Once Upon A Time – January 9 – 1969 – 1st Trial Flight Of Concorde Supersonic Jetliner, Bristol, England

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 Daguerreotype 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 murdered in a pogrom in Bucharest, Romania

2007 Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs announces the iPhone

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Today In Film & TV

1959 “Rawhide” with Clint Eastwood premieres on CBS TV

Today In Music

2002 29th American Music Awards: Janet Jackson and Lenny Kravitz win. Michael Jackson receives Artist of the Century award.

Today In Sport

1991 Baseball officially bans Pete Rose from being elected to Hall of Fame for betting on baseball

1969 First trial flight of Concorde supersonic jetliner, Bristol, England

1768 Philip Astley stages the world’s first modern circus in London

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1428 Pope Martinus V declares Jacqueline, Countess of Haintaut’s marriage to Humphrey Duke of Gloucester invalid

1987 Opera impresario Sir Rudolf Bing (85) weds Carroll Douglass (45); annulled in September, 1989

1988 English earl of St Andrews marries Sylvana Tomaselli