January 6 is the 6nd day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days left until the end of the year is 359.
Railways
- 6 January 1900 Russian consulate l. interpreter Maximow, Minister of Foreign Affairs Tevfik Pasha, Russians, as well as Germans demanded privileges in Anatolia, he said.
Events
- 1838 - Samuel Morse introduced the telegraph to the public.
- 1907 - The first children's school, Casa dei Bambini, was opened by Maria Montessori.
- 1912 - New Mexico joins the United States as the 47th state.
- 1921 – The First Battle of İnönü started with the attack of the Greek troops in the direction of Eskişehir and Afyon.
- 1929 – King Alexander I of Yugoslavia dissolves the parliament and establishes a military dictatorship in the country.
- 1930 - The first diesel powered car completes its journey from Indianapolis to New York.
- 1931 - Thomas Edison files his last patent application.
- 1938 – Sigmund Freud, fleeing Nazi oppression, went to London.
- 1945 – Future United States President George HW Bush married Barbara Pierce in New York.
- 1950 – The United Kingdom recognizes the Communist Government of China.
- 1954 - Ismail al-Azhari becomes Sudan's first prime minister.
- 1955 – Negotiations were started with Greece to determine the territorial sea border of the Dodecanese.
- 1956 – Turkey came first in the air show competitions in which 14 countries participated in Canada.
- 1969 – The office car of the American Ambassador Robert Komer, who was visiting the Middle East Technical University (METU), was burned by the students.
- 1977 – Dev-Young Istanbul President Pasha Guven was captured. Istanbul Patriotic Revolutionary Youth Association was closed down and 39 people were detained.
- 1981 – In the Revolutionary Confederation of Workers' Unions (DISK) case, 39 of the 15 detainees were arrested. Among those arrested is Chairman Kemal Nebioğlu.
- 1983 – Yılmaz Güney and Cem Karaca were stripped of their citizenship by the decision of the Council of Ministers.
- 1984 – In Tunisia, an uprising broke out when bread prices increased by 1,5%; 75 people died, martial law was declared.
- 2015 – A bomb exploded in Istanbul's Sultanahmet, a policeman was killed and a policeman was injured in the attack with a suicide bomber.
- 2021 – Chaos broke out in the congress building on the day the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden, would be registered: 4 people died.
Births
- 1367 – II. Richard, King of England (d. 1400)
- 1412 – Jan Dark, French hero (d. 1431)
- 1568 – Richard Burbage, English actor (d. 1619)
- 1655 – Jakob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1705)
- 1738 – Friedrich Kasimir Medikus, German physician and botanist (d. 1808)
- 1745 – Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, inventor of the French hot air balloon (d. 1799)
- 1797 – Edward Turner Bennett, English zoologist and writer (d. 1836)
- 1797 – Baldwin Martin Kittel, German botanist (d. 1885)
- 1799 – Jedediah Smith, American hunter, tracker, fur trader, and explorer (d. 1831)
- 1800 – Anna Maria Hall, Irish writer (d. 1889)
- 1817 – JJ McCarthy, Irish architect (d. 1882)
- 1822 – Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist (d. 1890)
- 1832 – Gustave Doré, French master of print and engraving (one of the most ingenious and successful book illustrators of the late 19th century) (d. 1883)
- 1838 – Max Bruch, German composer and conductor (d. 1920)
- 1849 – Hristo Botev, Bulgarian poet and hero of the Bulgarian national uprising against Ottoman rule (d. 1876)
- 1850 – Eduard Bernstein, German socialist (one of the first revisionists to attempt to revise Karl Marx's idea of the liquidation of the capitalist economy and the conquest of power by the proletariat) (d. 1932)
- 1854 – Sherlock Holmes, British fictional detective and hero created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- 1862 – August Oetker, German businessman, inventor of baking powder, and Dr. Founder of the Oetker firm (d. 1918)
- 1870 – Gustav Bauer, chancellor of the Weimar Republic 1919-1920 (d. 1944)
- 1872 – Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer (d. 1915)
- 1880 – Tom Mix, American actor (d. 1940)
- 1883 – Khalil Gibran, Lebanese-American philosophical essayist, poet, and painter (d.1931)
- 1896 – Vecihi Hürkuş, Turkish pilot, engineer and entrepreneur (Turkish aviation leader) (d. 1969)
- 1913 – Edward Gierek, Polish communist leader and First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party 1970-80 (d.2001)
- 1913 – Loretta Young, American actress and Academy Award winner for Best Actress (d. 2000)
- 1915 – Alan Watts, American philosopher (d. 1973)
- 1925 – Jane Harvey, American singer (d. 2013)
- 1928 – İsmet Sezgin, Turkish politician (d. 2016)
- 1929 – Babrak Karmal, Afghan politician (d. 1996)
- 1931 - Juan Goytisolo, Spanish writer
- 1946 – Syd Barrett, English musician, guitarist and founder of Pink Floyd (d. 2006)
- 1947 – Erkut Yücaoğlu, Turkish businessman
- 1948 – Clint Boulton, English professional football player (d. 2021)
- 1951 – Ahron Daum, Israeli rabbi (d. 2018)
- 1954 – Anthony Minghella, English film director (d. 2008)
- 1955 – Rowan Atkinson, English comedy actor and writer
- 1958 – Themos Anastasiadis, Greek journalist (d. 2019)
- 1967 – Delko Lesev, Bulgarian poleman
- 1969 – Bilal Uçar, Turkish lawyer and politician
- 1969 - Norman Reedus, American actor
- 1972 – Paris Elia, Greek Cypriot football player
- 1972 - Pascal Nouma, French football player
- 1978 – Erdem Kinay, Turkish composer, arranger and producer
- 1982 – Eddie Redmayne, English actor, model and singer
- 1986 – Alex Turner, English musician, lead singer, guitarist and composer of the indie rock band Arctic Monkeys
- 1986 – Irina Shayk, Russian model
- 1986 – Biran Damla Yılmaz, Turkish cinema and TV series actress
- 1989 – Nicky Romero, Dutch DJ
Deaths
- 884 – Hasan bin Zayd, founder of the Alawites Zaidi Dynasty (b. ?)
