Sabiha Gökçen
1913 – 2001 · aged 88
First Turkish female combat pilot (1913–2001)
- Born
- 22 Mar 1913 · Bursa
- Died
- 22 Mar 2001 · Ankara
Life timeline
Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.
- 22 Mar 1913BornBorn in Bursa
- 22 Mar 2001DiedDied in Ankara
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1913 – 2001).
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
- 19501950 FIFA World Cup
- 1950 – 1953Korean War
- 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
- 19541954 FIFA World Cup
- 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
- 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
- 1956Suez Crisis
- 19581958 FIFA World Cup
- 1959Antarctic Treaty System
- 19621962 FIFA World Cup
- 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
- 19661966 FIFA World Cup
- 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
- 1968Prague Spring
- 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
- 19721972 Summer Olympics
- 19741974 FIFA World Cup
Biography
Sabiha Gökçen (Turkish: [sabiˈha ɟøcˈtʃɛn], born Ćorović; 22 March 1913 – 22 March 2001) was a Turkish aviator. During her flight career, she flew around 8,000 hours and participated in 32 different military operations. She became the world's first female fighter pilot, at age 23. As an orphan, she was one of the nine children adopted by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
Gökçen became the world's first woman combat pilot after taking part in military operations during the Dersim massacre, in which she carpet-bombed civilians and massacred survivors with machine guns.
She is recognized as the first female combat pilot by The Guinness Book of World Records and was selected as the only female pilot for the poster of "The 20 Greatest Aviators in History" published by the United States Air Force in 1996. Sabiha Gökçen International Airport, the second airport in Istanbul, is named after her. She was also the subject of an ancestry controversy in Turkey, which led to Hrant Dink's assassination.
Text from the Wikipedia article Sabiha Gökçen, CC BY-SA 4.0
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