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2010 Event - Turkey's historic Haydarpa a Terminal is damaged in a fire in Istanbul

2010 Event - Kurdish rebels claim responsibility for a bus bomb in Istanbul, Turkey; five people were killed and twelve people injured

2003 Event - British consulate and bank bombed in Istanbul murdering 27

1995 Event - Istanbul police shoot dead 16 Alawitische demonstrators

1986 Event - Attack on synagogue in Istanbul, 23 killed

1972 Event - Entire population of Istanbul under 24 hour house arrest

1952 Birthday - Orhan Pamuk, born in Istanbul, Turkey, novelist, professor in the Humanities, teaching comparative literature, writing, at Columbia University, received 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature

1935 Event - World Congress for Women's Rights concludes in Istanbul

1930 Event - Constantinople and Angora changes names to Istanbul and Ankara

1925 Birthday - Cornell Borchers, born in Germany, actress, Big Lift, Floodtide, Istanbul

1919 Birthday - Bulent Arel, born in Istanbul, composer, electronic music, contemporary classical music, worked with Edgard Varese, designed, installed electronic music laboratory at Yale University

1915 Birthday - Aziz Nesin, born in Heybeliada, Istanbul, writer, humorist, author of over 100 books, political activist, championed free speech and human rights in Turkey

1911 Event - Great fire destroys downtown Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey

1902 Birthday - Seton I Miller, Chehalis, Washington, writer, Pete's Dragon, Istanbul

1881 Birthday - Enver Pasa, Istanbul Turkey, Turkish politician

1852 Birthday - Hamid Abdulhak, Istanbul, Turkish romantic poet/playwright

1850 Birthday - Mary Mills Patrick, U.S., 1st President of Istanbul Woman's College

1830 Birthday - Abdul Aziz, Istanbul Ottoman, 32nd sultan of Turkey, 1861-76

1330 Event - Constantinople (Istanbul) becomes new capital by Roman Emperor Constantine for Eastern Roman Empire

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