- 1478 – Uzun Hasan, Ruler of Akkoyunlular (b. 1423)
- 1537 – Alessandro de Medici, 1510st Duke of the Duchy of Florence (b. XNUMX)
- 1646 – Elias Holl, German architect (b. 1573)
- 1693 – IV. Mehmet (Avcı Mehmet), 19th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1642)
- 1725 – Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japanese playwright (b. 1653)
- 1731 – Étienne François Geoffroy, French chemist (b. 1672)
- 1805 – Conrad Moench, German botanist (b. 1744)
- 1852 – Louis Braille, French inventor (inventor of Braille) (b. 1809)
- 1874 – Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor, American politician (b. 1793)
- 1884 – Gregor Mendel, Austrian geneticist (b. 1822)
- 1918 – Georg Cantor, German mathematician (b. 1845)
- 1919 – Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1858),
- 1934 – Herbert Chapman, English football player and manager (b. 1878)
- 1945 – Vladimir Vernadski, Ukrainian mineralogist and geochemist (b. 1863)
- 1949 – Victor Fleming, American film director (b. 1889)
- 1959 – Baha Toven, Turkish linguist
- 1964 – Werner Kempf, Nazi Germany's panzer general (b. 1886)
- 1974 – David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter and muralist (b. 1896)
- 1978 – Burt Munro, New Zealand motorcycle racer (b. 1899)
- 1981 – AJ Cronin, Scottish writer (b. 1896)
- 1984 – Ernest Laszlo, Hungarian-American cinematographer (b. 1898)
- 1990 – Pavel Cherenkov, Russian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics (b. 1904)
- 1991 – Ahmet Adnan Saygun, Turkish composer (b. 1907)
- 1993 – Dizzy Gillespie (John Birks Gillespie), American jazz musician (b. 1917)
- 1993 – Rudolf Nureyev, Russian ballet dancer (b. 1938)
- 1995 – Muharrem Ergin, Turkish writer and Turcologist b. (1923)
- 1997 – Ergün Arıkdal, Turkish metapsychic researcher, author, and former President of the Turkish Metapsychic Studies and Scientific Research Association (b. 1936)
- 2000 – Don Martin, American comics (Mad Magazine) (b. 1931)
- 2000 – Mehmet Akif Inan, Turkish poet, writer, researcher, teacher (b. 1940)
- 2006 – Comandante Ramona, indigenous autonomous revolutionary of the Tzotzil people of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) (b. 1959)
- 2010 – İhsan Devrim, Turkish actor (b. 1915)
- 2011 – Uche Kizito Okafor, Nigerian national football player (b. 1967)
- 2012 – Azer Bülbül, Turkish arabesque fantasy music artist and actor. (b. 1967)
- 2013 – Metin Kaçan, Turkish writer and screenwriter (b. 1961)
- 2014 – Marina Ginestà i Coloma, militia symbol of the Spanish Civil War (b. 1919)
- 2014 – Mónica Spear Mootz, Venezuelan model, actress and singer (b. 1984)
- 2015 – Vlastimil Bubník, Czech former ice hockey player and international football player. (b. 1931)
- 2016 – Alfredo Armenteros, Cuban musician (b. 1928)
- 2016 – Daniel Patrick “Pat” Harrington, Jr.., American TV series, film actor, voice actor (b. 1929)
- 2016 – Silvana Pampanini, Italian beauty and actress (b. 1925)
- 2017 – Lelio Lagorio, Italian politician and bureaucrat (b. 1925)
- 2017 – Octavio Lepage, Venezuelan politician (b. 1923)
- 2017 – Ricardo Piglia, Argentine writer (b. 1941)
- 2017 – Om Prakesh Puri, Indian actor (b. 1950)
- 2017 – Francine York (birth name: Francine Yerich), is an American film and television actress (b. 1936)
- 2018 – Horace Ashenfelter III, former middle-distance and long-distance runner (b. 1923)
- 2018 – Marjorie Sewell Holt, American politician and lawyer (b. 1920)
- 2018 – Nigel Sims, English football player (b. 1931)
- 2018 – Dave Toschi, American detective (b. 1931)
- 2019 – José Ramón Fernández Álvarez, Cuban communist leader, Vice President of the Cuban Council of Ministers (b. 1923)
- 2019 – Angelo Ziccardi, Italian politician (b. 1928)
- 2020 – Michael G. Fitzpatrick, American lawyer and politician (b. 1963)
- 2021 – Osian Gwynn Ellis, Welsh musician, composer and educator (b. 1928)
Holidays and special occasions
- The liberation of Adana's Ceyhan district from the French occupation (1922)
- Feast of Epiphany
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