On this day 9th January

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Facts

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 Daguerrotype 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 exterminated in pogrom in Bucharest, Romania

2007 Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs announces the iPhone

Deaths

1150 Emperor Xizong of Jin was murdered by Prince Hailing of Jin in a Coup d'état.

1878 Victor Emmanuel II, King of Sardinia (1849-61) and Italy (1861-78), dies at 57

1923 Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand short story writer (The Garden Party), dies of tuberculosis at 34

1939 Johann Strauss, Austrian conductor/Royal ball director, dies at 72

1966 Albert Stevens, an American patient in secret medical trials who survived the highest known radiation dose in a human, dies of heart disease at 79

1995 Peter Cook, English comic/actor (Peter n' Dud, Bedazzled), dies at 57

2016 Ed Stewart, British DJ and broadcaster (Crackerjack), dies of a stroke at 74

Sport

1811 1st Women's Golf Tournament held

1942 Joe Louis KOs Buddy Baer in 1 for heavyweight boxing title

1952 Karel Sys wins European heavyweight boxing title

Films and TV

1894 "Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze" released in movie theaters

1959 "Rawhide" with Clint Eastwood premieres on CBS TV

1996 First episode of "Third Rock from the Sun" screened on NBC

Born on this day

1943 Freddie Starr, English comedian and singer

1982 Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge [Kate Middleton], English wife of Crown Prince William, born in Reading, Berksire

A Couple of Pics from those no longer with us

Peter Cook

Ed Stewart