The First Parliament Building Has Been Turned into a Museum

April 23 is the 113st day of the year (114nd in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 252 days remaining until the end of the year.

Railways

April 23, 1903 British Prime Minister Balfour announced in the House of Commons that they will not be partners in any way and will not support the Baghdad Railway.
23 April 1923 An agreement was signed between Deutsche Bank and Schroder in Zurich on Anatolia and Baghdad Railway.
23 April 1926 Samsun-Poplar line of Samsun-Sivas line was opened. The construction of the line stopped due to the war started by Regie Generale in 1913. Contractor Nuri Demîrağ completed the line.
23 April 1931 Irmak-Çankırı line (102 km.) And Doğanşehir-Malatya lines were opened.
1 June 1931 date and 1815 with the law Mudanya-Bursa railway 50.000 TL. purchased in return.
April 23, 1932 Kütahya-Balıkesir line was opened by the Speaker of the Turkish Grand National Assembly Kazım Özalp. With this line, the distance between Balıkesir and Ankara decreased from 954 km to 592 km.
April 23, 1941 Hadımköy-Akpınar line (11 km) was built by the state in Thrace with military reasons in mind. The main stations of the Erzurum-Sarıkamış-Kars line were opened. Samsun Station was put into operation.
23 April 1977 Izmir commuter trains.

Events

1827 - William Rowan Hamilton prepared the Theory of Light Systems.
1906 – Czar II in Russia. Nicholas, "Basic LawsHe proclaimed the constitution known as ”.
1920 – The Turkish Grand National Assembly was opened and convened for the first time.
1923 – The Lausanne Peace Conference was convened for the second time on April 23, 1923, and was concluded on July 24, 1923, with the representatives of the Turkish Grand National Assembly and the representatives of the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Japan, Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, Portugal, Belgium, the USSR and Yugoslavia.
1935 – The adoption of the constitution in Poland.
1945 - Dogan Brother The first issue of the magazine has been published.
1948 – II. Topkapi Palace Museum and Istanbul Archeology Museum, which have been closed since World War II, were opened to the public.
1960 – The foundation of the İzmit Oil Refinery was laid.
1961 – The first parliament building was turned into a museum.
1961 – Locally made 27 May Train made its first voyage.
1965 - The first Soviet communications satellite, Maniya-1, was launched into space.
1968 – A group of anti-Vietnam War students at Columbia University in the USA seize the administration buildings and close the university.
1969 – Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, murderer of Robert Kennedy, was sentenced to death.
1979 – The Process Leading to the 12 September 1980 Coup in Turkey (1979 - 12 September 1980): Minister of Justice Mehmet Can, speaking at the Martial Law Coordination Meeting, “The National Anthem is not sung in schools in Bingöl. Atatürk's picture was taken from the classroom and thrown into the mud. The teacher tried to prevent them, they killed him." dedicate.
1979 – The satellite communication station, which will enable Turkey to make telephone calls with seven countries, was put into service.
1979 – April 23 National Sovereignty and Children's Day was celebrated for the first time by TRT as the “TRT International April 1979 Children's Festival” after UNESCO announced 23 as the “Year of the Child”.
1981 – The National Security Council decided to try Tuncay Mataracı, one of the former Ministers of Customs and Monopoly, in the Supreme Court.
1982 – TRT started broadcasting color television twice a week.
1982 – The 12th execution of the September 15 Coup: Sabri Altay, who killed his wife with four bullets to the head in order to marry someone else in 1974, was executed.
1984 – The virus that causes AIDS is identified.
1984 – President Kenan Evren's message to teachers: “To our children; Reminding the bitter ends of those who fell into the clutches of the betrayal hearths that coveted our existence in the past, punctuated with failure, desperation, blood and tears, explain that there is no way out other than Kemalism in overcoming all difficulties and reaching modern civilization.”
1990 – Namibia; It became the 160th member of the United Nations and the 50th member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
1992 – President Turgut Özal, who was in the USA for a health checkup, was diagnosed with prostate cancer.
1993 – A referendum on independence from Ethiopia started in Eritrea, an East African country.
1994 – Gagauzia was founded.
1997 – Omeriye massacre in Algeria: 42 deaths.
2001 - Intel released the Pentium 4 processor.
2003 – Schools in China were closed for two weeks due to the SARS virus.
2003 – In line with the decision taken by the Council of Ministers of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus; Free passages started between Northern Cyprus and the Republic of Cyprus.
2005 – Istanbul Toy Museum, founded by poet and writer Sunay Akın, was opened.
2006 – Mount Merapi (Marapi) erupted.

