Today in History: Ships of the US 6th Fleet Arrived in Istanbul

February 10 is the 41nd day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days left until the end of the year is 324.

Railways

• February 10, 1900 Russian Ambassador Sinowiew asked to give priority to Russia in the construction of the railway to be extended from the Black Sea Region to the interior region and presented a draft to Tevfik Pasha.
• 10 February 1922 Tevhid-i Efkar newspaper reported; An American Fevendeyshin Company applied to the Ministry of Nafia and asked for a railway concession.

Events

• 1074 – Divânu Lügati't-Türk; The first dictionary work of Turkish culture, written in Turkish, was written by Kaşgârlı Mahmut. (It began on January 25, 1072.)
• 1763 – Treaty of Paris signed between the Kingdom of Great Britain, France, and Spain: The Seven Years' War ends.
• 1828 – The Treaty of Turkmenchay was signed between the Russian Empire and the Qajar Dynasty.
• 1840 - Victoria I and Prince Albert wed in the chapel of Saint James's Palace.
• 1863 - Alanson Crane patented the fire extinguisher.
• 1916 – Battle of Dogger Bank between the German Empire and the United Kingdom.
• 1931 - New Delhi became the capital of India.
• 1933 – In a boxing match at Madison Square Garden (New York), Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf in the 13th round, Schaaf dies.
• 1937 – The General Directorate of Meteorology was established.
• 1946 – The South American Championship ends with Argentina winning the championship.
• 1947 – Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania and Finland sign the Paris Peace Treaty.
• 1947 - United States private banks refuse to provide loans to Turkey.
• 1950 – The trial of university faculty members who were tried on charges of communism came to an end: Behice Boran and Niyâzi Berkes were each sentenced to three months in prison. Pertev Naili Boratav was acquitted.
• 1953 – Adnan Çoker and Lütfü Günay, at the Faculty of Language, History and Geography, Ankara University. Before Love The first abstract painting exhibition named after him was opened.
• 1954 – Executives of the closed Nation Party founded the Republican Nation Party, Ahmet Tahtakiliç was elected as the Chairman.
• 1956 – Ceyhan River overflowed. 50 thousand hectares of land in Çukurova was flooded.
• 1958 – Istanbul Governor Mumtaz Tarhan banned striptease in nightclubs.
• 1962 – East-West exchanged spies; Francis Gary Powers, the pilot of the US spy plane U-2, which was shot down over the USSR skies, was exchanged for Russian spy Rudolf Abel.
• 1969 – Ships of the US 6th Fleet arrived in Istanbul. University students protested.
• 1971 – Mehmet Ali Aybar was referred to the Court of Honor of the Workers' Party of Turkey (TIP) with a request for expulsion.
• 1979 – Open heart surgery was performed on a one and a half month old baby for the first time in Turkey at Hacettepe Medical Faculty Hospital.
• 1979 – The Process Leading to the 12 September 1980 Coup in Turkey (1979 - 12 September 1980): CHP and EP deputies fought hand to hand in the Turkish Grand National Assembly.
• 1980 – Tariş events: On February 8, 1500 workers closed the doors and set up barricades in Çiğli İplik Factory. On February 10, the police intervened with the workers; 15 people were injured, 500 people were detained.
• 1981 – General Staff Martial Law Military Services Coordination Presidency made a call to 5 artists to “surrender”. The artists who were called to “surrender” were Cem Karaca, Melike Demirağ, Şanar Yurdatapan, Sema Poyraz and Selda Bağcan.
• 1981 – The leader of the closed Nationalist Movement Party, Alparslan Türkeş, gave a statement at the prosecutor's office. Alparslan Türkeş, who allegedly incited murder, said that the closed Nationalist Movement Party organization is against all kinds of acts of violence and murder.
• 1987 – The compensation lawsuit filed by writer Aziz Nesin against President Kenan Evren was rejected by the court. As the reason for refusal, it was shown that Presidents cannot be tried for crimes other than "treason".
• 1992 – Boxer Mike Tyson was convicted of raping black Miss America Desiree Washington.
• 1993 – The movie “The Tired Warrior” was broadcast on the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT). The film was shot by state television, but it was decided to be destroyed by the political and military authorities and burned in 1983. The Minister of Culture, Fikri Sağlar, had the only copy of the film that survived the burning and put it on the air.
• 1995 – The sale of the Meat and Fish Institution to Hak-İş Union on February 2, 1995, for one tenth of its real value, caused confusion. Hak-İş Union was known for its closeness to the Welfare Party. Thereupon, the sale was under review. The Prime Ministry canceled the sale decision on February 10, 1995.
• 1996 - IBM's supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov.
• 1998 – The film “Innocence”, directed by Zeki Demirkubuz, won the Sadoul Award in the category of cinema in France.
• 2006 – 2006 Winter Olympics started in Turin (Italy).
• 2006 – Mehmet Ali Ağca, who was previously sentenced to 36 years in prison for killing Milliyet newspaper writer Abdi İpekçi and for two separate extortion cases, was tried again according to the new Turkish Penal Code for the same case. Kadıköy The 1st High Criminal Court, considering the favorable provisions, sentenced Ağca to 21 years and 8 months in prison.
• 2015 – The Chapel Hill attack, in which 3 people were killed, took place.

