Today in History: Atatürk Visited Kuşadası

February 9 is the 40nd day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 325 days left until the end of the year (326 in leap years).

Railways

• 9 February 1857 A will came out that the Constanta - Boğazköy (Chernovada) line was given to an English group.

Events

• 1588 – Oil lamps started to be used in mosque minarets.
• 1640 - Sultan Ibrahim came to the throne.
• 1695 – Battle of the Sheep Islands: The naval battle with the Venetian Republic Navy in front of the Koyun Islands off the Karaburun Peninsula resulted in the victory of the Ottoman Navy.
• 1788 – Austria joined the war on the side of Russia in the Ottoman-Russian War of 1787-1792.
• 1822 - Haiti invades the Dominican Republic.
• 1871 – For the first time in the Ottoman Empire, an article by Karl Marx was published in the newspaper Hakayik-ul Vakayi.
• 1895 - William G. Morgan laid the foundations of volleyball.
• 1920 – The French began to withdraw from Maraş and evacuate the Adana region.
• 1921 – The Bosphorus froze.
• 1925 – Halit Pasha, one of the commanders of the Turkish War of Independence, was shot by Ali Çetinkaya in the Parliament by an accidental bullet and died on February 14, 1925.
• 1930 – Atatürk visited Kusadasi.
• 1934 – Balkan Entente; Signed in Athens between Turkey, Greece, Yugoslavia and Romania.
• 1942 - USA begins daylight saving time.
• 1950 - Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the US State Department of filling the Department with communists.
• 1962 - Jamaica becomes an independent nation within the Commonwealth of Nations.
• 1964 – The 9th Winter Olympics, held in Innsbruck, Austria, come to an end.
• 1965 – Vietnam War: The first US troops are sent to South Vietnam.
• 1969 – The first test flight of the Boeing 747 took place.
• 1971 - Apollo 14 returns to Earth from its third manned Moon mission.
• 1972 – State of Emergency declared in London due to miners' strike.
• 1975 - The USSR's Soyuz 17 spacecraft returns to Earth.
• 1986 - Halley's Comet is at its closest distance to the sun. This is his second visit in the 20th century.
• 2001 – The F-3A aircraft under the command of Air Pilot Lieutenant Ayfer Gök, belonging to the Konya 5rd Main Jet Base Command, crashed near the Ermenek district of Karaman during the training flight. Pilot Lieutenant Gök, Turkey's first female martyr pilot It was.

Births

• 1404 – XI. Constantine, last Emperor of Byzantium (d. 1453)
• 1441 – Ali Şîr Nevaî, Uzbek-Turkish poet (d. 1501)
• 1685 – Francesco Loredan, 106th Duke of the Republic of Venice (d. 1762)
• 1737 – Thomas Paine, American politician (d. 1809)
• 1741 – Henri-Joseph Rigel, German composer (d. 1799)
• 1773 – William Henry Harrison, 9th President of the United States (d. 1841)
• 1783 – Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet (d. 1852)
• 1792 – Thomas Cooke, Canadian Catholic priest and missionary (d. 1870)
• 1817 – Eugenio Lucas Velázquez, Spanish painter (d. 1870)
• 1846 – Wilhelm Maybach, German automobile designer and businessman (d. 1929)
• 1853 Leander Starr Jameson, English physician and politician (d. 1917)
• 1865 – Miss Patrick Campbell, English stage actor (d. 1940)
• 1867 – Natsume Soseki, Japanese novelist (d. 1916)
• 1872 – Karekin Pastirmajian, Armenian politician (d. 1923)
• 1874 – Vsevolod Meyerhold, Russian stage actor, producer and director (d. 1940)
• 1875 – Paul Freiherr von Eltz-Rübenach, Minister of Transport in Nazi Germany (d. 1943)
• 1880 – Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1959)
• 1884 - Naile Sultan, II. Abdulhamid's daughter (d. 1957)
• 1885 – Alban Berg, Austrian composer (d. 1935)
• 1889 – Tryggvi Þórhallsson, Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 1935)
• 1891 – Pietro Nenni, Italian journalist, politician, and leader of the Italian Socialist Party (d. 1980)
• 1891 – Albert Eckstein, German pediatrician and academic (d. 1950)
• 1891 – Ronald Colman, English actor (d. 1958)
• 1893 – Yeoryos Atanasiadis-Novas, Greek poet and Prime Minister (d. 1987)
• 1896 – Alberto Vargas, Peruvian Pin-up girl painter (d. 1982)
• 1900 – Andrey Dulson, Soviet scientist (d. 1973)
• 1909 – Carmen Miranda, Portuguese-born Brazilian actress and samba singer (d. 1955)
• 1909 – Dean Rusk, American politician and former Secretary of State (d. 1994)
• 1910 – Jacques Monod, French biochemist (d. 1976)
• 1920 – Mustafa Duzgunman, Turkish marbling artist (d. 1990)
• 1926 – Sabih Şendil, Turkish poet and writer (d. 2002)
• 1928 – Rinus Michels, Dutch football player and manager (d. 2005)
• 1930 – Rafiq Subaie, Syrian actor, writer, and director (d. 2017)
• 1931 – Thomas Bernhard, Austrian writer (d. 1989)
• 1931 – Mukagali Makataev, Kazakh poet, writer and translator (d. 1976)
• 1936 – Clive Swift, English actor, comedian, and songwriter (d. 2019)
• 1938 – Doğan Cüceloğlu, Turkish psychologist and communication psychologist (d. 2021)
• 1940 – John Maxwell Coetzee, South African writer and academic
• 1940 – María Teresa Uribe, Colombian sociologist (d. 2019)
• 1942 - Carole King, American singer
• 1942 – Okan Demiriş, Turkish State Artist, opera composer and conductor (d. 2010)
• 1943 – Cemal Kamacı, Turkish boxer
• 1943 – Joseph E. Stiglitz, American economist
• 1944 – Alice Walker, American writer
• 1945 – Mia Farrow, American actress
• 1950 – Ali Alkan, Turkish lawyer
• 1952 – Mümtaz Sevinç, Turkish theater, cinema, TV series actor and voice actor (d. 2006)
• 1953 – Ciaran Hinds, Irish actor
• 1956 – Oktay Vural, Turkish politician, lawyer, bureaucrat and academic
• 1961 – Burak Sergen, Turkish actor
• 1968 – Valentina Tsybulskaya, Belarusian hiker
• 1976 – Charlie Day, American actor
• 1976 – Ionela Târlea-Manolache, Romanian athlete
• 1979 – Zhang Ziyi, Chinese actor
• 1980 – Angelos Charisteas, Greek football player
• 1981 – The Rev, American rock artist and musician (d. 2009)
• 1981 – Tom Hiddleston, English actor
• 1986 Ava Rose, American porn star
• 1987 – Magdalena Neuner, German biathlete
• 1990 – Facundo Affranchino, Argentine football player
• 1996 – Alec Potts, Australian archer

