Today in History: Gazi Race Horse Race, which was also watched by Mustafa Kemal Pasha, was held for the first time

10 JuneIt is the 161st (162nd in leap years) day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 204 days remaining until the end of the year.

Railways

10 June 1929 Samsun Coast Railways Law No. 1524 on the mubay of stock.

Events 

• 1190 – Friedrich Barbarossa drowned in the Saleph River (now Göksu River) during the Third Crusade.
• 1692 - Convicted Bridget Bishop is hanged at the Salem Witch Trials in the American colonies of England.
• 1909 - The first "SOS" radio signal was given from the British ship Slavonia.
• 1916 - Ottoman-ruled Mecca fell into Arab hands during the Arab revolt.
• 1927 – Gazi Race Horse Race was held for the first time. Mustafa Kemal Pasha also watched the race at the Ankara Hippodrome.
• 1931 - Conductor Arturo Toscanini, who refused to cooperate with the Fascists, left Italy with his wife.
• 1934 – Iranian Shah Reza Shah Pahlavi came to the Turkish border in Gürbulak to visit Turkey and was greeted with a ceremony.
• 1935 – It was decided to change the name of the Civil Service School to the School of Political Sciences.
• 1940 – II. World War II: Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom.
• 1940 – II. World War II: German Troops under General Erwin Rommel reach the English Channel.
• 1940 – II. World War II: Canada declares war on Italy.
• 1940 – II. World War II: Norway surrenders to German forces.
• 1942 – The Nazis raze the town of Lidice in Czechoslovakia, killing 1300 people in retaliation for the murder of Reinhard Heydrich.
• 1946 - The Kingdom of Italy ends and the Italian Republic is proclaimed.
• 1946 – Turkish Journalists Association was founded.
• 1947 - Saab produces its first automobile.
• 1949 – The State Theater and Opera was established under the Ministry of National Education of the Republic of Turkey with the law passed in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. Muhsin Ertuğrul became the first General Manager.
• 1955 – The 2,5-room, 300-bed Istanbul Hilton Hotel was opened, the construction of which was completed in 500 years.
• 1960 – Turan Emeksiz, Nedim Özpolat, Ersan Özey, Ali İhsan Kalmaz and Sökmen Gültekin were buried on the slope of Anıtkabir in Ankara.
• 1960 – Celal Bayar and Adnan Menderes were taken to Yassıada to stand trial.
• 1967 – The Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria sign a ceasefire. Israel; It occupied the Gaza Strip, the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and the Sinai Peninsula.
• 1987 – Eskişehir F-16 aircraft engine factory was opened by President Kenan Evren.
• 1990 – PKK militants attacked the Çevrimli village of Şırnak, killing 26 civilians.
• 1993 – World Cinema Day was celebrated for the first time in Turkey.
• 2000 – Syrian President Hafez Assad dies. He was succeeded by his son Bashar Assad on 17 July.
• 2001 – At the 11th World Senior Boxing Championship held in Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland, Ramazan Paliani won the gold medal as the World Champion in 57 kg.
• 2002 – Same-sex (equivalent) marriage is legalized in Ontario (Canada).
• 2005 – Orhan Boran's 60th year of art and the jubilee night, which ended his professional life, was held at the Harbiye Open Air Theatre.
• 2006 – Sale of real estate to foreigners in Hatay was stopped. The General Directorate of Land Registry and Cadastre has banned sales until the second order, since more than 5 per thousand of the surface area of ​​the province has been sold to foreigners.

Births 

• 940 – Ebu'l-Vefâ al-Buzcani, Iranian mathematician and astronomer (d. 998)
• 1803 – Henry Darcy, French scientist (d. 1858)
• 1804 – Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist and herpetologist (d. 1884)
• 1819 – Gustave Courbet, French painter (d. 1877)
• 1866 Arthur Castrén, Finnish politician (d. 1946)
• 1889 Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actress (d. 1973)
• 1895 – Cemal Gürsel, Turkish soldier and 4th President of Turkey (d. 1966)
• 1895 – Hattie McDaniel, first black American actress to win an Academy Award (d. 1952)
• 1914 – Oktay Rifat, Turkish poet (d. 1988)
• 1915 – Saul Bellow, American author (d. 2005)
• 1916 – Peride Celal, Turkish writer (d. 2013)
• 1921 – Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh and Queen of the United Kingdom II. Elizabeth's wife (d. 2021)
• 1922 – Judy Garland, American actress (d. 1969)
• 1925 – Don Costa, American conductor and record producer (d. 1983)
• 1928 – Maurice Sendak, American children's writer and illustrator (d. 2012)
• 1932 – Haluk Kurdoğlu, Turkish cinema and theater actor (d. 2004)
• 1936 – Eugenio Bersellini, Italian football player and manager
• 1939 – Alexandra Stewart, Canadian actress
• 1941 – Mickey Jones, American drummer and actor (d. 2018)
• 1949 – Ozan Ârif, Turkish teacher, folk troubadour, and poet (d. 2019)
• 1950 – Rasim Kara, Turkish goalkeeper and coach
• 1956 - Mickey Curry, American musician
• 1958 - Yū Suzuki is a Japanese video game designer, producer, and programmer.
• 1959 – Carlo Ancelotti, Italian football player and manager
• 1960 – Maxi Priest is an English reggae artist of Jamaican descent.
• 1962 – Gina L. Gershon is an American film and television actress.
• 1962 – Kemal Kuruçay, Turkish actor
• 1963 – Nadia Hasnaoui, Norwegian presenter
• 1963 – Jeanne Marie Tripplehorn, American actress
• 1964 – İsmet Berkan, Turkish journalist
• 1965 – Veronica Ferres, German actress
• 1965 – Elizabeth Hurley, English actress and model
• 1965 – Andrea Kiewel, German female television presenter and former swimming athlete
• 1966 – David Platt, English former football player, manager
• 1967 – Katja Weitzenböck, Austrian-German actress
• 1968 – Ömer Danış, Turkish singer
• 1971 – Janset Paçal, Turkish actress and presenter
• 1973 - Faith Evans is an American singer, songwriter, producer, actress, and writer.
• 1974 – Mohammed Imare, Egyptian national football player
• 1976 – Friedrich, German businessman who is the current head of the Prussian branch of the House of Hohenzollern, the dynasty that ruled the German Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia
• 1976 – Zekiye Keskin Şatır, Turkish archer
• 1978 – DJ Qualls, American actor, producer and model
• 1981 – Alejandro Dominguez, Argentine national football player
• 1982 – Tara Lipinski, American figure skater
• 1982 - Madeleine, King XVI. Second daughter and youngest child of Carl Gustaf and Queen Silvia
• 1983 – Leelee Sobieski is an American film and television actress.
• 1985 – Andy Schleck, road bike racer from Luxembourg
• 1985 - Vasilis Torosidis, Greek football player
• 1986 – Marco Andreolli, Italian football player
• 1987 – Martin Harnik, German-born Austrian football player
• 1988 – Jagoš Vuković, Serbian national football player
• 1989 – Alexandra Stan, Romanian singer
• 1992 – Kate Upton, American model

