Today in History: Bülent Ersoy's Ban on Stage Has Been Lifted

January 8 is the 8nd day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days left until the end of the year is 357.

Railways

• 8 January 1878 A request was made from the Babıâli for the transfer of the Austrian capital of the Rumeli Railways Company from the French sub-nationality to the Austrian.
• 8 January 1883 Mersin-Tarsus concession edict was written. The concession period was starting from the date of issuance.
• 8 January 1893 Sultan II.Abdulhamid told the German Ambassador Rodin that he had not had to sleep at night in the UK, France and Russia's threats.
• 8 January 1902 The final agreement on the Baghdad Railways was concluded at the Council of Ministers in the Porte.
• 8 January 2022 Konya-Karaman high-speed train line was opened with a ceremony.

Events

• 1297 - Monaco gained its independence.
• 1499 – XII. Louis married Anne de Bretagne.
• 1610 - Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei detects two of Jupiter's moons (Io, Europa).
• 1784 – The Ottoman Empire officially recognized Russia's annexation of Crimea with a "deed".
• 1835 - US national debt reaches 0 (zero) for the first and last time.
• 1916 – The Entente Powers could not break the Ottoman Army's resistance to Çanakkale. Having been defeated, they began to withdraw from the Gallipoli Peninsula. Due to his failure, Admiral Winston Churchill resigned from the post of Commander of the British Navy.
• 1918 – United States President Woodrow Wilson, in a joint meeting of the House of Representatives and the Senate, put forward the 14 principles that will go by his name for the establishment of lasting peace in Europe.
• 1920 – Yahya Kaptan, one of the commanders of the Kuva-yi Milliye, was killed in Gebze by the men of the Istanbul Government.
• 1933 – The First Five-Year Development Plan was accepted.
• 1940 – Turkey signed a chrome sales agreement with England and France for 2 years.
• 1941 – It was announced that 401 teachers and 1846 students were studying in 74.488 primary schools in Istanbul.
• 1943 - Decree on giving cheap bread to the poor was published.
• 1945 – Iskenderun Port was put into service.
• 1946 – Celâl Bayar became the Chairman of the Democrat Party (DP).
• 1958 – 14-year-old Bobby Fischer became the United States chess champion.
• 1959 - Charles de Gaulle inaugurated as the first President of the French Fifth Republic.
• 1960 – Hirfanlı Dam and Hydroelectric Power Plant on Kızılırmak was opened.
• 1962 – Train accident in the Netherlands: 93 people died.
• 1965 – DSI put the Keban Dam Hydroelectric Power Plant construction out to tender.
• 1973 – The amount of the housing loan given to the workers was increased from 60 thousand liras to 75 thousand liras.
• 1976 – Highway fee started to be collected from TIR trucks passing through Turkey.
• 1977 – The leader of the Republican People's Party, Bülent Ecevit, reacted to the hikes made to the deputies; He announced that he would not accept the salary increase.
• 1979 – The first children's news program "Gökkuşağı" began to be broadcast.
• 1980 – 80% of the factories stopped production due to lack of fuel.
• 1982 – Yılmaz Güney was sentenced to 7,5 years in absentia for “making communist propaganda”.
• 1983 – The Ministry of Culture and Tourism put into effect the “Games of Fortune directive”.
• 1984 – Prime Minister Turgut Özal said that the Law on the Protection of the Turkish Currency is a problem for everyone.
• 1986 - Henry Miller's novel Tropic of Capricorn was confiscated for being obscene.
• 1986 – The Hacker manifesto is announced in the USA.
