Today in History: Neve Shalom Synagogue Opened in Istanbul

Neve Salom Synagogue Opened
Neve Shalom Synagogue Opened

March 25 is the 84th day of the year (85st in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 281 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

  • 1655 – Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.
  • 1752 - First day of the year in England. The first year to begin with January 1 in the English is 1752.
  • 1807 - The UK Parliament outlaws the slave trade.
  • 1811 - Percy Bysshe Shelley was expelled from Oxford University for his article "The Necessity of Atheism."
  • 1821 - Greece declared its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
  • 1912 – Ahmet Ferit Tek founded the Turkish Hearth.
  • 1918 – The Belarusian People's Republic was established under German control.
  • 1918 – Liberation of Oltu.
  • 1924 – A republic was proclaimed in Greece.
  • 1929 – The fascist administration in Italy announced that they received 99 percent of the votes in the general elections.
  • 1935 – Prof. Afet Inan was elected as the Vice President of the Turkish Historical Society.
  • 1936 – The Council of Ministers approved two declarations prepared by the Istanbul Observatory in order to set the clocks correctly.
  • 1941 – The Kingdom of Yugoslavia decides to join the Axis Powers.
  • 1944 – Barbaros Hayreddin Pasha Monument, made by sculptors Zühtü Müritoğlu and Hadi Bara, was opened with a ceremony.
  • 1947 – 111 people are killed in an explosion at a coal mine in Illinois.
  • 1949 - By decision of the Soviet Government; 92.000 people were deported from Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia.
  • 1950 – A passenger plane belonging to the State Airlines crashed in Ankara; 15 people died. This incident was the first accident in the history of Turkish civil aviation.
  • 1951 – Minister of National Education Tevfik İleri announced that the liquidation of leftist teachers was continuing.
  • 1951 – Neve Shalom Synagogue was opened in Istanbul.
  • 1957 – France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg, meeting in Rome, signed the Treaty of Rome establishing the European Economic Community and the European Atomic Energy Community.
  • 1959 – Necip Fazil Kisakurek, Big East He was sentenced to one year in prison in the lawsuit filed for allegedly insulting Fuad Köprülü through publication in his article titled “Menderes'in Castle” published in the magazine. Big East The magazine was also closed for a month.
  • 1960 – All black political organizations were dissolved in Johannesburg, South Africa.
  • 1960 - Fernando Tambroni becomes Prime Minister of Italy.
  • 1961 – The Ministry of Justice made a decision about the execution of death sentences in prison gardens.
  • 1962 – EOKA members dropped bombs on two mosques in Cyprus.
  • 1968 – Poet Metin Demirtaş was arrested for making communist propaganda in his poem “Guevara” published in the Turkish Left magazine.
  • 1972 – Republican People's Party; Deniz Gezmiş applied to the Constitutional Court for the annulment of the death sentences for Yusuf Aslan and Hüseyin İnan, which were approved by President Cevdet Sunay. The Execution Prosecutor's Office sent the file to the Ankara Martial Law Command. Three days later, the Ankara Martial Law Court ordered the execution of the executions.
  • 1975 - King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was killed in Riyadh by his mentally deranged nephew, Prince Faisal bin Musad.
  • 1980 – The Process Leading to the 12 September 1980 Coup in Turkey (1979 - 12 September 1980): 9 prisoners, 1 right and 10 left, escaped from Adana and Osmaniye Prisons.
  • 1982 – Ankara Martial Law Prosecutor's Office filed a lawsuit against Community Centers with a request for closure.
  • 1982 – Imprisoned İsmail Beşikçi was sentenced to 10 years for a letter he wrote from prison.
  • 1984 – Local elections were held. The Motherland Party (ANAP) won the mayorship of 41,5 provinces with 54 percent of the vote. The Social Democratic Party (SODEP) came in second with 23,4 percent of the votes, and the True Path Party (DYP) came out as the third party with 13,2 percent of the votes. The Welfare Party (RP), which participated in the elections for the first time, was the last party with 4,4 percent of the votes.
  • 1986 – At the 14th Strasbourg Film Festival, Muammer Özer's "A Handful of Heaven" and Ali Özgentürk's "Bekçi" shared the second prize.
  • 1986 – Police officer Sedat Caner, who confessed to torture, and "Nokta" magazine, which published these confessions, were sued.
  • 1988 – 29 detainees and convicts escaped from Metris Military Prison in Istanbul.
  • 1990 - 87 people died in a fire at a club in New York's Bronx.
  • 1992 - Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returns to Earth after 10 months aboard the Mir Space Station.
  • 1994 – Women protested that one of the four female students who turned out to be a housewife at Aydın Ortaklar Teachers' High School was caught by the police and sent for a virginity check.
  • 1996 – Labor Party was founded in Turkey.
  • 1998 – In the Manisali Youth Case, five detained youths were released after the Supreme Court's reversal decision. There are no suspects in custody in the case.
  • 1999 – When Serbia declared war on NATO and declared it to the UN, NATO member Turkey officially entered the war with this country.
  • 2009 – The helicopter, rented by the Great Union Party and containing 6 people, including BBP Chairman Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu, crashed in Kahramanmaraş. It was stated that 3 people died in the helicopter that was reached 6 days later.

