Today in History: 35 Pilgrim Candidates Died in a Stamp During Hajj in Mecca

He became a pilgrim candidate in the stampede on the pilgrimage in Mecca
35 Pilgrim Candidates Died in Stamp During Hajj in Mecca

March 5 is the 64th day of the year (65st in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 301 days remaining until the end of the year.

Railways

  • 5 March 1903 A new concession agreement was signed with the Anatolian Railways Company, and the objections of the shareholders were resolved. Accordingly, Ankara-Konya lines remain in their former owners, Baghdad Railway Company was established for new lines to be built after Konya. Arthur von Gvvinner was appointed as the president.

Events 

  • 1584 – Karlstad became a city in Sweden.
  • 1821 - James Monroe is elected President of the United States for the second time.
  • 1836 - Samuel Colt begins mass production of the first 34 caliber revolver pistol.
  • 1890 – B. Traven, famous for his adventure novels about rural life in Mexico, was born. The only thing known for certain about Traven's identity, who refused to reveal his identity and whose real name was never learned, was that most of his novels were written in German and were first published in Germany.
  • 1912 - The Italian Army becomes the first to use weather balloons for military purposes. The Italians sent these aircraft for reconnaissance behind the Turkish defense lines.
  • 1917 - Woodrow Wilson is elected President of the United States for the second time.
  • 1918 – Bolsheviks move Russia's capital from Petrograd to Moscow.
  • 1920 – Turkish Green Crescent Society was established.
  • 1923 – In the fire that broke out in the Greek Değirmenlik District of Şile, approximately 550 Greek, 200 Muslim households, 100 shops, 1 mosque, 2 churches and some official buildings were burned, most of which were abandoned. A total of 1500 people were left homeless due to the fire.
  • 1924 – In Istanbul, the Directorate of Education seized the madrasas in accordance with the Law of Unification of Education.
  • 1924 - Sevket Verlaci becomes Prime Minister of Albania.
  • 1931 - Daniel Salamanca Urey is appointed President of Bolivia.
  • 1933 – In the general elections held on 5 March in Germany, the National Socialist German Workers Party won a majority with 43.9% of the votes and came to power definitively.
  • 1933 - Great Depression: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt closes all banks and halts financial transactions.
  • 1942 - Vegetables such as potatoes, mussels and beans were planted in school gardens.
  • 1946 – II. The concept of the Iron Curtain, which emerged during World War II and symbolizes the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries; It was first used in a speech by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
  • 1950 – Flood disaster in Eskişehir: 50 thousand people were left in the open, 2500 houses were destroyed and 6 people drowned. Help came to the survivors from the Marshall Plan.
  • 1951 – Muhsin Ertuğrul, who left the General Directorate of State Theaters, announced that he had decided to establish a private theater. The name of the new theater, which is planned to be located on the upper floor of Atlas Cinema in Beyoğlu, Istanbul, will be “Little Stage”.
  • 1952 – 74 Ticani's trial began at the Ankara 1st High Criminal Court. Sect Sheikh Kemal Pilavoğlu said that after he was sentenced in 1954, he left the trade.
  • 1953 – Josef Stalin, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, who had held the leadership of the USSR since 1929, dies; A day later, Malenkov took his place. Stalin, whose real name was Yosif Vissariyonovich Chugashvili, began to use the pseudonym "Stalin", which means "man of steel" in Russian, in his writings in Pravda and within the Party. His nickname is "Koba", which means "nail" in Georgian.
  • 1956 - The Supreme Court in the United States upholds that other courts outlaw racial discrimination in schools.