Births

• 1775 – Ádám Récsey, Hungarian politician and general (d. 1852)
• 1775 – Charles Lamb, English essayist (d. 1834)
• 1785 – Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (d. 1836)
• 1791 – Francesco Hayez, Italian painter (d. 1882)
• 1807 – Lajos Batthyány, Hungarian statesman (d. 1849)
• 1842 – Agnes Mary Clerke, Irish astronomer and author (d. 1907)
• 1859 – Alexandre Millerand, President of France (d. 1943)
• 1861 – James Mooney, American ethnographer, folklorist, and anthropologist (d. 1921)
• 1890 – Boris Pasternak, Russian poet, author and 1958 Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960)
• 1890 – Fanya Kaplan, assassin who tried to kill Lenin (d. 1918)
• 1892 – Günther Blumentritt, General of Nazi Germany (d. 1967)
• 1893 – Jimmy Durante, American actor, comedian, singer, and pianist (d. 1980)
• 1893 – Ahmet Özenbaşlı, one of the leaders of the Crimean Tatar National Party movement, politician and intellectual (d. 1958)
• 1894 – Harold Macmillan, British politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1957-1963 (d. 1986)
• 1895 – Tsvyatko Radoynov, leader of the Bulgarian communist resistance movement (d. 1942)
• 1896 - Alister Hardy, English marine biologist; zooplankton and marine ecosystem specialist (d. 1985)
• 1897 – John Franklin Enders, American medical scientist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1985)
• 1897 – Judith Anderson, Australian actress (d. 1992)
• 1898 – Bertolt Brecht, German playwright (d. 1956)
• 1899 – Cevdet Sunay, Turkish soldier and statesman (d. 1982)
• 1901 – Stella Adler, American actress (d. 1992)
• 1902 Walter Houser Brattain, American physicist (d. 1987)
• 1903 – Matthias Sindelar, Austrian football player (d. 1939)
• 1909 – Henri Alekan, French cinematographer (d. 2001)
• 1911 – Rebii Erkal, Turkish football player and coach (d. 1985)
• 1922 – Árpád Göncz, Hungarian professor and politician (d. 2015)
• 1924 – Leman Şenalp, Turkish librarian (d. 2018)
• 1929 – Jerry Goldsmith, American composer and conductor (d. 2004)
• 1930 – Robert Wagner, American filmmaker and actor
• 1935 – Miroslav Blažević, Croatian manager
• 1935 – Zori Balayan, Armenian writer
• 1936 – Ayşe Nana, Armenian-Turkish-Italian actress and dancer (d. 2014)
• 1938 – Muharrem Dalkılıç, Turkish athlete and sports manager
• 1939 – Enver Ören, Turkish businessman, academic and founder of İhlas Holding (d. 2013)
• 1939 - Peter Purves, English actor and presenter
• 1940 – Güven Önüt, Turkish football player and manager (d. 2003)
• 1943 – Atilla Pakdemir, Turkish theater, cinema and TV series actor
• 1944 – Refik Durbaş, Turkish poet
• 1945 – Ömer Naci Soykan, Turkish philosopher and academician
• 1950 - Mark Spitz, American swimmer
• 1952 – Marco Aurelio Moreira, Brazilian football player
• 1955 – Greg Norman, Australian golfer
• 1957 – Briony McRoberts, English actress (d. 2013)