Births

  • 1259 – II. Andronikos, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1332)
  • 1296 – III. Andronikos, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1341)
  • 1347 – Katerina of Siena, non-nun and mystic of the Dominican Order (d. 1380)
  • 1479 – III. Vasily, Grand Duke of Moscow (d. 1533)
  • 1593 – Jean de Brébeuf, Jesuit missionary (d. 1649)
  • 1611 – Evliya Çelebi, Ottoman traveler and writer (d. 1682)
  • 1614 – Juan Carreño de Miranda, Spanish painter (d. 1684)
  • 1699 – Johann Adolph Hasse, German composer (d. 1783)
  • 1767 – Joachim Murat, French soldier and King of Naples (d. 1815)
  • 1778 – Sophie Blanchard, French female aviator and balloonist (d. 1819)
  • 1782 – Caroline Bonaparte, sister of Emperor Napoleon I of France (d. 1839)
  • 1783 – Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin, French portrait painter (d. 1855)
  • 1833 – Zaynulla Rasulev, Bashkir religious leader (d. 1917)
  • 1835 – Adolph Wagner, German economist and politician (d. 1917)
  • 1852 – Gérard Cooreman, Belgian politician (d. 1926)
  • 1860 – Friedrich Naumann, German politician and theorist (d. 1919)
  • 1863 – Adalbert Czerny, Austrian pediatrician (d. 1941)
  • 1864 – Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter (d. 1941)
  • 1867 – Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor (d. 1957)
  • 1867 – Gutzon Borglum, American sculptor (d. 1941)
  • 1873 – Rudolf Rocker, German anarcho-syndicalist (d. 1958)
  • 1874 – Sunjong, second and last emperor of Korea and last ruler of Joseon (d. 1926)
  • 1874 – Zavel Kwartin, Russian-born Jewish singer (Hazan) and composer (d. 1952)
  • 1881 – Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer (d. 1945)
  • 1886 – Athenagoras I, 268th Patriarch of the Istanbul Greek Orthodox Patriarchate (d. 1972)
  • 1887 – Chūichi Nagumo, Japanese soldier (d. 1944)
  • 1893 – Fedir Shchus, Makhnovshchina commander, Ukrainian Anarcho-Communist revolutionary (d. 1921)
  • 1894 – Vladimir Bodiansky, Russian civil engineer (d. 1966)
  • 1899 – Burt Munro, New Zealand motorcycle racer (d. 1978)
  • 1901 Ed Begley, American actor (d. 1970)
  • 1905 – Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim, German soldier (d. 1944)
  • 1906 – AJP Taylor, British historian (d. 1990)
  • 1908 – David Lean, English director (d. 1991)
  • 1911 – Jack Ruby, American nightclub operator (who killed Lee Harvey Oswald) (d. 1967)
  • 1914 – Norman Ernest Borlaug, American agronomist (d. 2009)
  • 1920 – Melih Birsel, Turkish architect (d. 2003)