  • 1966 – A Boeing 707 passenger plane belonging to British Airways crashes on Mount Fuji: 124 people are killed.
  • 1969 – Yaşar Kemal, who was tried for his article titled “Occupation Land, Wolf Dog” published in Ant magazine, was acquitted.
  • 1969 – The headman of Akbaşlak Village in Balıkesir prepared a “wedding bylaw with amen” and announced that the grooms who did not attend the mawlid would be punished.
  • 1971 – In Istanbul, the Selamiçeşme branch of Akbank was robbed by 5 armed people. Salman Kaya, allegedly one of the robbery suspects, was caught in Bebek.
  • 1971 – Members of the Workers' Party of Turkey were attacked in Kırıkhan; 3 people were killed and 23 people were injured. A curfew has been imposed in the district.
  • 1971 – 4 American soldiers were abducted by members of the THKO organization in Ankara. A clash broke out when the police raided the university upon a rumor; A student named Erdal Şener died and some were injured. The kidnapped soldiers were released on 8 March.
  • 1971 – Falih Rıfkı Atay wrote about Deniz Gezmiş and his friends: “We can't always create a state out of a tribe. But there's no limit to our inspiration: this time we've made a hero out of a bank robber thug. In the language of the left, he became an epic hero like the old Çakırcalı. But Çakırcalı was eventually hung upside down by his legs. We'll also see bloody bandits being cherished! Shame on the tens of millions of liras we spend on universities! What need is there to establish a university to train bandits? The mountain will raise them too!”
  • 1972 – A 1971-year-old English boy, who was caught selling marijuana in Sultanahmet in August 6 and sentenced to 14 years in prison, became a problem between Turkey and England. The British press made headlines as "Brutal Turks". Thereupon, Prime Minister Nihat Erim did not stop by London on his way to the USA, although he was on his schedule.
  • 1974 – Yom Kippur War: Israeli troops withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
  • 1978 – In the 23rd Balkan Cross Country Championship held in Istanbul İstinye; Mehmet Yurdadön came first in the 12 thousand meters and Sadık Salman 8 thousand meters competition.
  • 1979 - The space probe Voyager 1 passed within 172000 miles of Jupiter.
  • 1980 – The Process Leading to the September 12, 1980 Coup in Turkey (1979- September 12, 1980): 3 robbers who robbed banks killed 2 privates.
  • 1981 – Istanbul Martial Law Court arrested 7 Turkish Workers Party executives for founding an illegal organization and making communist propaganda.
  • 1982 – Sekine Evren, wife of President Gen. Kenan Evren, was buried in Ankara. A large crowd attended the ceremony. Süleyman Demirel and Bülent Ecevit expressed their condolences to Evren.
  • 1984 – Istanbul Martial Law Military Court gave a decision of non-jurisdiction in the case brought against Mehmet Ali Ağca for the crime of assassinating the Pope.
  • 1986 – Former Minister of State İsmail Özdağlar, who was sentenced to two years in prison by the Supreme Court, was dismissed as a member of parliament in the General Assembly of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.
  • 1991 - Iraq releases Gulf War prisoners.
  • 1993 – 60 PKK militants who wanted to escape from the camp in the Kızılsu Valley of Muş, which was bombed by warplanes, were killed by the avalanche that broke out due to the violence of the explosions.
  • 1999 – Governor of Çankırı Ayhan Çevik was seriously injured in a bomb attack; The illegal TİKKO organization claimed responsibility for the attack, in which the security guard and two high school students died.
  • 2000 – Mahir Çağrı, who became internationally famous through the Internet, became one of the 100 most famous people of Forbes Magazine.
  • 2001 – 35 pilgrim candidates died in the stampede during the Hajj in Mecca.
  • 2007 – In Turkey, the Patriots Party was officially established by submitting a petition to the Ministry of Interior.
  • 2020 – Idlib meeting was held between Turkey and Russia at the level of heads of state.

