July 6 is the 187th (188th day in leap years) of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 178 days left until the end of the year.

Railways

• On July 6, 1917, El Vecih and Aqaba fell into the hands of the rebels. The intensity of attacks on the Hejaz Railway has increased. 6 rails, 7 sleepers and nearly 185 telegraph poles were destroyed from July 5 to 50 and 8 rails on July 218.
• On July 6, 1974, TCDD Yakacık Hospital was opened.

Olaylar

• 1189 – Richard I of French origin (Richard the Lionheart), ascended the throne of England, spoke little English.
• 1517 – The Hejaz joins the Ottoman lands. “Blessed trustThe sacred object belonging to the Islamic prophet Muhammad bin Abdullah, said “, was delivered to the conqueror of Egypt, Yavuz Sultan Selim.
• 1535 – Utopia’The author of British statesman Sir Thomas More, King VIII. He was executed for failing to recognize Henry as head of the Church of England.
• 1827 – Treaty of London signed.
• 1885 – The rabies vaccine invented by French scientist Louis Pasteur was given to a human for the first time.
• 1905 – Alfred Deakin is elected Prime Minister of Australia for the second time.
• 1917 – Lawrence of Arabia attacks the city of Aqaba with Arab rebels.
• 1923 – Georgy Chicherin is officially inaugurated as the first Soviet People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs.
• 1924 A delegation headed by Ms. Safiye Ali travels to London to attend the International Women’s Congress.
• 1927 – The Council of State takes office.
• 1935 – In order to rationalize sugar production in Turkey, Türkiye Şeker Fabrikaları A.Ş. have been established. 22 existing sugar factories (Alpullu, Uşak, Eskişehir, Turhal) were connected to the company with a capital of 4 million TL.
• 1942 – The Allies arrest the Germans at El-Alameyn in Egypt. British landings were made in Morocco and Algeria. Germany has started to withdraw from North Africa.
• 1944 – 168 people are killed and over 700 injured in a circus fire in Hartford, Connecticut.
• 1947 – Production of the AK-47 infantry rifle, also known as the “Kalashnikov”, begins in the Soviet Union.
• 1953 – The historic Edirne clock tower, which was heavily damaged in the Edirne earthquake, was demolished.
• 1957 – The government closes the Istanbul Journalists Union for a while.
• 1957 – John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time at a festival in the United Kingdom.
• 1964 – Malawi declares independence from the United Kingdom.
• 1965 – The Law on the National Intelligence Organization is passed in Parliament.
• 1968 – The Teachers’ Assembly called for basic education to be eight years.
• 1969 – The screenplay for the novel “İnce Memed” is censored. “Censorship is against the Constitution,” said Yaşar Kemal, the author of the novel.
• 1971 – Martial law postpones the railway strike in Istanbul.
• 1972 – The public prosecutor’s office opens an investigation against Bülent Ecevit.
• 1972 – Nihal Atsız was sentenced to 15 months for alleged racism.
• 1979 – The prosecutor’s office launches an investigation against the Nationalist Movement Party.
• 1979 – All Teachers Union and Solidarity Association Giresun district prosecutor Alaattin Aydemir, whose short name is Töb-Der, is killed.
• 1980 – Events in Çorum: The events that started in Çorum at the end of May intensified during the first week of July. The tension began with the assassination of Gün Sazak, vice-president of the Nationalist Movement Party. The rights attack the districts inhabited by the Alevis and the lefts. Between May 29 and July 6, 48 people died in the events that continued at intervals.
• 1982 – Bülent Ecevit is sentenced to 2 months and 27 days in prison for his statements.
• 1988 – Asil Nadir, Gunaydin newspaper and the Veb Ofset publishing group, which publishes eight dailies and one weekly.
• 1988 – An oil exploration platform explodes in the North Sea; 167 people died in the fire.
• 1988 – In the Revolutionary Left case, which lasted seven years, the prosecutor requested the death penalty for 180 defendants.
• 1991 – Dr Lale Aytaman is appointed governor of Muğla. Aytaman became the first female governor.
• 1995 – Ankara governor’s office rejects the Metropolitan City Council’s decision to replace the Hittite sun, the city’s symbol, with a “mosque”.
• 1996 – Journalist and writer Kutlu Adalı is killed in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
• 1997 – Devlet Bahçeli is elected president of the Nationalist Movement Party. At the congress; Bahçeli received 697 votes and Tuğrul Türkeş 487 votes.
• 1998 – Kai Tak Airport in Hong Kong was closed due to its inability to meet needs, and Hong Kong International Airport was opened instead.
• 1999 – Minister of State Hikmet Uluğbay attempted suicide.
• 2005 – The International Olympic Committee announced that the 2012 Summer Olympics would be held in London.
• 2009 – Clashes erupt between Han nationalists and Muslim Uyghurs. Police and soldiers opened fire on demonstrating Uyghurs. (156 dead – 828 injured)
• 2011 – Egemen Bagis becomes Turkish Prime Minister for European Affairs and Chief Negotiator.

