Ahmet Necdet Sezer Elected as a Member of the Supreme Court

March 7 is the 66th day of the year (67st in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 299 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

161 - Marcus Aurelius becomes Roman Emperor.
1864 – The time for the Şapsugs in Adygea to leave their villages given by the Russians expired and the abandoned Şapsug villages were set on fire and burned by the Russian soldiers.
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell patented his invention, which he called the telephone (patent number: 174464).
1908 - Kabataş Boys' High School, Sultan II. With the edict of Abdulhamid "Kabataş It was founded under the name of “Mekteb-i İdâdisi”.
1911 – Mexican Revolution: The first great revolution of the 20th century took place.
1919 – The French occupied Kozan.
1921 – The liberation of Artvin from enemy occupation.
1921 – Liberation of Ardanuç and Borcka from enemy occupation.
1920 – The liberation of Kadirli from enemy occupation.
1925 – A force of 5000 people under the command of Sheikh Said attacked Diyarbakir.
1925 – The members of the Independence Courts were determined by the elections. Denizli Deputy Mazhar Müfit Bey (Kansu) was appointed as the President of the Court and Karesi Deputy Süreyya Bey (Özgeevren) was appointed as the prosecutor. Urfa Deputy Ali Saip (Ursavaş) and Kırşehir Deputy Lüfi Müfit Bey were elected as full members.
1927 – The duty of the Independence Courts came to an end. Its complete disappearance took place only in 1948.
1945 – The US First Army crosses the Rhine from the Remagen Bridge.
1950 – The number of candidates for deputies exceeded all estimates, 600 people from Elazig alone were nominated.
1951 - Iranian Prime Minister, General Ali Razmara, is assassinated by a religious extremist.
1952 – Foreign Minister Fuad Köprülü and his 222 friends prepared a proposal on behalf of the DP Parliamentary Group to transform the language of the Constitution into a living language and submitted it to the Parliament. Among the words that needed to be changed in the proposal were words such as crime, council of ministers, revolution, urgency.
1954 – The draft law on expanding the scope of crimes to be committed through the press and radio and increasing the penalties was discussed in the Parliament. The bill did not give journalists the right to prove their claims.
1954 – The Petroleum Law, which opened the petroleum business to foreign capital, was accepted. General Directorate of Petroleum Affairs was established.
1957 – Rock and roll on the streets of Ankara: Young people, who came out of the night cinema, started rock and roll on the Boulevard, and were stopped by the police.
1958 – Akis magazine was recalled; The magazine was released eight hours after sale.
1959 – The Court of Cassation overturned the conviction of the Ankara Collective Press Court against Ulus newspaper editor-in-chief Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu and Editor-in-Chief Ülkü Erman for the article titled “Nalıncı Keseri”.
1960 – Vatan newspaper Editor-in-Chief Ahmet Emin Yalman was imprisoned to serve a 15-month and 16-day prison sentence for the “Pulliam” case. Yalman was hospitalized 4 days later.
1961 – Chief of General Staff Cevdet Sunay said in the message he published. "The aim of our army, which always keeps its barrels clean and its bayonets bright, is to deliver democracy to its nation, with the determination to destroy all kinds of obstacles."
1963 – The Constitutional Court annulled the strike ban in the Labor Law.
1966 – In the earthquake that occurred in Erzurum and Muş; 15 people were killed, 25 injured and 2380 homes destroyed.
1973 – İsmail Beşikçi was sentenced to 8 years in prison for communist propaganda.
1977 – Zulfikar Ali Bhutto won the elections in Pakistan.
1978 – Gen. Kenan Evren officially started his duty as the Turkish General Staff.
1979 - US spacecraft Voyager I discovers that Jupiter and Uranus have rings like Saturn. Voyager I of Jupiter halkalı He sent his pictures to the world.
1979 – “Association for Constructing and Sustaining the Taksim Mosque Sheriff and Complex” was established in order to build a mosque in Taksim Square, where the Water Authority is located.
1979 – The oil agreement was signed between Turkey and the Soviet Union.
