Today in History: The Death of Prophet Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam

June 8 is the 159th day of the year (160th in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 206 days remaining until the end of the year.

Railways

• 8 June 1933 The law numbered 2285 has been issued to authorize the signing of the operation of the Railways.
• 8 June 2003 Ankara-İstanbul High Speed ​​Train Project, which will reduce Ankara-Istanbul to 3 hours, was laid by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Events 

• 632 – Death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
• 632 - Abu Bakr is elected first caliph.
• 1624 – Earthquake hit Peru.
• 1783 – Iceland's Laki Volcano begins its eight-month eruption. More than 9000 people died, a seven-year famine began.
• 1866 - The Canadian Parliament held its first meeting in Ottawa.
• 1887 - Herman Hollerith patented his card printing calculator.
• 1912 - Carl Laemmle founded the Universal Pictures film production company.
• 1949 – George Orwell's 1984 His novel was published.
• 1949 – In a report by the FBI, the names of Hollywood celebrities Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson were included as Communist Party members.
• 1950 - Sir Thomas Blamey becomes the first and only Field Marshal in Australian history.
• 1951 – The first heart surgery in Turkey was performed at the Gülhane Military Medical Academy.
• 1952 – King Paul I of Greece and Queen Frederika arrived in Turkey.
• 1953 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that restaurants in Washington cannot refuse to serve black people.
• 1953 – 115 people died in a hurricane in Flint, Michigan.
• 1960 – A rally was held in Istanbul to support May 27 and the Army.
• 1966 – Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel said, “We are the continuation of the Democratic Party”. Because of these words, an investigation was started against him.
• 1966 – A hurricane in Topeka, Kansas, killed 16 people. There are hundreds of injured. Archived February 26, 2015 at the Wayback Machine.
• 1968 - James Earl Ray is arrested for the murder of Martin Luther King Jr.
• 1968 – U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who died as a result of an assassination, was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
• 1973 – A vehicle crossing attempt was made on the Istanbul Bosphorus Bridge.
• 1975 – The Constitution of the Turkish Federated State of Cyprus was put to a popular vote and approved.
• 1986 - Kurt Waldheim wins the Austrian Presidential election.
• 1987 – Sea bus services started in Istanbul.
• 1993 – State Minister Tansu Çiller resigned from her post and announced that she was a candidate for the DYP General Presidency.
• 1995 - Rasmus Lerdorf released the first version of the PHP language.
• 1995 – The Turkish Grand National Assembly authorized the Government to fight against Greece, which was making preparations to extend its territorial waters to 12 miles in the Aegean.
• 2000 – NATO-Ukraine Commission met in Brussels at the level of Defense Ministers.
• 2004 - Venus passed in front of the Sun for the first time in 223 years.
• 2008 – Secondary Education Institutions Selection and Placement Examination (OKS), in which 915 thousand candidates compete, was held for the last time.
• 2012 – European Football Championship started.

Births

• 1625 – Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian mathematician and astronomer (d. 1712)
• 1671 – Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (d. 1751)
• 1810 – Robert Schumann, German romantic composer and critic (d. 1856)
• 1825 – Charles Joshua Chaplin, French landscape, portrait painter, and printmaker (d. 1891)
• 1867 – Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect (d. 1959)
• 1897 – John Godolphin Bennett, British soldier (d. 1974)
• 1903 – Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian-American writer (d. 1987)
• 1907 – Aleš Bebler, Slovenian, Yugoslav lawyer, diplomat (d. 1981)
• 1916 – Francis Crick, English scientist and Nobel Prize laureate in Medicine or Physiology (d. 2004)
• 1921 – Suharto, President of Indonesia (d. 2008)
• 1927 – Jerry Stiller, American comedian and actor (d. 2020)
• 1930 – Robert J. Aumann, mathematician and economist who won the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics
• 1930 – Bo Widerberg was a Swedish screenwriter, actor, and film director (d. 1997)
• 1933 – Ertuğrul Yeşiltepe, Turkish journalist (d. 1986)
• 1937 Bruce McCandless II, American astronaut (d. 2017)
• 1940 - Nancy Sinatra, American singer
• 1941 – George Pell, Australian cardinal
• 1950 – Sônia Braga, Brazilian-American actress
• 1951 – Bonnie Tyler, Welsh singer
• 1953 – Ivo Sanader, former Prime Minister of Croatia
• 1955 – José Antonio Camacho, Spanish national football player and manager
• 1955 – Tim Berners-Lee, British computer programmer (who founded the World Wide Web (www) information sharing system)
• 1955 – Merete Armand, Norwegian actress (d. 2017)
• 1958 – İskender Pala, Turkish academic, writer and Divan Literature researcher
• 1961 Janina Hartwig, German actress
• 1963 – Frank Grillo, American actor
• 1965 – Karin Alvtegen is a Swedish crime writer.
• 1965 – İsmail Türt, Turkish folk music artist
• 1967 – Jasmin Tabatabai, Iranian-German singer and actress
• 1969 – Jörg Hartmann, German actor
• 1976 – Lindsay Davenport, American tennis player
• 1977 – Kanye West, American record producer and hip-hop singer
• 1979 – İpek Şenoğlu, Turkish national tennis player
• 1982 – Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player
• 1983 – Kim Clijsters, Belgian tennis player
• 1984 – Javier Mascherano, Argentine football player
• 1984 – Torrey DeVitto, American actress, musician, philanthropist, producer, and former model
• 1987 – Issiar Dia, French-born Senegalese football player
• 1989 – Timea Bacsinszky, Swiss tennis player
• 1989 – Amaury Vassili, French singer
• 1996 – Doğanay Kılıç, Turkish football player
• 1997 – Jeļena Ostapenko, Latvian tennis player
• 1998 – Begüm Dalgalar, Turkish basketball player