• 1957 – Oya Aydoğan, Turkish actress (d. 2016)
• 1958 – Sinan Turhan, Turkish football player and coach
• 1961 – Alexander Payne, American director and screenwriter
• 1962 – Cliff Burton, American musician and Metallica bassist (d. 1986)
• 1963 – Candan Erçetin, Turkish pop singer, performer, songwriter, composer and music teacher
• 1963 – Halil İbrahim Akpınar, Turkish bureaucrat
• 1967 - Kazuaki Koezuka, Japanese football player
• 1970 – Noureddine Naybet, Moroccan football player
• 1970 – Pelin Körmükçü, Turkish theater, cinema and TV series actress
• 1973 – Ajdar Anık, Turkish singer
• 1973 – Kazım Carman, Turkish actor
• 1974 - Elizabeth Banks, American actress
• 1975 – Kool Savaş, German musician
• 1976 - Carlos Jiménez, Spanish basketball player
• 1976 - Delio Toledo, Paraguayan football player
• 1976 – Vedran Runje, Croatian goalkeeper
• 1977 – Bakary Gassama, Gambian football referee
• 1977 – Salif Diao, Senegalese football player
• 1978 - Don Omar, Puerto Rican singer
• 1978 – Erkan Özbey, Turkish football player
• 1978 – Tuğba Özay, Turkish singer, songwriter, model and actress
• 1979 – Gabri García, Spanish football player and manager
• 1980 – Enzo Maresca, Italian football player
• 1980 – Sylvain Marchal, French football player
• 1981 Andrew Johnson, English football player
• 1981 – Gakuto Kondo, Japanese football player
• 1981 - Natasha St-Pier, Canadian singer
• 1982 – Şadi Çolak, Turkish football player
• 1982 – Tarmo Neemelo, Estonian football player
• 1983 - Kenny Adeleke, American basketball player
• 1983 - Ricardo Clark, American football player
• 1983 – Tanıl Özer, Turkish football player
• 1983 – Vagnur Mohr Mortensen, Faroese footballer
• 1984 – Marcelo Mattos, Brazilian football player
• 1984 – Marcos Aurélio, Brazilian football player
• 1985 – Jonas Maciulis, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1985 – Selcuk Inan, Turkish football player
• 1986 – Erik Friberg, Swedish football player
• 1986 – Nahuel Guzman, Argentine football player
• 1986 – Yuya Sato, Japanese football player
• 1987 – Arif Dashdemirov, Azerbaijani football player
• 1987 – Facundo Roncaglia, Argentine football player
• 1988 – César Elizondo, Costa Rican football player
• 1988 - Francesco Acerbi, Italian football player
• 1989 – Sabjen Lilaj, Albanian football player
• 1990 – Satoshi Yoshida, Japanese football player
• 1991 – Emma Roberts, American film and television actress
• 1991 – Park Kwang-Il, South Korean football player
• 1992 – Joeri de Kamps, Dutch football player
• 1992 – Misha B, English rapper
• 1993 – Guillermo Madrigal, Mexican football player
• 1994 – Jose Abella, Mexican football player
• 1994 – Xavier de Souza Kodjo, Cameroonian football player
• 1994 – Son Naeun, Korean singer, model, actor
• 1995 – Bobby Portis, American basketball player
• 1996 – Humam Tariq, Iraqi football player
• 1997 – Chloë Grace Moretz, American actress

