9th January
1760 Afghans defeat Marathas in Battle of Barari Ghat
1923 Swaraj political party founded in India with Chittaranjan Das as president and Motilal Nehru its secretary
10th January
1863 1st underground railway opens in London
1901 First Nobel Peace Prizes awarded to Red Cross founder Jean Henri Dunant and peace activist Frederic Passy
11th January
1922 Insulin first used on humans to treat diabetes, on Canadian Leonard Thompson, aged 14 1966 Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian politician and Prime Minister of India (1964-66), dies.
12th January
1934 Surya Sen “Master Da”, Indian activist for independence (Chittagong armory raid), hanged at 39
2010 Earthquake Devastates Haiti, killing approximately 160,000 and destroying the majority of the capital Port-au-Prince
13th January
1913 Delta Sigma Theta, the world’s largest Black Women’s Sorority is founded at Howard University, Washington, D.C.
1930 “Mickey Mouse” comic strip 1st appears
14th January
1761 Third Battle of Panipat: In one of the largest battles of the century, the mostly Muslim Afghani Durrani Empire defeats the mostly Hindu Maratha Empire in Northern India.
1980 Shakuntala Devi, mentally multiplies 2 13-digit #s in 28 sec
15th January
1759 British Museum opens in Montague House, London
1875 Abdulaziz Ibn Saud, Founder and first King of Saudi Arabia (1932-53), born in Riyadh, Emirate of Nejd (d. 1953)
