Today in History: Karabuk Becomes Turkey's 78th Province

June 6 is the 157nd day of the year (158rd in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days left until the end of the year is 208.

Railways

• 6 June 2003 The "White Table" application, which includes all kinds of complaints and wishes about the railways, was launched.

Events

• 1388 – University of Cologne was founded.
• 1523 - As a result of the Swedish War of Independence, the Kingdom of Sweden declared its independence.
• 1808 - Joseph Bonaparte becomes King of Spain.
• 1844 – The YMCA-Young Man Christian Association, a global non-sectarian and non-clerical Christian organization, is founded.
• 1861 - Bettino Ricasoli takes office as Prime Minister of Italy.
• 1919 – The Commander of the British Forces in Istanbul, General George Milne, sent a letter to the Ministry of War, demanding that Mustafa Kemal Pasha be recalled.
• 1920 – Istanbul Court of War, İsmet İnönü, Bekir Sami Kunduk, Celalettin Arif, Dr. He sentenced Rıza Nur, Yusuf Kemal Tengirşenk, Hamdullah Suphi Tanrıöver, Rıfat Börekçi and Fahrettin Altay to death.
• 1930 – Albanian Football Federation was founded.
• 1937 – Sivas – Malatya Railway merged in Çetinkaya.
• 1944 – Normandy Landing: The Allies land in Normandy.
• 1962 – In line with the negotiations held at the United Nations, it was decided to recognize the independence of Rwanda and Burundi as separate states.
• 1966 – Balıkesirspor Club was founded.
• 1966 – UD Leiria Sports Club was founded.
• 1967 – In accordance with the policy implemented jointly by the Arab states, the oil exports to the states that support Israel were stopped.
• 1969 – OFK Petrovac Football Club was founded.
• 1976 - The Soyuz 21 spacecraft, consisting of the crew of cosmonauts Boris Volinov and Vitali Jolobov, begins its journey.
• 1983 – Social Democracy Party (SODEP) was founded. Erdal İnönü was elected as the leader of the party.
• 1982 – Israel invaded Lebanon with its operation called “Peace” in Galilee.
• 1984 – Soldiers of the Indian army carried out a bloody raid on the "Golden Temple", the holy shrine of the Sikhs. After this raid, non-militant Sikhs in various parts of India also began to take up arms.
• 1985 – The “Law of Regret”, rejected by President Kenan Evren, was accepted by ANAP's votes.
• 1985 - Tetris designed by Aleksey Pajitnov is released.
• 1996 – The international exhibition “Dialogues, lost thought of the order of things” started at the AKM Exhibition Hall.
• 1996 – Karabuk became the 78th province of Turkey.
• 1996 - Changchun Yatai Football Club was founded.
• 2000 – The immunity of Chilean ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet is lifted. During Pinochet's 17-year rule; thousands of revolutionaries and democrats were killed or disappeared.
• 2006 – In the civil war in Somalia, the Islamic Courts Organization took the capital Mogadishu under its control.
• 2011 – Apple launches iCloud, the cloud storage service at the World Developers Conference in California.
• 2012 – Venus transit took place.
• 2013 - Rami Hamdallah is inaugurated as Palestinian Prime Minister.
• 2013 – Capul TV started broadcasting on the internet.