• 1986 – 8 artists were given the title of "professor" by the Council of Higher Education (YÖK). Among the titled artists were Yıldız Kenter, Hikmet Şimşek and Nevit Kodallı.
• 1987 – President Kenan Evren spoke at Çukurova University: ” 'The Turkish army is growing up with Kemalist principles.' they say. In other words, should we teach Marxism, Leninism, or teach the Shari'a order, instead of teaching Kemalism in the Harbiye or the Armed Forces?
• 1988 – Bülent Ersoy's ban on performing was lifted. For 7 years, the General Directorate of Security did not allow Bülent Ersoy, who changed gender with the operation, to appear on the stage.
• 1988 – Turkey Real Estate Bank was established.
• 1989 – A Boeing 737 passenger plane crashed on the highway near East Midlands airport in the United Kingdom: 46 people were killed, 80 people were injured.
• 1991 – The miners, who made an agreement with the government, ended their protests and returned to Zonguldak.
• 1992 – “Forbidden” books locked in a warehouse in Ankara began to be exhibited at the Ministry of Culture. The books will be placed in the Democracy and Human Rights Museum to be established in the future.
• 1993 – Aziz Nesin, “On September 12, 5 crazy people threw a stone into a well, 60 million people could not get it out.” said.
• 1993 – Bosnia and Herzegovina Deputy Prime Minister Hakkija Turalic, who was on his way to the city from Sarajevo Airport after meeting with State Minister Orhan Kilercioğlu, was killed by the Serbs, accompanied by French UN soldiers and in a UN armored vehicle.
• 1996 – Evrensel Newspaper reporter Metin Göktepe was found dead in the park next to Eyüp Sports Hall after he was detained by the police.
• 1996 – An Antonov An-32 cargo plane crashes in a market place in Kinshasa (Zaire): 350 people are killed.
• 1997 – The stolen body of Vehbi Koç was found in an empty tomb in Zincirlikuyu Cemetery and those who stole it were caught. Koç's body was buried for the second time on January 10.
• 1998 - Karşıyaka Mufti Nadir Kuru's, Dr. When Tibet was leading Kızılcan's funeral prayer, after the words "Women who want can come to the prayer", women for the first time held the funeral prayer by standing with men.
• 2001 – Dean of Marmara University Faculty of Theology Prof. Dr. Zekeriya Beyaz was stabbed in the confusion that broke out while the headscarf issue was being discussed at the meeting he attended at the faculty.
• 2002 – President Ahmet Necdet Sezer approved the “Tobacco Law”.
• 2003 – THY's RC-100 type plane, which made the Istanbul-Diyarbakır expedition, crashed during its landing in Diyarbakir: 74 people were killed, 3 people were injured and survived.
• 2003 – The United States begins establishing military bases in Afghanistan.
• 2004 – The new regulation, which was prepared after the law that removed the secrecy of the Regulation on the Secretariat General of the National Security Council, entered into force. The General Secretariat of the NSC was defined in the regulation as an organization affiliated to the Prime Minister.
• 2008 – Orhan Alkaya was appointed as the General Artistic Director of Istanbul City Theatres.
• 2010 – The passenger train between Aleppo and Gaziantep made its first flight.
• 2011 – Prime Minister Erdogan, at the opening ceremony held in Kars Cumhuriyet Square, described the "Monument of Humanity" in the city as a "monster". The monument was later demolished.
• 2016 – The circular by the Prime Ministry, allowing the use of Fridays and lunch breaks in a way that does not hinder freedom of worship, was published in the Official Gazette.
• 2021 – Türksat 5A was launched into space.

