Today in History: The Law on Wearing Hats was Passed in the Turkish Grand National Assembly

November 25 is the 329th day of the year (330th in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days left until the end of the year is 36.

Railways

• 25 November 1899 The delegation of the Ottoman Ministers, 10 after hours of negotiations, approved the Anatolian-Baghdad Railroad Convention. According to this; 8, the German railway company with German capital, built railway from Konya to Baghdad and Basra during the year. No part of the line could be transferred to another entity without the approval of the Porte.
• 25 November 1936 Afyon-Karakuyu line was opened by Prime Minister İsmet İnönü.

Events

• 1870 – The first issue of the first humor magazine “Diyojen” was published in Istanbul.
• 1922 – Liberation of Edirne.
• 1924 – Kazım Özalp Pasha was elected as the Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.
• 1925 – Hat Revolution: The law on wearing hats was passed in the Turkish Grand National Assembly.
• 1934 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk gave İsmet Pasha the surname “İnönü”.
• 1936 - Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact to protect European culture and World peace from the Bolshevik threat.
• 1940 – Woody the Woodpecker, Knock Knock He appeared in front of the audience for the first time with the cartoon.
• 1943 – Sir Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Chiang Kai-shek meet in Cairo; It was decided to continue the war until the Japanese surrendered.
• 1948 – Upon the request of the parents of the students, optional religion lessons were introduced in primary schools in Turkey.
• 1955 – The Grand Bazaar, which was damaged by a big fire a year ago, reopened
• 1958 – Yunus Emre Oratorio composed by Ahmet Adnan Saygun was performed in New York due to the new working period of the UN. Conductor Leopold Stokowski conducted the orchestra and choir.
• 1967 – Cyrus Vance, the US President Johnson's Special Representative in Cyprus, brought Athens' proposals to Ankara. NATO Secretary General Manlio Brosio also came to Ankara for mediation. The UN Security Council called for war to be avoided.
• 1968 – Dr. in Istanbul. Siyami Ersek and his team put the heart of an officer who died in a traffic accident to a worker; The patient survived for 39 hours.
• 1969 – Beatles band John Lennon rejects the title given by the Queen of England in protest of the British intervention in Biafra and his support for America's Vietnam policy.
• 1973 – In Greece, the military junta led by George Papadopoulos was overthrown in a second military coup.
• 1975 - Suriname gained its independence from the Netherlands.
• 1979 – Mehmet Ali Ağca, accused of the murder of Abdi İpekçi, escaped from Kartal-Maltepe Military Prison and Detention House.
• 1998 – The 55th Government was overthrown by a no-confidence question. The Minister of State, Güneş Taner, ended his ministry. Prime Minister Mesut Yılmaz submitted his resignation to President Süleyman Demirel.
• 1999 – The 9th Penal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Appeals upheld the death sentence given to PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• 2000 – An earthquake with a magnitude of 7 on the Richter scale occurred in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. 26 people died.
• 2001 – Turkey's first and only Jewish museum, the 500th Year Foundation Turkish Jews Museum was opened.
• 2002 – Space shuttle Endeavor docked with the international space station, leaving an American and two Russian astronauts.
• 2009 – Flood caused by heavy rain resulted in 122 deaths in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Births