  • 1921 – Simone Signoret, French actress (d. 1985)
  • 1925 – Flannery O'Connor, American author (d. 1964)
  • 1925 – M. Sunullah Arısoy, Turkish poet and writer (d. 1989)
  • 1928 - Jim Lovell, American astronaut
  • 1929 – Tommy Hancock, American musician (d. 2020)
  • 1934 - Gloria Steinem, American feminist, journalist, and women's rights activist
  • 1940 – Mina, Italian singer, television host and actress
  • 1941 – Hüseyin Aktaş, Turkish athlete (d. 2012)
  • 1942 – Aretha Franklin, American R&B singer (d. 2018)
  • 1944 – Ayla Dikmen, Turkish Light Music artist (d. 1990)
  • 1944 – Demir Karahan, Turkish cinema and TV series actor
  • 1945 – Mehmet Keskinoğlu, Turkish poet, theater, cinema and voice actor (d. 2002)
  • 1946 – Daniel Bensaïd, French philosopher and Trotskyist (d. 2010)
  • 1947 – Elton John, English pop/rock singer, composer and pianist
  • 1952 – Dursun Karataş, Turkish revolutionary leader (d. 2008)
  • 1962 – Marcia Cross, American actress
  • 1965 – Avery Johnson, American basketball player and coach
  • 1965 – Sarah Jessica Parker, American actress
  • 1965 – Stefka Kostadinova, Bulgarian athlete
  • 1966 – Jeff Healey, Canadian musician (d. 2008)
  • 1968 – Deirdre O'Kane, Irish comedian and actress
  • 1972 Phil O'Donnell, English football player (d. 2007)
  • 1973 – Dolunay Soysert, Turkish actress
  • 1973 – Marcin Wrona, Polish (Polish) screenwriter and director (d. 2015)
  • 1976 – Vladimir Klitschko, Ukrainian boxer
  • 1977 – Darko Peric, Serbian actor
  • 1980 – Bartók Eszter, Hungarian singer
  • 1980 – Muratcan Güler, Turkish basketball player
  • 1981 – Casey Neistat, American YouTuber, filmmaker and vlogger
  • 1982 - Danica Patrick, American speedway driver
  • 1982 – Jenny Slate, American actress, comedian, and writer
  • 1984 – Katharine McPhee, American actress and singer-songwriter
  • 1985 – Lev Yalçın, Turkish football player
  • 1986 – Marco Belinelli, professional Italian basketball player
  • 1986 - Kyle Lowry, American professional basketball player
  • 1987 – Kim Cloutier, Canadian top model
  • 1987 – Nobunari Oda, Japanese figure skater
  • 1988 – Ryan Lewis, American record producer, musician, and DJ
  • 1988 - Big Sean, American rapper
  • 1989 – Alyson Michalka, American actress, composer, guitarist, pianist, singer, and model
  • 1989 – Scott Sinclair, English football player
  • 1990 – Mehmet Ekici, Turkish football player
  • 1990 – Alexander Esswein, German football player
  • 1993 – Sam Johnstone, English goalkeeper

