Today in History: 26th Anniversary of the Sabancı Assassination

January 9 is the 9nd day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days left until the end of the year is 356.

Railways

• 9 January 1891 Adapazarı-Lefka line (63 km) was opened.
• 1900 – Cairo railway is completed in Egypt and the first train is put into service.

Events

• 475 – Byzantine Emperor Zeno was forced to leave the Capital Constantinople and flee to Antioch (Antakya), thus ending his first reign.
• 1788 - Connecticut becomes the 5th state to ratify the United States Constitution.
• 1792 – After 5 years of war between the Ottoman Empire and Russia, the Treaty of Yash was signed.
• 1839 - French Academy of Sciencesannounced a photography process called Daguerreotype.
• 1853 - The term "sick man" was used for the first time by Russian Tsar Nicholas I for the Ottoman Empire.
• 1861 - Mississippi secedes from the United States.
• 1900 – The Lazio team is founded in Italy.
• 1905 – Shots were opened on workers marching to the Winter Palace in Moscow.
• 1916 – Battles of Seddülbahir are over.
• 1916 – After the British withdrew from the Gallipoli Peninsula, the 08.45th Army Commander, Marshal Otto Liman von Sanders, telegraphed from Alçıtepe to the Deputy Commander-in-Chief at 5:XNUMX in the morning.Thank God the Gallipoli Peninsula has been completely cleared of the enemy. Other details will be presented separately." said.
• 1921 – First Battle of İnönü started.
• 1922 – Dörtyol district of Hatay was liberated from the French occupation. (The “first bullet” against the Entente forces was fired by Ömer Hodja's son Kara Mehmet on December 19, 1918 in the town of Karakese in Dörtyol.)
• 1926 – The law that the lottery drawing belongs only to the Tayyare Society was passed.
• 1936 – Ankara University Faculty of Language, History and Geography started education with a ceremony attended by Atatürk. Speaking at the ceremony, Minister of National Education Saffet Arıkan said:It is the Turkish children who will re-create the world's culture that seems rotten." said.
• 1937 – Leon Trotsky, exiled by Josef Stalin, went to Mexico.
• 1937 – Istanbul Tram Company gave a pass for the students to travel cheaply. The passes were valid for the journeys between the residence areas of the students and the region where their schools were located.
• 1942 – The Turkish Historical Society decided to publish all of Ziya Gökalp's works, and the Turkish Language Institute decided to translate a new Qur'an.
• 1949 – Turkey's 7th Prime Minister Hasan Saka resigned from his post.
• 1951 – United Nations headquarters opened.
• 1951 - Washington Capitols club is closed.
• 1955 – State Opera soprano Leyla Gencer went to Italy to give performances.
• 1957 – British Prime Minister Anthony Eden resigns for health reasons.
• 1964 – 21 Panamanians and 3 American soldiers were killed in anti-American demonstrations in the Panama Canal area.
• 1964 – The strike at the ATAŞ Refinery was postponed for one month by the Council of Ministers, on the grounds that it was "destroying national security".
• 1966 – The first convoy of 800 workers left for Germany.
• 1968 - The Surveyor 7 spacecraft made a soft landing on the lunar surface. This voyage was the last of the Americans' unmanned lunar surface exploration.
• 1968 – A dog's heart was replaced at Ankara Yüksek İhtisas Hospital. Forty minutes after the operation, the dog was “sleeped” due to difficulties in care.
• 1968 – Snowfall was observed for the first and last time in the history of Mexico City, the precipitation continued for 2 more days.