Deaths 

• 62 – Claudia Octavia, Roman Empress, half-sister and first wife of Roman Emperor Nero
• 632 – Muhammad, prophet of Islam (b. 570/571)
• 1042 - Harthacnut, King of Denmark from 1035 to 1042 and King of England from 1040 to 1042
• 1505 – Hongzhi, ninth emperor of China's Ming Dynasty (b. 1470)
• 1795 – XVII. Louis XVI. Second son of Louis and Queen Marie Antoinette (b. 1785)
• 1809 – Thomas Paine, American politician (b. 1737)
• 1845 – Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States (b. 1767)
• 1846 – Rodolphe Töpffer, Swiss writer, teacher, painter, cartoonist, and comics (b. 1799)
• 1876 ​​– George Sand, French writer (b. 1804)
• 1895 – Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian scientist (b. 1821)
• 1896 – Jules Simon, French politician (b. 1814)
• 1869 – John Campbell, English former football player (b. 1869)
• 1945 – Karl Hanke, Nazi Germany politician and SS officer (nicknamed the "Breslau executioner") (b. 1903)
• 1945 – Robert Desnos, French poet (b. 1900)
• 1959 – Pietro Canonica, Italian sculptor, painter, and composer (b. 1869)
• 1967 – Sergei Gorodetsky, Russian poet (b. 1884)
• 1969 – Robert Taylor, American actor (b. 1911)
• 1970 – Abraham Maslow, American scientist (b. 1908)
• 1973 – Emmy Göring, German actress and stage performer (b. 1893)
• 1979 – Reinhard Gehlen, German soldier and spy (b. 1902)
• 1980 – Ernst Busch, German singer, actor and director (b. 1900)
• 1985 – Afet Inan, Turkish historian and professor of sociology (Ataturk's adopted daughter) (b. 1908)
• 1986 – Hasan Refik Ertuğ, Turkish journalist and writer (b. 1911)
• 1991 – Heidi Brüh, German singer (b. 1942)
• 1997 – Atilla Ergür, Turkish artist, scientist and founder of Freedom and Solidarity Party (ÖDP) (b. 1945)
• 1998 – Maria Reiche, German mathematician and archaeologist (b. 1903)
• 2007 – Richard Rorty, American philosopher (b. 1931)
• 2008 – Saban Bayramovic, Serbian musician (b. 1936)
• 2009 – Omar Bongo, Gabonese politician (b. 1935)
• 2013 – Yoram Kaniuk, Israeli writer, painter, journalist, and theater critic (b. 1930)
• 2014 – Alexander Imich, American parapsychologist (b. 1903)
• 2017 – Rıdvan Ege, Turkish academic and general surgeon (b. 1925)
• 2017 – Glenne Headly, American actress (b. 1955)
• 2017 – Jan Notermans, Dutch football player and coach (b. 1932)
• 2018 – Anthony Bourdain, American author (b. 1956)
• 2018 – Per Ahlmark, Swedish politician and writer (b. 1939)
• 2018 – Anthony Bourdain, American author (b. 1956)
• 2018 – Maria Bueno, Brazilian tennis player (b. 1939)
• 2018 – Erdoğan Demirören, Turkish industrialist and founder of Demirören Holding (b. 1938)
• 2018 – Eunice Gayson, English actress (b. 1928)
• 2018 – Danny Kirwan, English blues-rock guitarist, singer and songwriter (b. 1950)
• 2019 – Lucho Avilés, Uruguay-born Argentine writer, television host and journalist (b. 1938)
• 2019 – Wim Betz, Belgian physicist, educator, and scientist (b. 1943)
• 2019 – Spencer Bohren, American musician, singer, songwriter, educator, and artist (b. 1950)
• 2019 – Jorge Brovetto, Uruguayan chemical engineer, academic, and politician (b. 1933)
• 2019 – Andre Matos, Brazilian singer, musician and composer (b. 1971)
• 2020 – Klaus Berger, German academic and theologian (b. 1940)
• 2020 – Manuel Felguérez, Mexican abstract artist (b. 1928)
• 2020 – Marion Hänsel, French-Belgian film producer, director, screenwriter and actor (b. 1949)
• 2020 – Sardar Dur Mohammed Nasser, Pakistani politician (b. 1958)
• 2020 – Pierre Nkurunziza, Burundian lecturer, soldier and politician (b. 1963)
• 2020 – Bonnie Pointer, American black female singer (b. 1950)