Births

1170 – Isabelle de Hainaut, Queen of France (d. 1190)
1775 – Joseph Mallord William Turner, English painter (d. 1851)
1791 – James Buchanan, American politician and 15th President of the United States (d. 1868)
1804 – Marie Taglioni, Italian ballerina (d. 1884)
1844 – Sanford B. Dole, Hawaiian politician (d. 1926)
1857 – Ruggero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (d. 1919)
1858 – Max Planck, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics (d. 1947)
1861 Edmund Allenby, English general (d. 1936)
1891 – Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer (d. 1953)
1895 – Yusuf Ziya Ortaç, Turkish poet, writer, literature teacher, publisher and politician (d. 1967)
1899 – Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
1899 – Vladimir Nabokov, Russian writer (d. 1977)
1902 – Halldor Laxness, Icelandic writer and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
1906 – Sâdi Yâver Ataman, Turkish folklore and folk music expert and compiler (d. 1994)
1919 – Bülent Arel, pioneer of Turkish electronic music and classical western music composer (d. 1990)
1926 – Suavi Süalp, Turkish humorist (d. 1981)
1927 – Ahmed Arif, Turkish poet (d. 1991)
1928 – Avni Anıl, Turkish musician (d. 2008)
1928 Shirley Temple, American actress (d. 2014)
1929 – Mürüvvet Sim, Turkish theater and cinema artist (d. 1983)
1934 – Ergun Köknar, Turkish theater, cinema, TV series actor and journalist (d. 2000)
1934 – Fikret Hakan, Turkish film actor (d. 2017)
1936 – Roy Orbison, American singer, guitarist, and songwriter (d. 1988)
1938 – Ali Ecder Akışık, Turkish theater, film actor and voice actor (d. 2010)
1939 – Lee Majors, American actor
1939 – Jorge Fons, Mexican film director and screenwriter (d. 2022)
1941 – Jacqueline Boyer, French singer, actress
1941 – Arie Den Hartog, former Dutch racing cyclist (d. 2018)
1941 – Paavo Lipponen, Finnish politician and former correspondent
1941 – Michael Lynne, American film director (d. 2019)
1941 – Ray Tomlinson, US computer programmer (d. 2016)
1943 – Hervé Villechaize, French actor (d. 1993)
1944 – Sandra Dee, American actress (d. 2005)
1945 – Alev Sezer, Turkish theater, cinema and TV series actress (d. 1997)
1947 - Blair Brown is an American stage, film, and television actress.
1948 - Pascal Quignard, French writer
1952 – Abdulkadir Budak, Turkish poet
1952 – Pakize Suda, Turkish actress and writer (d. 2022)
1954 – Fatih Erdogan, Turkish writer
1954 – Michael Moore, Irish-American actor, filmmaker, and director
1955 – Carlos María Domínguez, Argentine writer and journalist
1955 – Judy Davis, Australian actress
1957 – Jan Hooks, American actor and comedian (d. 2014)
1957 – Martha Burns, Canadian actress
1960 - Valerie Bertinelli is an American actress.
1960 – Steve Clark, English guitarist (d. 1991)
1960 – Zekeriya Önge, Turkish soldier (d. 1980)
1961 – George Lopez, American-Mexican comedian and actor
1961 - Pierluigi Martini is a former Italian Formula 1 racer.
1962 – John Hannah, Scottish television and film actor
1963 – Paul Alexandre Belmondo, driver who competed in French Formula 1 teams
1966 – Michael Kraft, German football player
1967 – Melina Kanakaredes, American actress
1968 – Timothy McVeigh, US terrorist (d. 2001)
1969 – Yelena Shusunova, Russian gymnast (d. 2018)
1970 – Egemen Bagis, Turkish politician
1970 – Tayfur Havutçu, Turkish football player and coach
1972 – Demet Akalın, Turkish actress, singer and model
1972 – Choky Ice, Hungarian pornographic film actor
1973 – Cem Yilmaz, Turkish comedian
1975 – Jónsi, Icelandic singer and guitarist
1976 – Valeska Dos Santos Menezes, Brazilian volleyball player
1977 – Arash Labaf, Iranian-born Swedish singer
1977 – John Cena, American professional wrestler
1979 – Jaime King, American actor and model
1979 – Lauri Ylönen, Finnish singer and lead singer of The Rasmus
1981 – Murat Ünalmış, Turkish TV series and film actor
1982 - Kyle Beckerman, American national football player
1983 – Leon Andreasen, Danish national football player
1983 – Daniela Hantuchova is a Slovak professional tennis player
1983 – Bartu Küçükçağlayan, Turkish actor and soloist of the group Büyük Ev Ablukada
1984 - Jesse Lee Soffer is an American actor.
1985 – Jurgita Jurkutė, actress and former winner of the Lithuanian 2007 beauty pageant
1987 – Michael Arroyo, Ecuadorian national football player
1987 – John Boye, Ghanaian national football player
1988 - Victor Anichebe, Nigerian national football player
1989 – Nicole Vaidišová, Czech tennis player
1990 - Rui Fonte is a Portuguese football player.
1990 – Dev Patel, Indian-English actor
1992 – Başak Gündoğdu, Turkish female volleyball player
1992 - Makoto Shibahara, Japanese football player
1991 - Nathan Baker, English football player
1994 – Song Kang, South Korean actor
1995 – Gigi Hadid, Palestinian-American model and actress
1999 – Son Chae-young, main rapper, songwriter, and composer of Korean artist Twice
2018 – Louis Mountbatten-Windsor, Prince of the United Kingdom