• 1454 – Caterina Cornaro, queen of the Kingdom of Cyprus from 1474-1489 (d. 1510)
• 1562 – Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and playwright (d. 1635)
• 1609 – Henrietta Maria, Princess of France, Queen of England, Ireland and Scotland after marriage to Charles I on 13 June 1625 (d. 1669)
• 1638 – Catherine of Braganza, Portuguese princess and English king II. Charles' wife (d. 1705)
• 1722 – Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz, Austrian botanist and physician (d. 1799)
• 1738 Thomas Abbt, German writer (d. 1766)
• 1814 Julius Robert von Mayer, German physicist (d. 1878)
• 1835 – Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-American Investor (d. 1919)
• 1844 – Karl Benz, German mechanical engineer and engine designer (d. 1929)
• 1857 – Archibal Garrod, English physician (d. 1936)
• 1876 ​​– Victoria Melita, granddaughter of Queen Victoria and Emperor of Russia II. Great-grandson of Alexander (d. 1936)
• 1881 – XXIII. John, Pope (d. 1963)
• 1889 – Reşat Nuri Güntekin, Turkish writer (d. 1956)
• 1895 – Wilhelm Kempff, German pianist, composer, and music teacher (d. 1991)
• 1895 – Anastas Mikoyan, Bolshevik leader and Armenian Soviet politician (d. 1987)
• 1895 – Ludvík Svoboda, Czech general and politician (d. 1979)
• 1899 – WR Burnett, American novelist and screenwriter (d. 1982)
• 1900 – Rudolf Höß, Nazi Germany soldier and commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp (d. 1947)
• 1901- Arthur Liebehenschel, II. Commander of the death camps at Auschwitz and Majdanek during World War II with the rank of major (d. 1948)
• 1905 – Samiha Ayverdi, Turkish thinker and mystic writer (d. 1993)
• 1913 – Lewis Thomas, Physician, poet, educator, political consultant (d. 1993)
• 1915 – Augusto Pinochet, Chilean dictator general (d. 2006)
• 1917 – Alparslan Türkeş, Turkish politician (d. 1997)
• 1919 – Kemal Sülker, Turkish trade unionist, journalist and investigative writer (d. 1995)
• 1920 – Noel Neill, American television, television and television actor (d. 2016)
• 1923 – Mauno Koivisto, Finnish politician and ninth president of Finland (d. 2017)
• 1923 Art Wall, Jr., American golfer (d. 2001)
• 1926 – Jeffrey Hunter, American actor and producer (d. 1969)
• 1920 – Ricardo Montalbán, Mexican-American actor (d. 2009)
• 1933 - Kathryn Crosby, American singer and actress
• 1934 – Asuman Korad, Turkish theater actor (d. 1994)
• 1936 – Trisha Brown, American choreographer and dancer (d. 2017)
• 1936 – Yıldırım Gencer, Turkish theater, cinema and TV series actor (d. 2005)
• 1938 – Erol Güngör, Turkish professor of social psychology (d. 1983)
• 1940 – Percy Sledge, American R&B musician and singer (d. 2015)
• 1944 – Ben Stein, American comedian, author, lawyer, actor, voice actor, political and economic speaker
• 1951 – Gökben, Turkish singer
• 1951 – Johnny Rep is a Dutch former football player.
• 1952 – Gabriele Oriali, Italian national football player
• 1955 – Mustafa Uğurlu, Turkish theater and film actor
• 1958 – Nusret Özcan, Turkish journalist and writer (d. 2007)
• 1959 – Chrissy Amphlett, Australian singer (d. 2013)
• 1959 – Charles Kennedy, Scottish economist and politician (d. 2015)
• 1960 – Amy Grant, American gospel, country, and pop singer
• 1960 – John F. Kennedy Jr., American lawyer, journalist, and magazine publisher (d. 1999)
• 1964 – Mark Lanegan, American musician, vocalist
• 1965 – Laçin Ceylan, Turkish actress
• 1966 Billy Burke, American film and television actor
• 1968 Jill Hennessy, Canadian actress
• 1968 – Erick Sermon, American rapper and producer
• 1971 – Göksel, Turkish singer, composer and songwriter
• 1976 – Clint Mathis is an American football player and manager.
• 1977 – Memet Ali Alabora, Turkish cinema and theater actor
• 1977 – Serkan Keskin, Turkish actor and musician
• 1978 – Ringo Shiina, Japanese singer, songwriter, and musician
• 1980 – Aaron Mokoena, South African football player
• 1980 – Dilşad Şimşek, Turkish TV and movie actor
• 1981 – Gizem Girişmen, Turkish disabled archer
• 1981 – Xabi Alonso, Spanish football player
• 1981 – Barbara Pierce Bush was one of two twin daughters of George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States.
• 1981 – Jenna Welch Bush was one of two twin daughters of George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States.
• 1984 – Gaspard Ulliel, French actor
• 1986 - Katie Cassidy is an American actress.
• 1986 - Craig Gardner, English football player
• 1988 - Jay Spearing is an English footballer.
• 1989 – Tom Dice, Belgian artist and songwriter
• 1997 – Sevgi Uzun, Turkish basketball player

