Today in History: Istanbulspor was Founded by Kemal Halim Gürgen

January 4 is the 4nd day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days left until the end of the year is 361.

Railways

• 4 January 1871 The official opening ceremony of the Yedikule-Küçükçekmece line was held. The public attended the ceremony attended by the grand vizier. There were some formal apartments on holiday. As the first line of the Rumeli Railways was opened, Baron Hirsch, the concessionaire, was awarded the Mecidiye Order of the first rank.
• 4 January 1921 Ankara-Eskişehir line was asked to allocate completely
• January 4, 1979 – The Anatolian Express and the Bosphorus Express collided near Sincan. Nineteen people were killed and many injured in the accident.

Events

• 1755 - The estuary froze.
• 1885 - The first successful appendectomy, Dr. Performed by William W. Grant to his patient, Mary Gartside.
• 1896 - Utah became the 45th state of the United States.
• 1911 – Babıali fire.
• 1918 - Russia recognizes Finland's independence.
• 1926 – Istanbulspor was founded by Kemal Halim Gürgen.
• 1932 - Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India.
• 1939 - Fascist Hiranuma Kiichirō becomes prime minister of Japan.
• 1944 - Soviet soldiers cross the pre-war Polish border.
• 1948 – Burma gained its independence from the United Kingdom.
• 1951 – Chinese and North Korean troops occupy Seoul.
• 1954 – President Celal Bayar opened Turkey's first Workers' Bank in Kayseri.
• 1962 – United States President John F. Kennedy announced that they would send more troops to Vietnam.
• 1967 – Batman-Iskenderun oil pipeline with a length of 490 kilometers was put into service.
• 1967 - Iraq oil pipeline opened.
• 1969 – Deputy Chairman of the Republican Peasant Nation Party (CKMP), Hakkı Yılanlıoğlu said, "This country belongs to the Ergenekon lions, not the Muscovite henchmen."
• 1969 – The international convention on the abolition of all forms of racial discrimination was signed.
• 1976 – At the location of the ancient city of Troy in Çanakkale, 12 meters high Trojan horse done.
• 1986 – Construction of the Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in the Bosphorus began.
• 1987 – A passenger train from Washington to Boston collided with another train: 16 people were killed.
• 1990 – A passenger train collided with a freight train in Sindh, Pakistan: 300 people were killed.
• 1996 – As a result of the military intervention in the events in Ümraniye E-Type Prison, 3 people were killed and 67 people were injured.
• 2004 – Loya Jirga, the grand assembly of Afghanistan, adopts the new constitution.
• 2004 – Mihail Saakashvili, one of the pioneers of the “Velvet Revolution” in Georgia, was elected president instead of Eduard Shevardnadze.
• 2006 - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon fell into a coma after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage. After the election victory of the new party Kadima on 28 March, Ehud Olmert formed the new government with Labor Party leader Amir Peretz and became prime minister.
• 2010 – Construction of Burj Khalifa was completed and it became the tallest skyscraper in the world.

