Basketball players Mehmet Okur

Mehmet Okur

Living place: Turkey

Birthday: 26-5-1979 (45 years old)

Population of the world 1979: 4.378 billions

Global rank: #52875

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Basketball players Mehmet Okur profile

Who is Basketball players Mehmet Okur?
Turkish-born NBA player who helped the Detroit Pistons win an NBA championship in 2004; named his first and only NBA All-Star game in 2007 as a member of the Utah Jazz.
He is married to a former Miss Turkey contestant, Yeliz Caliskan.
 
 

Young / Before famous

As a child, he was the idol of the NBA looking forward to Toni Kukoc.

Family life info

His first daughter was born in March, 2007.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Basketball players Mehmet Okur?
He faced Lakers dominant center Shaquille O'Neal in the 2004 Finals.

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Summary of Mehmet Okur profile

When was Basketball players Mehmet Okur born?
Mehmet Okur birthday 26-5-1979 (at the age of 45).
Where is Basketball players Mehmet Okur's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Mehmet Okur was born in Turkey. is a Basketball players, whose Zodiac is Gemini, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Goat. Mehmet Okur's global rank is 52875 and whose rank is 816 in list of famous Basketball players. Population of the world in 1979 is about 4.378 billions persons.
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Events in 1979 and 26-5

Events in the world in the birth year of Mehmet Okur

  • Vietnam and Vietnam-backed Cambodian insurgents announce fall of Cambodian capital Phnom Penh and collapse of Pol Pot regime (Jan. 7).
  • Shah leaves Iran after year of turmoil (Jan. 16); revolutionary forces under Muslim leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, take over (Feb. 1 et seq.).
  • Conservatives win British election; Margaret Thatcher becomes new prime minister (May 3).
  • Carter and Brezhnev sign SALT II agreement (June 14).
  • Nicaraguan President General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami (July 17); Sandinistas form government (July 19).
  • Iranian militants seize US embassy in Teheran and hold hostages (Nov. 4).
  • Soviet invasion of Afghanistan stirs world protests (Dec. 27).

Birthday Mehmet Okur (26-5) in history

  • Day 26-5 year 1521: The decree of Worms banned the writings of the German theologian Martin Luther.
  • Day 26-5 year 1868: President Andrew Johnson avoided conviction for impeachment charges of "high crimes and misdemeanors" by one vote.
  • Day 26-5 year 1940: Allied troops began the massive naval evacuation of troops from Dunkirk, France, during World War II.
  • Day 26-5 year 1959: Pittsburgh Pirates’ Harvey Haddix pitched 12 perfect innings against the Milwaukee Braves before losing, 1–0, in the 13th.
  • Day 26-5 year 1977: George Willig, "the human fly," scaled the World Trade Center in New York City by attaching himself to the window washer mechanism and walking straight up until falling into police custody when he reached the top. It took Willig three and a half hours to make the climb, and $1.10 in fines—a penny per floor.
  • Day 26-5 year 1978: The first legal casino to be operated in the United States outside of Nevada was opened in Atlantic City.
  • Day 26-5 year 2003: Rwandans voted to approve a new constitution that instituted a balance of power between Hutu and Tutsi.
  • Day 26-5 year 2011: Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb general responsible for the massacre of over 8,000 Muslims at Srebrenica in 1995, is found and arrested in Lazarevo, a farming town north of Belgrade, Serbia.
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