Births 

  • 1133 – II. Henry, King of England (d. 1189)
  • 1324 – II. David, King of Scotland (d. 1371)
  • 1512 – Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer (d. 1594)
  • 1563 – John Coke, English politician (d. 1644)
  • 1574 – William Oughtred, English mathematician (d. 1660)
  • 1658 – Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, French explorer (d. 1730)
  • 1685 – Georg Friedrich Handel, German composer (d.1759)
  • 1693 – Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian (d. 1754)
  • 1696 – Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter (d. 1770)
  • 1703 – Vasily Trediakovsky, Russian poet (d. 1769)
  • 1748 Jonas Carlsson Dryander, Swedish botanist (d. 1810)
  • 1748 William Shield, English musician (d. 1829)
  • 1784 – II. Hüseyin Bey, Governor of Tunisia (d. 1835)
  • 1794 – Jacques Babinet, French physicist (d. 1872)
  • 1814 – Wilhelm von Giesebrecht, German historian (d. 1889)
  • 1815 – John Wentworth, American politician (d. 1888)
  • 1815 – Mehmed Emin Ali Pasha, Ottoman statesman (d. 1871)
  • 1817 – Austen Henry Layard, English archaeologist (d. 1894)
  • 1829 – Abdullah Galib Pasha, Ottoman politician (d. 1905)
  • 1853 – Howard Pyle, American author and illustrator (d. 1911)
  • 1855 – Kamures Hanım, first wife of Mehmed V (d. 1921)
  • 1862 – Peter Newell, American artist and writer (d. 1924)
  • 1866 – Alihan Bökeyhan, Kazakh politician (d. 1937)
  • 1868 – Prosper Poullet, Belgian politician (d. 1937)
  • 1869 – Michael von Faulhaber, German cardinal and archbishop (d. 1952)
  • 1870 – Frank Norris, American author (d. 1902)
  • 1871 – Rosa Luxemburg, Polish socialist revolutionary (d. 1919)
  • 1873 – Olav Bjaaland, Norwegian explorer (d. 1961)
  • 1873 – Teotig, Armenian writer and yearbookist (d. 1928)
  • 1874 – Henry Travers, English actor (d. 1965)
  • 1878 – Dimitrios Tomprof, Greek athlete (d. ?)
  • 1879 – William Beveridge, English economist (d. 1963)
  • 1880 – Sergey Natanovich Bernstein, Russian mathematician (d. 1968)
  • 1886 Dong Biwu, Chinese politician (d. 1975)
  • 1887 – Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (d. 1959)
  • 1890 – B. Traven, author of adventure novels about rural life in Mexico (d. 1969)
  • 1890 – John Aasen, American silent film actor (d. 1938)
  • 1894 – Henry Daniell, English actor (d. 1963)
  • 1897 – Set Persson, Swedish politician (d. 1960)
  • 1898 – Misao Ōkawa, Japanese woman (titled "Oldest Living Person" from 2013 until her death) (d. 2015)
  • 1898 – Zhou Enlai, Chinese politician and Prime Minister (d. 1976)
  • 1901 – Louis Kahn, American architect (d. 1974)
  • 1902 – Edita Morris, Swedish-American writer (d. 1988)
  • 1904 - Karl Rahner, German theologian (d. 1984)
  • 1905 – László Benedek, Hungarian-born American film director (d. 1992)
  • 1908 – Irving Fiske, American playwright (d. 1990)
  • 1908 – Rex Harrison, English actor (d. 1990)
  • 1915 – Laurent Schwartz, French mathematician (d. 2002)
  • 1915 – Mehmet Kaplan, Turkish writer and academic (d. 1986)
  • 1918 – James Tobin, American economist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)
  • 1920 – José Aboulker, Algerian anti-Nazi resister (d. 2009)
  • 1920 – Virginia Christine, American actress (d. 1996)
  • 1921 – Elmer Valo, Slovak-American baseball player (d. 1998)
  • 1922 – Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian writer and film director (d. 1975)
  • 1923 – Laurence Tisch, American investor (d. 2003)