• 1969 – Middle East Technical University (METU) was suspended for a month. On January 6, the office car of the American Ambassador Robert Komer was burned at the university by the students.
• 1969 – Concorde, the first passenger plane to exceed the speed of sound, successfully performed its test flight.
• 1970 – According to the statement made in the United Kingdom, 2850 people died from the Hong Kong flu in one week.
• 1972 - RMS Queen Elizabeth The cruise ship was semi-submerged by a fire in Hong Kong's Victoria Harbor. This wreckage was used as a set and set in the 1974 James Bond movie The Man with the Golden Gun.
• 1978 – Fuel shortage is at an extreme; Hospitals that ran out of fuel began not accepting patients and discharged inpatients.
• 1978 - 14 places bombed in one day. Bombs dropped 5 times in Istanbul, 7 in Ankara, and one each in Trabzon and Afşin, causing damage.
• 1978 – Capa Medical Faculty in Istanbul was closed due to severe cold.
• 1978 – Esat Gühan, Acting General Manager of TEKEL, was dismissed, Orhan Öz was appointed by proxy.
• 1979 – Two trains collided in Ankara. 32 people died, mostly workers and students.
• 1979 – Two Palestinian guerrillas, Muhammed Reşit and Mehdi Muhammed, who were sentenced to life imprisonment after the bloody raid on Yeşilköy Airport, escaped from Sağmalcılar Prison.
• 1979 – Aegean Continental Shelf negotiations started in Vienna in great secrecy.
• 1984 - The Supreme Court made a decision; The price of the gold medal given to the retired worker will be deducted from the severance pay.
• 1986 – Kodak company lost its patent lawsuits filed by Polaroid, instant photo camera (instant camera) had to quit his job.
• 1987 – The Supreme Court decided to transfer the assets of the Nationalist Movement Party on Alparslan Türkeş to the Treasury.
• 1991 – Smoking and advertising of tobacco products in public transport are prohibited.
• 1992 - Under the leadership of Karadzic, Bosnian Serbs declared that they established the "Republika Srpska of Bosnia and Herzegovina".
• 1995 – Upon the words of Güner Ümit in the “Super Turnstile” program broadcast on Inter Star, implying that there is “incest” among Alevis, Alevis demonstrated in front of television for two days. At the end of two days, it was announced that the program would be cancelled.
• 1996 – The body of Evrensel Newspaper reporter Metin Göktepe was found on the land near Eyüp Sports Hall. Journalist Metin Göktepe had been prevented from doing his duty by the police the day before and was taken into custody.
• 1996 – Sabancı Holding Board Member Özdemir Sabancı, Toyotasa General Manager Haluk Görgün and secretary Nilgün Hasefe were shot dead in Sabancı Center. The DHKP/C organization claimed responsibility for the incident.
• 1997 – Prime Ministry Crisis Management Center regulation was published in the Official Gazette. The regulation gives some executive powers to the General Staff of the General Staff in crisis situations.
• 2003 – The Second African Social Forum ends.
• 2003 – Family courts were established.
• 2005 - Mahmoud Abbas was elected President of Palestine.
• 2007 – An earthquake with a magnitude of 200 occurred, the epicenter of which was 8 kilometers southeast of Tashkent, the Capital of Uzbekistan.
• 2007 – An Antonov-type plane belonging to a Moldovan company, which was going from Adana to Iraq, with Turkish workers, crashed 200 meters before the runway of Beled Airport in Baghdad: 34 people were killed.
• 2009 – The 1951 Council of Ministers Decision regarding the removal of Nâzım Hikmet from Turkish citizenship was repealed.
• 2011 – Iran Air flight 277 crashed near Urmia. 72 people lost their lives.
• 2011 – An independence referendum was held in South Sudan.

