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2004 In Turkey
Events in the year 2004 in Turkey. Incumbents *President: Ahmet Necdet Sezer *Prime Minister: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Deaths January February * February 1 - Suha Arın, film director, writer and producer (b. 1942) * February 7 - Birol Pekel, footballer (b. 1938) * February 8 - Cem Karaca, rock musician and Anatolian Rock legend (b. 1945) March * March 18 - Yavuz Selekman, wrestler and film actor (b. 1937) April * April 10 - Sakıp Sabancı, businessman and philanthropist (b. 1933) * April 18 - Gürdal Duyar, sculptor (b. 1935) * April 21 - Rıza Doğan, Oliympic wrestler (b. 1931) * April 24 - Feridun Karakaya, comedy actor (b. 1928) May * May 18 - Çetin Alp, singer (b. 1947) * May 29 - Kâni Karaca, religious singer (b. 1930) June * June 6 - Necdet Mahfi Ayral, stage and cinema actor and director (b. 1908) * June 13 - Doğan Acarbay, Olympic sprinter (b. 1927) * June 15 - Ahmet Piriştina, politician (b. 1952) July * July 14 - İsmail Hakkı Suna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Years In Turkey ...
This is a list of years in Turkey. See also the timeline of Turkish history. For only articles about years in Turkey that have been written, see :Years in Turkey. 21st century 20th century See also * Years in the Ottoman Empire *Timeline of Turkish history *Timeline of Istanbul *Timeline of Ankara *Timeline of Bursa {{DEFAULTSORT:Years in Turkey, List of Turkey history-related lists Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1937
Events January * January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua. * January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into February, leaving 1 million people homeless and 385 people dead. * January 15 – Spanish Civil War: Second Battle of the Corunna Road ends inconclusively. * January 20 – Second inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt: Franklin D. Roosevelt is sworn in for a second term as President of the United States. This is the first time that the United States presidential inauguration occurs on this date; the change is due to the ratification in 1933 of the Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution. * January 23 – Moscow Trials: Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center – In the Soviet Union 17 leading Communists go on trial, accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime, and assas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
May 18
Events Pre-1600 * 332 – Emperor Constantine the Great announces free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople. * 872 – Louis II of Italy is crowned for the second time as Holy Roman Emperor at Rome, at the age of 47. His first coronation was 28 years earlier, in 844, during the reign of his father Lothair I. * 1096 – First Crusade: Around 800 Jews are massacred in Worms, Germany. * 1152 – The future Henry II of England marries Eleanor of Aquitaine. He would become king two years later, after the death of his cousin once removed King Stephen of England. * 1268 – The Principality of Antioch, a crusader state, falls to the Mamluk Sultan Baibars in the Siege of Antioch. *1291 – Fall of Acre, the end of Crusader presence in the Holy Land. * 1302 – Bruges Matins, the nocturnal massacre of the French garrison in Bruges by members of the local Flemish militia. * 1388 – During the Battle of Buyur Lake, General Lan Yu le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1928
Events January * January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly proving the existence of DNA. * January 1 – Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris Bazhanov, Joseph Stalin's personal secretary, crosses the border to Iran to defect from the Soviet Union. * January 17 – The OGPU arrests Leon Trotsky in Moscow; he assumes a status of passive resistance and is exiled with his family. * January 26 – The High island, volcanic island Anak Krakatau appears. February * February – The Ford River Rouge Complex at Dearborn, Michigan, an automobile plant begun in 1917, is completed as the world's largest integrated factory. * February 8 – Scottish inventor John Logie Baird broadcasts a transatlantic television signal from London to Hartsdale, New York. * February 11–February 19, 19 – The 1928 Winter Olympics are held in St. Moritz, Switzerland, the first as a separate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feridun Karakaya
Feridun Karakaya (1928 – April 24, 2004) was a well-known Turkish comedy actor. Biography Karakaya educated in Kabataş Erkek Lisesi. He took part in several stage and film productions between years 1955 and 2002. He is best remembered with his famous character "Cilalı İbo" (Ibo the Polished). He died of heart failure at the age of 76. Due to his competent Molière interpretations, he was awarded with Légion d'Honneur. He was laid to rest at the Zincirlikuyu Cemetery following the religious funeral ceremony held in Teşvikiye Mosque The Teşvikiye Mosque is a neo-baroque structure located in the Teşvikiye neighbourhood of Şişli district in Istanbul, Turkey. History The mosque was originally commissioned in 1794 by Sultan Selim III, but most of the current mosque that s ... on 26 April 2004, at the time when he could not see his latest movie released. Filmography * "Beyaz Mendil" (1955) * "Görünmeyen Adam İstanbul'da" (1955) * "Şehir Yıldızları" (1956 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April 24