Births

• 1338 – Mohammed V, Emir of Granada (d.1391)
• 1341 – Wat Tyler, English revolutionary leader (d.1381)
• 1643 – Isaac Newton, English mathematician and founder of modern physics (d. 1727)
• 1710 – Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian musician (d. 1736)
• 1725 – Petro Alexandrovich Rumyantsev, Russian general (d. 1796)
• 1747 – Dominique Vivant Denon, French artist, painter, diplomat, and writer (d. 1825)
• 1785 – Jacob Grimm, German author (elder of the Brothers Grimm) (d. 1863)
• 1797 – Wilhelm Beer, German banker, astronomer, businessman (d. 1850)
• 1809 – Louis Braille, French educator (invented the printing and writing technique commonly used by the blind and named after him) (d. 1852)
• 1847 – Niko Dadiani I, last prince of Megrelia (d. 1903)
• 1848 Katsura Tarō, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1913)
• 1851 – Bedrifelek Kadınefendi, second wife of Abdülhamid (d. 1930)
• 1853 – Şayan Kadınefendi, Third wife of Murad V (d. 1945)
• 1857 – Émile Cohl, French illustrator and animator (d. 1938)
• 1861 – Mehmet Vahideddin, last sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1926)
• 1864 – George Albert Smith, Fellow of the British Royal Astronomical Society, inventor and pioneering film director (d. 1959)
• 1866 – Ernest Mangnall, English manager (d. 1932)
• 1873 – Avram Galanti from Bodrum, Turkish educator, politician (d. 1961)
• 1876 – Augustus John, English painter and graphic artist (d. 1961)
• 1882 Yoshijirō Umezu, Japanese soldier (d. 1949)
• 1894 – Evariste Lévi-Provençal, French medievalist, orientalist, scholar of Arabic language and literature, and historian of Islam (d. 1956)
• 1896 – André Masson, French painter (d. 1987)
• 1900 – Nazlı Ecevit, Turkish painter (d. 1985)
• 1900 – Ernesto Palacio, Argentine historian (d. 1979)
• 1903 – Georg Elser, German carpenter (who unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate Hitler) (d. 1945)
• 1905 – Aristid von Grosse, German-American chemist and academic (d. 1985)
• 1905 – Tore Keller, Swedish football player (d. 1988)
• 1915 – Marie-Louise von Franz, Swiss analytical psychologist and researcher (d. 1998)
• 1916 – Slim Gaillard, American jazz singer, pianist, and guitarist (d. 1991)
• 1918 – Étienne Dailly, French senator, lawyer (d. 1996)
• 1923 – Maurice Cazeneuve, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2016)
• 1924 – Charles Tone, American politician (d. 2018)
• 1925 – Zigmas Zinkevičius, Lithuanian linguist and historian (d. 2018)
• 1925 – Abdullah Mujtabawi, Iranian freestyle wrestler (d. 2012)
• 1926 – Margareta Niculescu, Romanian artist, puppeteer, teacher and theater director (d. 2018)
• 1927 – Sabite Tur Gülerman, Turkish singer (d. 1989)
• 1928 – Maurice Rigobert Marie-Sainte, bishop of Martinique (d. 2017)
• 1929 – Özcan President, Turkish linguist (d. 1997)
• 1929 – Günter Schabowski, German politician (d. 2015)
• 1929 – Amitai Etzioni, German sociologist
• 1931 – Coşkun Özarı, Turkish football player and coach (d. 2011)
• 1932 - Carlos Saura, Spanish film director
• 1935 - Floyd Patterson, American boxer (d. 2006)
• 1941 – George Pan Cosmatos, Greek-Italian film director (d. 2005)
• 1942 – John McLaughlin, English musician
• 1956 – Nur Yoldaş, Turkish pop music artist
• 1963 – Till Lindemann, German musician
• 1971 – Tayfun Güneyer, Turkish screenwriter and director
• 1978 – Marcello Bravo, Austrian dancer and porn star
• 1980 – Bobbi Eden, Dutch actress and pornographic actress
• 1980 – Öner Erkan, Turkish actor
• 1984 – İbrahim Akin, Turkish football player
• 1985 – Gokhan Gonul, Turkish football player
• 1987 – Marissa Coleman, American basketball player
• 1990 – Toni Kroos, German football player