Births

• 626 – Hussein ibn Ali, son of Ali bin Abu Talib, the Fourth Caliph (d. 680)
• 1037 – Su Shi, Chinese poet, painter, academic, scientist, and statesman (d. 1101)
• 1345 – Kadı Burhaneddin, Turkish statesman, scholar and poet of Azerbaijani literature and Divan literature (d. 1398)
• 1556 – Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1623)
• 1583 – Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian (d. 1643)
• 1601 – Baltasar Gracián, Jesuit Spanish priest and writer (d. 1658)
• 1632 – Samuel von Pufendorf, German philosopher (d. 1694)
• 1763 – Edmond-Charles Genêt, French ambassador to the United States appointed by the Girondins during the French Revolution (d. 1834)
• 1793 – Ludwig Reichenbach, German botanist and ornithologist (d. 1879)
• 1822 – Carlo Alfredo Piatti, Italian cellist and composer (d. 1901)
• 1823 – Alfred Russel Wallace, English social and naturalist, anthropologist, and biologist (d. 1913)
• 1836 Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch painter (d. 1912)
• 1849 – Stepan Makarov, Russian vice-admiral and oceanographer (d. 1904)
• 1862 – Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (d. 1934)
• 1863 – Ellen Churchill Semple, American geographer (d. 1932)
• 1864 – Prince Albert Victor, Prince of Wales (d. 1892)
• 1867 – Emily Greene Balch, American economist and author (d. 1961)
• 1881 – Claud Buchanan Ticehurst, English ornithologist (d. 1941)
• 1885 – John Curtin, Australian politician (d. 1945)
• 1885 – Archibald Cochrane, Scottish politician and naval officer (d. 1958)
• 1889 – Erhard Raus, soldier in Nazi Germany (d. 1956)
• 1891 – Walther Bothe, German mathematician, chemist, physicist, and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics (d. 1957)
• 1894 – Vilmos Tkálecz, Hungarian-Slovenian school principal and politician (d. 1950)
• 1896 – Manuel Rojas Sepúlveda, Chilean novelist and short story writer (d. 1973)
• 1899 – Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (d. 1959)
• 1899 – Mabel Strickland, Maltese journalist, newspaper proprietor and politician (d. 1988)
• 1902 – Georgi Malenkov, Soviet statesman (close colleague of Joseph Stalin and posthumous Prime Minister of the USSR) (d. 1988)
• 1902 Carl Rogers, American psychologist (d. 1987)
• 1904 – Karl Brandt, German Nazi war criminal (d. 1948)
• 1905 Carl Gustav Hempel, German philosopher (d. 1997)
• 1908 – William Hartnell, English actor and first doctor on Doctor Who (d. 1975)
• 1909 – José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor and director (d. 1992)
• 1916 – Emin Bilgiç, Turkish academic, sumerologist (d. 1996)
• 1917 – Peter Taylor, American novelist, short story, and playwright (d. 1994)
• 1919 – Edward Robert Harrison, British astronomer and cosmologist (d. 2007)
• 1921 – Leonardo Sciascia, Italian writer and politician (d. 1989)
• 1922 – Artemio Franchi, Italian football player (d. 1983)
• 1923 Larry Storch, American actor
• 1924 – Ron Moody, English actor (d. 2015)
• 1927 – Gabriel Gascon, Canadian stage and film actor (d. 2018)
• 1927 – André Manaranche, French priest, theologian, and author (d. 2020)
• 1928 – Slade Gorton, American politician and lawyer (d. 2020)
• 1928 – Bab Christensen, Norwegian actress (d. 2017)
• 1929 – James Ferguson-Lees, British ornithologist (d. 2017)
• 1932 – Michel Gentot, French lawyer
• 1933 – Juan Marsé, Spanish novelist, screenwriter, and journalist (d. 2020)
• 1933 – Meryem Fahreddin, Egyptian actress (d. 2014)
• 1934 – Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (d. 1987)
• 1934 – Jan Kirsznik, Polish saxophonist (d. 2018)
• 1934 – Phạm Văn Rạng, South Vietnamese former football player (d. 2008)
