Historical Events on January 9.

1.  Historical events in Indian and world history on January 9.

2.  1760, 9th January: Ahmed Shah Durrani defeated the Marathas at the Battle of Bararighat.

3.  1788, 9th January: Connecticut became the 5th state of the United States.

4.  1880, 9th January: Indian revolutionary Vasudev Balwant Phadke was sentenced to life in prison for treason and taken to Aden by ship from Tehran.

5.  1915, 9th January: Mahatma Gandhi came to India from Africa.

6.  1941, 9th January: The murder of six thousand Jews in Bucharest, the capital of the European country Romania.

7.  1982, 9th January: First Indian scientific team arrived in Antarctica.

8.  2007, 9th January: Steve Jobs released the first iPhone.

9.  2012, 9th January: Lionel Messi won FIFA’s Ballon d’Or (Best Footballer) Award for the second year in a row.

Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on January 9.

1.  1889: Vrindavan Lal Verma, a Hindi novelist, and playwright.

2.  1908: Simone de Beauvoir, a French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist. 

3.  1913: Richard Nixon, the 37th president of the United States.

4.  1922: Har Gobind Khorana, an Indian American biochemist. 

5.  1927: Sunderlal Bahuguna, a noted Garhwali environmentalist and Chipko movement leader. 

6.  1934: Mahendra Kapoor, an Indian playback singer.

7.  1938: Chakravarthi Ramanujam, an Indian mathematician.

8.  1955: Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, an Indian diplomat and politician who is the Minister of External Affairs of the Government of India.

9.  1965: Farah Khan, an Indian film director, film producer, actress, dancer, and choreographer.

10.  1974: Farhan Akhtar, an Indian film actor, director, screenwriter, playback singer, producer, and television host.

11.  1976: Raghava Lawrence, an Indian choreographer who has also worked in films as an actor, director, composer, dancer, and playback singer.

12.  2000: Hima Das, an Indian sprinter from the state of Assam.

Death Anniversaries of famous people on January 9.

1.  1848: Caroline Herschel, a German astronomer.

2.  1873: Napoleon III, the first president of France.

3.  1878: Victor Emmanuel II, the first king of a united Italy.

4.  1923: Satyendranath Tagore, the first Indian to join the Indian Civil Service.

5.  1998: Kenichi Fukui, a Japanese chemist, was known as the first Asian person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. 

6.  2003: Qamar Jalalabadi, an Indian poet and lyricist of songs for Hindi movies.

9-January-1664

Shivaji started Surat campaign and left the city after plundering the place.

9-January-1841

John Gil Christ, founder of Fort William College Calcutta, passed away at Paris.

9-January-1854

Govind Vasudev Kanitkar, noted poem writier, novelist and translator, was born.

9-January-1889

Dr. Vrindavanlal Varma, famous Hindi writer and social reformer, was born in Jhansi. He mainly wrote historical and social novels, most famouse being "Mriganainee".

9-January-1904

Pratab Singh Chaudhari, social worker, was born at Multan, Punjab .

9-January-1915

Gandhiji reached Bombay on his return from South Africa. He became a member of the Indian National Congress. He was awarded Kaiseri-e-Hind Gold Medal for Ambulance service on Jan, 11.

9-January-1916

Ramkrishna Ramnarayan Ruia, great industrialist, was born.

9-January-1918

Harprasad Nanda, famous Industrialist, was born.

9-January-1919

Theophane A. Mathias, educationist, was born.

9-January-1922

Har Gobind Khurana, scientist of Biology, was born in India. He did his M.Sc from University of Punjab and, for higher education went to University of Liverpool. In 1959, he produced a chemical called "Coenzymea", which is essential for certain processes in the human body. He was awarded Nobel Prize for medicine in 1968 along with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Halley.

9-January-1923

Satyendranath Tagore, Bengali litterateur, passed away.

9-January-1935

Britain signs the Trade Pack with India.

9-January-1935

Savita Jajodiya, famous Marathi writer, was born.

9-January-1935

Harishankar Sharma, great educationist, was born at Jaipur.

9-January-1946

Nanalal Dalpatram Kavi, famous Hindi poet, Gujarati litterateur, writer, headmaster and innovator of duel meaning phrases, passed away.

9-January-1971

Muslim leader Sheik Mohammed Abdullah was barred from returning to Kashmir.

9-January-1972

In 1971, 433 feature films produced in the world with a record and a top position in film production.

9-January-1976

President suspends seven freedoms guaranteed by Article 19 of the Constitution.

9-January-1982

A group of 21 Indian scientists team led by S. Z. Qasim started for the first ever Antarctica expedition on December 1981 - Jan 1982.

9-January-1993

An Indian Airlines TU-154 plane crash lands in Delhi, all the 165 on board escape; Civil Aviation Minister Scindia resigns; PM cancels Dhaka visit; SAARC summit put off.

9-January-1994

Indian diplomats and staff members evacuated from war-ravaged Kabul.

9-January-1995

T.N. Seshan, chief election commissioner, asks Centre to put off annual budget in lieu of State assembly elections.

9-January-1995

Manipur Assembly removes Dr.H. Borobabu (Speaker) and suspends his membership until state election.

9-January-1996

PM unveils India's state-of-the-art Main Battle Rank (MBT) `Arjun' at a New Delhi function.

9-January-1997

John Major, British Prime Minister, addresses plenary session of the 'Partnership Summit' organised in Calcutta by the Confederation of Indian Industry.

9-January-1998

Three RJD ministers in the Gujral Cabinet - Mr. Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, Capt. Jai Narayan Nishad and Mrs. Kanti Singh - resign.