On This Day in History |
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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 |
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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). |
2007 Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs announces the iPhone. |
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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. |
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