Births

• 1519 – Andrea Cesalpino, Italian botanist (d. 1603)
• 1576 – Giovanni Diodati, Genevan protestant theologian (d. 1649)
• 1599 – Diego Velazquez, Spanish painter (d. 1660)
• 1606 Pierre Corneille, French poet (d. 1684)
• 1714 – José I, King of Portugal and the Algarve (d. 1777)
• 1799 – Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, Russian writer (d. 1837)
• 1850 – Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics (d. 1918)
• 1857 – Alexander Lyapunov, Russian mathematician (d. 1918)
• 1868 – Robert Falcon Scott, British Royal Navy officer and explorer (d. 1912)
• 1875 – Thomas Mann, German writer (d. 1955)
• 1887 – İzzet Melih Devrim, Turkish poet, novelist and playwright (d. 1966)
• 1898 – Ninette de Valois, Irish-born English dancer and choreographer (d. 2001)
• 1901 – Sukarno, leader of the Indonesian independence movement and first President (d. 1970)
• 1903 – Aram Ilyich Khachaturyan, Armenian-born Soviet composer (d. 1978)
• 1917 Maria Montez, American actress (d. 1951)
• 1918 – Martin Esslin, British producer and screenwriter (d. 2002)
• 1919 – Peter Carington, British politician (d. 2018)
• 1924 – Orna Porat, Israeli theater actor (d. 2015)
• 1926 – Erdal İnönü, Turkish scientist and politician (d. 2007)
• 1932 – Senih Orkan, Turkish actor (d. 2008)
• 1933 – Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss scientist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics (d. 2013)
• 1934 – II. Albert, King of Belgium
• 1939 – Ergüder Yoldaş, Turkish musician and composer (d. 2016)
• 1941 – David Crystal, English linguist, academic, and author
• 1943 – Richard Smalley, American scientist (d. 2005)
• 1944 – Edgar Froese, German musician (d. 2015)
• 1944 – Phillip Allen Sharp, American scientist
• 1945 – Abdirahman Mohamud Farole, Somali politician
• 1946 – Zbigniew Seifert, Polish musician (d. 1979)
• 1947 – Robert Englund, American actor
• 1947 – Laura Phillips “Laurie” Anderson, American avant-garde artist, composer, musician, and film director
• 1947 – Zeynep Avcı, Turkish journalist, short story and playwright, and translator
• 1950 – Meral Zeren, Turkish actress and voice artist
• 1951 – Geoffrey Rush, Australian actor
• 1953 – Dimitris Avramopoulos, Greek diplomat and politician
• 1954 – Władysław Żmuda, former Polish national football player
• 1955 – Sam Simon, American television producer and screenwriter (d. 2015)
• 1956 – Bjorn Borg, Swedish tennis player
• 1956 – Faruk Tınaz, Turkish musician
• 1956 – Marwan Barghouti, Palestinian politician and military leader
• 1958 - Tracey Adams, American porn star
• 1959 – Jimmy Jam, American producer
• 1960 – Ahmet Yıldız, Turkish writer
• 1960 – Steve Vai, American musician
• 1961 – Garin Nugroho, Indonesian director
• 1961 – Tom Araya, Chilean musician
• 1963 – David Koepp, American screenwriter and director
• 1963 Jason Isaacs, English actor
• 1965 – Ahmet Karcılılar, Turkish writer
• 1965 – Osamu Hirose, Japanese football player
• 1966 - Angela Cavagna, Italian model
