Besiktas Jimnastik Kulubu is a Turkish sports club from Istanbul, whose football team is one of the Big Three of Turkish football, along with Galatasaray and Fenerbahce. Founded in the Ottoman era, it is the oldest sports club in Turkey, and began as a gymnastics club and later added football and other sports. Its nickname is the Black Eagles, and it plays in black and white at a stadium on the shore of the Bosphorus. The club has won the Turkish league more than a dozen times and reached the quarter-finals of the Europa League. Its supporters group Carsi is known for its passionate and politically engaged culture.
Before and after
- 22 August 1902Birth of Leni Riefenstahl
- 29 September 1902Death of Émile Zola
- 17 November 1902Birth of Eugene Paul Wigner
- 1903Origins of Major League Baseball
- 1903Founding of Beşiktaş J.K.
- 1903Airplane
- 1903Publication of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
- 1903Rise of Bolsheviks
- 1903Founding of Atlético Madrid
More in Society, economy & sport
- 1823Origins of rugby union
- 26 October 1863The Football Association is founded in London
- 17 May 1865Founding of International Telecommunication Union
- 19 September 1893New Zealand becomes the first country where women vote
- 30 June 1908Tunguska event
- 23 December 1913Founding of Federal Reserve System
The era
This moment belongs to the Industrial era (1760 CE to 1914 CE), steam, factories and revolutions. You can also browse everything in the 20th century.