Today in History: Military Academy Court Sentenced Nâzım Hikmet to 28 Years in Prison

March 29 is the 88th day of the year (89st in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days left until the end of the year is 277.

Railways

• Haydarpaşa-İzmir line, which was built by the state on March 29, 1880, was rented to a British food store. Tenants would set up an Ottoman INC and pay 80 percent of their profits to the state.

Events

• 1430 – Ottoman armies conquered Thessaloniki and Ionia.
• 1461 – In the War of the Roses for the British throne, IV of the House of York Edward VI of the Lancaster family. Defeated Henry at the Battle of Towton.
• 1903 – Regular news flow begins between London and New York via Marconi's radio system.
• 1938 – The Military Academy Court sentenced Nâzım Hikmet to 28 years in prison.
• 1950 – Nâzım Hikmet started a hunger strike in Bursa Prison.
• 1957 – Upon the escalation of tension in Cyprus, a curfew was declared on the island.
• 1966 - Leonid Brezhnev was appointed First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Brezhnev condemned the US policy on Vietnam.
• 1968 – The first kidney transplant in Turkey was performed in Istanbul by Doctor Atıf Taykurt and his team.
• 1973 – Vietnam War: The last US troops also leave South Vietnam.
• 1979 – In Uganda, the Idi Amin regime is overthrown by a military coup. Idi Amin fled.
• 1982 - Canada gained its independence with the Canada Act.
• 1989 – The world's first tube quintuplets were born in London.
• 1989 – DYP Siirt Deputy Abdülrezzak Ceylan was killed by an accidental bullet while he was trying to prevent the debate that started with the insulting of Independent Siirt Deputy Zeki Çeliker to Siirt Deputy İdris Arıkan. ANAP Siirt Deputy İdris Arıkan was arrested after the incident. He was released after the court's decision that the incident occurred as a result of an accident.
• 2004 – Bulgaria, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia are admitted to NATO.
• 2005 – It was revealed that Isparta's Sütçüler District Governor, Mustafa Altınpınar, ordered all public institutions and organizations in the district to destroy Orhan Pamuk's books by sorting them from libraries and libraries. Isparta Governor's Office canceled the order.
• 2006 – A total solar eclipse observed over most of the Earth.
• 2009 – Local elections took place in Turkey. AK Party became the first party with 38,39 percent of the votes. The CHP received 23,08 percent and the MHP 15,97 percent.
• 2010 – In the suicide attacks in the Moscow metro, 40 people died.

Births

• 1553 – Vicenzos Kornaros, Cretan writer (d. 1613)
• 1561 – Santorio Santorio, Italian physician (d. 1636)
• 1712 – Atike Sultan, III. Ahmed's daughter (d. 1738)
• 1790 – John Tyler, American politician (d. 1862)
• 1824 – Ludwig Büchner, German philosopher and physicist (d. 1899)
• 1826 – Wilhelm Liebknecht, German journalist and politician (d. 1900)
• 1869 – Kalust Sarkis Gulbenkian, Armenian businessman (d. 1955)
• 1873 Tullio Levi-Civita, Italian mathematician (d. 1941)
• 1883 – Memduh Şevket Esendal, Turkish writer (d. 1952)
• 1899 – Lavrenti Beria, Soviet politician and Chief of the Soviet Secret Police (d. 1953)
• 1902 – Marcel Aymé, French writer (d. 1967)
• 1916 Eugene McCarthy, American politician (d. 2005)
• 1918 – Sam Walton, American businessman (d. 1992)
• 1927 – John Robert Vane, English pharmacologist (d. 2004)
• 1929 – Lennart Meri, Estonian writer, film director, and 2nd President of Estonia (d. 2006)
• 1937 – Gordon Milne, English football player
• 1939 – Terence Hill, Italian actor
• 1940 – Astrud Gilberto, Brazilian singer
• 1943 – John Major, British statesman and Prime Minister of Great Britain
• 1943 - Vangelis, Greek composer
• 1945 – Walt Frazier, American basketball player
• 1949 – Kayahan, Turkish composer and singer (d. 2015)
• 1950 – Mory Kanté, Malian musician
• 1952 – Teófilo Stevenson, Cuban amateur boxer (d. 2012)
• Güher Pekinel, Turkish pianist
• Süher Pekinel, Turkish pianist
• 1954 – Ahmed Doğan, Turkish-Bulgarian politician
• 1955 – Mehmet Gül, Turkish lawyer, politician and businessman (d. 2008)
• 1957 – Christopher Lambert, French actor
• 1963 - Elle Macpherson, Australian model, actress, philanthropist and businesswoman
• 1967 – Michel Hazanavicius, French director, producer and screenwriter
• 1968 – Lucy Lawless, New Zealand actress and singer
• 1972 – Rui Costa, Portuguese football player
• 1973 - Brandi Love, American porn star
• 1973 – Marc Overmars, Dutch football player
• 1976 – Jennifer Capriati, American tennis player
• 1980 – Mert Turak, Turkish actor
• 1981 – Nihal Yalçın, Turkish actress
• 1983 – Ezgi Mola, Turkish actress
• 1985 – Fernando Amorebieta, Venezuelan football player
• 1986 – Sylvan Ebanks-Blake, English footballer of Jamaican descent
• 1986 – Ivan Uhov, Russian high jumper
• 1987 – Dimitri Payet, French national football player
• 1987 – Romain Hamouma, French football player with Algerian passport
• 1988 – Lacey Pauletta, Bonaire football player
• 1988 – Sercan Konal, Turkish football player
• 1988 – Jesús Molina is a Mexican football player.
• 1989 – James Tomkins is an English footballer.
• 1990 - Carlos Pena, Mexican football player
• 1990 – Teemu Pukki, Finnish national football player
• 1991 – Fabio Borini, Italian football player
• 1991 – Irene is a South Korean singer, rapper and actress.
• 1991 – Hayley McFarland, American actress, singer, and dancer
• 1991 – N'Golo Kanté, French football player
• 1993 – Thorgan Ganael Francis Hazard, Belgian football player
• 1994 – Choi Jin-ri, South Korean actress, model, and singer (d. 2019)