• 1935 – Elvis Presley, American singer, musician, and actor (d. 1977)
• 1936 – Robert May, Australian scientist and academic (d. 2020)
• 1937 – Louis Le Pensec, French politician
• 1937 – Meral Niron, Turkish theater, cinema and TV series actress (d. 2020)
• 1937 - Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer
• 1939 – Nanda, Indian actress (d. 2014)
• 1940 – Sid Ganis, American filmmaker
• 1941 – Graham Chapman, English comedian and actor (d. 1989)
• 1942 – Junichirō Koizumi, Prime Minister of Japan
• 1942 – Stephen Hawking, British theoretical physicist (breakthrough in the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics with his theory of exploding black holes) (d. 2018)
• 1942 – Gülcan Tunççekiç, Turkish ballerina (d. 1992)
• 1943 – Norodom Buppha Devi, Cambodian princess, politician, activist, and ballerina (d. 2019)
• 1943 - Jacques Huntzinger, French diplomat
• 1944 – Terry Brooks, American fantasy writer
• 1945 – Kadir Topbaş, Turkish architect and Mayor of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (d. 2021)
• 1945 – Francisco Villar y Ortiz de Urbina, Spanish ambassador
• 1946 – Robby Krieger, American rock guitarist and songwriter
• 1946 - Félix Gallardo, Mexican drug lord
• 1946 – Fritz Künzli, Swiss national football player (d. 2019)
• 1947 – David Bowie, English singer and actor (d. 2016)
• 1947 – Şansal Büyüka, Turkish journalist and sports writer
• 1947 – William Bonin, American serial killer (d. 1996)
• 1947 – Samuel Schmid, Swiss politician
• 1947 – Ashura Hara, Japanese professional wrestler and rugby player (d. 2015)
• 1948 – Friend Zekai Özger, Turkish poet (d. 1973)
• 1949 – Aykut Işıklar, Turkish journalist (d. 2019)
• 1949 – Nuri Kurtcebe, Turkish comics and cartoonist
• 1949 - Anne Schedeen, American actress
• 1949 Kozo Kinomoto, Japanese football player (d. 2017)
• 1953 – Gulistan Okan, Turkish voice artist
• 1958 - Rey Mysterio, Sr., American wrestler and actor
• 1961 – Jérôme Bonnafont, French bureaucrat and diplomat
• 1966 – Gökhan Gedikali, Turkish football player
• 1967 – R Kelly, American R&B singer
• 1969 – Jeremy Davies, American actor
• 1971 – Arif Kilisli, Turkish actor
• 1971 – Pascal Zuberbühler, Swiss former national goalkeeper
• 1972 – Burak Aydos, Turkish singer
• 1972 - Paul Clement, English footballer, football coach and manager
• 1972 – Giuseppe Favalli, Italian football player
• 1975 – Elena Grushina, Ukrainian figure skater
• 1975 – Vatan Şaşmaz, Turkish actress, presenter and writer (d. 2017)
• 1976 – Bora Sancar, Turkish basketball player
• 1977 – Amber Benson, American actress
• 1977 – Erdal Bibo, Turkish basketball player
• 1977 - Manuela Arcuri, Italian model and actress
• 1978 – Marco Fu, Hong Kong snooker player
• 1979 – Seol Ki-hyeon, South Korean football player and manager
• 1979 - Adrian Mutu, Romanian former football player
• 1979 – Stipe Pletikosa, Croatian former national goalkeeper
• 1983 - Chris Masters, American professional wrestler
• 1983 – Felipe Colombo, Mexican television actor
• 1983 - Kim Jong-un, President of North Korea
• 1985 – Karina Ocasio, Puerto Rican volleyball player
• 1986 – David Silva, Spanish football player
• 1988 – Adrián López Álvarez, Spanish football player
• 1988 - Michael Mancienne is an English footballer.
• 1988 – Alex Tyus is a US-Israeli national professional basketball player.
• 1990 – Sara Vulovic, Serbian model and director
• 1991 – Stefan Johansen is a Norwegian football player.
• 1991 – Stefan Savić, Montenegrin football player
• 1992 – Koke, Spanish football player
• 1999 - Damiano David, Italian singer-songwriter
• 2000 – Noah Cyrus, American actor and singer