Births

• 1988 – Kadir Jonturk,
• 1590 – Simon Vouet, French painter and decorator (d. 1649)
• 1624 – Meishō, ruler of Japan (d. 1696)
• 1671 – Jean-Baptiste Vanmour, French painter (d. 1737)
• 1715 – Robert-François Damiens, French assassin (who unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate King Louis XV of France) (d. 1757)
• 1778 – Hammâmîzâde İsmâil Dede Efendi, Turkish musician (d. 1846)
• 1835 – Ivasaki Yataro, Japanese financier and founder of Mitsubishi (d. 1885)
• 1856 – Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac, Serbian composer, music educator, conductor, collector of public art, and author (d. 1914)
• 1857 – Anna Kuliscioff, Jewish-Russian revolutionary, feminist, anarchist, one of the first women to study medicine in Italy (d. 1925)
• 1868 – Søren Sørensen, Danish biochemist (d. 1939)
• 1878 – John B. Watson, American psychologist (d. 1958)
• 1881 – Lascelles Abercrombie, English poet and literary critic (d. 1938)
• 1881 – Giovanni Papini, Italian journalist, essayist, literary critic, poet, and novelist (d. 1956)
• 1882 – Otto Ruge, Norwegian general (d. 1961)
• 1890 – Karel Capek, Czech novelist, short story, playwright, and essayist (d. 1938)
• 1890 – Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist and author (d. 1935)
• 1893 – Pierre Renouvin, French diplomat and historian (d. 1974)
• 1899 – Harald Tammer, Estonian journalist, athlete, and weightlifter (d. 1942)
• 1899 – Arda Bowser, American professional football player (d. 1996)
• 1900 – Fahrettin Kerim Gökay, Turkish bureaucrat and politician (Governor and Mayor of Istanbul) (d. 1987)
• 1901 – Chic Young, American illustrator (d. 1973)
• 1902 – Stanisław Wojciech Mrozowski, Polish physicist (d. 1999)
• 1908 – Glyn Smallwood Jones, British politician (d. 1992)
• 1908 – Simone de Beauvoir, French writer and feminist (who continued the existential movement in literature) (d. 1986)
• 1911 – Gypsy Rose Lee, American stripper (d. 1970)
• 1913 – Richard Milhous Nixon, American politician and 37th President of the United States (d. 1994)
• 1914 – Kenny Clarke, American jazz drummer (d. 1985)
• 1917 – Cahit Külebi, Turkish poet (d. 1997)
• 1918 – Hikmet Tanyu, Turkish academic, poet and writer (d. 1992)
• 1922 – Ahmed Sékou Touré, first President of the Republic of Guinea (d. 1984)
• 1922 – Har Gobind Khorana, American molecular biologist (d. 2011)
• 1925 – Lee Van Cleef, American actor (d. 1989)
• 1928 – Domenico Modugno, Italian singer-songwriter (d. 1994)
• 1929 – Brian Friel, Irish translator and playwright (d. 2015)
• 1933 – Wilbur Smith, Rhodesian writer (d. 2021)
• 1937 – Klaus Schlesinger, German writer and journalist (d. 2001)
• 1940 - Sergio Cragnotti, Italian sportsman
• 1941 – Joan Baez, American folk singer (singer and political activist who aroused youth interest in American folk music in the 1960s)
• 1942 – Adnan Keskin, Turkish politician
• 1944 – Jimmy Page, English musician and guitarist of Led Zeppelin
• 1944 – Yusuf Kenan Doğan, Turkish politician (d. 2015)
• 1945 – Levon Ter-Petrosyan, the first President of Armenia
• 1948 – Jan Tomaszewski, former Polish goalkeeper
• 1950 - Alec Jeffreys, British geneticist
• 1950 – Mevlüt Cetinkaya, Turkish bureaucrat
• 1951 – Michel Barnier, French politician
• 1954 – Mirza Delibašić, Bosnian basketball player (d. 2001)
• 1955 – JK Simmons, American actor and winner of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
• 1955 – Mehmet Müezzinoğlu, Turkish physician and politician
• 1956 – Imelda Staunton, English actress
• 1958 – Mehmet Ali Ağca, Turkish assassin (the suspect of the assassinations of Pope and Abdi İpekçi)
• 1960 – Mübeccel Vardar, Turkish theater and film actor (d. 2006)
• 1965 – Haddaway, Trinidadian pop singer
• 1967 – Claudio Caniggia, Argentine football player
• 1968 – İskender Iğdır, Turkish mountaineer (d. 2000)
• 1968 – Joey Lauren Adams, American actress
• 1970 – Lara Fabian, Belgian singer
• 1977 – Scoonie Penn, American basketball player
• 1978 – Alpay Kemal Atalan, Turkish actor
• 1978 – Esra İçöz, Turkish Classical Music singer
• 1978 – Gennaro Gattuso, Italian football player
• 1981 – Danielson Ferreira Trindade, Brazilian football player
• 1981 – Euzebiusz Smolarek, Polish football player
• 1982 – Kate Middleton, wife of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge
• 1984 – Hussein Yasser, Qatari football player
• 1984 – Engin Nurşani, Turkish Classical Music singer (d. 2020)
• 1985 – Bobô, Brazilian football player
• 1985 – Enver Işık Turkish football player
• 1985 – Sinem Öztürk, Turkish actress and presenter
• 1987 – Felipe Flores, Chilean football player
• 1988 - Marc Crosas, Spanish football player
• 1989 – Ethem Yilmaz Turkish football player
• 1989 – Michaëlla Krajicek, Dutch tennis player
• 1991 – Can Maxim Mutaf, Turkish basketball player
• 1992 – Franck Mbarga, Cameroonian football player
• 1994 – Pawel Cibicki, Polish football player
• 1995 – Jilke Deconinck, Belgian football player
• 1996 – Ivanildo Cassamá, football player from Guinea-Bissau

