Today in History: Military coup attempt in Turkey
The following are some of the major events to have occurred on July 15:
1904 – Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, author of “The Cherry Orchard”, died.
1923 – Bobby Jones wins U.S. Open.
1927 – Nearly 90 killed in Vienna riots after strike.
1974 - Coup d’état by Greek nationalist forces in Cyprus aims to overthrow President Makarios
1997 – Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer, was shot and killed outside his Miami Beach mansion.
2002 – John Walker Lindh, a Californian Muslim convert captured among al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners in Afghanistan, pleads guilty to aiding Taliban.
2004 – Former Rwandan finance minister Emmanuel Ndindabahizi was convicted and jailed for life for his role in the country’s 1994 genocide.
2005 – American Herbert Brown, a 105-year-old survivor of the Nazi Dachau concentration camp, and Magda, his 100-year-old wife, earned The Guinness Book of World Records title of the world’s oldest married couple.
2006 – Social media site Twitter launches.
2011 – Italian free diving couple set record for longest underwater kiss, lasting 3 minutes and 8 seconds.
2016 – Military coup attempt in Turkey.
2017 – Great Britain’s Samantha Kinghorn sets 200m T53 world record at ParaAthletics Championships.
(Reuters)
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