Today in History: A Big Earthquake Called the Little Apocalypse Occurred in Istanbul

September 10 is the 253th (254th in leap years) day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days left until the end of the year is 112.

Railways

• 10 September 1870 The preliminary exploration of the Haydarpaşa-İzmit railway has started.

Events

• 1509 – A big earthquake called “Little Apocalypse” occurred in Istanbul.
• 1515 – Siege of Diyarbakir: Diyarbakir came under Ottoman rule.
• 1623 – IV. Murat ascended the throne.
• 1756 – The first theater was founded in Russia.
• 1855 – The first telegraph communication started in the Ottoman Empire.
• 1875 - Russians occupied Kokand.
• 1882 - The first Anti-Semitism conference opened in Germany.
• 1894 – A traffic ticket was issued to a car driver who was driving drunk for the first time in London.
• 1918 – British war correspondent Charles Repington describes the then ongoing war for the first time as “World War I. 'World War II'.
• 1919 With the Treaty of Germain, the Austro-Hungarian Empire was disintegrated and the States of Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Hungary were established on its territory.
• 1920 – In occupied Istanbul, the famous Greek thug Hrisantos was killed by Police Assistant Muharrem Alkor and Policeman Cafer Tayyar.

• 1920 – The Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) was founded in Baku.
• 1934 - The Soviet Union is admitted to the League of Nations.
• 1939 - Canada declared war on Germany.
• 1940 – Council of Ministers, Tan, Tasvir-i Efkar ve Having He closed his newspapers for seven days each.
• 1942 – II. World War II: The British Royal Air Force drops 100 bombs on Düsseldorf, Germany.
• 1943 - German troops occupied Rome.
• 1943 – A fire broke out in Istanbul's Grand Bazaar; More than 200 shops burned.
• 1960 – OPEC was founded on September 14, 1960, as a result of the congress that started in Baghdad with the proposal of Venezuela, with the participation of Venezuela, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, in order to stop the decline in crude oil prices.
• 1962 – The return of 27 landlords deported from the Eastern Anatolian Region by the National Unity Committee after 55 May was enacted by the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.
• 1965 – Turkey asked India to withdraw from Pakistan and sent weapons to Pakistan.
• 1970 – The United States' proposal to ban poppy cultivation in Turkey was rejected in Parliament.
• 1977 – Oleyis union left the Confederation of Turkish Trade Unions (Türk-İş) and joined the Revolutionary Confederation of Trade Unions (DİSK).
• 1979 – Attorney Ceyhun Can, former Adana Provincial Chair of the Workers' Party of Turkey, was killed.
• 1981 – Picasso's Guernica The painting returned to Spain from the USA 40 years later.
• 1987 – With Hungary opening the border, thousands of East German citizens begin to leave their country.
• 1987 – The Turkish Grand National Assembly decided to hold an early general election on 1 November. Turkey was divided into 104 constituencies. Istanbul would have the most MPs (45), Bilecik (2) and Hakkari (2) the least.
• 1989 – A group of TKP cadres opposed to the formation of TBKP, 10 Eylül He started publishing his magazine.
• 1994 – The Marxist Leninist Communist Party (MLKP) was founded.
• 2001 – A suicide attack was carried out by the DHKP-C on the Police Station in the Gümüşsuyu district of Beyoğlu. In the attack, four people, including the attacker, lost their lives, while 23 people survived with injuries.
• 2004 – Broadcast on TRT Towards evening unpublished.
• 2008 – An earthquake with a magnitude of 46 occurred 7,5 kilometers west of the city of Bandar Abbas in Iran's Hormuzgan province.
• 2008 – The ATLAS experiment, known as the experiment of the century, started at CERN, the European Center for Nuclear Research in Switzerland.