• 1966 - Faure Gnassingbé, President of Togo
• 1966 – Lukas Hacilukas, Cypriot manager and former national football player
• 1967 – Katharina Abt, German actress
• 1967 - Paul Giamatti, American actor
• 1967 – Roger Lukaku, Congolese football player
• 1968 Molly Glynn, American actress (d. 2014)
• 1969 – Fernando Redondo, Argentine former football player
• 1969 – Selçuk Dereli, Turkish football referee
• 1970 – Albert Ferrer, Spanish former football player
• 1970 – James Shaffer, American musician
• 1971 – Ertan Aydın, Turkish politician
• 1972 – Cristina Scabbia, Italian musician and songwriter
• 1972 – Hideki Yoshioka, Japanese football player
• 1972 – Satoshi Oishi, Japanese football player
• 1972 – Tomohiro Hasumi, Japanese football player
• 1973 – Patrick Rothfuss, American epic fantasy author and academic
• 1974 – Rolando Fonseca, Costa Rican football player
• 1974 – Sonya Walger, English actress
• 1975 - Fábio Camilo de Brito, Brazilian football player
• 1975 – Hasibe Eren, Turkish actress
• 1977 – David Connolly, Irish football player
• 1978 – Faudel, French singer of Algerian descent
• 1978 – Judith Barsi, American child actress (d. 1988)
• 1978 – Mariana Popova, Bulgarian singer
• 1978 - Naoki Matsushita, Japanese football player
• 1978 – ODB, American professional wrestler
• 1978 – Yusuke Sasuda, Japanese football player
• 1981 – Hasan Küçükçetin, Turkish actor
• 1982 – Selçuk Aydemir, Turkish screenwriter and director
• 1982 – Yasemin Hadivent, Turkish actress and presenter
• 1983 – Gianna Michaels, American porn star
• 1983 – Michael Krohn-Dehli, Danish football player
• 1983 – Yasutaka Homma, Japanese football player
• 1984 – ByeAlex, Hungarian singer
• 1984 – Igor Cukrov, Croatian singer
• 1984 – Roman Hubnik, Czech international football player
• 1985 – Drew McIntyre, Scottish wrestler
• 1985 – Sota Hirayama, Japanese football player
• 1986 – Ante Kulušić, Croatian football player
• 1986 – Didem Kınalı, Turkish dancer
• 1986 – Kim Hyun Joong, South Korean actress and musician
• 1986 – Leandrinho, Brazilian football player
• 1986 – Sergey Krivets, Belarusian football player
• 1986 - Vagner da Silva, Brazilian football player
• 1987 – Andreas Avraam, Cypriot football player
• 1987 – Cassio Ramos, Brazilian football player
• 1987 – Rubin Okotie, Austrian football player
• 1988 – Alexey Rogonov, Russian figure skater
• 1988 – Andrea Preti, Italian actor and screenwriter
• 1988 – Ferhat Bıkmaz, Turkish football player
• 1988 – Jon Errasti, Spanish football player
• 1989 – Jonathan Reis, Brazilian football player
• 1989 – Robert Sacre, American basketball player
• 1990 – Vid Belec, Slovenian goalkeeper
• 1990 – Yumu Kudo, Japanese football player
• 1991 – Rodrigo Ríos Lozano, Spanish football player
• 1992 – Mitch McGary, American basketball player
• 1992 – Raid Ibrahim Salih, Omani football player
• 1994 – Gakuto Notsuda, Japanese football player
• 1994 – Kevin Sousa, Cape Verdean football player
• 1995 – Julian Green, American football player
• 1995 – Semih Ergül, Turkish football player

