Today in History: Abidin Cevher Özden (Banker Kastelli) Tried for Fraud Acquitted

January 17 is the 17nd day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days left until the end of the year is 348.

Railways

• 17 January 1933 The Ministry of National Defense has informed the Prime Ministry that the railroad can be constructed at Kırıkkale Military Factory and 7 1933 300 in February XNUMX. ray ordered.

Events 

• 1299 – Osman Gazi, a member of the Kayı clan of the Oghuzes, of the Ottoman Empire; It was founded in the vicinity of Söğüt and Domaniç, by declaring independence in the region that the Anatolian Seljuk State had assigned as a vassal and a marshal.
• 1605 - Cervantes' novel Don Quixote is published for the first time. The second part of the novel will be published exactly 2 years later.
• 1685 – The first cafe in Vienna was opened by Johannes Diodato.
• 1819 – Simón Bolívar proclaims the Republic of Colombia.
• 1851 – Company-i Hayriye was founded.
• 1852 - With the Sand River Treaty, the United Kingdom recognized the independence of the Boer colonies in the Transvaal (South Africa).
• 1875 – Tunnel between Karaköy and Beyoğlu was put into operation. The tunnel is the second oldest underground public transport system in the world, built after the underground public transport systems that came into service in London in 1863.
• 1904 – The play "The Cherry Orchard" by Anton Chekhov was staged for the first time at the Moscow Art Theatre.
• 1909 – Fenerbahce and Galatasaray met for the first time; FB:0, GS:2
• 1917 - The United States pays Denmark $25 million in exchange for the Virgin Islands.
• 1923 – The first press conference held by Mustafa Kemal Pasha in Izmit ended before the morning.
• 1929 - Popeye cartoon created by Elzie Crisler Segar was first published in a newspaper.
• 1934 – Revu star Josephine Baker came to Istanbul.
• 1942 – Bread was rationed in Ankara.
• 1944 – Battle of Monte Cassino: World War II One of the longest and bloodiest battles of World War II began.
• 1945 – USSR and Polish troops enter Warsaw.
• 1946 - The UN Security Council held its first meeting.
• 1955 – The US "USS Nautilus (SSN-571)," the first nuclear-powered submarine, was launched.
• 1960 – Yahya Kemal Museum was opened. The museum is located in the Baş Kurşunlu Madrasa of the Fatih Complex.
• 1961 - Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Congo, was killed.
• 1964 – Rauf Denktaş, representing the Turkish Cypriot community, spoke at the London Conference. Rauf Denktaş announced that they would form a separate government if the federal government did not go.
• 1966 – An American B-52 bomber collided with a fuel tanker aircraft over Spain while refueling and dropped four hydrogen bombs near the village of Palomares. After the event, which is remembered as the "Palomares Incident", radiation pollution occurred in the environment.
• 1971 – Dynamite was thrown in front of the house of Middle East Technical University Rector Erdal İnönü.
• 1973 - Ferdinand Marcos becomes President of the Philippines "for life".
• 1974 – Officially the last Anatolian leopard was killed.¹
• 1980 – Left-wing militants Ramazan Yukarıgöz, Ömer Yazgan, Erdoğan Yazgan and Mehmet Kambur killed a jeweler and a police officer in a jewelry store robbery to find money for the communist organization they belonged to, opened fire on the security forces and the public, and scanned the police car.
• 1981 – President General Kenan Evren addressed the people in Gaziantep: “You know: False revolutionaries, 'The only way is revolution!' they were put forward; they wrote on the walls, here and there. Yes, there is a revolution, but this is the only way Atatürk's revolution! It is his way. The principles laid down by Atatürk are closed to both communism and fascism.”
• 1984 – Abidin Cevher Özden (Banker Kastelli), who was on trial for fraud, was acquitted.
• 1984 – The Local Election Law was accepted in the Turkish Grand National Assembly.
• 1987 – Bülent Ecevit was sentenced to 11 months and 20 days in prison for violating the Political Parties Law. After the September 12 coup, 80 lawsuits were filed against Bülent Ecevit and 55 lawsuits were filed against Süleyman Demirel.
• 1990 – The Southeastern Anatolia Research Report prepared by the Social Democratic Populist Party (SHP) deputies was announced.
• 1990 – Writer Aziz Nesin filed a compensation lawsuit against President Kenan Evren on the grounds that he called himself a “traitor”.
• 1991 – The Second Gulf War began with Allied aircraft hitting targets in Iraq and Kuwait. Iraq sent 2 Scud missiles to Israel in retaliation.
• 1992 – Irish Republican Army (IRA) bombed a Protestant building in Northern Ireland, 7 workers killed.
• 1994 – A magnitude 6,7 earthquake hits Southern California: 61 dead, estimated $20 billion in damage.
• 1994 – Arien missile to carry Türksat 21A, the first Turkish satellite planned to be launched on 1 January, malfunctioned. The launch was delayed for 10 days.
• 1995 – The European Parliament awarded the Sakharov Prize to the imprisoned former DEP MP Leyla Zana.
• 1995 – A magnitude 7,2 earthquake struck the Osaka-Kobe region of Japan: More than 6 people died.
• 2000 – In the conflict that broke out as a result of an operation against a villa in Istanbul, the leader of Hezbollah, Hüseyin Velioğlu, was captured dead. In the expanded operation, burial houses were uncovered and many Hezbollah members were captured.
• 2003 – Today newspaper started its publication life.
• 2005 – In Istanbul, 97 families of martyred soldiers and disabled veterans were awarded the Presidential Medal of Honor and a Certificate.
• 2006 – Minister of Justice Cemil Çiçek sent his application to the Court of Cassation requesting that Mehmet Ali Ağca's release decision be overturned through a written order.
• 2007 – The symbolic Doomsday Clock at the University of Chicago is set to 11:55 after North Korea's nuclear test. (12 means Doomsday) The clock was changed 18 times during the cold war.
• 2012 – Founding President of TRNC, Rauf Denktaş, was bid farewell to his last journey. After the funeral prayer performed at the Selimiye Mosque in Cyprus, his body was loaded into a cannon cart, passing under the rainbow and buried in the mausoleum in Cumhuriyet Park.