Deaths

• 1162 – III. Baudouin, King of Jerusalem (b. 1130)
• 1242 – Shijō, Emperor of Japan (b. 1231)
• 1306 – John Comyn, Scottish baron (b. 1274)
• 1632 – Hafiz Ahmed Pasha, Ottoman statesman (b. 1569)
• 1755 – Montesquieu, French writer (b. 1689)
• 1829 – XII. Leo, 252nd Pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1760)
• 1836 – Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier, French chemist and nobleman (b. 1758)
• 1837 – Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet and writer (b. 1799)
• 1843 – Richard Carlile, English journalist (b. 1790)
• 1852 – Rainiharo, Malagasy politician (b. ?)
• 1857 – David Thompson, British-Canadian fur trader, surveyor, and mapmaker (b. 1770)
• 1868 – David Brewster, Scottish scientist, inventor, and author (b. 1781)
• 1871 – Étienne Constantin de Gerlache, lawyer and politician in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands (b. 1785)
• 1874 – Eudoxiu Hurmuzache, Romanian historian, politician, and writer (b. 1812)
• 1879 – Honoré Daumier, French painter, sculptor, and cartoonist (known for his caricatures of 19th-century French politics) (b. 1808)
• 1879 – Paul Gervais, French paleontologist and entomologist (b. 1816)
• 1891 – Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1850)
• 1912 – Joseph Lister, English physician (b. 1827)
• 1917 – John William Waterhouse, English painter (b. 1894)
• 1918 – Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian journalist, nationalist, revolutionary soldier, and pacifist (b. 1833)
• 1918 – II. Abdulhamid, 34th sultan of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1842)
• 1923 – Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics (b. 1845)
• 1927 – Adalı Halil, Turkish wrestler (b. 1870)
• 1932 – Edgar Wallace, English novelist and screenwriter (b. 1875)
• 1938 – Turar Ryskulov, Soviet politician (b. 1894)
• 1939 – XI. Pius, 259th Pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1857)
• 1944 – EM Antoniadi, Greek astronomer (b. 1870)
• 1947 – Muhsin Sabahattin Ezgi, Turkish composer and journalist (b. 1889)
• 1948 – Sergei Eisenstein, Russian film director (b. 1898)
• 1950 – Armen Tigranyan, Armenian composer and conductor (b. 1879)
• 1954 – Wilhelm Schmidt, Austrian linguist, anthropologist, and ethnologist (b. 1868)
• 1957 – Laura Ingalls Wilder, American writer (b. 1867)
• 1957 – Armenak Bedevyan, Armenian botanist and linguist. (b. 1884)
• 1958 – Nezihe Muhiddin, Ottoman-Turkish thinker, activist, journalist, writer and women's rights advocate (d. 1898)
• 1960 – Mustafa Sabri Baysan, Turkish politician (b. 1887)
• 1966 – JFC Fuller, British soldier, historian, and strategist (b. 1878)
• 1971 – Leyla Atakan, Turkish politician (b. 1925)
• 1973 – Nevzat Pesen, Turkish cinema director (b. 1924)
• 1975 – Hüseyin Ataman, Turkish soldier and politician (b. 1900)
• 1975 – Lige Clarke, American LGBT rights activist and journalist (b. 1942)
• 1979 – Edvard Kardelj, Yugoslav revolutionary and politician (b. 1910)
• 1984 – David Von Erich, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)
• 2000 – Jim Varney, American comedian, actor, musician, writer, and voice actor (b. 1949)
• 2003 – Curt Hennig, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)
• 2005 – Arthur Miller, American playwright (b. 1915)
• 2005 – Fahrettin Kırzıoğlu, Turkish academic and Turcologist (b. 1917)
• 2006 – J Dilla, American rapper and producer (b. 1974)
• 2006 – Robert Bruce Merrifield, American biochemist and academic (b. 1921)
• 2008 – Roy Scheider, American actor (b. 1932)
• 2009 – Hüdai Aksu, Turkish voice artist (b. 1948)
• 2014 – Shirley Temple, American actress (b. 1928)
• 2016 – Phil Gartside, British businessman (b. 1952)
• 2016 – Eliseo Prado, Argentine football player (b. 1929)
• 2017 – Wiesław Adamski, Polish sculptor (b. 1947)
• 2018 – Alan R. Battersby, English organic chemist (b. 1925)
• 2018 – Michiko Ishimure, Japanese writer and activist (b. 1927)
• 2019 – Carmen Argenziano, Italian-American actress (b. 1943)
• 2019 – Miranda Bonansea, Italian actress and voice actor (b. 1926)
• 2019 – Walter B. Jones Jr., American politician (b. 1943)
• 2019 – Roderick MacFarquhar, English journalist, author, historian and politician (b. 1930)
• 2019 – Daniel Silva dos Santos, Brazilian former football player (b. 1982)
• 2019 – Maura Viceconte, Italian long-distance runner (b. 1967)
• 2019 – Jan-Michael Vincent, American film actor (b. 1945)
• 2020 – Efigenio Ameijeiras, Cuban soldier (b. 1931)
• 2020 – Claire Bretécher, French illustrator, writer and publisher (b. 1940)
• 2020 – Lin Zhengbin, Chinese physician and transplant specialist (b. 1957)
• 2021 – Goran Daničić, Serbian actor (b. 1962)
• 2021 – Larry Flynt, American publisher (b. 1942)
• 2021 – Tamaz Gamkrelidze, Georgian linguist, orientalist and Hittitologist (b. 1929)
• 2021 – Pachín, Former Spanish professional football player (b. 1938)