Deaths

• 913 – Alexandros, Byzantine Emperor (b. 866)
• 1138 – Rashid, Abbasid Caliph (b. 1109)
• 1393 – Go-En'yū, Claimant of the North in Japan (b. 1359)
• 1671 – Stepan Razin, Kazakh leader (b. 1630)
• 1747 – Jean-Baptiste Barrière, French cellist and composer (b. 1707)
• 1813 – Alexandre Théodore Brongniart, French architect (b. 1739)
• 1832 – Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher and jurist (considered the founder of Pragmatism) (b. 1738)
• 1837 – Diego Portales, Chilean politician (b. 1793)
• 1861 – Camillo Benso, Italian statesman (b. 1810)
• 1891 – John A. Macdonald, first Prime Minister of the Dominion of Canada (b. 1815)
• 1916 – Yuan Shikai, Chinese commander and statesman (b. 1859)
• 1920 – Grigoriy Potanin, Russian ethnographer and natural historian (b. 1835)
• 1928 – Asaf Derviş Pasha, Turkish doctor (b. 1868)
• 1856 – Edward Goodrich Acheson, American chemist (d. 1931)
• 1940 – Arthur Zimmermann, German bureaucrat (b. 1864)
• 1941 – Louis Chevrolet, Swiss-American race car driver and businessman (b. 1878)
• 1942 – Harald Tammer, Estonian journalist, athlete and weightlifter (b. 1899)
• 1943 – Guido Fubini, Italian mathematician (b. 1879)
• 1944 – Paul Cornu, French engineer and inventor (b. 1881)
• 1946 – Gerhart Hauptmann, German dramatist, playwright, and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1948 – Louis Lumière, French filmmaker (b. 1864)
• 1961 – Carl Gustav Jung, German psychoanalyst (b. 1875)
• 1962 – George Sargent, English golfer (b. 1882)
• 1962 – Yves Klein, French painter (b. 1928)
• 1964 – Ragıp Gümüşpala, Turkish soldier and politician
• 1968 – Kazım Özalp, Turkish soldier and politician (one of the commanders of the Turkish War of Independence) (b. 1882)
• 1968 – Robert Kennedy, American senator and presidential candidate (assassinated) (b. 1925)
• 1970 – Camille Bombois, French painter (b. 1883)
• 1975 – Hiroshi Ōshima, Japanese soldier and bureaucrat (b. 1886)
• 1980 – Hamit Görele, Turkish painter (b. 1903)
• 1987 – Burhan Atak, Turkish football player (b. 1905)
• 1991 – Adnan Süvari, Turkish football player and coach (b. 1926)
• 1991 – Stan Getz, American musician (b. 1927)
• 1992 – Hikmet Feridun Es, Turkish journalist (b. 1909)
• 1994 – Orhan Eralp, Turkish bureaucrat (b. 1915)
• 1996 – George Davis Snell, American scientist (b. 1903)
• 1996 – Marc de Jonge, French actor (b. 1949)
• 1998 – Jafar Sharif Imami, former Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1910)
• 2002 – John Frankenheimer, American film producer and director (b. 1930)
• 2003 – Ken Grimwood, American author (b. 1944)
• 2005 – Anne Bancroft, American actress (b. 1931)
• 2005 – Dana Elcar, American actor (b. 1927)
• 2006 – Billy Preston, American musician (b. 1946)
• 2009 – Jean Dausset, French immunologist and Nobel Prize laureate in Medicine and Physiology (b. 1916)
• 2012 – Manolo Preciado, Spanish coach and former football player (b. 1957)
• 2013 – Esther Williams, American actress and swimmer (b. 1922)
• 2013 – Jerome Karle, American chemist (b. 1918)
• 2013 – Tom Sharpe, English writer (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Abdurrahman Ünsal, Turkish politician (b. 1930)
• 2014 – Darío Barrio, Spanish food expert and TV host (b. 1972)
• 2014 – Lorna Wing, English psychiatrist and physicist (b. 1928)
• 2015 – Aarthi Agarwal, American actress (b. 1984)
• 2015 – Pierre Brice, French actor and singer (b. 1929)
• 2016 – Theresa Saldana, American actress (b. 1954)
• 2016 – Peter Shaffer, English playwright and screenwriter (b. 1926)
• 2016 – Kimbo Slice, American professional wrestler (b. 1974)
• 2017 – Ragnhild Queseth Haarstad, Norwegian Center Party politician and minister (b. 1939)
• 2017 – Adnan Khashoggi, Saudi businessman (b. 1935)
• 2017 – Davey Lambert, British motorcycle racer (b. 1969)
• 2017 – Sandra Reemer, Dutch singer (b. 1950)
• 2017 – Márta Antal-Rudas, Hungarian female javelin thrower (b. 1937)
• 2017 – Rokas Žilinskas, Lithuanian journalist and politician (b. 1972)
• 2018 – Tinus Bosselaar, Dutch former international football player (b. 1936)
• 2018 – Ümit Kayıhan, Turkish football player and coach (b. 1954)
• 2018 – Kira Muratova, Ukrainian Soviet film director, screenwriter (b. 1934)
• 2018 – Alan O'Neill, Irish actor (b. 1971)
• 2018 – Monique Papon, French politician and senator (b. 1934)
• 2018 – Ralph Santolla, American heavy metal music-rock guitarist (b. 1969)
• 2018 – Mary Wilson, English poet (b. 1916)
• 2018 – Franz M. Wuketits, Austrian biologist, educator, epistemologist and academic (b. 1955)
• 2019 – Joan Callahan, American feminist philosopher (b. 1943)
• 2019 John, American singer, musician, and actor (b. 1940)
• 2020 – Christel DeHaan, German-born American businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1942)
• 2020 – Dietmar Seyferth, German professor of chemistry (b. 1929)
• 2020 – Ramadan Shallah, founder of Palestine Islamic Jihad (b. 1958)
• 2020 – Constantin Xenakis, Egyptian-born Greek-French painter and sculptor (b. 1931)

Holidays and special occasions

• World Dietitian's Day