Today in History: Dardanelles Strait Occupied by British and French

November 6 is the 310th day of the year (311th in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days left until the end of the year is 55.

Railways

• 6 November 1870 Yedikule-Kucukcekmece line was to attest with the will.
• 6 November 1948 Maraş station and Köprüağzı-Maraş line (28 km) were opened.
• 6 November 2019 The first freight train that will depart from China and pass to Europe using Marmaray was sent off from China Railway Express Ankara Station with a ceremony.

Events 

• 1860 - Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States.
• 1913 - Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi is arrested.
• 1917 - Finland declared its independence from the Russian Empire.
• 1918 – The Dardanelles is occupied by the British and the French.
• 1923 - American Jacob Schick patented the first electric shaver.
• 1923 – Turkish Turing and Automobile Association was established.
• 1928 - Herbert C. Hoover is elected President of the United States.
• 1931 – Yellow-black checkered band application was started in minibuses in Istanbul.
• 1936 – Paper and cardboard factory was opened in Izmit.
• 1937 - Italy joins the anti-communist pact between Germany and Japan.
• 1943 – II. During World War II, Russia recaptured the city of Kiev from the Germans. While the Germans were withdrawing, they had destroyed many of the city's historic buildings.
• 1944 – Plutonium production becomes possible at the USA's "Hanford Atomic Facilities". This plutonium would later be used to build the Fat Man codename atomic bomb, which would be dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
• 1955 – Production started in Kayseri Sugar Factory.
• 1971 – The name of Istanbul Culture Palace was changed to Atatürk Cultural Center (AKM).
• 1971 – U.S. Atomic Energy Commission AEC on the island of Amchitka in Alaska's Aleutian archipelago cannikin conducted the United States' largest underground hydrogen bomb test.
• 1981 – The National Security Council adopted the “Law on the State Cemetery”.
• 1981 – The Council of Higher Education (YÖK) was established.
• 1982 – AU SBF School of Press and Broadcasting was separated from the Faculty of Political Sciences (SBF) and renamed as Ankara University Faculty of Communication (İlef).
• 1983 – General elections were held: ANAP came to power alone with 211 deputies. Populist Party (HP) 117, Nationalist Democracy Party (MDP) 71 deputies. The 1983 elections were the first general elections in which parties formed after September 12, 1980 participated.
• 1984 - Ronald Reagan is elected President of the United States.
• 1985 – In Colombia, left-wing guerrillas affiliated with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia capture the Palace of Justice; 11 people, 115 of whom were judges, died in the clashes.
• 1989 – Southeastern Anatolia Project Regional Development Administration GAP was established.
• 1989 – President Kenan Evren bid farewell to the public by making his last radio and television speech three days before the end of his term.
• 1991 – Social-Democratic Populist Party (SHP) deputies Hatip Dicle and Leyla Zana uttered additional words in Kurdish during the swearing-in ceremony in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, creating controversy. SHP Chairman Erdal İnönü demanded that Dicle and Zana resign from the party.
• 2001 - Belgian airline Sabena declared bankruptcy.
• 2001 - Michael Bloomberg was elected Mayor of New York.
• 2002 - Winona Ryder was convicted of stealing $5.500 worth of items from a New York boutique.
• 2008 – Child star Skylar Deleon was sentenced to death in the US where she was tried for murder.
• 2012 - Barack Obama wins the US Presidential election for the second time.
• 2015 – CNBC-e ceased broadcasting.

