Today in History: 11 Killed, 2976 Injured in the September 6291 Attacks

September 11 is the 254th (255th in leap years) day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days left until the end of the year is 111.

Railways

• 11 September 1882 Mehmet Nahid Bey and Kostaki Teodoridi Efendi's specification and contract for the Mersin-Adana line were sent to the application.

Events 

• 1526 – Troops of the Ottoman Army entered Budin, the capital of the Kingdom of Hungary.
• 1853 - The electric telegraph is used for the first time.
• 1855 - The Ottoman Army entered Sevastopol with its allies.
• 1919 - US Marines invade Honduras.
• 1919 – The Anatolian and Rumelian Defense Law Society was founded on the last day of the Sivas Congress.
• 1919 – at the 8th General Meeting of the Sivas Congress National Will It was decided to publish a newspaper called
• 1922 – Turkish War of Independence: Turkish Army entered Bursa under Greek Occupation.
• 1923 – Mustafa Kemal was elected as the Chairman of the People's Party.
• 1926 – Ankara automatic telephone exchange was put into operation.
• 1941 – Earthquake in and around Lake Van: 194 people died, 36 villages were completely destroyed.
• 1944 – Turkey closed its borders against refugees from the Axis powers.
• 1954 – in Ankara, “Cyprus Is Turkish Committee" was established.
• 1957 – Heavy rain causes flooding in Ankara; Bent Creek overflowed, 133 people died by flooding.
• 1973 – Coup in Chile: Chile's first socialist President, Salvador Allende, is overthrown by the army led by Pinochet. Allende was killed during the coup.
• 1980 – In the referendum held in Chile, the term of office of General Augusto Pinochet was extended for 8 years.
• 1992 – TEMA (Turkish Foundation for Combating Erosion, Afforestation and Conservation of Natural Assets) was founded by Hayrettin Karaca and Nihat Gökyiğit.
• 1994 – Dursun Karataş, the fugitive leader of the Revolutionary-Left organization, was captured in France.
• 1994 – Istanbul DGM, Cumhuriyet He closed his newspaper. It was alleged that the newspaper made publications in violation of the anti-terrorism law.
• 1996 – The trial of former Minister of State Ayvaz Gökdemir for calling three female European parliamentarians “prostitutes” was concluded. Gökdemir was sentenced to pay 500 million lira compensation.
• 2001 – In the September 11 attacks; 2976 people were killed and 6291 injured.
• In the 2010 – 2010 FIBA ​​World Basketball Championship semi-finals, Turkey defeated Serbia 83-82 and advanced to the final.
• 2012 – An explosion occurred in Istanbul Gazi Police Station, a policeman lost his life, four policemen and four citizens were injured. DHKP-C claimed responsibility for the explosion.
• 2012 – The Pyongyang Folklore Park, which is located in North Korea and houses miniature copies of many buildings in the country, was opened.