1980 – Uğur Mumcu criticized the communists: “Is this called leftism? Is leftism a banditry that rains bullets on poor soldiers and robs banks? If this is the case, let such leftism sink into the ground…”
1983 – In the explosion that took place in the Armutçuk Quarry in the Kandilli production basin of Zonguldak Ereğli Coal Enterprises, 102 people were killed and 86 people were injured.
1983 – Ahmet Necdet Sezer was elected as a member of the Supreme Court.
1984 – The Ankara Martial Law Court rejected the release of Alparslan Türkeş, the leader of the closed Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), for the 23rd time.
1984 – The TRNC flag was approved by the Assembly of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
1984 – The scope of the law on "tax refunds to wage earners", popularly known as "paid life", was expanded by the Council of Ministers. Overtime, premium and transfer fees were also included in the scope of the law.
1984 – Poet Arif Damar, who was tried at the Gölcük Martial Law Court for allegedly making communist propaganda, was acquitted.
1985 – The expected big break from the Nationalist Democracy Party (MDP) was realized. 25 deputies, mostly former parliamentarians and three founding members, resigned. Describing MDP Gemel President Turgut Sunalp as the "compulsory chairman", the resigners said, "The existence of a peaceful party on the right with a predominant social side is essential."
1986 – A petition with 2861 signatures containing the request to “prevent all kinds of discrimination against women” was submitted to the Presidency of the Turkish Grand National Assembly.
1986 – Adile Sultan Palace, which was used as the school's dormitory, was completely burned in the fire that broke out in Istanbul Kandilli High School. Abdulaziz had the palace built for his sister Adile Sultan in 1876. In 1916, it was converted into a school under the name of Adile Sultan İnas Mekteb-i Sultanisi in Kandilli. It was later renamed Kandilli Girls' High School.
1988 – DSP Chairman Bülent Ecevit made his decision to withdraw from the presidency at the party congress and left his post. In his speech at his party's congress, Ecevit said, "My most ambitious challenge in my long political life is my resignation from the Presidency of the DSP." Necdet Karababa was elected as the Chairman, replacing Ecevit.
1989 – The Constitutional Court annulled the law that allowed “the covering of neck and hair with a veil or turban for religious beliefs” in universities.
1989 - Iran broke off diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom.
1989 - China declared martial law in Lhasa-Tibet.
1990 – Hürriyet newspaper Board member, journalist and writer Çetin Emeç and his driver Ali Sinan Ercan lost their lives in an armed attack. İrfan Çağırıcı, responsible for the Islamic Movement Organization, who shot Emeç on March 6, 9, 1996 years later, was caught in Istanbul.
1992 – The Chief of Protection of the Israeli Embassy died as a result of the explosion of a remote-controlled bomb placed in his car in Ankara.
1993 – A group of women in Istanbul opened a street exhibition in Beyoğlu to draw attention to the rape of women during wars and the state's control over the female body. The same group also distributed a leaflet in the form of an edict symbolizing the state's control over the female body and containing the relevant legal regulations on Istiklal Street.
1994 – As a result of the referendum held in Moldova, 90 percent of the people refused to unite with Romania.
1996 – Yaşar Kemal, who was tried for alleged separatism in his article published in the joint book titled Freedom for Thought, was sentenced to 1 year and 8 months in prison. The sentence was suspended for 5 years.
1997 – 28 left-wing convicts escaped from Iskenderun Prison by digging a tunnel, 8 of the fugitives were caught.
1997 – Istanbul State Security Court sentenced 9 people who hijacked the Eurasia ferry to eight years, ten months and twenty days in prison.
1997 – Jean-Dominique Bauby's book, which was printed with the help of eyelids, Butterfly and Diving Suit went on sale.
2009 – A helicopter belonging to the TAF, departing from Diyarbakır, crashed around Kayseri. 2 pilots died.
2014 – Ilker Başbuğ, who was on trial in the Ergenekon case, was released after 26 months on the grounds of violation of rights.

