Today in History: Ankara Automatic Telephone Exchange Opened for Operation

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 – The “Cyprus is Turkish Committee” was established in Ankara.
• 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, 2nd Shogun of the Japanese 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 (d. 1888)
• 1862 – O. Henry, American short story writer (d. 1910)
• 1877
  • Felix Dzerzhinsky, USSR Bolshevik leader and founder of the first intelligence service, the Cheka (d. 1926)
  • 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)
• 1895 – Vinoba Bhave, Indian activist and social reformer (d. 1982)
• 1899 – Philipp Bouhler, German soldier (d. 1945)
• 1903 – Theodor W. Adorno, German philosopher, sociologist, musicologist, and composer (d. 1969)
• 1916 – Ed Sabol, American actor and cinematographer (d. 2015)
• 1917
  • Ferdinand Marcos, President of the Philippines (d. 1989)
  • Herbert Lom, Czech film and stage actor (d. 2012)
• 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)
  • Salih Selim, Egyptian national football player (d. 2002)
• 1935
  • Arif Erkin Güzelbeyoğlu, Turkish architect, musician, theater and film actor
  • Arvo Part, Estonian composer
  • 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
  • Brian De Palma, American film director
  • Nông Đức Mạnh, Vietnamese politician
• 1944 – Everaldo, Brazilian football player (d. 1974)
• 1945
  • Franz Beckenbauer, German football player
  • Leo Kottke, American acoustic guitarist
• 1950 – Khosro Harandi, Iranian chess player (d. 2019)
• 1956 – Tony Gilroy, American screenwriter and director
• 1958
  • Altan Tan, Turkish writer and politician
  • Roxann Dawson, American actress and director
  • Scott Patterson, American actor and musician
• 1960 - Hiroshi Amano, Japanese physicist and inventor of semiconductor technology
• 1961 Virginia Madsen, American actress
• 1962 – Julio Salinas, Spanish national football player
• 1963 – Andrew Jackson, Canadian actor
• 1964 – Victor Wooten, American musician
• 1965
  • Bashar Assad, President of Syria
  • Moby, American musician
  • Paul Heyman, American professional wrestling manager, announcer, and manager
• 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
  • Taraji P. Henson, American actress and singer
• 1972 – Ricky Koole, Dutch singer
• 1974 – Mehmet Emin Toprak, Turkish actor (d. 2002)
• 1977
  • Ludacris, American musician
  • Matthew Stevens, Welsh snooker player
• 1978 – Dejan Stanković, Serbian football player
• 1979
  • David Pizarro, Chilean football player
  • Eric Abidal, French football player
• 1981
  • Andrea Dossena, Italian football player
  • Dylan Klebold, American student and perpetrator of the Columbine High School Massacre
  • Özlem Türay, Turkish theater actress
• 1982 – Elvan Abeylegesse, Turkish athlete of Ethiopian descent
• 1983 – Vivian Cheruiyot, Kenyan athlete
• 1985 – Shaun Livingston, American basketball player
• 1987
  • Robert Acquafresca, Italian football player
  • Tyler Hoechlin, American actor
• 1990
  • Jo Inge Berget, Norwegian football player
  • Yasin Pilavcilar, Turkish jockey
• 1991
  • Jordan Ayew, Ghanaian football player
  • Kygo, Norwegian DJ, songwriter and musician
• 1992 – Efecan Şenolsun, Turkish actress
• 1993
  • Tatsuki Kohatsu, Japanese football player
  • Elsen Rizazade, Azerbaijani football player
• 1994
  • Nataliya Prischepa, Ukrainian athlete
  • Mateus dos Santos Castro, Brazilian football player
  • Cameron Burrell, American sprinter
• 1995 – Cecilia Rossell, Honduran model

Deaths

• 1063 – Béla I, King of Hungary (b. 1015 to 1020)
• 1161 – Melisende, Queen of the Kingdom of Jerusalem (b. 1105)
• 1680 – Go-Mizunoo, 108th Emperor of Japan in traditional succession (b. 1596)
• 1793 – Nicolaas Laurens Burman, Dutch botanist (b. 1734)
• 1823 – David Ricardo, British political economist and classical economist (b. 1772)
• 1870 – Eugenio Lucas Velázquez, Spanish painter (b. 1817)
• 1888 – Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Argentine activist, intellectual, author, and 6th 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, Russian impressionist painter (b. 1861)
• 1941 – Christian Rakovsky, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1873)
• 1948 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistani lawyer, politician, and founder of Pakistan (b. 1876)
• 1953 – Andreas Bertalan Schwarz, German lawyer and academic (b. 1886)
• 1957 – Mary Proctor, American astronomy popularizer (b. 1862)
• 1970 – Giuseppe Vaccaro, Italian architect (b. 1896)
• 1971 – Joe Jordan, African-American musician and composer (b. 1882)
• 1971 – Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet statesman (b. 1894)
• 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 Kanellopulos, Greek writer and politician (b. 1902)
• 1987 – Peter Tosh, 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 – Berry Berenson, American singer, model, and actress (b. 1948)
• 2001 – Mohammed Atta, Egyptian al-Qaeda member (responsible for the suicide bombing of the World Trade Center in the September 11 attacks) (b. 1968)
• 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 football player and manager (b. 1946)
• 2009 – Jim Carroll, American author, poet, and musician (b. 1949)
• 2011 – Andy Whitfield, Australian actor (b. 1971)
• 2013 – Marshall Berman, American 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 host (b. 1927)
• 2016 – Alexis Arquette, American actress (b. 1969)
• 2016 – Engin Ünal, Turkish national swimmer (b. 1936)
• 2016 – İshak Alaton, Turkish businessman and Honorary President of Alarko Holding (b. 1927)
• 2017 – Abdulhalim Muazzam Shah, King of Malaysia (b. 1927)
• 2017 – JP Donleavy, Irish-American novelist and playwright (b. 1926)
• 2017 – Mark LaMura, American actor (b. 1948)
• 2018 – Begum Gulsum Nawaz, Pakistani politician and wife of Nawaz Sharif (b. 1950)
• 2018 – Don Newman, American football player and basketball coach (b. 1957)
• 2018 – Fenella Fielding, English actress (b. 1927)
• 2019 – BJ Habibie, Indonesian politician, engineer, and 3rd President of Indonesia (b. 1936)
• 2019 – Daniel Johnston, American rock singer, musician, songwriter, and illustrator (b. 1961)
• 2020 – Agnivesh, Indian activist, educator and politician (b. 1939)
• 2020 – Christian Poncelet, French politician (b. 1928)
• 2020 – Nazım Şakir, Iraqi football player and coach (b. 1958)
• 2020 – Roger Carel, French voice actor and actor (b. 1927)
• 2020 – Toots Hibbert, Jamaican singer and songwriter (b. 1942)