Today in History: Great Women's Meeting was Held in Sultanahmet

April 11 is the 101nd (102rd in leap years) day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days left until the end of the year is 264.

Railways

• April 11, 1917 With the attacks of rebellious Bedouins, 12 rails and 2 crossbars were destroyed on April 14, with the attack of the group consisting of 150 syllables and 50 infantrymen. On April 100, 16 people surrounded the Hasim San'a Station. On the same day, 800 people attacked Müderric Station. On April 500, a woodcut platoon was ambushed and caused heavy casualties.

Events

• 491 - Flavius ​​Anastasius becomes Byzantine Emperor.
• 1899 - Spain ceded Puerto Rico to the United States.
• 1905 - Einstein explained his Theory of Relativity.
• 1919 – The International Labor Organization (ILO) is established.
• 1919 - Singapore declared its independence from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
• 1919 – Kazım Karabekir Pasha, who was appointed to the 15th Corps Command, visited Mustafa Kemal Pasha at his home in Şişli.
• 1920 – Damat Ferid published a statement against Kuva-yi Milliye.
• 1920 – Parliament was closed.
• 1930 – A large women's rally was held in Sultanahmet. At the rally organized by the Turkish Women's Union, “the right to vote and be elected to women” was celebrated.
• 1957 – Ratip Tahir Burak, owner of Halk newspaper, was arrested for a cartoon.
• 1962 – Karen Friesicke, German actress and comedian
• 1963 – Turkey Agricultural Equipment Authority (TZDK) Adapazarı Tractor Factory was established.
• 1965 - Hurricanes in the mid-western states of the USA killed 256 people.
• 1967 – The play "Women Say I-Ih" was banned in Istanbul. The leading actress Lale Oraloğlu started a hunger strike.
• 1970 - Apollo 13 was launched into space.
• 1972 – After November 1967, B-52s began bombing Vietnam again for the first time.
• 1975 – The construction of the Iraqi leg of the Turkish-Iraqi oil pipeline was started.
• 1975 – The law on the establishment of Uludağ Universities in Bursa, Fırat in Elazığ, Ondokuz Mayıs in Samsun and Selçuk Universities in Konya came into force.
• 1980 – Writer Ümit Kaftancıoğlu was killed in Istanbul.
• 1983 – In the explosion during the repair works of the İhsaniye quarry of the Kozlu Coal Production Zone in Zonguldak, 10 miners, including an engineer, were killed and nine others injured.
• 1991 – The Anti-Terrorism Act was passed.
• 1995 – Within the scope of the Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP), the first water was supplied to the Harran Plain.
• 1997 – It was decided to give the Atatürk International Peace Prize to the Turkish Peace Corps serving in Bosnia.
• 2001 – 43 people were killed and 100 injured in a clash between supporters in a game in South Africa.
• 2001 – The match played between Australia and American Samoa, Australia won 31-0.
• 2002 – A Synagogue was bombed in Tunisia; 21 people died.
• 2006 - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced that they were enriching uranium.
• 2006 – In Italy, famous mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano, who has been missing for 43 years, was caught drinking vegetable soup with a bodyguard in the village of Corleone.
• 2009 – The Giant-Youth Union was founded.
• 2010 – The first YGS Higher Education Transition Exam was held.

Births

• 145 – Septimius Severus, Roman Emperor (d. 211)
• 1611 – Karl Eusebius, Prince of Liechtenstein (d. 1684)
• 1616 – Cemre Sultan, daughter of Ahmed I and Kösem Sultan (d. 1620)
• 1755 – James Parkinson, English physician (d. 1824)
• 1806 – Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play, French mining engineer and sociologist (d. 1882)
• 1830 – John Douglas, English architect (d. 1911)
• 1869 – Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (d. 1943)
• 1905 – Attila József, Hungarian poet (d. 1937)
• 1926 – Erwin Frühbauer, Austrian politician (d. 2010)
• 1928 – Ethel Kennedy, wife of Robert F. Kennedy
• 1930 – Anton Szandor LaVey, American occultist author and founder of the Church of Satan (d. 1997)
• 1935 – Richard Kuklinski, American serial killer (d. 2006)
• 1936 – Pekcan Koşar, Turkish theater and cinema artist (d. 2005)
• 1946 – Chris Burden, American performance artist (d. 2015)
• 1947 Peter Riegert, American actor
• 1953 Andrew Wiles, English mathematician
• 1954 – Abdullah Atalar, Turkish scientist and Rector of Bilkent University
• 1959 – Peyami Gürel, Turkish painter
• 1960 – Jeremy Clarkson, English writer
• 1961 – Vincent Gallo, American screenwriter, director, and actor
• 1964 – Johann Sebastian Paetsch, American musician
• 1968 – Sergey Lukyanenko, Russian novelist
• 1971 - Oliver Riedel, bass guitarist of the German metal band
• 1972 – Jon Rechart, American professional wrestler (d. 2016)
• 1973 – Jennifer Esposito, American actress
• 1974 - Tricia Helfer, Canadian actress
• 1975 – Ufuk Özkan, Turkish actor
• 1977 – Demet Şener, Turkish model and actress
• 1977 – Ivonne Teichmann, German athlete
• 1980 – Keiji Tamada, Japanese international football player
• 1981 – Alessandra Ambrosio, Brazilian model
• 1981 – Sera Tokdemir, Turkish actress
• 1984 – Nikola Karabatić is a French handball player.
• 1985 - Pablo Hernández Domínguez, Spanish football player
• 1986 – Sarodj Bertin, Haitian model and former beauty queen
• 1987 – Lights, Canadian electropop musician, singer and songwriter
• 1987 – Michelle Phan, American entrepreneur and YouTube celebrity
• 1987 – Joss Stone, English soul and R&B singer, songwriter and actor
• 1990 – Thulani Serero, South African international football player
• 1991 – Thiago Alcántara, Spanish football player
• 1994 – Dakota Blue Richards, English actress
• 1996 – Dele Alli, English football player