Deaths

• 1324 – Marco Polo, Italian traveler (b. 1254)
• 1337 – Giotto di Bondone, Italian painter and architect (b. 1267)
• 1642 – Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist, mathematician, and astronomer (b. 1564)
• 1704 – Lorenzo Bellini, Italian physician and anatomist (b. 1643)
• 1713 – Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer (b. 1653)
• 1825 – Elias (Eli) Whitney, American inventor and industrialist (b. 1765)
• 1854 – William Beresford, Anglo-Irish soldier and politician (b. 1768)
• 1878 – Nikolay Nekrasov, Russian poet and journalist (b. 1821)
• 1896 – Paul Verlaine, French poet (b. 1844)
• 1916 – Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (b. 1884)
• 1920 – Yahya Kaptan, one of the Turkish Kuva-yi Milliye commanders (b. ?)
• 1921 – Leonid Pozen, Russian-Ukrainian sculptor and lawyer (b. 1849)
• 1935 – Rauf Yekta, Turkish musician, musicologist and composer (b. 1871)
• 1937 – Felix Körling, Swedish composer (b. 1864)
• 1939 – Charles Eastman, Native American physician, physicist, and social reformer (b. 1858)
• 1941 – Robert Baden-Powell, British soldier, Scout leader and founder of Scouting (b. 1857)
• 1946 – Dion Fortune, English occultist and author (b. 1890)
• 1948 – Kurt Schwitters, German painter and sculptor (b. 1887)
• 1948 – Ahmet Sungur, Turkish politician (b. 1894)
• 1949 – Yoshijirō Umezu, Japanese soldier (b. 1882)
• 1950 – Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Austrian economist and political scientist (b. 1883)
• 1950 – Abdullah Sabri Aytaç, politician who served as a deputy in the 1st Term of the Turkish Grand National Assembly (b. 1870)
• 1953 – Charles Edward Merriam, American professor of political science (b. 1874)
• 1961 – Yaşar Doğu, Turkish world champion wrestler (b. 1913)
• 1963 – Kay Sage, American poet and painter (b. 1898)
• 1963 – Temel Karamahmut, Turkish motion picture director, screenwriter and actor (b. 1916)
• 1964 – Julius Raab, Austrian politician (b. 1891)
• 1964 – Karekin Deveciyan, Turkish-Armenian zoologist and writer (b. 1868)
• 1967 – İlhan Tarus, Turkish prosecutor, judge and writer of stories, plays and novels (b. 1907)
• 1967 – Walter Bruno Henning, East Prussian-born linguist (b. 1908)
• 1975 – Richard Tucker, American tenor (b. 1913)
• 1976 – Zhou Enlai, Prime Minister of China (b. 1898)
• 1982 – Reta Shaw, American actress (b. 1912)
• 1983 – Gerhard Barkhorn, German pilot soldier (b. 1919)
• 1983 – Hüseyin Alp, Turkish basketball player (b. 1935)
• 1985 – Vladimir Maneyev, Russian wrestler (b. 1932)
• 1986 – Mehmet İzmen, Turkish politician and bureaucrat (b. 1909)
• 1986 – Pierre Fournier, French cellist (b. 1906)
• 1988 – Duygu Aykal, Turkish ballerina and choreographer (b. 1943)
• 1990 – Terry-Thomas, English actor and comedian (b. 1911)
• 1990 – Georgie Auld, American Tenor Saxophone and Clarinetist, bandleader (b. 1919)
• 1990 – Kasım Emre, Turkish politician (b. 1934)
• 1991 – Steve Clark, English guitarist (b. 1960)
• 1992 – Nicolas Schöffer, French artist (b. 1912)
• 1994 – Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi, Hindu saint (b. 1894)
• 1996 – François Mitterrand, President of France (b. 1916)
• 1996 – Metin Göktepe, Turkish journalist (b. 1968)
• 1996 – John Hargreaves, Australian actor (b. 1945)
• 1997 – Melvin Calvin, American biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry (b. 1911)
• 1998 – Michael Tippett, British opera and western classical composer (b. 1925)
• 1998 – Marie-Madeleine Dienesch, French politician, ambassador (b. 1914)
• 2000 – Sohban Koloğlu, Turkish cinema decorator, director and actor (b. 1918)
• 2002 – Alexander Prokhorov, Soviet physicist (b. 1916)
• 2005 – Raif Aybar, Turkish politician (b. 1915)
• 2005 – Jacqueline Joubert, French television producer, director and presenter (b. 1921)
• 2006 – Özdemir Birsel, Turkish film director, screenwriter and producer (b. 1929)
• 2007 – Yvonne De Carlo (birth name: Margaret Yvonne Middleton), Canadian-American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1922)