Deaths

303 – Yorgi, a Roman soldier who was considered a saint in Christianity and a saint in Islam
871 – Ethelred I, King of Wessex
1014 – Brian Boru, King of Ireland and member of House of Munster (b. 941)
1016 - Ethelred, king of Wessex
1151 – Adeliza was Queen of England (b. 1103)
1196 – III. Béla, King of Hungary (b. ~1148)
1200 – Zhu Xi, one of China's foremost philosophers in Neoconfucianism (b. 1130)
1554 – Gaspara Stampa, Italian poet (b. 1523)
1605 – Boris Godunov, Czar of Russia (b. ~1551)
1616 – William Shakespeare, English playwright (b. 1564)
1850 – William Wordsworth, English poet (b. 1770)
1939 – Saffet Atabinen, first Turkish conductor and flute virtuoso (b. 1858)
1954 – Rudolf Beran, Czech politician (b. 1887)
1975 – William Hartnell, English actor (Doctor Who first doctor of the series) (b. 1908)
1979 – Maurice Clavel, French writer, philosopher, and journalist (b. 1920)
1983 – Buster Crabbe, American swimmer and actor (b. 1908)
1986 – Otto Preminger, Austrian-born American film director (b. 1906)
1990 – Paulette Goddard, American actress (b. 1910)
1992 – Satyajit Ray, Bangladeshi director (b. 1921)
1993 – Bertus Aafjes, Dutch poet (b. 1914)
1998 – Konstantin Karamanlis, Greek politician (b. 1907)
2005 – John Mills, English actor (b. 1908)
2007 – Boris Yeltsin, Russian statesman and politician (b. 1931)
2010 – Bo Hansson, Swedish musician (b. 1943)
2013 – Şahin Gök, Turkish cinema director (b. 1952)
2013 – Mullah Mohammed Omar, leader of the Taliban (b. 1959)
2015
- Aziz Asli, Iranian former national football player (b. 1938)
- Richard Corliss, Time Magazine writer (b. 1944)
- Sawyer Sweeten, American actress (b. 1995)
- Sixto Valencia Burgos, Mexican cartoonist (b. 1934)
2016 – Çetin İpekkaya, Turkish theater director and actor (b. 1937)
2016 – Madeleine Sherwood, Canadian actress (b. 1922)
2017 – Jerry Adriani (Jair Alves de Sousa), Brazilian singer, musician and actor (b. 1947)
2017 – Kathleen Crowley, American actress (b. 1929)
2017 – Imre Földi, Hungarian weightlifter (b. 1938)
2017 – František Rajtoral, Czech national football player (b. 1986)
2017 – Erdoğan Teziç, Turkish lawyer and academic (b. 1936)
2018 – Bob Dorough, American bebop cool jazz pianist, singer-songwriter, composer, arranger, and record producer (b. 1923)
2019 – Henry W. Bloch, American philanthropist and businessman (b. 1922)
2019 – Matthew Buckland, South African social media entrepreneur, executive and businessperson (b. 1974)
2019 – Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (b. 1921)
2019 – Terence Rawlings, English sound engineer and film editor (b. 1933)
2020 – James M. Beggs, American politician, bureaucrat, and businessman (b. 1923)
2020 – Peter E. Gill, English professional golfer (b. 1930)
2020 – Akira Kume, Japanese actor and voice actor (b. 1924)
2020 – Henk Overgoor, Dutch football player (b. 1944)
2020 – Kumiko Owada, Japanese actress, voice artist, and TV host (b. 1956)
2020 – Frederick Thomas, American DJ and musician (b. 1985)
2021 – Tuncay Becedek, Turkish football player (b. 1942)
2021 – Fredi (birth name: Matti Kalevi Siitonen) Finnish singer (b. 1942)
2021 – Mario Andres Meoni, Argentine politician (b. 1965)
2021 – Milva was an Italian singer, actress and television presenter (b. 1939)
2022 – Arno, Belgian singer, musician and actor (b. 1949)

Holidays and special occasions

Turkey – April 23 National Sovereignty and Children's Day
World Book Day and Copyright Day
Germany – National Beer Day