Today in History: More than 6.1 People Died in the 4 Magnitude Earthquake in Afghanistan

February 6 is the 37nd day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 328 days left until the end of the year (329 in leap years).

Railways

• 6 February 1921 Chief Colonel Halit Bey, who was appointed as the replacement of Behiç Bey, who resigned from Şimendifer General Directorate, started his duty.
• 6 February 1977 Electric train services started in Istanbul-Adapazari line.

Events

• 1695 - Sultan II. Ahmed's death and II. Mustafa's accession to the throne.
• 1788 - Massachusetts becomes the sixth state of the United States.
• 1920 – In the last Ottoman Parliament, the Felah-ı Vatan Group, which was in favor of resisting the Armistice of Mudros, was established.
• 1921 – Hakimiyet Milliye newspaper started to be published daily in Ankara.
• 1930 – General amnesty for political prisoners is declared in Spain.
• 1933 - The first non-stop flight from England to South Africa is made.
• 1935 – Two women, Nezihe Muhittin and Şaziye Berrin, became independent candidates in the general elections.
• 1936 – Winter Olympic Games started in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Germany). Turkey participated for the first time.
• 1951 – A passenger train overturned in New Jersey, USA: 85 people were killed, more than 500 injured.
• 1952 – II. Elizabeth became Queen of the United Kingdom upon her father's death.
• 1953 – The draft law, which stipulates that only civil courts should handle press crimes, was accepted in the Turkish Grand National Assembly. By law, journalists will no longer be tried in Military Courts.
• 1956 – Beet Cooperatives Bank, operating in Eskişehir, moved to Ankara and became Şekerbank.
• 1958 – Plane crash on the runway of Munich Airport; Of the 7 passengers, 8 people were killed, including 44 players from the Manchester United team (Roger Byrne, Mark Jones, Eddie Colman, Tommy Taylor, Liam Whelan, David Pegg and Geoff Bent) and 23 journalists.
• 1959 - Jack Kilby, a Texas Instruments employee, applied for an integrated circuit (microchip) patent.
• 1959 – Test firing of the Titan intercontinental ballistic missile was successful at Cape Canaveral spaceport in Florida.
• 1967 – A strike started in Batman Refinery of Turkish Petroleum Corporation. 1900 workers who are members of the Petro Chemicals Tire Workers' Union of Turkey (PETROL-İŞ) participated in the strike.
• 1968 – 4 thousand workers working in the quarries in the Kozlu production area of ​​the Ereğli Coal Enterprise did not return to work. This incident spread to other regions in the evening and 10 thousand workers marched to the city at night.
• 1968 – The first television play, The Poet Marriage, was broadcast live.
• 1968 – Winter Olympic Games started in Grenoble (France).
• 1972 – In the Extraordinary General Assembly meeting of the Turkish Naval Society, it was decided to transform the Society into a foundation.
• Ilgiz Aykutlu, who was the Istanbul Political Branch Director between 1979 – 12 March, was killed as a result of the armed attack of two unidentified people.
• 1980 – Turkey's Ambassador to Bern, Doğan Türkmen, survived the assassination with injuries.
• 1981 – Istanbul Police Deputy Chief Mahmut Dikler was killed in an armed attack.
• 1983 – War criminal nicknamed “The Butcher of Lyon”, former Gestapo commander Klaus Barbie, faces court in France to stand trial for crimes he committed 37 years ago.
• 1985 - Steve Wozniak left Apple Computer.
• 1986 – 2 issues of Nokta magazine were recalled. Two issues of the magazine featured police officer Sedat Caner's confessions of torture. On the same day, Prime Minister Turgut Özal denied the torture allegations and said,there is abuse" said.
• 1988 – Press Council was established.
• 1992 – Istanbul State Security Courts (DGM) Chief Prosecutor Yaşar Günaydın and his bodyguard and driver were killed as a result of an armed attack.
• 1996 – Birgenair's Boeing 757 crashes while climbing shortly after taking off from Puerto Plata Airport in the Dominican Republic for Frankfurt. 13 people, including 189 crew members, lost their lives in the accident.
• 1998 – More than 6.1 people died in an earthquake with a magnitude of 4 in Afghanistan.
• 1998 – In the statement made by the State Institute of Statistics, it was reported that the population of Turkey was 62 million 610 thousand 252.
• 1999 – Peace talks were held between the Belgrade Government and Kosovo in the historic Royal Villa Rambouillet, 50 km from the capital city of Paris, in France.
• 2000 – Pan Pacific Tennis Tournament was held in Tokyo. In the final, Martina Hingis defeated the Frenchman Sandrine Testud 2-0. With this win, Martina Hingis won the 27th singles title of her career.
• 2001 - Ariel Sharon becomes Prime Minister of Israel.
• 2004 – explosion in the Moscow metro; 40 people were killed and 129 injured in the attack, which is estimated to be carried out by Chechen separatist groups.
• 2008 – As of 15:00, the first official headscarf freedom was discussed and voted in the Turkish Grand National Assembly.
• 2008 – Hasan Gerçeker was appointed as the First Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals.

