Turkish folk music artist, film and theater actor (b. 1947)
- 2016 – Michèle Morgan, French film actress (b. 1920)
- 2017 – Annie Goetzinger, French illustrator and comics (b. 1951)
- 2018 – Klaus Hagerup, Norwegian writer, poet, translator, screenwriter, actor and director (b. 1946)
- 2018 – Donald Moffat, British-American actor (b. 1930)
- 2018 – Henning Palmer, Danish actor (b. 1932)
- 2019 – Matti Ahde, Finnish politician (b. 1945)
- 2019 – Eduard Krieger, Austrian former international football player (b. 1946)
- 2020 – Samsuddin Ahmed, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1945)
- 2020 – Doug Anthony, Australian politician (b. 1929)
- 2020 – Nicette Bruno, Brazilian actress (b. 1933)
- 2020 – Inés Moreno, Argentine film and television actor (b. 1932)
- 2020 – Nasser Bin Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti royal family politician (b. 1948)
- 2020 – Fanny Waterman, English pianist and educator (b. 1920)
- 2020 – Dietrich Weise, Former German professional football player and manager (b. 1934)
- 2021 – Sezai Aydın, Turkish theater, cinema, TV series actor and voice actor (b. 1952)
Holidays and special occasions
- World Human Solidarity Day
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