Births

• 1169 – II. Alexios, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1183)
• 1487 – III. Julius, pope from 1550 to 1555 (d. 1555)
• 1638 – Maria Theresa, Archduchess of Austria by affiliation with the Spanish branch of the House of Habsburg and Queen of France by marriage (d. 1683)
• 1659 – Henry Purcell, English composer (d. 1695)
• 1714 – Niccolò Jommelli, Italian composer (d. 1774)
• 1786 – Nicolás Bravo, Mexican soldier and politician (d. 1854)
• 1860 – Marianne von Werefkin, Russian-born Swiss expressionist painter (d. 1938)
• 1866 – Jeppe Aakjær, Danish writer (d. 1930)
• 1887 – Giovanni Gronchi, Italian politician (d. 1978)
• 1890 – Franz Werfel, Austrian novelist, playwright, and poet (b. 1945)
• 1892 – Arthur Compton, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics (d. 1962)
• 1894 – Aleksandr Dovjenko, Ukrainian-born Soviet screenwriter, filmmaker, and director (d. 1956)
• 1897 – Georges Bataille, French sociologist and writer (d. 1962)
• 1899 Wolf Messing, Soviet telepath (d. 1974)
• 1908 - Carel Weight, English painter (d. 1997)
• 1910 – Gaston Defferre, French politician (d. 1986)
• 1914 – Robert Wise, American film director and Academy Award winner for Best Director (d. 2005)
• 1918 – Franz Immig, German football player (d. 1955)
• 1928 – Ioannes Vanier, Canadian philosopher and thinker (d. 2019)
• 1929 – Arnold Palmer, American professional golfer (d. 2016)
• 1931 – Ece Ayhan, Turkish poet (d. 2002)
• 1933 – Yevgeni Khrunov, Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 5 and Soyuz 4 missions (d. 2000)
• 1933 – Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer (d. 2019)
• 1934 Wrestling II, American professional wrestler (d. 2020)
• 1937 - Jared Diamond, American biologist and author
• 1941 – Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist (d. 2002)
• 1943 – Tezer Özlü, Turkish writer (d. 1986)
• 1944 – M. Şerefettin Canda, Turkish academic and Rector of Mustafa Kemal University
• 1945 – Dennis Burkley, American actor (d. 2013)
• 1945 – Jose Feliciano, Puerto Rican singer
• 1946 – Michèle Alliot-Marie, French politician
• 1947 Larry Nelson, American golfer
• 1948 – Tony Gatlif, Algerian director
• 1948 - Bob Lanier is a retired American professional basketball player.
• 1949 - Bill O'Reilly, American television host, author, columnist, and political commentator
• 1950 – Babette Cole, English children's book author and translator (d. 2017)
• 1950 – Joe Perry, American guitarist
• 1951 – Celal Adan, Turkish politician
• 1953 Amy Irving is an American actress.
• 1954 – Don “The Dragon” Wilson, American Kick Boxing champion and actor
• 1956 – Ufuk Güldemir, Turkish journalist (d. 2007)
• 1958 – Chris Columbus, American film director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1959 – Michael Earl, American puppeteer, voice actor, and screenwriter (d. 2015)
• 1960 – Alison Bechdel, American cartoonist
• 1960 – Colin Firth, English actor
• 1968 – Andreas Herzog, Austrian national football player and manager
• 1968 - Big Daddy Kane, American hip hop artist and actor
• 1968 - Guy Ritchie, British director
• 1969 – Hakan Çelik, Turkish journalist and producer of radio-TV programs
• 1969 – Johnathon Schaech, American actor
• 1973 – Ferdinand Coly, Senegalese national football player
• 1973 – Deniz Yücel, Turkish-born German journalist and writer
• 1974 – Ebru Cündübeyoğlu, Turkish cinema, theater and TV series actress
• 1974 – Hande Firat, Turkish reporter and TV personality
• 1974 - Ryan Phillippe was an American actor
• 1974 – Ben Wallace is an American professional basketball player.
• 1976 – Alexander Zach, Austrian politician
• 1978 – Ramūnas Šiškauskas, Lithuanian former basketball player
• 1980 – Şahin Nacefi, Iranian singer and songwriter
• 1981 – Germán Denis is an Argentine football player.
• 1983 – Fernando Belluschi, Argentine national football player
• 1983 - Shawn James, Guyanese-American basketball player
• 1983 – Jérémy Toulalan, French former international footballer
• 1992 – Ricky Ledo, American professional basketball player
• 1993 – Yuki Nishino, Japanese figure skater
• 1994 – Mehdi Turabi, Iranian national football player
• 1998 – Daiki Suga, Japanese football player

