1431: Judges’ investigations for the trial of Joan of Arc begin in Rouen, France, the seat of the English occupation government

1760: Afghans defeat the Indian Maratha Empire in the Battle of Barari Ghat

1839: Louis Daguerre announces his daguerreotype photographic process to the French Academy of Science

1909: Ernest Shackleton as part of the British Nimrod Expedition reaches a record farthest southern latitude (88°23′ south)

1941: 6,000 Jews murdered in a pogrom in Bucharest, Romania

2007: Apple CEO Steve Jobs announces the iPhone

Source: Onthisday.com