Births 

• 1501 – Leonhart Fuchs, German physician and botanist (d. 1566)
• 1504 – Pius V was the pope between 1566 and 1572 (d. 1572)
• 1600 – Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish poet, dramatist, soldier, clergyman (d.
• 1612 – Thomas Fairfax, commander of the parliamentary army in the English Civil War and a comrade to Oliver Cromwell (d. 1671)
• 1647 – Elisabeth Hevelius, one of the first female astronomers (d. 1693)
• 1706 – Benjamin Franklin, American scientist and politician (d. 1790)
• 1732 – II. Stanisław August Poniatowski, last king of Poland (d. 1798)
• 1771 – Charles Brockden Brown, American novelist and journalist (d. 1810)
• 1783 – Pedro Gual Escandón, Venezuelan lawyer, politician, and diplomat (d. 1862)
• 1784 – Philippe Antoine d'Ornano, French soldier and politician (d. 1863)
• 1789 – Emmanuele Antonio Cicogna, Italian bibliographer, priest, jurist (d. 1868)
• 1800 – Caleb Cushing, US statesman and diplomat (d. 1879)
• 1820 Anne Brontë, English novelist (d. 1849)
• 1834 – August Weismann, German biologist (d. 1914)
• 1837 – Vasily Radlof, Russian orientalist (d. 1918)
• 1857 – Wilhelm Kienzl, Austrian composer (d. 1941)
• 1858 – Tomás Carrasquilla, Colombian writer (d. 1940)
• 1860 – Douglas Hyde, Irish politician and poet (d. 1949)
• 1863 – David Lloyd George, English politician (d. 1945)
• 1863 – Konstantin Stanislavski, Russian theater actor, director, and founder of the Moscow Art Theater (d. 1938)
• 1867 – Carl Laemmle, German-American filmmaker (d. 1939)
• 1871 – David Beatty, British Royal Navy admiral (d. 1936)
• 1880 – Mack Sennett, Canadian filmmaker and director (d. 1960)
• 1884 – Sergei Gorodetsky, Russian poet (d. 1967)
• 1885 – Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, Heer general during Nazi Germany (d. 1968)
• 1886 – Glenn L. Martin, American aviation pioneer (d. 1955)
• 1889 – Ralph H. Fowler, English physicist and astronomer (d. 1944)
• 1893 – Ernst Arnold Egli, Swiss architect and urban planner (d. 1974)
• 1899 – Al Capone, Italian-American mafia leader and World's most famous gangster (d. 1947)
• 1901 – Aron Gurwitsch, Lithuanian-American philosopher (d. 1973)
• 1905 Guillermo Stábile, Argentine football player (d. 1966)
• 1911 – George Stigler, American economist and Nobel Prize laureate in Economics (b. 1991)
• 1921 – Cavit Orhan Tütengil, Turkish sociologist and academic (d. 1979)
• 1922 – Betty White, American actress, comedian, singer, and author (d. 2021)
• 1925 – Selçuk Yaşar, Turkish businessman
• 1927 – Eartha Kitt, American black stage and film actress (d. 2008)
• 1929 – Dick Alban, American football player (d. 2006)
• 1931 – James Earl Jones, American actor (famous for his performance in Shakespeare's Othello)
• 1933 – Dalida, Italian singer (d. 1987)
• 1937 - Alain Badiou, French philosopher
• 1939 – Christodoulos, clergyman who graduated from Law and Theology and was archbishop of the Church of Greece (d. 2008)
