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 demonstrates his ‘daguerreotype’ photographic process to the French Academy of Sciences
1909: Ernest Shackleton, as part of the British Nimrod Expedition, reaches a record farthest southern latitude of 88°23′ south
1941: 6,000 Jews are murdered in a pogrom in Bucharest, Romania
2007: Apple CEO Steve Jobs announces the iPhone
Source: Onthisday.com
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