Births 

• 1182 – Minamoto no Yoriie, second shogun of the Kamakura shogunate (d. 1203)
• 1476 – Louise de Savoie, mother of King Francis I of France (d. 1531)
• 1524 – Pierre de Ronsard, French poet (d. 1585)
• 1743 – Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard, Danish painter (d. 1809)
• 1764 – Valentino Fioravanti, Italian composer (d. 1837)
• 1771 – Mungo Park, Scottish physician and explorer (d. 1806)
• 1786 – Frederich Kuhlau, German pianist (d. 1832)
• 1816 - Carl Zeiss, German businessman who manufactured optical materials (d. 1888)
• 1862 – O. Henry, American short story writer (d. 1910)
• 1877 – Feliks Dzerzhinsky, USSR Bolshevik leader and founder of the first intelligence service, the Cheka (d. 1926)
• 1877 – James Hopwood Jeans, English physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (d. 1946)
• 1885 – DH Lawrence, English writer (d. 1930)
• 1889 – Helmuth Theodor Bossert, German-Turkish linguist and archaeologist (d. 1961)
• 1893 – Platon Alekseevich Oyunskiy, Saha Turk literary scholar, philologist and politician (d. 1939)
• 1895 – Vinoba Bhave, highly respected student of Mahatma Gandhi (d. 1982)
• 1899 – Philipp Bouhler, German Nazi leader (d. 1945)
• 1903 – Theodor W. Adorno, German philosopher, sociologist, musicologist, and composer (d. 1969)
• 1916 – Ed Sabol, producer, actor, and cinematographer in the United States known for sports films (d. 2015)
• 1917 – Herbert Lom, Czech film and theater actor (d. 2012)
• 1917 – Ferdinand Marcos, President of the Philippines (d. 1989)
• 1924 – Daniel Akaka, American politician (d. 2018)
• 1926 – Yevgeny Belyaev, Russian tenor and Red Army Choir soloist (d. 1994)
• 1929 – Burhan Doğançay, Turkish painter and photographer (d. 2013)
• 1930 – Cathryn Damon, American actress (d. 1987)
• 1930 – Salih Selim, Egyptian national football player (d. 2002)
• 1935 – Arif Erkin Güzelbeyoğlu, Turkish architect, musician, theater and film actor
• 1935 – Arvo Part, Estonian composer
• 1935 – German Titov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2000)
• 1936 – Ersun Kazancel, Turkish actor (d. 1993)
• 1937 - Paola, queen of Belgium
• 1938 – Ciel Bergman, American painter (d. 2017)
• 1940 – Nông Đức Mạnh, Vietnamese politician
• 1940 – Brian De Palma, American film director
• 1944 – Everaldo, Brazilian football player (d. 1974)
• 1945 – Franz Beckenbauer, German football player
• 1945 - Leo Kottke is an American acoustic guitarist.
• 1956 – Tony Gilroy, American screenwriter and director
• 1958 – Scott Patterson, American actor and musician
• 1958 – Altan Tan, Turkish writer and politician
• 1958 – Roxann Dawson, American actress and director
• 1960 - Hiroshi Amano, Japanese physicist and inventor of semiconductor technology
• 1961 Virginia Madsen, American actress
• 1962 – Julio Salinas, Spanish national football player
• 1964 – Victor Wooten, American musician
• 1965 – Bashar Assad, President of Syria
• 1965 – Paul Heyman, American professional wrestling manager, entrepreneur, announcer, and manager
• 1965 – Moby, American musician
• 1967 – Harry Connick, Jr., American musician and actor
• 1968 Slaven Bilic, Croatian football player
• 1969 – Gidget Gein, American musician (d. 2008)
• 1970 – Fanny Cadeo, Italian actress and model
• 1970 – Taraji P. Henson, American actress and singer
• 1974 – Mehmet Emin Toprak, Turkish actor (d. 2002)
• 1977 – Ludacris, American musician
• 1977 – Matthew Stevens is a Welsh professional snooker player.
• 1978 – Dejan Stanković, Serbian football player
• 1979 – David Pizarro, Chilean football player
• 1979 – Eric Abidal, French football player
• 1981 – Andrea Dossena, Italian football player
• 1981 – Dylan Klebold, American student and perpetrator of the Columbine High School Massacre
• 1981 – Özlem Türay, Turkish theater actress
• 1982 – Elvan Abeylegesse, Turkish athlete of Ethiopian descent
• 1983 – Vivian Cheruiyot, Kenyan athlete
• 1985 – Shaun Livingston, American former basketball player
• 1987 – Robert Acquafresca, Italian Football Player
• 1987 – Tyler Lee Hoechlin, American actor
• 1990 – Jo Inge Berget is a Norwegian football player.
• 1991 – Jordan Ayew is a Ghanaian football player.
• 1991 – Kygo, Norwegian DJ, Songwriter and Musician
• 1992 – Efecan Şenolsun, Turkish actress
• 1994 – Mateus dos Santos Castro, Brazilian football player

