Today in History: The First Diesel Engine Car Completed Its Journey

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