Deaths

• 87 BC – Emperor Wu Ti, 7th Emperor of the Han Dynasty Chinese Empire (b. 156 BC)
• 57 – Guangwu, Emperor of China of the Han Dynasty and founder of the Eastern Han Dynasty (b. 5 BC)
• 1368 – Go-Murakami, 97th Emperor of Japan (b. 1328)
• 1721 – Charles Vane, English pirate (b. ?)
• 1772 – Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish scientist (b. 1688)
• 1792 – III. Gustav, King of Sweden (b. 1746)
• 1818 – Alexandre Pétion, 1st President of Haiti (b. 1770)
• 1891 – Georges Seurat, French painter (b. 1859)
• 1912 – Robert Falcon Scott, English explorer (b. 1868)
• 1939 – Hafiz İbrahim Demiralay, Turkish politician and cleric (b. 1883)
• 1956 – Fuat Uzkınay, Turkish director, producer and one of the first Turkish filmmakers (b. 1888)
• 1965 – Wilhelm Worringer, German art historian (b. 1881)
• 1966 – Abdullah Ziya Kozanoğlu, Turkish architect, novelist, comic writer and 11th President of Beşiktaş Gymnastics Club (b. 1906)
• 1970 – Ayşe Şekibe İnsel, Turkish politician (b. 1886)
• 1970 – Lev Kuleshov, Soviet film theorist and director (b. 1899)
• 1972 – Joseph Arthur Rank, English industrialist and filmmaker (b. 1888)
• 1980 – Mantovani, Italian-born English composer (b. 1905)
• 1982 – Carl Orff, German composer (Carmina Burana'creator) (b. 1895)
• 1984 – İlhami Bekir Tez, Turkish poet
• 1984 – Ömer Sami Coşar, Turkish journalist and writer
• 1989 – Mehmet Abdurrezak Ceylan, Turkish politician (b. 1951)
• 1987 – Akaki Shanidze, Georgian linguist and philologist (b. 1887)
• 1991 – Guy Bourdin, French inspirational stories (b. 1928)
• 1992 – Paul Henreid, Austrian actor (b. 1908)
• 1993 – Alfred Preis, Austrian architect (b. 1911)
• 1995 – Jimmy McShane, Northern Irish singer (b. 1957)
• 1999 – Gyula Zsengellér, Hungarian football player (b. 1915)
• 1999 – Joe Williams, American singer (b. 1918)
• 2000 – Mustafa Eremektar, Turkish cartoonist (b. 1930)
• 2002 – Erman Şener, Turkish film critic, journalist, screenwriter and book writer (b. 1942)
• 2009 – Vladimir Fedotov, Russian-born Soviet national football player and coach (b. 1943)
• 2009 – Andy Hallett, American actor and singer (b. 1975)
• 2009 – Maurice Jarre, French composer (b. 1924)
• 2012 – Luke Askew, American actor (b. 1932)
• 2012 – Hurşit Kemal Cantürk, Turkish politician (b. 1926)
• 2015 – Ayla Arslancan, Turkish film actress (b. 1936)
• 2016 – Patty Duke, American actress and writer (b. 1946)
• 2017 – Aleksey Abrikosov, Russian theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics (b. 1928)
• 2018 – Anita Shreve, American writer (b. 1946)
• 2018 – Sven-Olov Sjodelius, Swedish canoe racer (b. 1933)
• 2019 – Dobrica Erić, Serbian writer and poet (b. 1936)
• 2019 – Tao Ho, Hong Kong architect (b. 1936)
• 2019 – Shane Rimmer, Canadian actor, voice actor, and screenwriter (b. 1929)
• 2019 – Agnès Varda, French photographer and filmmaker (b. 1928)
• 2019 – Ed Westcott, American photographer (b. 1922)
• 2020 – Opoku Afriyie, Ghanaian international football player and manager (b. 1945)
• 2020 – Philip Anderson, Nobel Prize-winning American physicist (b. 1923)
• 2020 – Beryl Bernay, American journalist, animated filmmaker, painter, photographer, actress, and fashion designer (b. 1926)
• 2020 – José Luis Capón, Spanish former football player (b. 1948)
• 2020 – Jean-François Cesarini, French politician (b. 1970)
• 2020 – Patrick Devedjian, French politician (b. 1944)
• 2020 – Joe Diffie, American country music singer, songwriter, and guitarist (b. 1958)
• 2020 – Robert H. Garff, American businessman and politician (b. 1942)
• 2020 – Maria Mercader, American journalist and news producer (b. 1965)
• 2020 – Alan Merrill, American vocalist, guitarist, songwriter, actor, and model (b. 1951)
• 2020 – Tomas Oneborg, Swedish photographer (b. 1958)
• 2020 – Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer (b. 1933)
• 2020 – Francis Rapp, French historian and academic (b. 1926)
• 2020 – Isaac Robinson, American lawyer and politician (b. 1975)
• 2020 – Angelo Rottoli, Italian professional boxer (b. 1958)
• 2020 – Ken Shimura, Japanese comedian, actor, and voice actor (b. 1950)
• 2020 – Henri Tincq, French journalist (b. 1945)
• 2021 – Bashkim Fino, Albanian politician (b. 1962)