  • 1925 – Jacques Vergès, French lawyer (d. 2013)
  • 1927 – Jack Cassidy, American actor (d. 1976)
  • 1933 – Hayati Hamzaoğlu, Turkish film actor (d. 2000)
  • 1933 – İsmail Ogan, Turkish wrestler
  • 1934 – Daniel Kahneman, Israeli economist and Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1934 – Halit Refiğ, Turkish director (d. 2009)
  • 1934 – James Sikking, American actor
  • 1936 – Canaan Banana, Zimbabwean politician and President (d. 2003)
  • 1936 – Dean Stockwell, American actor
  • 1937 – Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigerian politician and President
  • 1938 – Fred Williamson, American football player and actor
  • 1939 – Peter Woodcock, Canadian serial killer (d. 2010)
  • 1939 – Pierre Wynants, Belgian cook
  • 1939 – Samantha Eggar, English actress
  • 1940 - Sepp Piontek, German football player and manager
  • 1942 – Ahmet Arpad, Turkish journalist, writer and translator
  • 1942 – Felipe González Márquez, Spanish politician and Prime Minister
  • 1943 – Vedat Demircioğlu, Turkish revolutionary (ITU student and the first deceased of the 68 Generation in Turkey) (d. 1968)
  • 1945 – Meral Çetinkaya, Turkish cinema and theater artist
  • 1949 – Bernard Arnault, French businessman
  • 1951 – Yusuf Ziya Özcan, Turkish academic and diplomat
  • 1956 – Teena Marie, American singer, songwriter, and producer (d. 2010)
  • 1959 – Hüseyin Çelik, Turkish politician, academic and writer
  • 1959 – Marianna Tsoy, wife of Russian rock star Viktor Tsoy
  • 1960 – Mehmet Metiner, Turkish politician
  • 1964 – Hakan Gerçek, Turkish theater, cinema and TV series actor
  • 1965 – Yukiko Miyake, Japanese female politician (d. 2020)
  • 1968 – Müfit Can Saçıntı, Turkish director, actor and screenwriter
  • 1970 – Emre Kinay, Turkish actor
  • 1970 – John Frusciante, American musician and member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • 1973 – Nelly Arcan, Canadian novelist (suicide) (d. 2009)
  • 1973 – Nicole Pratt, Australian tennis player
  • 1974 – Eva Mendes, American actress
  • 1974 – Matt Lucas, British comedian
  • 1975 – Jolene Blalock, American actress
  • 1977 – Taismary Agüero, Cuban-Italian volleyball player
  • 1979 – Cigdem Aysu, Turkish actress
  • 1983 – Édgar Dueñas, Mexican football player
  • 1984 – Aarthi Agarwal, American actress (d. 2015)
  • 1984 - Guillaume Hoarau, is a french football player
  • 1985 – David Marshal, Scottish international football player
  • 1985 - Kenichi Matsuyama is a Japanese actor
  • 1986 – Adem Kılıççı, Turkish boxer
  • 1986 – Julie Henderson, American model
  • 1988 – Jovana Brakočević, Serbian national volleyball player
  • 1988 – Liassine Cadamuro, Algerian national football player
  • 1988 – İsmail Keleş, Turkish shooter
  • 1989 - Sterling Knight, American actor and singer
  • 1990 - Danny Drinkwater, English football player
  • 1990 – İlham Tanui Özbilen, Turkish athlete
  • 1990 – Mason Plumlee, American professional basketball player
  • 1991 – Ramiro Funes Mori, Argentine national football player
  • 1993 - El-Hadji Ba is a French football player.
  • 1993 – Fred is a Brazilian international football player.
  • 1993 – Harry Maguire, English international footballer
  • 1996 – Franco Acosta, Uruguayan football player
  • 1996 – Taylor Hill, American actress and model
  • 1996 – Emmanuel Mudiay, He is a professional basketball player from Congo.
  • 1998 – Merih Demiral, Turkish football player