Births

189 – Publius Septimius Geta, Roman Emperor in Trinity with Septimius Severus and Caracalla between 209 and 211 (d. 3)
1671 – Rob Roy MacGregor, Scottish folk hero (d. 1734)
1693 – XIII. Clemens, Pope (d. 1769)
1765 – Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor (first photographed) (d. 1833)
1785 – Alessandro Manzoni, Italian poet and novelist (d. 1873)
1788 – Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist (d. 1878)
1792 – John Herschel, English mathematician, astronomer, and chemist (d. 1871)
1822 – Victor Massé, French opera composer and music educator (d. 1884)
1842 Henry Hyndman, English Marxist (d. 1921)
1850 – Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, founder and first President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1937)
1857 – Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian medical doctor and 1927 Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1940)
1870 Jimmy Barry, American boxer (d. 1943)
1872 – Piet Mondrian, Dutch painter and pioneer of the art movement known as De stijl (d. 1944)
1872 – Howard Crosby Butler, American archaeologist (d. 1922)
1875 Maurice Ravel, French composer (d. 1937)
1878 – Ahmet Ferit Tek, Turkish diplomat and politician (d. 1971)
1885 – Milton Avery, American painter (d. 1965)
1886 – Wilson Dallam Wallis, American anthropologist (known for his discoveries of primitive science and religion) (d. 1970)
1886 – GI Taylor, English physicist and mathematician (d. 1975)
1894 – Sergey Lazo, communist soldier who led the Russian Revolution (d. 1920)
1904 – Kurt Weitzmann, German-American art historian (d. 1993)
1904 – Reinhard Heydrich, German politician (d. 1942)
1908 – Anna Magnani, Italian actress and winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress (d. 1973)
1912 – Adile Ayda, Turkish diplomat, academic and writer (first female diplomat) (d. 1992)
1915 – Jacques Chaban-Delmas, French politician, Prime Minister and Speaker of the Parliament (d. 2000)
1924 – Kobo Abe, Japanese writer (d. 1993)
1932 – Momoko Kōchi, Japanese actress (d. 1998)
1934 – Adnan Binyazar, Turkish writer
1934 – Ekrem Bora, Turkish film actor (d. 2012)
1936 – Georges Perec, French sociologist and literary scholar (d. 1982)
1937 – Önder Somer, Turkish film actor (d. 1997)
1940 – Rudi Dutschke, German sociologist (Germany's best-known leader in the student movements of the 1960s) (d. 1979)
1944 – Jiuli Shartava, Abkhazian politician (d. 1993)
1946 – John Heard, American actor (d. 1946)
1948 – Yavuzer Çetinkaya, Turkish actor (d. 1992)
1955 - Al-Walid bin Talal, Saudi businessman and nephew of Saudi King Abdullah
1956 – Bryan Cranston, American actor, writer, and director
1956 – Andrea Levy, English novelist (d. 2019)
1958 – Rik Mayall, English actor and comedian (d. 2014)
1959 – Luciano Spalletti, Italian football player and manager
1962 – Taylor Dayne is an American singer, songwriter, and actress.
1963 – EL James is an English writer.
1964 – Bret Easton Ellis, American writer
1964 – Wanda Sykes, American author, comedian, actress, and voice actress
1967 – Muhsin Al-Ramli, an Iraqi poet, novelist and translator
1968 – Tarkan Tuzmen, Turkish singer and actor
1971 - Peter Sarsgaard, American actor
1971 - Rachel Weisz, English actress
1973 – Sébastien Izambard is a French singer.
1973 – Işın Karaca, Turkish Cypriot pop music artist
1974 - Jenna Fischer, an American actress
1977 – Mehmet Baransu, Turkish journalist
1977 – Paul Cattermole, English musician and actor
1978 – Mike Reese, American politician (d. 2021)
1979 – Rodrigo Braña, Argentine national football player
1980 – Murat Boz, Turkish singer and songwriter
1980 – Laura Prepon, American actress
1980 – Boštjan Nachbar Slovenian national basketball player
1983 – Sebastian Viera, Uruguayan national football player
1984 – Mathieu Flamini, French former football player
1984 – Manucho is an Angola former international football player.
1987 – Hatem Ben Arfa is a Tunisian-French football player.
1989 – İlyas Yalçıntaş, Turkish singer
1994 – Jordan Pickford, English goalkeeper
1995 – Aboubakar Kamara, French football player