Deaths 

• 323 BC – Alexander the Great, King of Macedonia (b. 356)
• 1190 – Friedrich Barbarossa, German King and Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1122)
• 1580 – Luís de Camões, Portuguese poet (b. 1524)
• 1654 – Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor (b. 1598)
• 1836 – André-Marie Ampère, French physicist (b. 1775)
• 1858 – Robert Brown, Scottish botanist (b. 1773)
• 1882 – Vasily Perov, Russian painter (b. 1834)
• 1918 – Arrigo Boito, Italian poet, novelist, journalist, opera composer, and librettoist (b. 1842)
• 1923 – Pierre Loti, French novelist (b. 1850)
• 1924 – Giacomo Matteotti, Italian socialist leader (kidnapped by fascists in Rome) (b. 1885)
• 1925 – Leonid Bolhovitinov, Russian soldier and orientalist (b. 1871)
• 1926 – Antoni Gaudí, Catalan architect (pioneer of the Art Nouveau movement in Spain) (b. 1852)
• 1930 – Adolf von Harnack, German protestant theologian and church historian (b. 1851)
• 1934 – Frederick Delius, English post-romantic composer (b. 1862)
• 1940 – Marcus Garvey, Jamaican Black leader who organized the first significant Black movement (1919-1926) in the United States (b. 1887)
• 1949 – Sigrid Undset, Norwegian novelist (Nobel Prize winner in 1928) (b. 1882)
• 1949 – Carl Vaugoin, Austrian politician (b. 1873)
• 1965 – Vahap Özaltay, Turkish football player (b. 1907)
• 1966 – Hamdullah Suphi Tanrıöver, Turkish literary man, writer, teacher and deputy (b. 1885)
• 1967 – Spencer Tracy, American actor (b. 1900)
• 1973 – Erich von Manstein, German general (b. 1887)
• 1973 – William Inge, American playwright (b. 1913)
• 1981 – Veysel Güney, Turkish revolutionary and responsible for the Revolutionary Path in Iskenderun (executed) (b. 1957)
• 1982 – Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German film director (b. 1945)
• 1984 – Halide Nusret Zorlutuna, Turkish poet and writer (b. 1901)
• 1988 – Louis L'Amour, American author (b. 1908)
• 1992 – Glyn Smallwood Jones, British politician (b. 1908)
• 1996 – Jo Van Fleet, American actress (b. 1914)
• 2000 – Hafez Assad, President of Syria (b. 1930)
• 2002 – John Gotti, American gangster (b. 1940)
• 2004 – Ray Charles, American musician (b. 1930)
• 2007 – Ufuk Güldemir, Turkish journalist (b. 1956)
• 2008 – Chingiz Aitmatov, Kyrgyz writer, translator and journalist (b. 1928)
• 2009 – Faruk Bayülkem, Turkish psychiatrist and neurologist (b. 1912)
• 2010 – Sigmar Polke, German painter and photographer (b. 1941)
• 2016 – Christina Grimmie, American musician, songwriter (b. 1994)
• 2016 – Gordie Howe, retired Canadian professional ice hockey player (b. 1928)
• 2017 – Julia Perez, Indonesian model, actress, presenter and singer (b. 1980)
• 2019 – Crazy Mohan, Indian actor, comedian, screenwriter and playwright (b. 1952)
• 2020 – Jayaraman Anbazhagan, Indian politician (b. 1958)
• 2020 – Duilio Arigoni, Swiss chemist and academic (b. 1928)
• 2020 – Araceli Herrero Figueroa, Spanish writer (b. 1948)
• 2020 Wrestling II, American professional wrestler (b. 1934)
• 2020 – Talat Özkarslı, Turkish former national football player and coach (b. 1938)