Today in History: John Lennon's Famous Song Imagine Is Released

October 11 is the 284th (285th in leap years) day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days left until the end of the year is 81.

Railways

• 11 1872 1 980 1 230 XNUMX XNUMX XNUMX XNUMX XNUMX XNUMX XNUMX XNUMX XNUMX XNUMX XNUMX Construction of Skopje-Mitrovica and Tirnova-Yambol lines began.

Events

• 368 – There was a big earthquake in Iznik.
• 1138 – 230.000 people died in the great earthquake in Aleppo.
• 1142 – The war between the Kin Dynasty and the Song Dynasty ends with the Shaoxing Peace Treaty.
• 1311 - Nobles and clergy limited the powers of English Kings by Decrees of 1311.^[1]
• 1469 – King of Aragon II. Princess Isabella I of Castile married Fernando.
• 1531 - Huldrych Zwingli is killed in battle with the Swiss Catholic Cantons.^[2]
• 1783 - The Russian Academy of Sciences was founded.
• 1811 - First steam ferry julianastarted its voyages between New York and New Jersey.
• 1852 - The University of Sydney was founded in Australia with 3 professors and 24 students.
• 1881 - David Houston patents roll film for cameras.
• 1899 – South Africa, between the British Empire and the two Boer (Afrikaner) republics, the Transvaal Republic and the Orange Free State, during World War II. The war called the Boer War began.
• 1907 - Lusitania The cruise ship broke a record by crossing the Atlantic Ocean in 4 days and 18 hours and won the “Blue Ribbon”.
• 1910 - Theodore Roosevelt, who flew four minutes over Missouri in a plane built by the Wright Brothers, became the first US President to fly in an airplane.
• 1912 – First Balkan War: The Greek Army captures the Ottoman city of Kozana.
• 1922 – The Constitution is adopted in Ireland.
• 1922 – Mudanya Armistice was signed between the GNAT Government and the Entente Powers.
• 1928 – LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin A zeppelin named the dirigible set off from Germany to New Jersey to make its first transcontinental flight.
• 1929 - Yavuz the repair of the battleship is finished; The ship was delivered to the Turkish Navy.
• 1931 – The right to free trade was abolished in the USSR.
• 1939 - Albert Einstein penned his famous letter to US President Roosevelt to draw his attention to the atomic bomb issue.
• 1944 – The USSR annexes the Tuvan People's Republic.
• 1954 – In Vietnam, communists dominate the north of the country, establishing the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
• 1963 - Another oil seam was found in Batman.
• 1967 - Afghan Prime Minister Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal resigns for health reasons.
• 1968 – NASA launched Apollo 7 into space in the first manned space flight; astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Fulton Eisele and R. Walter Cunningham.
• 1971 - John Lennon's famous song Imagine published.
• 1972 – The National Salvation Party (MSP) was founded under the leadership of Necmettin Erbakan.
• 1973 - Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley divorced.
• 1977 - Marine scientist Captain Cousteau, his famous boat Calypso He came to Istanbul with
• 1979 – The trial of journalist Abdi İpekçi murder suspect Mehmet Ali Ağca begins.
• 1980 – Record-breaking Soviet cosmonauts (Valery V. Ryumin and Leonid I. Popov) return to Earth by staying aboard the space station Salyut 6 for 185 days.
• 1980 – Directed by Ali Özgentürk Hazal The film won 29 awards at the 3th International Mannheim Film Festival.
• 1981 – directed by Erden Kıral On Fertile Lands The film won first place at the Strasbourg Film Festival.
• 1984 – The European Parliament decided to re-establish the Turkey-European Economic Community Joint Parliamentary Commission, suspended the actual work.
• 1984 - Astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan, who went into space aboard the Challenger, became the first American woman to walk in space.
• 1986 – US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev met in Reykjavik (Iceland) to discuss the mutual reduction of medium-range missiles in Europe.
• 1988 – President Kenan Evren, correspondent of the German newspaper Die Welt, “You prevented Islamists from entering the cabinet with an order. Why did you do this?" to the question, “reactionary and communism are equally dangerous” replied.
• 1990 - Octavio Paz becomes the first Mexican writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
• 1992 – Eduard Shevardnadze was elected President of the Georgian Parliament.
• 1995 – A ceasefire was declared in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• 1998 – A Boeing 727 belonging to national airlines is shot down by rebels in Congo; 40 people died.
• 1999 – CNN Türk started its broadcasting life.
• 2002 – Jimmy Carter, a former US president, received the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize.
• 2012 – International Day of the Girl Child began to be celebrated with a decision taken by the United Nations to raise awareness about girls.
• 2012 – Syria-Turkey Crisis Passenger plane from Russia to Syria was landed at Ankara's Esenboğa Airport with the US military cargo intelligence. The USA and European countries gave the message that they are with Turkey regarding the incident.

