Oct. 29, 1923 Turkey becomes a Republic, plus a connection to the Cuban Missile Crisis!
On October 29 in 1923, Turkey officially became a republic, after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. From Wikipedia:
Following WWI, the huge conglomeration of territories and peoples that formerly comprised the Ottoman Empire was divided into several new states.[20] The Turkish War of Independence (1919–1922), initiated by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and his colleagues in Anatolia, resulted in the establishment of the modern Republic of Turkey in 1923……