• 1939 – Maury Povich, American voice actor and actor
• 1940 – Umur Bugay, Turkish screenwriter, actor, director and writer (d. 2019)
• 1940 – Tabaré Vázquez, Uruguayan politician (d. 2020)
• 1942 – Muhammad Ali, American boxer (d. 2016)
• 1943 – René Préval, Haitian agronomist and politician (d. 2017)
• 1944 – Françoise Madeleine Hardy is a French singer.
• 1944 – Ann Oakley, English sociologist and author
• 1948 – Davíð Oddsson, Icelandic politician
• 1949 – Anita Borg, American computer scientist (d. 2003)
• 1949 – Andy Kaufman, American comedian and actor (d. 1984)
• 1949 – Mick Taylor, English singer, songwriter, and guitarist (John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers and The Rolling Stones)
• 1954 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr., American environmental lawyer, author, son of Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of John F. Kennedy
• 1955 - Pietro Parolin, an Italian cardinal
• 1956 – Faruk Celik, Turkish politician
• 1956 – Damian Green, British politician
• 1956 - Paul Young, an American musician
• 1957 – Steve Harvey, American radio and television host
• 1959 – Müfit Kayacan, Turkish actor and theater director
• 1962 – Jim Carrey, American actor
• 1963 – Kai Hansen is a German Metal music guitarist and vocalist.
• 1964 – Russell Doig, Scottish football player
• 1964 – Michelle Obama, American lawyer and wife of 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama
• 1968 – Svetlana Masterkova, Russian athlete
• 1969 - Naveen Andrews, English actor
• 1969 – Tarık Mengüç, Turkish singer and songwriter
• 1969 – Lukas Moodysson is a Swedish screenwriter and director.
• 1969 – Tiësto, Dutch DJ and producer
• 1970 – Genndy Tartakovsky is an American animator, screenwriter and producer of animated series.
• 1971 - Kid Rock is an American rapper and songwriter.
• 1971 – Sylvie Testud, French actress
• 1972 – Levan Varshalomidze, Georgian politician
• 1972 – Yelda Reynaud, Turkish theater and film actress
• 1973 – Cuauhtémoc Blanco, Mexican football player
• 1974 – Yang Chen, Chinese national football player and manager
• 1975 – Freddy Rodríguez is an American film and television actor.
• 1978 – Ricky Wilson, British singer-songwriter
• 1980 – Zooey Deschanel, American singer, songwriter, and actress
• 1982 – Dwyane Wade, American basketball player
• 1983 – Álvaro Arbeloa, Spanish former football player
• 1984 – Calvin Harris, Scottish songwriter, DJ and producer
• 1984 – Filip Hološko, Slovak football player
• 1985 – Simone Simons is a Dutch musician and songwriter.
• 1988 – Andrea Antonelli, Italian motorcycle racer (d. 2013)
• 1988 - Héctor Moreno, Mexican football player
• 1992 – Julien Crampon, French actor
• 1994 – Reina Ueda, Japanese singer and voice actor
• 1997 – Jake Paul, American YouTuber, boxer, internet celebrity