Deaths

  • 1137 – Pons, count of Tripoli (b. 1098)
  • 1223 – II. Afonso, third king of Portugal (b. 1185)
  • 1625 – Giambattista Marino, Italian poet (b. 1569)
  • 1677 – Wenceslas Hollar, Bohemian-English engraver (b. 1607)
  • 1701 – Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (b. 1624)
  • 1736 – Nicholas Hawksmoor, English Baroque architect (b. 1661)
  • 1774 – Zeynep Sultan, Ottoman Sultan III. Ahmed's daughter (b. 1715)
  • 1801 – Novalis, German writer and philosopher (b. 1772)
  • 1875 – Amédée Achard, French poet and journalist (b. 1814)
  • 1880 – Ludmilla Assing, German writer (b. 1821)
  • 1890 – John Turtle Wood, English architect, engineer, and archaeologist (b. 1821)
  • 1914 – Frederic Mistral, French poet and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1830)
  • 1915 – Süleyman Efendi, Ottoman gendarmerie commander (b. ?)
  • 1918 – Claude Debussy, French composer (b. 1862)
  • 1966 – Vladimir Minorski, Russian orientalist (b. 1877)
  • 1973 – Edward Steichen, American photographer (b. 1879)
  • 1975 – Faisal bin Abdul Aziz, King of Saudi Arabia (b. 1903)
  • 1976 – Josef Albers, American painter (b. 1888)
  • 1976 – Şevket Süreyya Aydemir, Turkish economist and historian (b. 1897)
  • 1980 – Roland Barthes, French philosopher and semiotician (b. 1915)
  • 1988 – Leyla Arzuman, Azerbaijani origin Soviet dance teacher and choreographer (who laid the foundation of classical ballet education in Turkey and founded the first private ballet school) (b. 1897)
  • 1992 – Nancy Walker, American actress (b. 1922)
  • 1995 – James Samuel Coleman, American sociologist (b. 1926)
  • 2001 – Tekin Siper, Turkish theater artist (b. 1941)
  • 2002 – Esmeray, Turkish actress and vocalist (b. 1949)
  • 2006 – Richard Fleischer, American film director (b. 1916)
  • 2007 – Andranik Markaryan, Prime Minister of Armenia (b. 1951)
  • 2007 – Süheyl Denizci, Turkish jazz musician (b. 1932)
  • 2009 – Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu, Turkish politician (b. 1954)
  • 2010 – Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, German political scientist (b. 1916)
  • 2012 – Antonio Tabucchi, Italian playwright, translator and lecturer (b. 1943)
  • 2014 – Nanda, Indian actress (b. 1939)
  • 2016 – Abu Ali al-Anbari is the number two name of the Islamic State of Iraq affiliate group. ISIS leader (b. 1957)
  • 2016 – Tevfik Ismailov, Azerbaijani director, screenwriter and actor (b. 1939)
  • 2016 – Jishnu, Indian film actor (b. 1979)
  • 2017 – Giorgio Capitani, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1927)
  • 2017 – Piers Dixon, British politician (b. 1928)
  • 2017 – Sir Cuthbert Montraville Sebastian, former Governor-General of Saint Kitts and Nevis (b. 1921)
  • 2018 – Jerry Williams, Swedish rock singer and musician (b. 1942)
  • 2019 – Virgilio Caballero Pedraza, Mexican journalist, media researcher, and politician (b. 1942)
  • 2019 – Len Fontaine, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1948)
  • 2020 – Harry Aarts, Dutch politician (b. 1930)
  • 2020 – Edman Ayvazyan, Iranian-Armenian painter, architect and fashion designer (b. 1932)
  • 2020 – MaryAnn Black, American clinical psychologist, social worker, and politician (b. 1943)
  • 2020 – Mark Blum, American actor (b. 1950)
  • 2020 – Floyd Cardoz, Indian-American chef (b. 1960)
  • 2020 – Martinho Lutero Galati, Brazilian conductor (b. 1953)
  • 2020 – Paul Goma, Romanian writer known before 1989 as a dissident and prominent opponent of the communist regime (b. 1935)
  • 2020 – Inna Makarova, Soviet-Russian actress (b. 1926)
  • 2020 – Detto Mariano, Italian musician (b. 1937)
  • 2020 – Angelo Moreschi, Italian missionary, bishop who spent his career in Ethiopia (b. 1952)
  • 2020 – Nimmi, Indian actress (b. 1933)
  • 2021 – Beverly Cleary, American author of children's books (b. 1916)
  • 2021 – Uta Ranke-Heinemann, German theologian, scholar, and author (b. 1927)
  • 2021 – Larry McMurtry, American author (b. 1936)
  • 2021 – Bertrand Tavernier, French film director, producer, screenwriter and actor (b. 1941)
  • 2022 – Ivan Dikunov, Soviet-Russian sculptor (b. 1941)
  • 2022 – Taylor Hawkins, American musician (b. 1972)
  • 2022 – Kathryn Hays, American actress (b. 1933)
  • 2022 – Va'ele Pa'ia'aua Iona Sekuini, Samoan politician (b. 1964)

Holidays and special occasions

  • Manisa mesir paste festival
  • International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of World Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
  • Withdrawal of Russian and Armenian troops from Oltu district of Erzurum (1918)
  • Feast of the Annunciation (Christian Catholic Feast)