Deaths

• 210 BC – Qin Shi Huang, first Chinese Emperor and founder of the Qin Dynasty (b. 247)
• 1167 – Matilda, queen of England (b. 1102)
• 1308 – Go-Nijō, 94th emperor of Japan in the traditional succession order (b. 1285)
• 1382 – Lajos I, king of Hungary and Croatia and Poland from 1342 to 1370 (b. 1326)
• 1419 – Jean de Bourgogne, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1371)
• 1669 – Henrietta Maria, Princess of France (b. 1609)
• 1676 – Gerrard Winstanley, English Protestant religious reformer, political philosopher, and activist (b. 1609)
• 1749 – Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician, physicist, and author (b. 1706)
• 1797 – Mary Wollstonecraft, English writer (b. 1759)
• 1842 - William Hobson, first governor of New Zealand and co-author of the Treaty of Waitangi (b. 1792)
• 1854 – Emrah from Erzurum, Turkish folk poet (b. 1775)
• 1889 – III. Charles, 28th prince of Monaco and duke of Valentinois (b. 1818)
• 1898 – Elisabeth, Empress of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1837)
• 1913 – William Jay Gaynor, American politician (b. 1849)
• 1922 – Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, English poet and author (b. 1840)
• 1928 – Moris Şinasi, Ottoman-American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1855)
• 1931 – Dmitry Egorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1869)
• 1939 – Wilhelm Fritz von Roettig, General in the Waffen-SS that participated in the invasion of Poland (b. 1888)
• 1940 – Nikola Ivanov, Bulgarian general (b. 1861)
• 1948 – Ferdinand I, first Tsar of Bulgaria (b. 1861)
• 1956 – Robert Julius Trumpler, Swiss-American astronomer (b. 1886)
• 1961 – Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence, British Labor politician (b. 1871)
• 1971 – Pier Angeli, Italian actress (b. 1932)
• 1975 – George Thomson, British Physicist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physics (b. 1892)
• 1976 – Dalton Trumbo, American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1905)
• 1979 – Agostinho Neto, Angolan poet and President (b. 1922)
• 1979 – Cuma Tak, Kurdish militant, co-founder of the PKK (b. 1956)
• 1983 – Felix Bloch, Swiss physicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics (b. 1905)
• 1983 – Balthazar Johannes Vorster, South African politician (b. 1915)
• 1985 – Jock Stein, Scottish former football player and manager (b. 1922)
• 1994 – Max Morlock, German football player (b. 1925)
• 1995 – Oral Sander, Turkish academic (b. 1940)
• 1996 – Bekir Sıdkı Sezgin, Turkish singer and composer (b. 1936)
• 2007 – Jane Wyman, American actress and first wife of Ronald Reagan (b. 1917)
• 2011 – Cliff Robertson, American actor (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Lance LeGault, American actor and voice actor (b. 1935)
• 2014 – Richard Kiel, American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and presenter (b. 1939)
• 2014 – Károly Sándor, Hungarian former football player (b. 1928)
• 2015 – Adrian Frutiger, Swiss writer and artist (b. 1928)
• 2015 – Ihab Hassan, American literary theorist, critic, and author (b. 1925)
• 2016 – Mahmut Hekimoğlu, Turkish actor and film producer (b. 1955)
• 2016 – Joy Viado, Filipino singer, actress, and comedian (b. 1965)
• 2017 – Hans Alfredson, Swedish film director, comedian, writer and actor (b. 1931)
• 2017 – Nancy Dupree, American historian and academic (b. 1927)
• 2017 – Harry Landers, American actor (b. 1921)
• 2017 – BV Radha is an Indian actress and filmmaker (b. 1948)
• 2017 – Len Wein, American comics artist, writer, and editor (b. 1948)
• 2018 – Peter Donat, Canadian-American actor (b. 1928)
• 2018 – Johannes Geldenhuys, South African senior military officer (b. 1935)
• 2018 – Paul Virilio, French urbanist and philosopher of aesthetics (b. 1932)
• 2018 – Co Westerik is a Dutch graphic artist and photographer (b. 1924)
• 2019 – Stefano Delle Chiaie, Italian neo-fascist (b. 1936)
• 2019 – Jeff Fenholt, American singer, musician, and actor (b. 1950)
• 2019 – Valerie Van Ost, English actress (b. 1944)
• 2019 – Hossam Ramzy, Egyptian percussionist and composer (b. 1953)
• 2019 – Albert Razin, scientist of the Russian Udmurt Country, doctor of philosophy, sociologist, associate professor (b. 1940)
• 2019 – Süleyman Turan, Turkish cinema and theater artist (b. 1936)
• 2020 – Caroline Chomienne, French film producer and director (b. 1957)
• 2020 – Diana Rigg, British film and television actress (b. 1938)

Holidays and special occasions

• Gibraltar National Day
• Chinese Teachers' Day