My Muslim Calendar Project

  January 12 Events 1964 – Rebels in Zanzibar began a revolt known as the Zanzibar Revolution and proclaim a republic. 1970 – Biafra capitulated, ending the Nigerian Civil War. 1991 – Persian Gulf War: An act of the U.S. Congress authorized the use of American military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.  2006 – A stampede during the Stoning of the Devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, killed at least 362 Muslim pilgrims.  The Stoning of the Devil occurs during the annual Islamic Hajj pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia. During the ritual, Muslim pilgrims throw pebbles at three walls (formerly pillars), called  jamarāt , in the city of Mina just east of Mecca. It is one of a series of ritual acts that must be performed in the Hajj. It is a symbolic reenactment of Ibrahim's hajj, where he stoned three pillars representing the temptation to disobey God. On Eid al-Adha...

   January 11 Events 630 - Conquest of Mecca: The Prophet Muhammad and his followers conquered Mecca.  The Quraysh surrendered. The  conquest of Mecca  was the capturing of the town of Mecca by Muslims  led by the Islamic prophet Muhammad.  The conquest marked the end of the wars between the followers of Muhammad and the Quraysh  tribe. 1946 - Enver Hoxha, Secretary General of the Communist Party of Albania, declared the People's Republic of Albania with himself as head of state. 1972 - East Pakistan renamed itself Bangladesh. 1998 - Over 100 people were killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria.  2013 - One French soldier and 17 militants were killed in a failed attempt to free a French hostage in Bulo Marer, Somalia. Births 889 - Abd-ar-Rahman III, first Caliph of Cordoba (d. 961) 1944 - Mohammed Abdul-Hayy, Sudanese poet and academic (d. 1989) 1949 - Mohammad Reza Rahimi, Iranian lawyer and politician, 2nd Vice President of Iran  D...

  January 10 Events 1475 - Stephen III of Moldavia defeated the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vaslui.  1916 - World War I: In the Erzurum Offensive, Russia defeated the Ottoman Empire. 1920 - The Treaty of Versailles took effect, officially ending World War I. 1966 - Tashkent Declaration, a peace agreement between India and Pakistan that resolved the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 was signed.  1972 - Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returned to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.  2007 - A general strike began in Guinea in an attempt to get President Lansana Conte to resign. 2012 - A bombing at Jamrud, in Pakistan, killed at least 30 people and injured 78 others. 2013 - More than 100 people were killed and 270 were injured in several bomb blasts in the Quetta area of Pakistan. 2015 - A traffic accident between an oil tanker truck and passenger coach en route to Shikarpur from Karac...

  January 9 Events 1760 - Ahmad Shah Durrani defeated the Marathas in the Battle of Barari Ghat.   1792 - The Treaty of Jassy between the Russian and Ottoman Empires was signed. 1916 - World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli concluded with an Ottoman Empire victory when the last Allied forces were evacuated from the peninsula. 1917 - World War I: The Battle of Rafa was fought near the Egyptian border with Palestine.  1921 - Greco-Turkish War: The First Battle of Inonu, the first battle of the war, began near Eskisehir in Anatolia.  1957 - British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden resigned from office following his failure to retake the Suez Canal from Egyptian control. 1960 - The President of Egypt Gamal Abdul Nasser opened construction on the Aswan Dam by detonating ten tons of dynamite to demolish twenty tons of granite on the east bank of the Nile.  1965 - The Mirzapur Cadet College formally opened for academic activities in East Paki...

  January 8 Events 1926- Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud was crowned King of Hejaz.  Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman bin Faisal bin Turki bin Abdullah bin Muhammad Al Saud ( 'Abd al-'Aziz bin 'Abd ar Raḥman bin Fayṣal bin Turki bin 'Abd Allah bin Muḥammad Al Sa'ud )  (b. January 15, 1875 – d. November 9, 1953), known in the West as  Ibn Saud , was the first monarch and founder of Saudi Arabia,  the "third Saudi state".    He was ruler of the whole Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from September 23, 1932 to November 9, 1953 but ruled parts of it as early as 1902. Ibn Saud reconquered his family's ancestral home city of Riyadh in 1902, starting three decades of conquests that made him the ruler of nearly all of central and north Arabia. He consolidated his control over the Najd in 1922, then conquered the Hejaz in 1925. He extended his dominions into what later became the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1932. As King, he presided over the d...

January 7 Events 1984 - Brunei became the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). 1993 - Bosnian War: The Bosnian Army executed a surprise attack at the village of Kravica in Srebrenica.   2015 - Two gunmen committed mass murder at the offices of  Charlie Hebdo  in Paris, shooting twelve people execution style, and wounding eleven others. 2015 – A car bomb exploded outside a police college in the Yemeni capital Sana'a with at least 38 people reported dead and more than 63 injured. Births 1967 - Irrfan Khan, Indian actor (d. 2020) Deaths 838 - Babak Khorramdin, the Iranian leader of the Khurramite uprising against the Abbasid Caliphate  Babak Khorramdin  (b.  795 or 798 – d. January 838) was one of the main Iranian  revolutionary leaders of the Iranian Khorram-Dinan   ("Those of the joyous religion"), which was a local freedom movement fighting the Abbasid Caliphate.   Khorram...

  January 6 Events 1492 - The Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella entered Granada at the conclusion of the Granada War.  1960 – The Associations Law came into force in  Iraq , allowing registration of political parties. 1993 - Indian Border Security Force units killed 55 Kashmiri civilians in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir, in revenge after militants ambushed a Border Security Force patrol. 2012 - Twenty-six people were killed and 63 wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a police station in Damascus.  2019 - Forty people were killed in a gold mine collapse in Badakhshan province, in northern Afghanistan. 2019 - Muhammad V of Kelantan resigned as the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia becoming the first monarch to do so. Births 1883 - Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese American poet, painter and philosopher (d. 1931) 1967 - A. R. Rahman, Indian composer, singer, songwriter, music producer, musician and philanthropist Deaths 786 - Abo of Tiflis,...

  January 5 Events 1913 - First Balkan War: The Battle of Lemnos began.  The Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forced the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it did not venture for the rest of the war. 2022 - Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev dismissed Prime Minister Asqar Mamin and declared a state of emergency over the 2022 Kazakh unrest. The 2022 Kazakh unrest, also known as January Events, Bloody January, or the January Tragedy, was a series of mass protests and civil unrest that began in Kazakhstan on January 2, 2022, after a sudden sharp increase in liquefied petroleum gas prices following the lifting of a government-enforced price cap on January 1.  The protests began peacefully in the oil-producing city of Zhanaozen and quickly spread to other cities in the country, especially the nation's largest city.  Almaty saw its demonstrations turn into violent riots, fueled by rising dissatisfaction with the governme...