Births

• 1671 – IV. Frederick, king of Denmark and Norway from 1699 until his death (d. 1730)
• 1675 – Samuel Clarke, English philosopher (d. 1729)
• 1758 – Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers, German astronomer (d. 1840)
• 1804 – Napoleon Louis Bonaparte, last King of the Kingdom of the Netherlands from the House of Bonaparte (d. 1831)
• 1872 – Emily Davison, suffragette who fought for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom in the early 20th century (d. 1913)
• 1881 – Hans Kelsen, Austrian-American lawyer (d. 1973)
• 1884 – Eleanor Roosevelt, wife and cousin of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (d. 1962)
• 1884 – Friedrich Bergius, German chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1949)
• 1885 – François Mauriac, French writer and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
• 1896 – Roman Jakobson, Russian philosopher (d. 1982)
• 1905 – Fred Trump, American businessman and entrepreneur (d. 1999)
• 1910 – Cahit Arf, Turkish mathematician and President of TUBITAK Science Branch (d. 1997)
• 1918 – Jerome Robbins, American theatrical producer, director, and choreographer (d. 1998)
• 1925 – Elmore Leonard, American novelist and screenwriter (d. 2013)
• 1926 – Jean Alexander, English actor (d. 2016)
• 1926 – Thích Nhất Hạnh, Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk, teacher, writer, poet, and peace activist
• 1926 – Earle Hyman, American actress (d. 2017)
• 1928 – Yıldız Kenter, Turkish theater and cinema artist (d. 2019)
• 1931 – Yıldırım Önal, Turkish theater and cinema artist (d. 1982)
• 1935 – Daniel Quinn, American author (d. 2018)
• 1937 - Bobby Charlton, English football player
• 1939 – Maria Bueno, Brazilian tennis player (d. 2018)
• 1942 - Amitabh Bachchan, Big B nicknamed Indian film actor
• 1943 – John Nettles, English actor
• 1946 – Arsen Gürzap, Turkish actor and theater director
• 1946 – Daryl Hall, American rock, R&B and soul singer
• 1947 – Lukas Papadimos, former Greek prime minister and Greek economist
• 1948 – Yasin Özdenak, Turkish football player and coach
• 1952 – Turan Özdemir, Turkish theater and film actor (d. 2018)
• 1953 David Morse, American actor
• 1954 – Vojislav Šešelj, Serbian politician
• 1955 - Hans Peter Briegel, German football player and manager
• 1956 – Nicanor Duarte, Paraguayan politician
• 1956 – André Parant, French ambassador
• 1957 – Cahit Khashoggler, Turkish TV and movie actor
• 1960 – Nicola Bryant, English actress
• 1961 Steve Young, American football player
• 1962 – Anne Enright, Irish writer
• 1962 – Joan Cusack, American actress
• 1966 – Osman Askin Bak, Turkish mechanical engineer and politician
• 1966 – Luke Perry, American actor and dubbing artist
• 1967 – Artie Lange, American stand-up comedian and film actor
• 1968 – Ali Yerlikaya, Turkish bureaucrat
• 1968 – Kıvırcık Ali, Turkish composer, musician and singer (d. 2011)
• 1968 – Jane Krakowski, American comedian, actress, and voice actor
• 1969 – Merieme Chadid, Moroccan-French astronomer, explorer, and astrophysicist
• 1969 - Constantijn, member of the Dutch Royal House and fourth in the Dutch throne
• 1969 – Stephen Moyer, English actor
• 1970 – MC Lyte, American rapper
• 1971 – Justin Lin, American film producer and director
• 1972 – Cléber Eduardo Arado, Brazilian football player (d. 2021)
• 1975 – Mete Horozoğlu, Turkish theater and film actor
• 1976 - Emily Deschanel, American actress
• 1976 – Gökhan Özoğuz, Turkish soloist
• 1976 – Hakan Özoğuz, Turkish guitarist and soloist
• 1977 – Matt Bomer, American actor
• 1977 – Jérémie Janot, French football player
• 1977 - Desmond Mason, American basketball player
• 1980 – Menduh Kızılkula, Turkish professional wrestler
• 1982 – Mauricio Victorino, Uruguayan football player
• 1983 - Bradley James, English actor
• 1983 - Ruslan Ponomariov, Ukrainian chess player
• 1985 – Nesta Carter, Jamaican athlete
• 1985 – Álvaro Fernández, Uruguayan football player
• 1985 – Michelle Trachtenberg, American actress
• 1987 – Mike Conley, Jr, American professional basketball player
• 1988 - Ricochet, American professional wrestler
• 1989 – Michelle Wie, American golfer
• 1990 – Joo, South Korean solo singer
• 1990 – Sebastian Rode, German football player
• 1992 – Cardi B, American rapper
• 1998 – Leandro Henrique do Nascimento, Brazilian football player