Deaths 

• 395 – Theodosius I, Roman Emperor (b. 347)
• 1041 – Masud I, sultan of Ghazni State (b. ?)
• 1345 – Martino Zaccaria, 1314 – 1329 Duke of Chios
• 1468 – Skanderbeg, Albanian national hero (b. ?)
• 1567 – Sampiero Corso, Corsican nobleman, freedom fighter, and folk hero (b. 1497)
• 1598 – Fyodor I, Tsar of Russia (b. 1557)
• 1686 – Carlo Dolci, Italian painter (b. 1616)
• 1705 – John Ray, English naturalist and botanist (b. 1627)
• 1751 – Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (b. 1671)
• 1784 – Yosa Buson, Japanese poet and painter (b. 1716)
• 1834 – Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist (b. 1762)
• 1863 – Horace Vernet, French painter and graphic artist (b. 1769)
• 1880 – Antoine Agénor de Gramont, French diplomat and statesman (b. 1819)
• 1884 – Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist and herpetologist (b. 1804)
• 1886 – Abdullatif Suphi Pasha, Ottoman statesman, writer (b. 1818)
• 1890 – Władysław Taczanowski, Polish scientist (b. 1819)
• 1893 – Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (b. 1822)
• 1898 – Charles B. Stoughton, American officer and regimental commander (b. 1841)
• 1911 – Francis Galton, English scientist (b. 1822)
• 1932 – Ahmet Derviş, Turkish soldier and commander of the Turkish War of Independence (b. 1881)
• 1933 – Louis Comfort Tiffany, American artist and designer (b. 1848)
• 1934 – Karl Fritsch, Austrian botanist (b. 1864)
• 1942 – Walter von Reichenau, German officer and marshal of Nazi Germany (b. 1884)
• 1944 – Sait Köknar, Turkish theater artist (b. 1901)
• 1946 – Benjamin I, 266th Ecumenical Patriarch of Istanbul Orthodox Patriarchate (b. 1871)
• 1954 – İsmail Habib Sevük, Turkish educator and literary historian (b. 1892)
• 1954 – Leonard Eugene Dickson, American mathematician (b. 1874)
• 1957 – Ratip Aşir Acudoğlu, Turkish sculptor (who built the Kubilay Monument in Menemen) (b. 1898)
• 1958 – Mustafa Şekip Tunç, Turkish academic and founder of modern psychology in Turkey (b. 1886)
• 1961 – Patrice Lumumba, first Prime Minister of Congo DC (b. 1925)
• 1985 – Muzaffer Hacıhasanoğlu, Turkish writer (b. 1924)
• 1987 – Hadi Hüsman, Turkish politician and former Customs and Monopoly Minister (b. 1904)
• 1991 – Olav V, king of Norway from 1957 until his death (b. 1903)
• 1996 – Driver Idris, Turkish labor leader and trade unionist from TKP (b. 1914)
• 1996 – Bozidarka Kika Damjanović-Marković, II. political activist, Yugoslav Partisans commander, insurgent, national hero operating in Yugoslavia during World War II (b. 1920)
• 1997 – Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer (discoverer of Pluto) (b. 1906)
• 1998 – Gökhan Semiz, Turkish musician, songwriter, composer, theater artist and Grup Vitamin soloist (b. 1969)
• 1999 – Ergun Balcı, Turkish journalist
• 2000 – Eugène Ehrhart, French mathematician (d. 1906)
• 2000 – Hüseyin Velioğlu, political leader of the Turkish Hezbollah organization and Science group (b. 1952)
• 2002 – Peter Adamson, English actor (b. 1930)