Deaths

• 1848 – Caroline Herschel, German-English astronomer (b. 1750)
• 1852 – Mirza Taki Khan, Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1807)
• 1854 – Almeida Garrett, Portuguese poet, playwright, novelist, and politician (b. 1799)
• 1873 – III. Napoleon, Emperor of France (b. 1808)
• 1878 – II. Vittorio Emanuele, King of the Kingdom of Sardinia (b. 1820)
• 1878 – Ömer Fevzi Pasha, Ottoman soldier and statesman (b. 1818)
• 1907 – Muzaffereddin Shah, Shah of Iran (b. 1853)
• 1918 – Charles-Émile Reynaud, French science teacher and inventor (b. 1844)
• 1927 – Houston Stewart Chamberlain, English writer and philosopher (b. 1855)
• 1933 – Daphne Akhurst, Australian tennis player (b. 1903)
• 1936 – John Gilbert, American actor (b. 1899)
• 1940 – Ali Rıza Arıbaş, Turkish politician (b. 1882)
• 1943 – RG Collingwood, English philosopher and historian (b. 1889)
• 1945 – Osman Cemal Kaygılı, Turkish writer (b. 1890)
• 1947 – Karl Mannheim, German sociologist (b. 1893)
• 1947 – Yusuf Ziya Zarbun, Turkish politician (b. 1877)
• 1951 – Ahmet Hamdi Akseki, Turkish religious scholar and the 3rd President of Religious Affairs (b. 1887)
• 1957 – Hamdi Çelen, Turkish politician (b. 1892)
• 1961 – Emily Greene Balch, American economist and author (b. 1867)
• 1963 – Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin, general in Nazi Germany (b. 1891)
• 1964 – Halide Edip Adıvar, Turkish writer (b. 1884)
• 1968 – Avni Yukaruç, Turkish politician (b. 1893)
• 1975 – Pierre Fresnay, French actor (b. 1897)
• 1979 – Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian civil engineer (b. 1891)
• 1980 – Naim Erem, Turkish politician (b. 1894)
• 1982 – Hürrem Müftügil, Turkish politician (b. 1898)
• 1982 – Nurullah Berk, Turkish painter and writer (b. 1906)
• 1984 – Alp Zeki Heper, Turkish director (b. 1939)
• 1990 – Cemal Süreya, Turkish poet (b. 1931)
• 1992 – Bill Naughton, English playwright (b. 1910)
• 1993 – Ragıp Sarıca, Turkish politician (b. 1912)
• 1995 – Alaettin Eriş, Turkish politician (b. 1908)
• 1995 – Peter Cook, English actor, variety artist and writer (b. 1937)
• 1995 – Souphanouvong, first President of Laos (b. 1909)
• 1996 – Özdemir Sabancı, Turkish businessman (b. 1941)
• 2001 – Yusuf Bozkurt Özal, Turkish politician (b. 1940)
• 2004 – Burçin Bircan, Turkish model (b.1984)
• 2009 – Irène Mélikoff, French Turcologist of Russian and Azerbaijani descent (b. 1917)
• 2009 – Süleyman Çağlar, Turkish politician (b. 1920)
• 2010 – Saltuk Kaplangı, Turkish theater and film actor (b. 1932)
• 2012 – Malam Bacai Sanhá, President of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1947)