Births

• 885 – Emperor Daigo, 60th Emperor of Japan (d. 930)
• 1608 – António Vieira, Portuguese Jesuit missionary and writer (d. 1697)
• 1611 – Chongzhen, 16th and last emperor of China's Ming Dynasty (d. 1644)
• 1664 – II. Mustafa, 22nd Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1703)
• 1665 – Anne, Queen of Great Britain (d. 1714)
• 1687 – Juan de Jesús, Franciscan and mystic (d. 1615)
• 1748 – Adam Weishaupt, German lawyer and founder of the Illuminati (d. 1830)
• 1756 – Aaron Burr, 3rd Vice President of the United States (d. 1836)
• 1796 – John Stevens Henslow, English botanist and geologist (d. 1861)
• 1797 – Joseph von Radowitz, Prussian conservative statesman, diplomat, and general (d. 1853)
• 1797 – Richard Hawes, American politician (d. 1877)
• 1802 – Charles Wheatstone, English scientist (d. 1875)
• 1838 Henry Irving, English actor (d. 1905)
• 1846 – Raimundo Andueza Palacio, Venezuelan lawyer, journalist, and politician (d. 1900)
• 1853 – Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist (d. 1901)
• 1861 – Nikolai Zelinsky, Soviet chemist (d. 1953)
• 1862 – Joseph Friedrich Nicolaus Bornmüller, German botanist (d. 1948)
• 1870 James Braid, Scottish golfer (d. 1950)
• 1875 – Otto Gessler, German politician (d. 1955)
• 1879 – Björn Þórðarson, Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 1963)
• 1879 – Magnús Guðmundsson, Icelandic politician (d. 1937)
• 1890 – Clem Stephenson, English football player and manager (d. 1961)
• 1892 – William P. Murphy, American physician (d. 1987)
• 1892 – Maximilian Fretter-Pico, Nazi Germany general (d. 1984)
• 1895 – María Teresa Vera, Cuban singer, guitarist, and composer (d. 1965)
• 1905 – Władysław Gomułka, Polish communist leader (d. 1982)
• 1908 – Amintore Fanfani, Italian politician (d. 1999)
• 1911 – Ronald Wilson Reagan, 40th President of the United States (d. 2004)
• 1912 – Eva Braun, wife of Adolf Hitler (d. 1945)
• 1913 – Mary Leakey, English archaeologist (d. 1996)
• 1917 – Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian-American actress and television star (d. 2016)
• 1929 – Pierre Brice, French actor and singer (d. 2015)
• 1930 – Günay Sağun, Turkish painter (d. 1993)
• 1932 – Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary (d 1959)
• 1932 – François Truffaut, French film director (d. 1984)
• 1940 – Tom Brokaw, American newscaster
• 1945 – Bob Marley, Jamaican reggae musician (d. 1981)
• 1949 – Hayko, Turkish singer
• 1949 – Jim Sheridan, Irish film director
• 1953 – Osman Yağmurdereli, Turkish producer and politician (d. 2008)
• 1956 – Nazan Öncel, Turkish singer, songwriter and composer
• 1962 – Axl Rose, American rock musician (Guns N' Roses band)
• 1966 – Rick Astley, English singer-songwriter
• 1979 – Natalya Safronova, Russian volleyball player
• 1984 – Daisy Marie, American porn star
• 1985 - Crystal Reed, American actress
• 1986 – Dane DeHaan, American actress
• 1988 - Jennifer White, American porn star
• 1989 – Burcu Taşbaş, Turkish female basketball player (d. 2016)
• 1989 – Burcu Burkut Erenkul, Turkish rally driver

