Today in History: The First Car in Istanbul was Seen in Beyoğlu

October 6 is the 279th day of the year (280th in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. 86 days left until the end of the year.

Events 

• 1790 – Swiss scientist Johann Jacob Schweppe made the first soda production in London, which would later become the "Schweppes" brand.
• 1860 – II. In the Opium War, British and French armies entered Beijing, the capital of China.
• 1875 – Ramadan Decree: Sultan Abdulaziz declared that the Ottoman Empire could not pay its foreign debts.
• 1889 – The famous revue bar “Moulin Rouge” in Paris opened its doors to the public for the first time.
• 1889 - Thomas Edison demonstrated the first motion picture.
• 1907 – The first automobile in Istanbul was seen in Beyoğlu.
• 1908 – After a 10-year civil war between the Turks and the Greeks, the State of Crete decided to join Greece.
• 1910 - Eleftherios Venizelos is elected Prime Minister of Greece. (First of 7 prime ministerships)
• 1917 – Mustafa Kemal informed Enver Pasha that he had resigned from the 7th Army Command.
• 1923 - American astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered the Andromeda Galaxy.
• 1923 – Damat Ferit Pasha died in Nis, France.
• 1923 – Liberation of Istanbul: Turkish troops under the command of Şükrü Naili Pasha entered Istanbul and the occupation, which lasted about 5 years, was officially ended.
• 1926 – The first aircraft factory was established in Kayseri.
• 1927 – First feature-length sound film The Jazz Singer, released in the USA.
• 1930 – The First Balkan Conference met in Athens.
• 1939 – Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland is complete, with the last Polish resisting troops surrendering.
• 1951 - President of the Soviet Union Stalin announced that his country had the atomic bomb.
• 1963 – Jacqueline Kennedy, wife of US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, came to Istanbul.
• 1971 – The 6th Mediterranean Games were opened by President Cevdet Sunay with a ceremony in Izmir.
• 1973 – Yom Kippur War begins between Arab countries and Israel.
• 1976 – Hua Guofeng, who came to power after the death of Chinese leader Mao, announced the end of the Cultural Revolution and the "Gang of Four" was arrested.
• 1979 – II. John Paulus became the first Pope to visit the White House.
• 1981 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was assassinated by the Muslim Brotherhood.
• 1986 – TRT2 was officially opened to broadcast culture and art.
• 1987 – Fiji was declared a republic.
• 1990 – SHP Party Council Member, theologian Bahriye Üçok, died at the age of 71 as a result of the explosion of an explosive package sent by cargo.
• 2000 – Yugoslav President Slobodan Milošević resigns.
• 2002 – Josemaría Escrivá, founder of Opus Dei, is canonized.
• 2014 – Kobani events started in Turkey.