Deaths 

• 1063 – Béla I, king of Hungary from 1060 to 1063
• 1161 – Melisende, Sovereign Queen of the Kingdom of Jerusalem from 1131-53, regent during her son's campaign from 1153-61 (b. 1105)
• 1680 – Go-Mizunoo, 108th emperor of Japan in the traditional succession order (b. 1596)
• 1793 – Nicolaas Laurens Burman, Dutch botanist (b. 1734)
• 1823 – David Ricardo, British political economist and classical financier (b. 1772)
• 1870 – Eugenio Lucas Velázquez, Spanish painter (b. 1817)
• 1888 – Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Argentine activist, intellectual, author, statesman, and sixth president of Argentina (b. 1811)
• 1896 – Francis James Child, American scholar, educator, and folklorist (b. 1825)
• 1937 – Nazmi Ziya Güran, Turkish painter and art educator (b. 1881)
• 1939 – Konstantin Korovin was a Russian Impressionist painter (b. 1861)
• 1941 – Christian Rakovsky, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1873)
• 1948 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan (b. 1876)
• 1953 – Andreas Bertalan Schwarz, German legal scholar (b. 1886)
• 1957 – Mary Proctor, American astronomer popularizer (b. 1862)
• 1970 – Giuseppe Vaccaro, Italian architect (b. 1896)
• 1971 – Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet statesman (b. 1894)
• 1971 – Joe Jordan, African-American musician and composer (b. 1882)
• 1973 – Salvador Allende, President of Chile (killed in parliament in coup d'état) (b. 1908)
• 1978 – Georgi Markov, Bulgarian writer and dissident (b. 1929)
• 1982 – Faruk Güvenç Turkish music critic (b. 1926)
• 1986 – Panayotis Kanellopoulos, Greek writer, politician (b. 1902)
• 1987 – Peter Tosh was a Jamaican reggae musician (b. 1944)
• 1988 – Roger Hargreaves, British designer, cartoonist, and children's writer (b. 1935)
• 1994 – Jessica Tandy, American actress (b. 1909)
• 2000 – Ergun Köknar, Turkish theater, cinema and TV series actor and journalist (b. 1934)
• 2001 – Muhammad Atta, Egyptian al-Qaeda member responsible for the suicide bombing of the World Trade Center in Manhattan during the September 11 attacks (b. 1968)
• 2001 – Berry Berenson, American singer, model, and actress (b. 1948)
• 2002 – Kim Hunter, American actress (b. 1922)
• 2003 – Anna Lindh, Swedish politician (b. 1957)
• 2003 – John Ritter, American actor (b. 1948)
• 2006 – Joachim Fest, German writer (b. 1926)
• 2007 – Cem Gürdap, Turkish film actor (b. 1955)
• 2007 – Ian Porterfield, Scottish former football player and manager (b. 1946)
• 2009 – Jim Carroll, American author, autobiographer, poet, musician, and punk (b. 1949)
• 2011 – Andy Whitfield, Australian actor (b. 1971)
• 2013 – Marshall Berman, humanist, Marxist, and theorist (b. 1940)
• 2014 – Bob Crewe, American songwriter, dancer, singer, and record producer (b. 1930)
• 2014 – Joachim Fuchsberger, German actor and television presenter (b. 1927)
• 2016 – İshak Alaton, Turkish businessman and Honorary President of Alarko Holding (b. 1927)
• 2016 – Alexis Arquette, American LGBT actress (b. 1969)
• 2016 – Engin Ünal, Turkish national swimmer (b. 1936)
• 2017 – Abdulhalim Muazzam Shah, 14th and current Malaysian His majesty the king (head of state), as well as the 27th and former sultan of Kedah (b. 1927)
• 2017 – JP Donleavy, Irish-American novelist and playwright (b. 1926)
• 2017 – Mark LaMura, American actor (b. 1948)
• 2018 – Fenella Fielding, English actress (b. 1927)
• 2018 – Begum Gulsum Nawaz, Pakistani female politician and former first lady (b. 1950)
• 2018 – Don Newman, American former football player and basketball coach (b. 1957)
• 2019 – BJ Habibie, Indonesian statesman, politician, and engineer (b. 1936)
• 2019 – Daniel Johnston, American rock singer, musician, songwriter, and illustrator (b. 1961)
• 2020 – Agnivesh, Indian activist, educator and politician (b. 1939)
• 2020 – Roger Carel, French voice actor and actor (b. 1927)
• 2020 – Toots Hibbert, Jamaican singer and songwriter, lead vocalist of the reggae and ska band Toots and the Maytals (b. 1942)
• 2020 – Christian Poncelet, French politician (b. 1928)
• 2020 – Nazım Şakir, Iraqi national football player and coach (b. 1958)