Deaths

• 618 – Emperor Yang, second emperor of the Sui Dynasty of China (b. 569)
• 678 – Donus, pope who served from November 2, 676 until his death in 678
• 1034 – III. Romanos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 968)
• 1514 – Donato Bramante, Italian architect (b. 1444)
• 1607 – Bento de Góis, Portuguese Jesuit missionary and explorer (b. 1562)
• 1626 – Marino Ghetaldi, Ragusan scientist (b. 1568)
• 1712 – Richard Simon, French Catholic commentator, theologian, philosopher, and historian (b. 1638)
• 1716 – Christian Knaut, German physician, botanist, and librarian (b. 1656)
• 1856 – Juan Santamaría, national hero of the Republic of Costa Rica (b. 1831)
• 1873 – Christopher Hansteen, Norwegian geophysicist and astronomer (b. 1784)
• 1893 – Joseph Merrick, British citizen (b. 1862)
• 1895 – Julius Lothar Meyer, German chemist (b. 1830)
• 1918 – Otto Wagner, Austrian architect (b. 1841)
• 1939 – Kurtdereli Mehmet Pehlivan, Turkish wrestler (b. 1864)
• 1953 – Boris Kidrič, Slovenian partisan, first prime minister of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia (b. 1912)
• 1970 – John O'Hara, American author (b. 1907)
• 1977 – Jacques Prévert, French poet and screenwriter (b. 1900)
• 1980 – Ümit Kaftancıoğlu, Turkish writer, compiler and radio host (b. 1935)
• 1983 – Dolores del Río, Mexican actress (b. 1905)
• 1985 – Enver Hoxha, President of Albania (b. 1908)
• 1989 – Orhon Murat Arıburnu, Turkish poet (b. 1916)
• 2002 – Giray Alpan, Turkish film actor (b. 1935)
• 2005 – Lucien Laurent, French former international football player (b. 1907)
• 2006 – DeShaun Dupree Holton, stage name Proof, American rapper (b. 1973)
• 2007 – Kurt Vonnegut, American author (b. 1922)
• 2009 – René Monory, French politician and statesman (b. 1923)
• 2011 – Lewis Roberts Binford, American archaeologist (b. 1931)
• 2011 – Ruşen Hakkı, Turkish journalist, poet and writer (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Ahmed Ben Bella, first President of Algeria (b. 1916)
• 2012 – Misbach Yusa Biran, Indonesian writer, director and critic (b. 1933)
• 2013 – Hilary Koprowski, Polish physician, researcher and scientist (b. 1916)
• 2013 – Maria Tallchief, American ballet dancer (b. 1925)
• 2013 – Jonathan Winters, American author (b. 1925)
• 2014 – Edna Doré, English actress (b. 1921)
• 2017 – José Ramón Gurruchaga Ezama, Peruvian Catholic bishop (b. 1931)
• 2017 – Edward Francis, Indian Catholic bishop (b. 1930)
• 2017 – J. Geils, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1946)
• 2017 – Margit Schumann, Olympic winner, former German luge athlete (b. 1952)
• 2017 – Toby Grafftey-Smith, English musician and songwriter (b. 1970)
• 2018 – Zola Skweyiya, South African politician (b. 1942)
• 2019 – Alexander V. Acebo, American politician (b. 1927)
• 2019 – Can Bartu, Turkish football player (born 1936)
• 2019 – Geoffrey Foucar Chew, American theoretical physicist, educator, and scientist (b. 1924)
• 2019 – Ian Cognito, English stand-up comedian and actor (b. 1958)
• 2019 – Dina, Portuguese singer-songwriter (b. 1956)
• 2020 – Colby Alexander Cave, Canadian professional ice hockey player (b. 1994)
• 2020 – Hélène Châtelain, French actress, producer, director, translator and screenwriter (b. 1935)
• 2020 – Stanley Chera, an American real estate developer (b. 1942)
• 2020 – John Horton Conway, English mathematician (b. 1937)
• 2020 – Gerald O. Glenn, American evangelical pastor (b. 1953)
• 2020 – Wynn Handman, American Artistic Director (b. 1922)
• 2020 – Simon Barrington-Ward, Anglican bishop (b. 1930)
• 2020 – Gillian Wise, British artist (b. 1936)
• 2021 – Leokadiya Mihaylovna Drobijeva, Soviet-Russian sociologist (b. 1933)
• 2021 – Mita Haque, Bangladeshi female singer, composer and educator (b. 1962)
• 2021 – Fuzuli Javad oglu Javadov, Azerbaijani former professional football player (b. 1950)
• 2021 – Joseph Siravo, American actor, producer, and educator (b. 1957)
• 2021 – Mauricio Goldfarb or Mauro Viale, Argentine journalist and television presenter (b. 1947)

Holidays and special occasions

• World Parkinson's Day
• Withdrawal of French troops from Şanlıurfa (1920)