• 2011 – Oleg Grabar, French-born art historian and archaeologist (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Françoise Christophe, French actress and comedian (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Madeline Gins, American painter, architect, and poet (b. 1941)
• 2014 – Selçuk Uluergüven, Turkish cinema, theater and TV series actor (b. 1941)
• 2014 – Armen Mazmanyan, Armenian director (b. 1960)
• 2015 – Andraé Crouch, American gospel singer, composer, songwriter (b. 1942)
• 2015 – Kep Enderby, Australian politician and judge (b. 1926)
• 2016 – Hamdy Ahmed, Egyptian actor, journalist and politician (b. 1933)
• 2016 – Otis Clay, American blues, gospel and soul musician and singer (b. 1942)
• 2016 – Maria Teresa de Filippis, Italian speedway driver (b. 1926)
• 2016 – Oscar Fritschi, Swiss politician and diplomat (b. 1939)
• 2016 – German Moreno, as he is known Kuya Germs or Master Showman, Filipino TV presenter, actor, and manager (b. 1933)
• 2017 – Dominique Appia, Swiss painter (b. 1926)
• 2017 – Buddy Bregman, American music producer, film director, musician, and composer (b. 1930)
• 2017 – Miriam Goldberg, former American reporter (b. 1916)
• 2017 – Svennik Høyer, Norwegian political scientist, academic and researcher (b. 1931)
• 2017 – James Mancham, Seychelles journalist, lawyer, author, businessman and politician (b. 1939)
• 2017 – Jovanka Nikolić, Serbian writer and poet (b. 1952)
• 2017 – Zacharie Noah, former Cameroonian professional football player (b. 1937)
• 2017 – Hashemi Rafsanjani, Iranian statesman and 4th President of Iran (b. 1934)
• 2017 – Peter Sarstedt, English pop-folk singer (b. 1941)
• 2018 – Hans Vilhelm Aabech, Danish former international football player (b. 1948)
• 2018 – Necat Nasıroğlu, Kurdish businessman from Batman.
• 2018 – Yvonne Englich, German female freestyle wrestler (b. 1979)
• 2018 – Juan Carlos García, former Honduran international football player (b. 1988)
• 2018 – Ora Denise Allen, known by her stage name; Denise LaSalleis an American blues and Rhythm and blues/soul singer-songwriter and record producer (b. 1939)
• 2018 – Vojtěch Lindaur, Czech journalist, educator and music producer (b. 2018)
• 2018 – Donnelly Rhodes, Canadian actor (b. 1937)
• 2018 – George Maxwell Richards, fourth President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1931)
• 2019 – Armando Bortolaso, Italian Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1926)
• 2019 – Edwin Erickson, American politician and businessman (b. 1938)
• 2019 – Khosro Harandi, Iranian chess player (b. 1950)
• 2019 – Susanne Humphrey, American librarian and author (b. 1944)
• 2019 – Larry Langford, American politician and convict (b. 1946)
• 2019 – Arturo Rojas de la Cámara, Spanish comics artist and cartoonist (b. 1930)
• 2020 – Edd Byrnes, American actor and singer (b. 1932)
• 2020 – Pilar was the older sister of King Juan Carlos I (b. 1936)
• 2020 – Zhu Yuli, Chinese politician and businessman (b. 1934)
• 2020 – Henry Zuckerman (known as: Buck Henry), American actor, screenwriter, film and television director (b. 1930)
• 2021 – Eve Branson, British former dancer, philanthropist and children's rights activist (b. 1924)
• 2021 – Ed Bruce, American country music singer, songwriter, and actor (b. 1939)
• 2021 – Steve Carver, American filmmaker, director, and photographer (b. 1945)
• 2021 – Květa Eretová, Czech chess player (b. 1926)
• 2021 – Steve Lightle, American comics artist (b. 1959)
• 2021 – Diana Millay, American actress (b.1935)
• 2021 – Afolabi Olumide, Nigerian academic and surgeon (b. 1939)
• 2021 – Càstor Oswaldo Azuaje Pérez was a Venezuelan Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1951)
• 2021 – Michael Shaw, Baron Shaw of Northstead, British politician (b. 1920)
• 2021 – Vladimir Tretyakov, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1936)

Holidays and special occasions

• The liberation of Hatay's Erzin district from the French occupation (1922)
• Storm: Beginning of Zemheri Storm