Births 

• 1274 – Zahebî, Syrian hadith memorizer, historian and recitation scholar (d. 1348)
• 1289 – III. Wenceslaus, king of Hungary from 1301 to 1305, and of Bohemia and Poland in 1305 (d. 1306)
• 1552 – Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit missionary and scientist (d. 1610)
• 1752 – Jeanne-Louise-Henriette Campan, French educator and writer (d. 1822)
• 1773 – Louis-Philippe, king of the French from 1830-1848 (d. 1850)
• 1820 – Jenny Lind, Swedish opera singer (d. 1887)
• 1831 – Richard Dedekind, German mathematician (d. 1916)
• 1846 – George Westinghouse, American entrepreneur and engineer (d. 1914)
• 1882 – Karol Szymanowski, Polish musician and composer (d. 1937)
• 1887 – Le Corbusier, Swiss-French architect (d. 1965)
• 1888 – Roland Garros, French aviator and fighter pilot during World War I (d. 1918)
• 1901 – Eveline du Bois-Reymond Marcus, German zoologist and illustrator (d. 1990)
• 1903 – Ernest Walton, Irish Nobel Prize-winning scientist (d. 1995)
• 1906 – Janet Gaynor, American actress (d. 1984)
• 1908 - Carole Lombard, American actress (d. 1942)
• 1908 – Sergey Lvovich Sobolev, Russian mathematician (d. 1989)
• 1914 – Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer and anthropologist (d. 2002)
• 1919 – Siad Barre, Somali soldier and President of the Democratic Republic of Somalia (d. 1995)
• 1923 – Selahattin İçli, Turkish musician, composer and medical doctor (d. 2006)
• 1923 – Yaşar Kemal, Kurdish-born Turkish novelist and short story writer (d. 2015)
• 1928 – Barbara Werle, American radio, television and film actress (d. 2013)
• 1930 – Hafez Assad, President of Syria (d.2000)
• 1931 – Riccardo Giacconi, Italian-American physicist (d.2018)
• 1934 - Marshall Rosenberg launched the Nonviolent Communication Process (Nonviolent Communication) American psychologist (d. 2015) who developed
• 1935 – Bruno Sammartino, Italian-American retired professional wrestler (d. 2018)
• 1942 – Britt Ekland, Swedish actress
• 1944 - Carlos Pace was a Brazilian professional racing driver
• 1946 – Vinod Khanna, Indian actor and filmmaker (d. 2017)
• 1952 – Ayten Mutlu, Turkish poet and writer
• 1957 – Bruce Grobbelaar, South African-born Zimbabwe national football player and manager
• 1960 – Nurseli İdiz, Turkish theater and cinema artist
• 1962 – Ali Atıf Bir, Turkish advertising consultant and columnist
• 1963 – Elisabeth Shue, American actress
• 1963 – Vasile Tarlev, Moldovan politician and Prime Minister
• 1964 – Yıldırım Demirören, Turkish industrialist and sports manager
• 1964 – Miltos Manetas, Greek painter and multimedia artist
• 1965 – Jürgen Kohler, West German football player
• 1966 – Niall Quinn, Irish football player and manager
• 1967 – Kennet Andersson, Swedish former international football player
• 1969 – Mohammed V, Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia and Sultan of Kelantan
• 1972 – Mark Schwarzer, German-Australian former goalkeeper
• 1973 – Ioan Gruffudd, Welsh actor
• 1974 – Walter Centeno, Costa Rican international football player and manager
• 1974 – Jeremy Sisto is an American actor, voice actor, producer, and writer.
• 1974 – Hoàng Xuân Vinh, Vietnamese shooter
• 1979 – Mohamed Kallon, Sierra Leonean national football player
• 1980 – Eser Altın, Turkish football player
• 1980 – Zaida Catalán, Swedish politician (d. 2017)
• 1980 – Abdoulaye Méïté, Ivory Coast national football player
• 1981 – Zurab Hizanishvili, Georgian football player
• 1982 – Levon Aronyan is an Armenian chess player
• 1982 – Will Butler, American instrumentalist, composer, and singer
• 1984 – Pelin Karahan, Turkish actress
• 1985 - Sylvia Fowles, American professional basketball player
• 1985 – Birkan Sokullu, Turkish actress and model
• 1986 – Meg Myers, American singer-songwriter
• 1989 – Albert Ebossé Bodjongo, Cameroonian football player (d. 2014)
• 1989 – Pizzi is a Portuguese football player.
• 1994 – Johoney, South Korean rapper and songwriter
• 1997 – Kasper Dolberg, Danish football player
• 2000 – Addison Rae, an American TikToker