Deaths 

  • 254 – Lucius I, Bishop of Rome and 22nd pope (b. 200)
  • 1417 – III. Manuel, emperor of the Empire of Trebizond from 20 March 1390 until his death (b. 1364)
  • 1534 – Antonio da Correggio, Italian painter (b. 1489)
  • 1539 – Nuno da Cunha, Portuguese politician and Governor of India (b. 1487)
  • 1611 – Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai (b. 1533)
  • 1618 – John, Duke of Östergötland (b. 1589)
  • 1622 – Ranuccio I Farnese, Italian noble and duke of Parma (b. 1569)
  • 1695 – Henry Wharton, English writer (b. 1664)
  • 1726 – Evelyn Pierrepont, English politician (b. 1655)
  • 1731 – Abdulgani Nablus, scholar and Sufi from Damascus (b. 1641)
  • 1778 – Thomas Arne, English composer (b. 1710)
  • 1815 – Franz Anton Mesmer, German physician (b. 1734)
  • 1827 – Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist (b. 1745)
  • 1827 – Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician (b. 1749)
  • 1849 – David Scott, Scottish painter (b. 1806)
  • 1876 ​​– Marie d'Agoult, German writer (b. 1805)
  • 1882 – August Wilhelm Malm, Swedish zoologist (b. 1821)
  • 1888 – Ali Pasha Şabanagay, Albanian commander (b. 1828)
  • 1893 – Hippolyte Taine, French historian (b. 1828)
  • 1894 – Austen Henry Layard, English archaeologist (b. 1817)
  • 1895 – Henry Rawlinson, British soldier (b. 1810)
  • 1895 – Nikolai Leskov, Russian journalist, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1831)
  • 1903 – George Francis Robert Henderson, British soldier (b. 1854)
  • 1907 – ‎Friedrich Blass‎‎, German philologist, scholar and scholar (b. 1843)‎
  • 1914 – Georgiy Sedov, Ukrainian-Soviet explorer (b. 1877)
  • 1925 – Johan Jensen, Danish mathematician (b. 1859)
  • 1927 – Franz Mertens, German mathematician (b. 1840)
  • 1933 – Cavit Erdel, Turkish soldier and politician (b. 1884)
  • 1934 – Reşit Galip, Turkish politician (b. 1893)
  • 1940 – Cai Yuanpei, Chinese educator (b. 1868)
  • 1941 – Mehmet Rifat Börekçi, Turkish clergyman and Turkey's first President of Religious Affairs (b. 1860)
  • 1944 – Max Jacob, French poet and author (b. 1876)
  • 1945 – Lena Baker, American murderer (b. 1901)
  • 1947 – Alfredo Casella, Italian composer (b. 1883)
  • 1950 – Sid Grauman, American entertainer (b. 1879)
  • 1953 – Herman J. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter and winner of the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay (b. 1897)
  • 1953 – Josef Stalin, Soviet statesman and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1879)
  • 1953 – Sergey Sergevic Prokofiev, Russian composer (b. 1891)
  • 1963 – Patsy Cline, American singer (b. 1932)
  • 1965 – Chen Cheng, Chinese politician (b. 1897)
  • 1965 – Pepper Martin, American baseball player (b. 1904)
  • 1966 – Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet (b. 1889)
  • 1974 – Sol Hurok, Russian-American impresario (b. 1888)
  • 1977 – Tom Pryce, British Formula 1 driver (b. 1949)
  • 1980 – Jay Silverheels, Canadian actor (b. 1912)
  • 1980 – Winifred Wagner, German opera producer (b. 1897)
  • 1981 – Yip Harburg, American songwriter (b. 1896)
  • 1982 – John Belushi, American actor (b. 1949)
  • 1983 – Mustafa Sleepless (Mim Sleepless), Turkish cartoonist (b. 1922)
  • 1984 – Tito Gobbi, Italian baritone (b. 1915)
  • 1984 – William Powell, American actor (b. 1892)
  • 1988 – Alberto Olmedo, Argentine comedian (b. 1933)
  • 1990 – Edmund Conen, German football player (b. 1914)
  • 1991 – Kazım Taşkent, Turkish politician, bureaucrat and founder of Yapı ve Kredi Bankası (b. 1895)
  • 1995 – Vivian Stanshall, English musician, actress and writer (member of Bonzo Dog Band) (b. 1943)
  • 1996 – Whit Bissell, American actor (b. 1909)
  • 1997 – Samm Sinclair Baker, American author (b. 1909)
  • 1999 – Richard Kiley, American actor (b. 1922)
  • 2000 – İzzet Baysal, Turkish architect and industrialist (b. 1907)
  • 2000 – Lolo Ferrari, French actress (b. 1962)
  • 2001 – Necmi Rıza Ayça, Turkish cartoonist (b. 1914)
  • 2004 – Walt Gorney, American actor (b. 1912)
  • 2006 – Richard Kuklinski, American serial killer (b. 1935)
  • 2010 – Peter Woodcock, Canadian serial killer (b. 1939)
  • 2010 – Richard Stapley, English actor and writer (b. 1923)
  • 2013 – Paul Bearer, American professional wrestling manager (b. 1954)
  • 2013 – Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela (b. 1954)
  • 2016 – Mithat Danışan, Turkish bass guitarist (b. 1949)
  • 2016 – Hasan et-Turabi, Sudanese Islamic leader and politician (b. 1932)
  • 2016 – Raymond Samuel Tomlinson, computer programmer born in Amsterdam, New York, and first person to use the '@' sign in addresses (b. 1941)
  • 2016 – James Douglas, American actor (b. 1929)
  • 2017 – Jay Lynch, American illustrator and animator (b. 1945)
  • 2018 – Tomas Aguon Camacho, Catholic bishop of the Northern Mariana Islands (b. 1933)
  • 2018 – Hayden White, American historian (b. 1928)
  • 2019 – Chu Shijian, Chinese businessman and entrepreneur (b. 1928)
  • 2019 – Moris Farhi, English writer (b. 1935)
  • 2019 – Jacques Loussier, French composer and pianist (b. 1934)
  • 2020 – Katcho Achadjian, Armenian-American businessman and politician (b. 1951)
  • 2020 – Solomon Berewa, Sierra Leonean politician (b. 1938)
  • 2020 – Stanislav Bogdanovic, Ukrainian chess player (b. 1993)
  • 2020 – Hussein Sheikh al-Islam, Iranian politician, activist and diplomat (b. 1952)
  • 2021 – Sasa Klaas, Botswana singer, songwriter, performer and presenter (b. 1993)
  • 2021 – Stig Malm, Swedish trade unionist (Swedish Metal Workers Union) and politician (b. 1942)
  • 2021 – Suna Tanaltay, Turkish educator, writer and TV personality
  • 2022 – Lynda Baron, English actress, comedian, and singer (b. 1939)
  • 2022 – Luz Fernandez, Filipino actress and television host (b. 1935)
  • 2022 – Antonio Martino, Italian academic, economist and politician (b. 1942)
  • 2022 – Gladys Moisés, Argentine female politician and bureaucrat (b. 1961)