births

• 1793 – Jacob de Kempenaer, second Prime Minister of the Netherlands (died 1870)
• 1796 – Nicholas I, Tsar of Russia (died 1855)
• 1818 – Adolf Anderssen, great German chess master (died 1879)
• 1832 – Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico (died 1867)
• 1858 – John Hobson, English economist and sociologist (died 1940)
• 1886 – Marc Bloch, French historian (died 1944)
• 1898 – Hanns Eisler, German and Austrian composer (died 1962)
• 1899 – Susannah Mushatt Jones, the tallest person in the United States (died 2016)
• 1903 – Hugo Theorell, Swedish biochemist and Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine (died 1982)
• 1907 – Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (died 1954)
• 1921 – Nancy Reagan, wife of US President Ronald Reagan (died 2016)
• 1923 – Wojciech Jaruzelski, President of Poland (died 2014)
• 1925 Bill Haley, American singer (died 1981)
• 1925 – Gazi Yaşargil, Turkish scientist and neurosurgeon
• 1927 – Janet Leigh, American actress (died 2004)
• 1928 – Leyla Umar, Turkish journalist (died 2015)
• 1931 – Murad Wilfried Hofmann, German politician and writer (died in 2020)
• 1931 – Della Reese, singer, American actress (died in 2017)
• 1935 – Tenzin Gyatso, Tibetan religious leader (Dalai Lama) and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1937 – Ned Beatty, American actor
• 1940 – Nursultan Nazarbayev, 1st President of Kazakhstan
• 1944 – Bernhard Schlink, German scholar, judge and author
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• 1946 – George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States
• 1946 – Peter Singer, Australian philosopher
• 1946 – Sylvester Stallone, American actor
• 1948 – Nathalie Baye, French actress of cinema, television and theater
• 1951 – Geoffrey Rush is an Australian actor.
• 1952 – Adi Shamir, Israeli cryptographer
• 1958 – Haldun Boysan, Turkish film and television actor and voice actor (d. 2020)
• 1967 – Petra Kleinert is a German actress.
• 1970 – Roger Cicero, Romanian – German musician
• 1971 – Regla Bell, Cuban volleyball player
• 1972 – Ata Demirer, Turkish actor, stage actor, stand-up artist, singer and presenter
• 1972 – Levent Üzümcü, Turkish theater actor
• 1974 – Diego Klimowicz is a retired Argentine footballer.
• 1974 – Zé Roberto, Brazilian football player
• 1975 – 50 Cent, American rapper
• 1980 – Eva Green, French actress and model
• 1980 – Pau Gasol, Spanish basketball player
• 1981 – Roman Shirokov, Russian national football player
• 1985 – Melisa Sözen, Turkish actress
• 1987 – Victoras Astafei, Romanian football player
• 1987 – Kate Nash, English singer, songwriter, musician and actress
• 1990 – Jae Crowder, American professional basketball player