Deaths

• 1593 – Ōgimachi, 106th emperor of Japan in traditional succession (b. 1517)
• 1687 – Juan de Jesús, Franciscan and mystic (b. 1615)
• 1695 – II. Ahmet, 21st Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1643)
• 1740 – XII. Clemens, Pope (b. 1652)
• 1793 – Carlo Goldoni, Italian playwright (b. 1707)
• 1804 – Joseph Priestley, English physicist, chemist, philosopher, and priest (b. 1733)
• 1852 – Adam Eckfeldt, worker and clerk of the United States Mint (b. 1769)
• 1894 – Theodor Billroth, German surgeon (b. 1829)
• 1899 – Leo von Caprivi, soldier and statesman who became chancellor of Germany (b. 1831)
• 1900 – Pyotr Lavrov, Russian socialist thinker (b. 1823)
• 1916 – Rubén Darío, Cuban poet (b. 1867)
• 1918 – Gustav Klimt, Austrian symbolist painter (b. 1862)
• 1919 – Mehmed Reşit Bey, Ottoman soldier and statesman (b. 1873)
• 1930 – Bedrifelek Kadınefendi, second wife of Abdülhamid (b. 1851)
• 1952 – VI. George, Sovereign of the United Kingdom and Emperor of India (b. 1895)
• 1955 – Süreyya İlmen, Turkish soldier, politician and businessman (b. 1874)
• 1955 – Hamide Javanshir, Azerbaijani philanthropist and women's rights activist (b. 1873)
• 1960 – Selahattin Pınar, Turkish composer and tanburi (b. 1902)
• 1962 – Władysław Dziewulski, Polish astronomer and mathematician (b. 1878)
• 1962 – Candido Portinari, Brazilian neo-realist painter (b. 1903)
• 1964 – Emilio Aguinaldo, leader of the Philippines independence struggle (b. 1869)
• 1966 – Abdurrahman Nafiz Gürman, Turkish soldier, one of the commanders of the Turkish War of Independence and the 5th Chief of General Staff of the TAF (b. 1882)
• 1967 – Martine Carol, French actress (b. 1920)
• 1972 – Emil Maurice, German politician (b. 1897)
• 1977 – Hayri Esen, Turkish theater, film actor and voice actor (b. 1919)
• 1982 – Ben Nicholson, English abstract painter (b. 1894)
• 1989 – Barbara Tuchman, American historian, author, and Pulitzer Prize winner (b. 1912)
• 1994 – Joseph Cotten, American actor (b. 1905)
• 2002 – Max Perutz, Austrian-British molecular biologist and Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry (b. 1914)
• 2002 – Osman Bölükbaşı, Turkish politician (b. 1913)
• 2007 – Frankie Laine, American singer (b. 1913)
• 2011 – Gary Moore, Northern Irish guitarist (b. 1952)
• 2011 – Josefa Iloilo, President of Fiji (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Baykal Kent, Turkish theater and film actor (b. 1944)
• 2013 – Macide Tanır, Turkish theater actress (b. 1922)
• 2017 – Enver Öktem, Turkish trade unionist and politician (b. 1957)
• 2020 – Raphaël Coleman, English actor and activist (b. 1994)

Holidays and special occasions

• International Day of Zero Tolerance Against Female Genital Mutilation