Deaths

• 1309 – Angela of Foligno, Italian mystic and writer (b. 1248)
• 1761 – Stephen Hales, English physiologist, chemist, and inventor (b. 1677)
• 1782 – Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French architect (b. 1698)
• 1786 – Moses Mendelssohn, Jewish philosopher (b. 1729)
• 1825 – Ferdinando I, King of the Two Sicilies (b. 1751)
• 1877 – Cornelius Vanderbilt, American entrepreneur (b. 1794)
• 1882 – John William Draper, American scientist, philosopher, physician, historian, chemist, and photographer (b. 1811)
• 1886 – Pyotr Tkachev, Russian writer, critic, revolutionary (b. 1844)
• 1891 – Pierre de Decker, Belgian Roman Catholic politician, statesman, and author (b. 1812)
• 1892 – James Redhouse, English linguist, translator, lexicographer (b. 1811)
• 1896 – Henri Alfred Jacquemart, French sculptor (b. 1824)
• 1910 – Frederick Matthew Darley, sixth Supreme Justice of New South Wales (b. 1830)
• 1913 – Alfred Graf von Schlieffen, German general (b. 1833)
• 1915 – Anton von Werner, German painter (b. 1843)
• 1919 – Georg von Hertling, German statesman and philosopher (b. 1843)
• 1924 – René Basset, French orientalist (b. 1855)
• 1927 – Süleyman Nazif, Turkish poet, writer and statesman (b. 1870)
• 1929 – Cemil Arıcan, Turkish politician (b. 1880)
• 1936 – James Churchward, British soldier, researcher, explorer, fish expert, mineralogist, historian (b. 1851)
• 1941 – Henri Bergson, French philosopher and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
• 1960 – Albert Camus, French writer, philosopher, and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
• 1961 – Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics (b. 1887)
• 1963 – Muzaffer Sarısözen, Turkish poet, minstrel (b. 1899)
• 1965 – TS Eliot, US-British poet, playwright, and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1966 – Georges Theunis, 24th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1873)
• 1967 – Boris Kraigher, Slovenian communist partisan, former prime minister of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia (b. 1914)
• 1975 – Carlo Levi, Italian painter, writer, doctor, activist, and antifascist (b. 1902)
• 2000 – Spiros Markezinis, Greek politician (b. 1909)
• 2003 – Sabiha Gürayman, Turkish civil engineer and volleyball player (Turkey's first female civil engineer) (b. 1919)
• 2006 – Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates (b. 1946)
• 2010 – Kemal Demir, Turkish physician, politician and President of the Red Crescent (b. 1921)
• 2013 – Şenay Yüzbaşıoğlu, Turkish pop music singer and songwriter (b. 1951)
• 2013 – Tony Lip (Frank Anthony Vallelonga), American actor (b. 1930)
• 2015 – Pino Daniele, Italian singer, guitarist and songwriter (b. 1955)
• 2015 – Natalino Pescarolo, Italian Catholic bishop (b. 1929)
• 2015 – René Vautier, French film director (b. 1928)
• 2016 – Michel Galabru, French actor (b. 1922)
• 2016 – Maja Maranow, German actress (b. 1961)
• 2016 – Achim Mentzel, German musician and actor (b. 1946)
• 2016 – Sedat Üründül, Turkish civil engineer and contractor (b. 1920)
• 2016 – Robert Stigwood, Australian-born producer (b. 1934)
• 2017 – Ezio Pascutti, Italian football manager and player (b. 1937)
• 2017 – Georges Prêtre, French conductor (b. 1924)
• 2018 – Brendan Thomas Byrne, American politician (b. 1924)
• 2019 – Harold Brown, American nuclear physicist (b. 1927)
• 2019 – Leo J. Dulacki, American soldier (b. 1918)
• 2020 – Herbert Binkert, Saarland national football player and manager (b. 1923)
• 2020 – Tom Long, Australian actor (b. 1968)
• 2020 – Oliver Batali Albino, South Sudanese politician (b. 1935)
• 2020 – Russell “Russ” Bannock, Canadian fighter pilot and author (b. 1919)
• 2020 – Lorenza Mazzetti, Italian female film director, novelist, painter and photographer (b. 1927)
• 2021 – Franco Loi, Italian poet and essayist (b. 1930)
• 2021 – Tanya Roberts (born Victoria Leigh Blum) is an American actress, producer, and comedian (b. 1955)
• 2021 – Barbara Shelley (born Barbara T. Kowin), English actress (b. 1932)
• 2021 – Martinus Veltman, Dutch theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics (b. 1931)

Holidays and special occasions

• Myanmar National Day
• Memorial Day of Süleyman Nazif in Diyarbakır