Deaths

• 1086 – Sima Guang, high-ranking Song Dynasty scholar and historian who wrote the monumental history book Zizhi Tongjian in China (b.
• 1303 – VIII. Bonifacius, priest from 24 December 1294 – 17 October 1303 (b. 1235)
• 1347 – IV. Ludwig (Bavarian), Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1282)
• 1531 – Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss clergyman and leader of the Swiss Protestant Reformation (b. 1484)
• 1542 – Thomas Wyatt, English diplomat and lyric poet (b. 1503)
• 1579 – Sokullu Mehmet Pasha, Ottoman Grand Vizier (b. 1505)
• 1705 – Guillaume Amontons, French physicist (b. 1663)
• 1889 – James Prescott Joule, English physicist (b. 1818)
• 1896 – Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (b. 1824)
• 1897 – Léon Boëllmann, French composer (b. 1862)
• 1921 – Đorđe Simić, Serbian politician and diplomat (b. 1843)
• 1937 – Grigori Gurkin, Russian Turcologist, ethnographer and painter (b. 1870)
• 1940 – John Devey, English football player (b. 1866)
• 1940 – Vita Volterra, Italian physicist and mathematician (b. 1860)
• 1944 – Józef Kałuża, Polish national football player and manager (b. 1896)
• 1958 – Maurice de Vlaminck, French painter (b. 1876)
• 1961 – Chico Marx, American comedian and film actor (b. 1887)
• 1963 – Jean Cocteau, French writer and poet (b. 1889)
• 1965 – Dorothea Lange, American document photographer (b. 1895)
• 1968 – Selim Sarper, Turkish politician (b. 1899)
• 1971 – Hikmet Kıvılcımlı, Turkish communist politician, writer, publisher and translator (b. 1902)
• 1985 – Metin Eloğlu, Turkish poet (b. 1927)
• 1986 – Georges Dumézil, French historian and linguist (b. 1898)
• 1988 – Bonita Granville, American actress and producer (b. 1923)
• 1991 – Redd Foxx, American stand-up comedian and actor (b. 1922)
• 1995 – Şemsi Belli, Turkish writer (b. 1925)
• 1997 – Asuman Arsan, Turkish actress (b. 1934)
• 1999 – Fakir Baykurt, Turkish writer (b. 1929)
• 2005 – Edward Szczepanik, Polish economist and last Prime Minister of the Polish Government-in-Exile (b. 1915)
• 2007 – Mehmed Uzun, Kurdish-Turkish writer (b. 1953)
• 2008 – Jörg Haider, Austrian politician (b. 1950)
• 2008 – Neal Hefti, American jazz trumpeter, composer, and arranger (b. 1922)
• 2008 – Nedret Selçuker, Turkish journalist and announcer (b. 1938)
• 2009 – Halit Refiğ, Turkish cinema director (b. 1934)
• 2010 – Georges Rutaganda, Rwandan Hutu militia in Interahamwe second vice president (b. 1958)
• 2011 – Ion Diaconescu, Romanian anticommunist politician (b. 1917)
• 2011 – Frank Kameny, American astronomer and LGBT rights activist (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Helmut Haller, German former international football player (b. 1939)
• 2013 – María de Villota, Spanish racing driver (b. 1980)
• 2013 – Erich Priebke, former Hauptsturmführer (captain) in the Waffen-SS in Nazi Germany (b. 1913)
• 2016 – Patricia Barry, American film, television actress, and philanthropist (b. 1922)
• 2016 – Pia Hallström, Swedish politician (b. 1961)
• 2016 – Jan Matocha, Czechoslovak canoe racer (b. 1923)
• 2017 – James R. Ford, American educator, politician, businessman, and human rights activist (b. 1925)
• 2017 – Chikara Hashimoto, Japanese baseball player and actor (b. 1933)
• 2017 – Clifford Husbands, former Governor-General of Barbados (b. 1926)
• 2017 – Lika Kavjaradze, Georgian film actress (b. 1959)
• 2018 – Paul Andreu, French architect (b. 1938)
• 2018 – Doug Ellis, English businessman (b. 1924)
• 2018 – Labinot Harbuzi, Swedish football player (b. 1984)
• 2018 – Greg Stafford, American video game producer and illustrator (b. 1948)
• 2018 – Hebe Uhart, Argentine woman writer and academic (b. 1936)
• 2019 – Robert Forster, American actor (b. 1941)
• 2019 – Alexei Leonov, Soviet cosmonaut (first person to walk in space) (b. 1934)
• 2019 – Ali Nakhchivani, highest administrative officer of the Baha'i Faith from 1963 to 2003 (b. 1919)
• 2020 – Hugo Arana, Argentine actor and comedian (b. 1943)
• 2021 – İsmet Uçma, Turkish politician (b. 1955)

Holidays and special occasions

• International Day of the Girl Child