Historical Events on January 1.

1.   1756, 1st January: The Nicobar Islands were annexed by Denmark and renamed New Denmark.

2.  1808, 1st January: Slave imports were banned in the United States.

3.  1818, 1st January: The battle of Bhima Koregaon – 2nd Bombay Native Infantry Battalion, led by F. F. Stanton, defeated 28,000 Peshwa troops at Bhima Koregaon, with only 834 soldiers.

4.  1848, 1st January: Mahatma Jyotirao Phule and Savitribai Phule started the first girls’ school at Bhide Wada, Pune.

5.  1862, 1st January: The Indian Penal Code came into existence. 

6.  1877, 1st January: Queen Victoria of England became the Empress of India.

7.  1880, 1st January: ‘Money order’ system started in the country.

8.  1903, 1st January: In Great Delhi Darbar, marked the coronation of King Edward VII as Emperor of India

9.   the British released some 16,000 prisoners in of the occasion.

10.  1906, 1st January: British Government accepted the Indian standard.

11.  1915, 1st January: Mahatma Gandhi was awarded the ‘Kaisar-i-Hind’ by the Viceroy Lord Hardinge of Penshurst for his contribution to ambulance services in South Africa.

12.  1919, 1st January: The Government of India Act came into force, and legislatures were established in the country.

13.  1923, 1st January: Swarajya Party was formed by Chittaranjan Das and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.

14.  1949, 1st January: Ceasefire declared in Kashmir.

15.  1950, 1st January: Ajaigarh merged into the Union of India.

16.  1992, 1st January: India and Pakistan exchanged lists of their nuclear installations for the first time.

17.  1995, 1st January: World Trade Organization came into existence.

18.  2019, 1st January: Millions of women created a 300 mile ‘Women’s Wall’ across state of Kerala, India, in support of women’s access to temple of Sabarimala.

Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on January 1.

1.   1662: Peshwa Balaji Vishwanath, a Peshwa of the Maratha Empire.

2.  1735: Paul Revere, an American silversmith, engraver, early industrialist, and Patriot in the American Revolution.

3.  1875: Hasrat Mohani, an Indian activist, a freedom fighter in the Indian independence movement, and a noted poet of the Urdu language.

4.  1892: Mahadev Desai, an Indian independence activist, and writer. He was the personal secretary of Mahatma Gandhi.

5.  1894: Satyendra Nath Bose, an Indian mathematician, and physicist.

6.  1919: J. D. Salinger, an American writer.

7.  1941: Asrani, an Indian actor, and director.

8.  1950: Rahat Indori, an Indian Bollywood lyricist and Urdu poet. 

9.  1953: Salman Khurshid, an Indian politician, designated senior advocate, eminent author, and a law teacher.

10.  1951: Nana Patekar, an Indian film actor, writer, philanthropist, and filmmaker.

11.  1971: Jyotiraditya Scindia, an Indian politician.

12.  1973: Anand Kumar, an Indian Mathematics educator, best known for his Super 30 program.

13.  1975: Sonali Bendre, an Indian actress.

14.  1979: Vidya Balan, an Indian actress. 

Death Anniversaries of famous people on January 1.

1.   1515: Louis XII, King of France.

2.  1748: Johann Bernoulli, a Swiss mathematician.

3.  1892: Heinrich Hertz, a German physicist.

4.  1945: Vedanayagam Samuel Azariah, an Indian evangelist, and the first Indian bishop.

5.  1955: Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar, was an Indian colloid chemist, academic and scientific administrator. He is revered as the “father of research laboratories” in India.

6.  1992: Grace Hopper, an American computer scientist.

7.  1995: Eugene Wigner, a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist.

8.  2009: Ramashreya Jha, a distinguished composer, musician, scholar, and teacher of Hindustani Classical music.