Deaths

• 967 – Seyfü'd Devle, founder and first emir of the Aleppo branch of the Hamdanids (b. 916)
• 1199 – Minamoto no Yoritomo, founder and first shogun of the Kamakura shogunate (b. 1147)
• 1588 – Álvaro de Bazán, Spanish navy commander (b. 1526)
• 1619 – Giulio Cesare Vanini, Italian monk, philosopher, and theorist of atheism (b. 1585)
• 1670 – III. Frederick, king of Denmark and Norway (b. 1609)
• 1798 – Antoine de Favray, French painter (b. 1706)
• 1857 – Johann Georg Hiedler, grandfather of Adolf Hitler (b. 1792)
• 1874 – Jules Michelet, French historian (b. 1798)
• 1881 – Dostoevsky, Russian writer (b. 1821)
• 1969 – Manuel Plaza, Chilean athlete (b. 1900)
• 1977 – Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyushin, Russian aircraft designer (b. 1894)
• 1979 – Dennis Gabor, Hungarian-born British physicist, electrical engineer, and inventor (b. 1900)
• 1979 – Allen Tate, American poet (b. 1899)
• 1981 – Bill Haley, American singer (b. 1925)
• 1984 – Yuri Andropov, Soviet leader (b. 1914)
• 1989 – Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist and animator (b. 1928)
• 1993 – Renç Koçibey, Turkish rally driver (traffic accident) (b. 1942)
• 1994 – Howard Martin Temin, American biologist (b. 1934)
• 1996 – Adolf Galland, German pilot (b. 1912)
• 1998 – Maurice Schumann, French statesman (b. 1911)
• 2001 – Ayfer Gök, Turkish air pilot lieutenant (First female martyr pilot, (b. 1977)
• 2002 – Princess Margaret, British heir to the throne (b. 1930)
• 2003 – Masatoshi Gündüz Ikeda, Japanese-born Turkish mathematician (b. 1926)
• 2011 – Andrzej Przybielski, Polish musician (b. 1944)
• 2012 – John Hick, philosopher of religion and christian theologian (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Yılmaz Öztuna, Turkish historian (b. 1930)
• 2015 – Ed Sabol, Producer, actor, and cinematographer known for his sports films, especially in the USA (b. 1916)
• 2016 – Sushil Koirala, Nepali politician and 37th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1939)
• 2016 – Zdravko Tolimir, Serbian general (b. 1948)
• 2017 – Serge Baguet, Belgian professional cyclist (b. 1969)
• 2018 – Reg E. Cathey, American actor and stuntman (b. 1958)
• 2018 – John Gavin, American actor (b. 1931)
• 2018 – Nebojša Glogovac, Serbian actress (b. 1969)
• 2018 – Sarraf Kasım, Azerbaijani poet and poet (b. 1939)
• 2018 – Alfonso Lacadena, Spanish anthropologist, researcher and author (b. 1964)
• 2018 – Craig MacGregor, American rock-blues musician (b. 1949)
• 2019 – Cadet, English rapper and hip hop musician (b. 1990)
• 2019 – Jerry Casale, American former baseball player (b. 1933)
• 2019 – Ferhad Ibrahimi, Iranian Azerbaijani music poet, writer and lyricist (b. 1935)
• 2019 – Shelley Lubben, American author, activist, singer, motivational speaker, and pornographic film actress (b. 1968)
• 2019 – Maximilian Reinelt, German rower (b. 1988)
• 2019 – Tomi Ungerer, French graphic artist and writer (b. 1931)
• 2020 – Mirella Freni, Italian opera singer (b. 1935)
• 2020 – Abdul Aziz Al Mubarak, Sudanese singer and musician (b. 1951)
• 2020 – Margareta Hallin, Swedish opera singer, composer and actress (b. 1931)
• 2021 – Chick Corea, American jazz composer, keyboardist, bandleader, and occasional percussionist (b. 1941)
• 2021 – Valeria Gagealov, Romanian theatre, radio, film and television actress, voice actor (b. 1931)
• 2021 – Rajiv Kapoor, Indian actor, filmmaker and director (b. 1962)
• 2021 – Franco Marini, Italian politician and trade unionist (b. 1933)
• 2022 – Nora Nova, Bulgarian-German singer (b. 1928)

Holidays and special occasions

• World No Smoking Day