• 2013 – James M. Buchanan, American economist (b. 1919)
• 2013 – Vivian Brown, one of the San Francisco twins (b. 1927)
• 2014 – Amiri Baraka, African-American writer, poet, and activist (b. 1934)
• 2014 – Dale T. Mortensen, American economist (b. 1939)
• 2014 – Erdal Alantar, Turkish painter (b. 1932)
• 2014 – Lorella De Luca, Italian film and TV actress (b. 1940)
• 2015 – Amedy Coulibaly, French criminal (b. 1982)
• 2015 – Brian Friel, Irish translator and playwright (b. 1929)
• 2015 – Roy Tarpley, American professional basketball player (b. 1964)
• 2015 – Samuel Goldwyn, American film director (b. 1926)
• 2016 – Bircan Pullukçuoğlu, Turkish musician (b. 1948)
• 2016 – Cielito del Mundo, Filipino singer and actor (b. 1935)
• 2016 – Maria Teresa de Filippis, Italian speedway driver (b. 1926)
• 2016 – Zelimhan Yakub, Azerbaijani poet and politician (b. 1950)
• 2018 – Terence Marsh, English art director and designer (b. 1931)
• 2018 – Jean-Marc Mazzonetto, French rugby player (b. 1983)
• 2018 – Robert Minlos, Soviet-Russian mathematician (b. 1931)
• 2018 – Odvar Nordli, Norwegian politician (b. 1927)
• 2018 – Yılmaz Onay, Turkish writer, director and translator (b. 1937)
• 2018 – Kato Ottio is a Papua New Guinean rugby player (b. 1994)
• 2018 – Aleksandr Vedernikov, Russian-Soviet opera singer, chamber singer, and educator (b. 1927)
• 2019 – Gebran Areiji, Lebanese politician (b. 1951)
• 2019 – Kjell Bäckman, Swedish speed skater (b. 1934)
• 2019 – Verna Bloom, American actress (b. 1938)
• 2019 – Óscar González-Quevedo, Spanish-Brazilian Jesuit priest and writer (b. 1930)
• 2019 – Known as Conxita Julià; Conxita de Carrasco, Spanish poet of Catalan descent (b. 1920)
• 2019 – Paul Koslo, German-Canadian actor (b. 1944)
• 2019 – Anatoly Lukyanov, Soviet-Russian communist politician (b. 1930)
• 2019 – Paolo Paoloni, Italian actor (b. 1929)
• 2019 – Alan Trask, American politician (b. 1933)
• 2020 – Walter J. Boyne, American aviator, fighter pilot, historian, and author (b. 1929)
• 2020 – Rudolf de Korte, Dutch politician and businessman (b. 1936)
• 2020 – Juan Kachmanian (known as: Pampero Firpo), Argentine-American professional wrestler of Armenian descent (b. 1930)
• 2020 – Ivan Passer, Czech-American film director and screenwriter (b. 1933)
• 2021 – Jerry Douglas, American pornographic film and theater director, screenwriter (b. 1935)
• 2021 – František Filip, Czech film producer and director (b. 1930)
• 2021 – John Reilly, American actor (b. 1936)

Holidays and special occasions

• Liberation of Dörtyol district of Hatay province from French occupation (1922)