Births 

• 15 – Young Agrippina, Roman Empress (d. 59)
• 1180 – Izzeddin Keykavus, Sultan of the Anatolian Seljuk State (d. 1220)
• 1494 – Suleiman the Magnificent, 10th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1566)
• 1661 – II. Carlos, King of Spain (d. 1700)
• 1671 – Colley Cibber, English stage actor and writer (d. 1757)
• 1788 – Giuseppe Donizetti, Italian musician and founder of the first Turkish band (d. 1856)
• 1794 – Aimable Pélissier, French general (d. 1864)
• 1814 – Adolphe Sax, Belgian inventor and instrument maker (inventor of the saxophone) (d. 1894)
• 1835 – Cesare Lombroso, Italian criminologist (pioneer of the scientific study of criminality) (d. 1909)
• 1841 – Armand Fallières, French politician and President of France (d. 1931)
• 1851 – Charles Henry Dow, American journalist and founder of the Financial Times (who introduced the measure today known as the Dow Jones index) (d.1902)
• 1861 – James Naismith, Canadian sports coach and inventor (creator of the sport of basketball, inventor of American football and helmet) (d. 1939)
• 1880 – Robert Musil, Austrian novelist, storyteller, and essayist (d. 1942)
• 1927 – Rubén Amorín, Uruguayan football player, coach, and sportswriter (d. 2014)
• 1931 – Mike Nichols, American film director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1932 - François Englert, Nobel Prize winner (shared with Peter Higgs in 2013) is a Belgian theoretical physicist
• 1940 – Clara Janés, Spanish poet, writer and translator
• 1941 – Guy Clark, American singer and musician (d. 2016)
• 1946 – Sally Field, American actress and Oscar winner
• 1947 – Mesut Yılmaz, Turkish politician (d. 2020)
• 1948 – Glenn Frey, American rock guitarist, singer, composer, and actor (d. 2016)
• 1949 – Brad Davis, American actor (d. 1991)
• 1952 – Michael Cunningham, American author and Pulitzer Prize winner
• 1955 – Maria Shriver, American journalist, author
• 1959 – Rahmi Emeç, Turkish journalist and poet
• 1967 – Pervin Buldan, Turkish politician
• 1968 – Jerry Yang, US computer scientist
• 1968 - Kelly Rutherford, an American actress
• 1970 – Ethan Hawke, American actor
• 1970 – Joyce Chepchumba, Kenyan athlete
• 1971 – Laura Flessel-Colovic, French fencer
• 1972 – Rebecca Romijn, American actress and former model
• 1979 – Lamar Odom is an American former basketball player.
• 1980 – Mert Nobre, Brazilian-born Turkish football player
• 1984 – Annie Cruz, Filipino-American porn star
• 1986 – Conchita Wurst, Austrian singer
• 1987 - Ana Ivanovic, Serbian tennis player
• 1987 - Naoki Miyata, Japanese football player
• 1988 – Emma Stone, American actress
• 1988 - Conchita Wurst is an Austrian singer
• 1989 - Jozy Altidore is an American football player.
• 1990 – André Schürrle, retired German football player
• 1990 – Kris Wu, Chinese-Canadian singer and actor

Deaths 

• 1003 – XVII. John was Pope from May 16, 1003 until his death on November 6, 1003 (b. 966)
• 1406 – VII. Innocentius, pope from 17 October 1404 until his death in 1406 (b. 1336)
• 1543 – Prince Mehmed, son of Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman prince (b. 1521)
• 1836 – Charles X, King of France (b. 1757)
• 1863 – Henry Fitz, American scientist and businessman (b. 1808)
• 1866 – Christian Albrecht Bluhme, Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1794)
• 1887 – Eugène Pottier, French revolutionary, socialist, and poet (b. 1816)
• 1893 – Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (b. 1840)
• 1914 – Carl Hans Lody, reserve officer in the German Navy (b. 1877)
• 1922 – Ali Kemal, Turkish writer, journalist and politician (b. 1867)
• 1931 – Leyla Achba, daughter of Abkhaz Prince Mehmed Refik Achba-Anchabadze and Abkhaz-Georgian Princess Mahsheref Emuhvari (b. 1898)
• 1864 - Maurice Leblanc, French short story and novelist; Creator of the character Arsen Lupen. (B. 1864)
• 1960 – Erich Raeder, German soldier (b. 1876)
• 1964 – Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German-Swedish biochemist (b. 1863)
• 1965 – Edgar Varese, French composer (b. 1883)
• 1975 – Ernst Hanfstaengl, foreign press secretary for Adolf Hitler (b. 1887)
• 1983 – Münif Fehim Özarman, Turkish cartoonist (b. 1899)
• 1991 – Gene Tierney, American actor (b. 1920)
• 2001 – Anthony Shaffer, English playwright, novelist, and screenwriter (b. 1926)
• 2009 – İlhan Ayverdi, Turkish linguist (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Clive Dunn, English singer, comedian, actor, artist and writer (b. 1920)
• 2015 Bobby Campbell, English football man (b. 1937)
• 2015 – Yitzhak Navon, 5th President of the State of Israel (b. 1921)
• 2016 – Biser Kirov, Bulgarian pop and opera singer (b. 1942)
• 2016 – Zoltán Kocsis, Hungarian pianist, composer and conductor (b. 1952)
• 2017 – Karin Dor, German actress (b. 1938)
• 2017 – Richard F. Gordon, Jr., naval soldier, chemist, test pilot, and NASA astronaut in the United States Navy (b. 1929)
• 2017 – Feliciano Rivilla, Spanish international football player (b. 1936)
• 2018 – Coşkun Büktel, Turkish theater playwright, critic, poet and novelist (b. 1950)
• 2018 – Jonathan Cantwell, Australian professional road cyclist (b. 1982)
• 2019 – Lev Anninski, Soviet-Russian literary critic, journalist, historian, publisher and writer (b. 1934)
• 2019 – Jan Stráský, Czech politician (b. 1940)
• 2020 – Timur Selçuk, Turkish composer (b. 1946)
• 2020 – Fernando Solanas, Argentine film director, screenwriter, and politician (b. 1936)
• 2020 – King Von, American rapper (b. 1994)

Holidays and special occasions 

• World Day for the Prevention of War and Armed Conflict Environmental Exploitation