Deaths

322 BC – Aristotle, Ancient Greek philosopher, co-founder of classical Greek philosophy and student of Plato (b. 384 BC)
161 – Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor (b. 86)
1274 – Thomas Aquinas, Italian theologian (a leading proponent of the doctrine of subjectivist idealism) (b. 1225)
1752 – Pietro Grimani, 115th Duke of the Republic of Venice (b. 1677)
1724 – XIII. Innocentius, Pope (Catholic religious leader) (b. 1655)
1875 – John Edward Gray, British zoologist (b. 1800)
1922 – Axel Thue, Norwegian mathematician (b. 1863)
1932 – Aristide Briand, French politician and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1862)
1942 – Lucy Parsons, American black trade unionist (b. 1853)
1954 – Otto Diels, German chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
1967 – Alice B. Toklas, American author and life partner of Gertrude Stein (b. 1877)
1971 – Erich Abraham, general in the Wehrmacht in Nazi Germany (b. 1895)
1975 – Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher and literary theorist (b. 1895)
1981 – Mustafa Santur, Turkish academic and Rector of ITU (b. 1905)
1981 – Kiril Kondrashin, Russian orchestra director (b. 1914)
1987 – Henri Decaë, French cinematographer (b. 1915)
1989 – Bahaeddin Ögel, Turkish historian (b. 1923)
1990 – Çetin Emeç, Turkish journalist and writer (Board Member of Hürriyet newspaper) (b. 1935)
1998 – Adem Jashari, founder of the Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK) (b. 1955)
1999 – Stanley Kubrick, American director (b. 1928)
2004 – Paul Edward Winfield, American black actor and voice actor (b. 1939)
2005 – Debra Hill, American screenwriter and film producer (b. 1950)
2006 – Ali Farka Touré, Malian guitarist and African musician (b. 1939)
2012 – Włodzimierz Wojciech Smolarek, Polish former international football player (b. 1957)
2016 – Jean-Bernard Raimond, French ambassador and politician (b. 1926)
2016 – Paul Ryan, American cartoonist and illustrator (b. 1949)
2017 – Yoshiyuki Arai, Japanese politician (b. 1934)
2017 – Kamran Aziz, Turkish Cypriot composer, lyricist and pharmacist (b. 1922)
2017 – Ron Bass (wrestler), Former American professional wrestler (b. 1948)
2017 – Hans Dehmelt, German-American physicist. Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989 (b. 1922)
2017 – Tadeusz Rybak, Polish Catholic bishop (b. 1929)
2017 – Lynne Irene Stewart, American female defense attorney (b. 1939)
2018 – Reynaldo Bignone, Argentine former Army General and politician (b. 1928)
2018 – Woody Durham, American radio broadcaster and sportscaster (b. 1941)
2018 – Yaşar Gaga, Turkish pop singer and manager (b. 1966)
2018 – Charles Tone, American politician (b. 1924)
2019 – Dick Beyer, American former professional wrestler (b. 1930)
2019 – Joseph H. Boardman, American businessman and executive (b. 1948)
2019 – Robert Braithwaite, English entrepreneur and naval engineer (b. 1943)
2019 – Pino Caruso, Italian actor and comedian (b. 1934)
2019 – Kelly Catlin, American racing cyclist (b. 1995)
2019 – Guillaume Faye, French journalist, writer and politician (b. 1949)
2020 – March Crowley, American playwright, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1935)
2020 – Jair Marinho, former Brazilian football player (b. 1936)
2020 – Reza Muhammedi Lengerudi, Iranian cleric with the rank of Ayatollah (b. 1928)
2020 – Fatima Guide, Iranian politician (b. 1964)
2021 – Mordechai Bar-On, Israeli historian and politician (b. 1928)
2021 – Karahan Cantay, Turkish model, actor and math teacher (b. 1973)
2021 – Olivier Dassault, French politician and businessman (b. 1951)
2021 – Sanja Ilić, Serbian singer and songwriter (b. 1951)
2021 – Nikolay Smorchkov, Soviet-Russian actor (b. 1930)
2022 – Yuriy Prylypko, Ukrainian politician (b. 1960)

Holidays and special occasions

Albania: teacher's day
San Francisco: Official "Metallica Day"
Turkey: The Liberation of Artvin (1921)
Liberation of Ardanuç and Borcka from enemy occupation (1921)