9th Jan – What Happened Today In History? | On This Day

Find out what happened on the 9th of January in History. There are a lot many happenings which had taken place on this date in the pages of Indian History, here we have listed some of the very important events occur 9th of January

Zoya Akhtar is a contemporary Indian film director. She made her debut as director with critically acclaimed Luck By Chance (2009). In 2011, she directed the critically and commercially successful film Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara and won her Filmfare Award for Best Director. Zoya Akhtar was born on October 14, 1974 in Bombay (now Mumbai). Her stepmother is Shabana Azmi.
Har Gobind Khorana also known as Hargobind Khorana (January 9, 1922 – November 9, 2011) was an Indian-born American biochemist who shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley for research that helped to show how the nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry the genetic code of the cell, control the cell’s synthesis of proteins.
Kaushik Basu (born 9 January 1952) is an Indian economist who is currently the Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India and is also the C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics and, till recently, he was Chairman of the Department of Economics and Director, Center for Analytic Economics at Cornell University.
Sunderlal Bahuguna (born 9 January 1927) is a noted Garhwali environmentalist, Chipko movement leader and a follower of Mahatma Gandhi’s philosophy of Non-violence and Satyagraha.His actual family name is Bandyopadhyay a common family name for Bengali Brahmin. About 800 years ago, three men from a Bandyopadhyay family in Bengal travelled to the Himalayas.
Sharad Malhotra (born January 9, 1983) is an Indian, Punjabi actor. He played Sagar and then Amar in Banoo Main Teri Dulhann which ended on May 25, 2009. He is from Kolkata and has done his B. Com. from St. Xaviers College, Kolkata. In 2003, he was chosen as the Face of the Year-Kolkata.

Death Anniversaries on 9th of January

Nissim Ezekiel  (16 December 1924 – 9 January 2004) was a Marathi-speaking Indian Jewish poet, playwright, editor and art-critic. He was a foundational figure in postcolonial India’s literary history, specifically for Indian writing in English. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1983 for his Poetry collection, “Latter-Day Psalms”, by the Sahitya Akademi.
Satyendranath Tagore was the first Indian to join the Indian Civil Service. He was an author, song composer, linguist and made significant contribution towards the emancipation of women in Indian society during the British Raj. The second son of Debendranath Tagore and grandson of Dwarkanath Tagore of the Jorasanko branch of the Tagore family of Calcutta.
Rao Bahadur Sir Chhotu Ram (November 24, 1881–January 9, 1945) was one of the most prominent pre-partition politicians in Punjab and an ideologue of the Jat peasantry and a champion of its interests. Sir Chottu Ram was the first Stephanian (St. Stephen’s College, Delhi) to be knighted in 1937. He was a co-founder of the National Unionist Party and later leader of the Punjab Unionist Party.
S. Kalyanaraman (2 June 1930 – 9 January 1994), popularly known as SKR, was a vocalist in the Carnatic tradition. Hailing from a famed musical family – his great-grandfather was Komal Muthu Bhagavathar and his grand-uncle was the celebrated vocalist Madirimangalam Natesa Iyer – S.Kalyanaraman became one of the foremost disciples of G. N. Balasubramaniam and established himself as an original musician in his own right.
Major Hugh Glenrinnes Bruce, (26 January 1919 – 9 January 2003), was a prisoner-of-war in Colditz Castle and later commanding officer of the Special Boat Service. Hugh Glenrinnes Bruce was born at Mhow in India, where his father was serving with the Royal Army Medical Corps on attachment to the Indian Army.

Notable Event 

9-January-1664 Shivaji started Surat campaign and left the city after plundering the place.
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-1935 Britain signs the Trade Pack with India.
9-January-1971 Muslim leader Sheik Mohammed Abdullah was barred from returning to Kashmir.
 

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