1431: Judges’ investigations for the trial of Joan of Arc begin in Rouen, France, the seat of the English occupation government
1760: Afghans defeat Marathas in battle of Barari Ghat
1839: Daguerreotype photo process announced at French Academy of Science
1909: Ernest Shackleton as part of the British Nimrod Expedition reaches a record farthest South latitude (88°23′ south)
1941: 6,000 Jews murdered in a pogrom in Bucharest, Romania
2007: Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs announces the iPhone
Source: Onthisday.com
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