Events Pre-1600 * 1479 BC – Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th dynasty). * 1183 BC – Traditional reckoning of the Fall of Troy marking the end of the legendary Trojan War, given by chief librarian of the Library of Alexandria Eratosthenes, among others. * 1547 – Battle of Mühlberg. Duke of Alba, commanding Spanish-Imperial forces of Charles I of Spain, defeats the troops of Schmalkaldic League. * 1558 – Mary, Queen of Scots, marries the Dauphin of France, François, at Notre Dame de Paris. 1601–1900 * 1704 – The first regular newspaper in British Colonial America, ''The Boston News-Letter'', is published. * 1793 – French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat is acquitted by the Revolutionary Tribunal of charges brought by the Girondin in Paris. * 1800 – The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1931
Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia. * January 25 – Mohandas Gandhi is again released from imprisonment in India. * January 27 – Pierre Laval forms a government in France. February * February 4 – Soviet leader Joseph Stalin gives a speech calling for rapid industrialization, arguing that only strong industrialized countries will win wars, while "weak" nations are "beaten". Stalin states: "We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us." The first five-year plan in the Soviet Union is intensified, for the industrialization and collectivization of agriculture. * February 10 – Official ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rıza Doğan
Rıza Doğan (1931 – 21 April 2004) was a Turkish wrestler. He was born in Ankara. He won a silver medal in lightweight at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met .... References External links * 1931 births 2004 deaths Olympic wrestlers for Turkey Wrestlers at the 1956 Summer Olympics Turkish male sport wrestlers Olympic silver medalists for Turkey Olympic medalists in wrestling Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics 20th-century Turkish people 21st-century Turkish people Sportspeople from Ankara {{Turkey-wrestling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April 21
Events Pre-1600 *753 BC – Romulus founds Rome ( traditional date). * 43 BC – Battle of Mutina: Mark Antony is again defeated in battle by Aulus Hirtius, who is killed. Antony fails to capture Mutina and Decimus Brutus is murdered shortly after. * 900 – The Laguna Copperplate Inscription (the earliest known written document found in what is now the Philippines): the Commander-in-Chief of the Kingdom of Tondo, as represented by the Honourable Jayadewa, Lord Minister of Pailah, pardons from all debt the Honourable Namwaran and his relations. * 1092 – The Diocese of Pisa is elevated to the rank of metropolitan archdiocese by Pope Urban II *1506 – The three-day Lisbon Massacre comes to an end with the slaughter of over 1,900 suspected Jews by Portuguese Catholics. * 1509 – Henry VIII ascends the throne of England on the death of his father, Henry VII. * 1526 – The last ruler of the Lodi dynasty, Ibrahim Lodi is defeated and killed by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1935
Events January * January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude Franco-Italian Agreement of 1935, an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims. * January 12 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to successfully complete a solo flight from Hawaii to California, a distance of 2,408 miles. * January 13 – A plebiscite in the Saar (League of Nations), Territory of the Saar Basin shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Germany. * January 24 – The first canned beer is sold in Richmond, Virginia, United States, by Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company. February * February 6 – Parker Brothers begins selling the board game Monopoly (game), Monopoly in the United States. * February 13 – Richard Hauptmann is convicted and sentenced to death for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr. in the United States. * February 15 – The discovery and clinical development of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gürdal Duyar
Gürdal Duyar (20 August 1935 – 18 April 2004) was a Turkish people, Turkish sculptor, known especially for his monuments to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Atatürk and Bust (sculpture), busts of famous people. His art is characterized by a Modern sculpture, modern Expressionism, expressionist style balanced with Abstract art, abstraction. He is considered one of the pioneers of abstract sculpture, modern figurative sculpture in Turkey. Although Duyar was also a painter and was noted for his Drawing, sketching, his best known works are the public sculptures that can be found in the different parks and squares of Istanbul. Duyar was a student of Rudolf Belling and Ali Hadi Bara at the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, State Academy of Fine Arts in Istanbul, before spending some time abroad after graduating. He worked on sculpture, especially on busts, in Belgium, France and Switzerland in the beginning of his career as a freelance artist. Following his return to Turkey, he became known a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April 18
Events Pre-1600 * 796 – King Æthelred I of Northumbria is murdered in Corbridge by a group led by his ealdormen, Ealdred and Wada. The ''patrician'' Osbald is crowned, but abdicates within 27 days. * 1428 – Peace of Ferrara between Republic of Venice, Duchy of Milan, Republic of Florence and House of Gonzaga: ending of the second campaign of the Wars in Lombardy fought until the Treaty of Lodi in 1454, which will then guarantee the conditions for the development of the Italian Renaissance. *1506 – The cornerstone of the current St. Peter's Basilica is laid. * 1518 – Bona Sforza is crowned as queen consort of Poland. * 1521 – Trial of Martin Luther begins its second day during the assembly of the Diet of Worms. He refuses to recant his teachings despite the risk of excommunication. 1601–1900 * 1689 – Bostonians rise up in rebellion against Sir Edmund Andros. * 1738 – '' Real Academia de la Historia'' ("Royal Academy of History" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