• 2002 – Camilo José Cela, Spanish writer (b. 1916)
• 2003 – Richard Crenna, American actor (b. 1926)
• 2005 – Virginia Mayo, American actress (b. 1920)
• 2005 – Yıldırım Gencer, Turkish theater, cinema and TV series actor (b. 1936)
• 2005 – Zao Ziyang, former General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CCP) (b. 1919)
• 2007 – Art Buchwald, American political humorist and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist (b. 1925)
• 2008 – Bobby Fischer, American chess grandmaster (b. 1943)
• 2010 – Erich Segal, American author, screenwriter, and educator (b. 1937)
• 2012 – Johnny Otis, American blues musician and singer (b. 1921)
• 2013 – Mehmet Ali Birand, Turkish journalist and writer (b. 1941)
• 2014 – Beliğ Beler, Turkish politician (b. 1925)
• 2014 – Suchitra Sen, Indian actress (b. 1931)
• 2015 – Fatin Hamama, Egyptian actress and director (b. 1931)
• 2015 – Origa, Russian singer (b. 1970)
• 2015 – Greg Plitt, American actor, model, and bodybuilder (b. 1977)
• 2016 – Reza Ehadi, Iranian national football player and manager (b. 1962)
• 2016 – Blowfly, American musician, singer-composer, rapper, comedian, and producer (b. 1939)
• 2016 – Gottfried Honegger, Swiss printmaker (b. 1917)
• 2016 – Carina Jaarnek, Swedish singer (b. 1962)
• 2016 – Sherron Mills, Former American basketball player (b. 1971)
• 2017 – Philip Bond, British actor (b. 1934)
• 2017 – Alenka Goljevšček, Slovenian playwright (b. 1933)
• 2017 – Daniel Vischer, Swiss politician (b. 1950)
• 2018 – Jessica Falkholt, Australian teenage actress (b. 1988)
• 2018 – Jerzy Gros, Polish long-distance runner (b. 1945)
• 2018 – Simon Shelton, English actor and dancer (b. 1966)
• 2019 – Vicente Alberto Álvarez Areces, Spanish politician (b. 1943)
• 2019 – Babikir Ivadullah, Sudanese Arab politician and former prime minister (b. 1917)
• 2019 – Windsor Davies, English actor (b. 1930)
• 2019 – Daniel C. Striepeke, American makeup artist and costume designer (b. 1930)
• 2019 – Reggie Young, American country-rock musician (b. 1936)
• 2020 – Pietro Anastasi, Former Italian international football player (b. 1948)
• 2020 – Rahşan Ecevit, wife of Former Prime Minister Bülent Ecevit, founder and first president of Democratic Left Party and Democratic Left People's Party (b. 1923)
• 2020 – Derek Fowlds, English actor and presenter (b. 1937)
• 2020 – Terence Hallinan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1936)
• 2020 – Khagendra Thapa Magar, Nepali record holder known for his short stature (b. 1992)
• 2020 – Morimichi Takagi, Japanese professional baseball player and coach (b. 1941)
• 2021 – Nikolai Antoskin, Soviet-Russian high-ranking soldier and politician (b. 1942)
• 2021 – Jacques Bral, French filmmaker, director, painter and screenwriter (b. 1948)
• 2021 – Joevana Charles, female Seychelles politician (b. 1955)
• 2021 – Barbara Gronemus, American politician and farmer (b. 1931)
• 2021 – Sammy Nestico, American composer and arranger (b. 1924)