On This Day in History

January 9

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​Historical Events​

​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.

First photograph of a person taken with the famous daguerreotype process

​1839 Louis Daguerre announces his daguerreotype photographic processto 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

​2007 Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs announces the iPhone.

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​Famous Birthdays​

​Carrie Chapman Catt​ ​1859 - 1947

​Richard Nixon​ ​1913 - 1994

​Rigoberta Menchú​ ​65th Birthday

​Kate Middleton​ ​43rd Birthday

Also Simone de Beauvoir and Joan Baez (84)

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​Famous Deaths​

​Napoleon III​ ​1808 - 1873

​Victor Emmanuel II​ ​1820 - 1878

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​Gallipoli: Guts, Glory and Defeat​

The last 200 British soldiers climbed into their boats and abandoned the Gallipoli peninsula on this day. Their departure brought to an end an international carnival of death and the greatest amphibious campaign the world had ever seen.

British Abandon Gallipoli