Deaths 

• 23 – Wang Mang, Han Dynasty official (b. 45 BC) who seized the throne in a coup against the Han Dynasty of China and founded the Xin Dynasty
• 404 – Aelia Eudoxia, wife of Byzantine Emperor, consort of Byzantine emperor Arcadius
• 869 – Ermentrude of Orléans, Queen of the Franks by marriage to Charles the Skinhead, Holy Roman and West Frankish emperor (b. 823)
• 877 – II. Charles, Holy Roman Emperor (875-877 as Charles II) and king of the West Francia (840-877) (b. 823)
• 1014 – Samuil, Tsar of Bulgaria (b. 958)
• 1101 – Bruno, founder of the Chartree Order (b. 1030)
• 1536 – William Tyndale, English scholar who was a leading figure in the Protestant Reformation in the years leading up to his Execution (b. 1494)
• 1553 – Prince Mustafa, Ottoman Prince (b. 1515)
• 1657 – Katip Çelebi, Ottoman scientist (b. 1609)
• 1814 – Sergey Lazarevich Lashkarev, Russian soldier (b. 1739)
• 1825 – Bernard Germain de Lacépède, French natural historian (b. 1756)
• 1849 – Lajos Batthyány, Hungarian statesman (b. 1806)
• 1892 – Alfred Tennyson, English poet (b. 1809)
• 1893 – Ford Madox Brown, English painter (b. 1821)
• 1912 – Auguste Beernaert, 1884th prime minister of Belgium from October 1894 to March 14 (b.1829)
• 1923 – Damat Ferid Pasha, Ottoman diplomat and statesman (b. 1853)
• 1930 – Samed Ağa Ağamalıoğlu, Soviet statesman and socialist revolutionary (b. 1867)
• 1932 – Tokadîzâde Şekib Bey, Ottoman-Turkish poet and politician (b. 1871)
• 1951 – Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-born physician and biochemist (b. 1884)
• 1953 – Vera Muhina, Soviet sculptor (b. 1888)
• 1959 – Bernard Berenson, American art historian (b. 1865)
• 1962 – Tod Browning was an American screenwriter and filmmaker (b. 1880)
• 1962 – Peter-Paul Goes, German actor (b. 1914)
• 1964 – Kozma Togo, Turkish cartoonist (b. 1895)
• 1968 – Sabri Esat Siyavuşgil, Turkish poet, writer and psychologist (b. 1907)
• 1969 – Doğan Nadi Abalıoğlu, Turkish journalist and writer (b. 1913)
• 1969 – Walter Hagen, American golfer (b. 1892)
• 1981 – Anwar Sadat, Egyptian soldier, politician, and 3rd President of Egypt (Nobel Peace Prize winner) (b. 1918)
• 1985 – Nelson Riddle, American arranger, composer, bandleader, and orchestrator (b. 1921)
• 1989 – Bette Davis, American actress (b. 1908)
• 1990 – Bahriye Üçok, Turkish historian and political scientist (b. 1919)
• 1992 – Denholm Elliott, English film and stage actor (b. 1922)
• 1993 – Nejat Eczacıbaşı, Turkish businessman (b. 1913)
• 1999 – Gorilla Monsoon, former professional wrestler and sportscaster in the United States (b. 1937)
• 1999 – Amalia Rodrigues, Portuguese fado singer and actress (b. 1920)
• 2000 – Richard Farnsworth, American actor and stuntman (b. 1920)
• 2002 – Claus von Amsberg, wife of Queen Beatrix (b. 1926)
• 2008 – Paavo Haavikko, Finnish poet, novelist and playwright (b. 1931)
• 2010 – Tarık Minkari, Turkish surgeon and writer (b. 1925)
• 2011 – Diane Cilento, Australian actress and writer (b. 1933)
• 2014 – Feridun Buğaker, Turkish national football player (b. 1933)
• 2014 – Igor Mitoraj, Polish sculptor (b. 1944)
• 2014 – Marian Seldes, American actress (b. 1928)
• 2015 – Christine Arnothy, Hungarian writer (b. 1930)
• 2015 – Kevin Corcoran, American actor, producer, and director (b. 1949)
• 2015 – Árpád Göncz, Hungarian academic and politician (b. 1922)
• 2016 – Peter Denton, English football player and coach (b. 1946)
• 2016 – Walter Greiner, German theoretical physicist (b. 1935)
• 2016 – Alan Hodgson, English cricketer (b. 1951)
• 2016 – Marina Sanaya, Former Russian-Soviet figure skater (b. 1959)
• 2017 – Roberto Anzolin, former Italian international football player (b. 1938)
• 2017 – Darsi Ferrer Ramírez, Cuban doctor, journalist (b. 1969)
• 2017 – Marek Gołąb, former Polish weightlifter (b. 1940)
• 2017 – Ralphie May, American stand-up comedian and actor (b. 1972)
• 2017 – Judy Stone, American journalist, writer, and film critic (b. 1924)
• 2018 – Don Askarian, Armenian-born filmmaker, director, and screenwriter (b. 1949)
• 2018 – Eef Brouwers, Dutch journalist, manager and presenter (b. 1939)
• 2018 – Montserrat Caballé, Spanish soprano and opera singer of Catalan descent (b. 1933)
• 2018 – Viktoriya Marinova, Bulgarian investigative journalist and TV personality (b. 1988)
• 2018 – Don Sandburg, American actor, performer, and producer (b.1930)
• 2018 – Scott Wilson, American actor (b. 1942)
• 2019 – Vlasta Chramostová, Czech actress (b. 1926)
• 2019 – Ezequiel Esperón, Argentine football player (b. 1996)
• 2019 – John Mbiti, Kenyan-born Anglican cleric, philosopher, politician, academic, and author (b. 1931)
• 2019 – Karen Pendleton, American actress and human rights activist (b. 1946)
• 2020 – Herbert Feuerstein, German journalist, comedian, and actor (b. 1937)
• 2020 – Oļegs Karavajevs, Latvian former international football player (b. 1961)
• 2020 – Bunny Lee, Jamaican record producer and reggae musician (b. 1941)
• 2020 – Süleyman Mahmud, Libyan military officer (b. 1949)
• 2020 – Johnny Nash, American reggae and soul musician (b. 1940)
• 2020 – Nusretullah Vahdet, Iranian comedian, actor, and film director (b. 1935)
• 2020 – Eddie Van Halen, Dutch musician, songwriter and producer (b. 1955)
• 2020 – Wladimir Yordanoff, French-Bulgarian actor (b. 1954)

Holidays and special occasions 

• Liberation of Istanbul