Year 1760
Ahmed Shah Durrani defeated the Marathas at the Battle of Bararighat.
JANUARY 9
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9 January: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 9 January.
Observances & Special Days
Non-Resident Indian Day (India)
Year 1788
Connecticut became the 5th state of the United States.
Year 1880
Indian revolutionary Vasudev Balwant Phadke was sentenced to life in prison for treason and taken to Aden by ship from Tehran.
Year 1915
Mahatma Gandhi came to India from Africa.
Year 1918
Battle of Bear Valley: The last battle of the American Indian Wars.
Year 1941
The murder of six thousand Jews in Bucharest, the capital of the European country Romania.
Year 1982
First Indian scientific team arrived in Antarctica.
Year 2007
Steve Jobs released the first iPhone.
Year 2012
Lionel Messi won FIFA’s Ballon d’Or (Best Footballer) Award for the second year in a row.
Born 1889
Vrindavan Lal Verma, a Hindi novelist, and playwright.
Born 1908
Simone de Beauvoir, a French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist.
Born 1913
Richard Nixon, the 37th president of the United States.
Born 1921
Lister Sinclair, Indian-Canadian broadcaster and playwright (d. 2006)
Born 1922
Har Gobind Khorana, an Indian American biochemist.
Born 1927
Sunderlal Bahuguna, a noted Garhwali environmentalist and Chipko movement leader.
Born 1934
Mahendra Kapoor, an Indian playback singer.
Born 1938
Chakravarthi Ramanujam, an Indian mathematician.
Born 1946
Mohammad Ishaq Khan, Indian historian and academic (d. 2013)
Born 1952
Kaushik Basu, Indian economist and academic
Born 1955
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, an Indian diplomat and politician who is the Minister of External Affairs of the Government of India.
Born 1965
Farah Khan, an Indian film director, film producer, actress, dancer, and choreographer.
Born 1974
Farhan Akhtar, an Indian film actor, director, screenwriter, playback singer, producer, and television host.
Born 1976
Raghava Lawrence, an Indian choreographer who has also worked in films as an actor, director, composer, dancer, and playback singer.
Born 1889
Vrindavan Lal Verma, Indian author and playwright (d. 1969)
Born 2000
Hima Das, an Indian sprinter from the state of Assam.
Died 1848
Caroline Herschel, a German astronomer.
Died 1873
Napoleon III, the first president of France.
Died 1878
Victor Emmanuel II, the first king of a united Italy.
Died 1923
Satyendranath Tagore, the first Indian to join the Indian Civil Service.
Died 1998
Kenichi Fukui, a Japanese chemist, was known as the first Asian person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Died 2003
Qamar Jalalabadi, an Indian poet and lyricist of songs for Hindi movies.
Died 2013
Robert L. Rock, American businessman and politician, 42nd Lieutenant Governor of Indiana (b. 1927)