2025: January 9 (9 Rajab 1446 AH)

 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 Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
• 1991 - Representatives from the United States and Iraq met at the Geneva Peace Conference to try to find a peaceful resolution to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. 

• 1996 - The First Chechen War: Chechen separatists launched a raid against the helicopter airfield and later a civilian hospital in the city of Kizlyar in the neighboring Dagestan, which turned into a massive hostage crisis involving thousands of civilians.  

• 2005 - Mahmoud  Abbas won the election to succeed Yasser Arafat as President of the Palestinian National Authority, replacing interim president Rawhi Fattouh. 
• 2005 - The Sudan People's Liberation Movement and the Government of Sudan signed the Comprehensive Peace Agreement to end the Second Sudanese Civil War.  

• 2011 - Iran Air Flight 277 crashed near Urmia in the northwest of the country, in icy conditions, killing 77 people.

• 2015 - The perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris two days earlier were both killed after a hostage situation; a second hostage situation, related to the Charlie Hebdo shooting, occurred at a Jewish market in Vincennes.

• 2021 - Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 crashed north of Jakarta, Indonesia, carrying 62 passengers onboard.

Births

• 1778 - Hammamizade Ismail Dede Efendi, Turkish Ney player and composer (d. 1846)

• 1920 - Hakim Said, Pakistani scholar and politician, 20th Governor of Sindh (d. 1998)

• 1922 - Ahmed Sekou Toure, Guinean politician, 1st President of Guinea (d. 1984)

• 1946 - Mohammad Ishaq Khan, Indian historian and academic (d. 2013)
• 1958 - Mehmet Ali Agca, Turkish assassin
• 1989 - Haris Sohail, Pakistani cricketer
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Deaths

• 1282 - Abu 'Uthman Sa'id ibn Hakam al Qurashi, Minorcan ruler (b. 1204)

• 1945 - Osman Cemal Kaygili, Turkish journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1890)

• 1964 - Halide Edib Adivar, Turkish author and academic (b. 1884)

• 1990  - Cemal Sureya, Turkish poet and journalist (b. 1931)

• 1996 - Abdullah al-Qasemi, Saudi atheist, writer, and intellectual (b. 1907)

• 2012 - Malam Bacai Sanha, Guinea-Bissau politician, President of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1947)

• 2014- Amiri Baraka, African American poet, playwright, and academic (b. 1934)

Amiri Baraka (b. Everett LeRoi Jones; October 7, 1934, Newark, New Jersey – d. January 9, 2014, Newark, New Jersey), previously known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, was an African American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays and music criticism. He was the author of numerous books of poetry and taught at several universities, including the State University of New York at Buffalo and the State University of New York at Stony Brook University.  He received the PEN/Beyond Margins Award in 2008 for Tales of the Out and the Gone.

Baraka's career spanned nearly 52 years, and his themes range from black liberation to white racism. Some poems that are always associated with him are "The Music: Reflection on Jazz and Blues", "The Book of Monk", and "New Music, New Poetry", works that draw on topics from the worlds of society, music, and literature. Baraka's poetry and writing have attracted both high praise and condemnation. In the African-American community, some compare Baraka to James Baldwin and recognize him as one of the most respected and most widely published black writers of his generation. Others have said his work is an expression of violence, misogyny, and homophobia. Regardless of one's viewpoint, Baraka's plays, poetry, and essays have been described by scholars as constituting defining texts for African-American culture.

Baraka's brief tenure as Poet Laureate of New Jersey (in 2002 and 2003) involved controversy over a public reading of his poem "Somebody Blew Up America?", which resulted in accusations of anti-Semitism and negative attention from critics and politicians.

• 2015 - Abdul Rahman Ya'kub, Malaysian politician, 3rd Chief Minister of Sarawak (b. 1928)
• 2024 - Rashid Khan, Indian classical musician (b. 1968)

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9 Rajab

Births

• 'Ali al-Asghar

Abd-Allah ibn al-Husayn (also known as 'Ali al-Asghar (lit. 'Ali, the youngest'), was the youngest son of Husayn ibn 'Ali, the grandson of Muhammad and the third Shi'a Imam.  A young child, likely an infant, he was killed in the Battle of Karbala in 680 CC, alongside his father, family members, and a small number of supporters, all of whom were massacred by the forces of the Umayyad caliph Yazid (r. 680–683), who first surrounded them for some days and cut off their access to the nearby river Euphrates. Abd-Allah is commemorated in Shi'a Islam as the quintessence symbol of the innocent victim.