Armed

• 1189 – II. Henry, King of England (born in 1133)
• 1415 – Jan Hus, Christian reformer theologian (born 1370)
• 1533 – Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet (born in 1474)
• 1535 – Thomas More, English writer and statesman (born 1478)
• 1553 – VI. Edward, King of England and Ireland (born 1537)
• 1819 – Sophie Blanchard, French aviator and aeronaut (born in 1778)
• 1854 – Georg Ohm, German physicist (born 1789)
• 1871 – Castro Alves, Brazilian abolitionist poet (known as “the poet of the slaves”) (born 1847)
• 1873 – Kaspar Gottfried Schweizer, Swiss astronomer (born 1816)
• 1893 – Guy de Maupassant, French writer (born in 1850)
• 1904 – Abay Kunanbayoğlu, Kazakh poet and composer (born 1845)
• 1916 – Odilon Redon, French painter (born in 1840)
• 1934 – Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarcho-communist revolutionary (born 1888)
• 1944 – Chūichi Nagumo, Japanese soldier (born 1887)
• 1946 – Umberto Cisotti, Italian mathematician and physicist (born 1882)
• 1952 – Maryse Bastié, French woman pilot (born in 1898)
• 1959 – George Grosz, German painter (born 1893)
• 1962 – William Faulkner, American author and Nobel Prize winner (born 1897)
• 1971 – Louis Armstrong, American jazz artist (born 1901)
• 1975 – Reşat Ekrem Koçu, Turkish historian and writer (born 1905)
• 1984 – Zati Sungur, Turkish illusionist (born 1898)
• 1994 – Teoman Erel, Turkish journalist (born 1940)
• 1995 – Aziz Nesin, Turkish writer (born 1915)
• 1996 – Kutlu Adalı, Turkish Cypriot journalist, poet and writer (born 1935)
• 1998 – Roy Rogers, American actor (born 1911)
• 1999 – Joaquín Rodrigo, Spanish composer (born 1901)
• 2000 – Władysław Szpilman, Polish pianist (born 1911)
• 2003 – Buddy Ebsen, American actor (born 1908)
• 2003 – Çelik Gülersoy, Turkish tourism professional and writer (born 1930)
• 2005 – Claude Simon, French writer and Nobel Prize winner (born in 1913)
• 2008 – Ersin Faralyalı, Turkish industrialist and politician (born 1939)
• 2009 – Ayşegül Devrim, Turkish theater, film and television actress, voice actor and director (born 1942)
• 2009 – Robert McNamara, US Secretary of Defense and President of the World Bank (born 1916)
• 2010 – Aleko Sofyanidis, Turkish-Greek footballer (born in 1937)
• 2014 – Dave Legeno, English actor and martial artist (born 1963)
• 2014 – Andrew Mango, English writer, one of three sons of a wealthy Anglo-Russian family (b.
• 2016 – John McMartin, American actor in theater, film and television (born 1929)
• 2016 – Turgay Şeren, Turkish football player, coach, football commentator and sports director (born 1932)
• 2017 – Michel Aurillac, French politician, bureaucrat (born in 1928)
• 2017 – Håkan Carlqvist is a Swedish motorcycle rider (born 1954)
• 2017 – Joan B. Lee, Anglo-American model and promotional actress of British origin (b.1922)
• 2017 – Galip Tekin, Turkish comic (born 1958)
• 2018 – Bruce Hunter, former US Olympic swimmer (born 1939)
• 2018 – Vlatko Ilievski, Macedonian singer (born 1985)
• 2018 – Umran Ahid al-Zubi, Syrian politician and minister (born 1959)
• 2019 – Cameron Boyce, American child actor (born 1999)
• 2019 – Seydi Dinçtürk, former Turkish Olympic athlete (born 1922)
• 2019 – Eddie Jones, American actor (born 1934)
• 2020 – Inuwa Abdulkadir, Nigerian lawyer and politician (born 1966)
• 2020 – Suresh Amonkar, Indian politician (born 1952)
• 2020 – Rosario Bléfari, Argentine rock singer, songwriter, actor and writer (born 1965)
• 2020 – Carme Contreras i Verdiales, Spanish actress and dubbing artist (born 1932)
• 2020 – Charlie Daniels, American country singer and songwriter (born 1936)
• 2020 – Julio Jiménez, Bolivian politician (born 1964)
• 2020 – Gordon Kegakilwe, South African politician (born 1967)
• 2020 – Ennio Morricone, Italian composer (born in 1928)
• 2020 – Giuseppe Rizza, Italian football player (born 1987)