Deaths

• 734 – Bilge Kagan, Turkish ruler and II. Gokturk State II. Khagani (b. 683 (684?))
• 1120 – William Adelin, Norman-French types, son of King Henry I of England and Matilda of Scots, thus heir apparent to the crown of England (b. 1103)
• 1326 – Prince Koreyasu, seventh shogun of the Kamakura shogunate (b. 1264)
• 1560 – Andrea Doria, Genoese admiral (b. 1466)
• 1686 – Nicolas Steno, Danish scholar and Catholic bishop (b. 1638)
• 1730 – Patrona Halil, Ottoman janissary and pioneer of the Patrona Halil Rebellion (b. 1690)
• 1768 – Franz Georg Hermann, German painter (b. 1692)
• 1865 – Heinrich Barth, German explorer and scientist (b. 1821)
• 1885 – XII. Alfonso, king of Spain from 1874-1885 (b. 1857)
• 1895 – Ludwig Rütimeyer, Swiss physician, anatomist, geologist, and paleontologist (b. 1825)
• 1903 – Sabino de Arana, theorist of Basque nationalism (b. 1865)
• 1915 – Michel Bréal, French philologist (b. 1832)
• 1922 – Sütçü İmam, hero of the Turkish War of Independence (b. 1871)
• 1935 – Iyasu V, uncrowned emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1895)
• 1938 – Otto von Lossow, German army officer (b. 1868)
• 1945 – Lemi Atlı, Turkish composer (b. 1869)
• 1946 – Henry Morgenthau, American politician (b. 1856)
• 1950 – Mao Anying, Chinese soldier (Mao Zedong's son who died during the Korean War) (b. 1922)
• 1950 – Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish author, poet, and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873)
• 1951 – István Friedrich, Hungarian prime minister and football player (b. 1883)
• 1964 – Ahmet Naci Tınaz, Turkish soldier and politician (b. 1882)
• 1967 – Ossip Zadkine, Russian sculptor and painter (b. 1890)
• 1968 – Upton Sinclair, American author and Pulitzer Prize winner (b. 1878)
• 1970 – Yukio Mishima, Japanese novelist and playwright (b. 1925)
• 1971 – Ahmet Ferit Tek, Turkish diplomat and politician (b. 1878)
• 1972 – Henri Coandă, Bucharest-born inventor (b. 1886)
• 1973 – Laurence Harvey, Lithuanian-born English actor (b. 1928)
• 1970 – Yukio Mishima, Japanese writer (b. 1925)
• 1974 – Nick Drake, British singer, songwriter and composer (b. 1948)
• 1974 – U Thant, Burmese educator, diplomat, and UN Secretary-General (b. 1909)
• 1974 – Nick Drake, British singer, songwriter and composer (b. 1948)
• 1981 – Jack Albertson, American actor, comedian, dancer, and singer who also played in vaudeville (b. 1907)
• 1995 – Nesim Malki, Jewish-born Turkish businessman and moneylender (in an armed attack in Bursa) (b. 1952)
• 1997 – Hastings Banda, Malawian politician (b. 1898)
• 1998 – Flip Wilson, American comedian (b. 1933)
• 2002 – Karel Reisz, Czech-British film director (b. 1926)
• 2005 – George Best, Northern Irish football player (b. 1946)
• 2006 – Valentín Elizalde, Mexican singer (b. 1979)
• 2010 – Peter Christopherson, English musician, music video director and designer (b. 1955)
• 2011 – Vasily Alekseyev, Russian-Soviet super heavyweight (110 kg and over) weightlifter (b. 1942)
• 2012 – Dave Sexton, English football player and manager (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Bill Foulkes, English former international football player (b. 1932)
• 2016 – Fidel Castro, Cuban Marxist-Leninist revolutionary and leader of the Cuban Revolution (b. 1926)
• 2016 – Ron Glass, American actor (b. 1945)
• 2017 – Rance Howard, American actor (b. 1928)
• 2017 – Rosendo Huesca Pacheco, Mexican Roman Catholic Bishop (b. 1932)
• 2017 – Julio Oscar Mechoso, American actor (b. 1955)
• 2018 – Giuliana Calandra, Italian theater, film, television actress, journalist and TV presenter (b. 1936)
• 2018 – Wright King, American actor and veteran (b. 1923)
• 2019 – Frank Biondi, American media executive and businessman (b. 1945)
• 2020 – Marc-André Bédard, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1935)
• 2020 – Diego Maradona, Argentine football player (b. 1960)
• 2020 – Ahmad Mukhtar, Pakistani politician, soldier and businessman (b. 1946)
• 2020 – Ahmed Patel, Indian politician (b. 1949)
• 2020 – Flor Silvestre, Mexican actress, singer and equestrian (b. 1930)
• 2020 – Camilla Wicks, American violinist (b. 1928)

Holidays and special occasions

• International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women