📜 January 9: On This Day in History |  | Trial of Joan-y Ives |  Image: DONUT/OpenAI | Each of the following events happened on January 9. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom! - A) Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveils the iPhone—a groundbreaking new touchscreen mobile phone with an iPod, camera, and Web-browsing capabilities—at the Macworld convention in San Francisco.
- B) Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official in the history of California, takes his place on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
- C) Trial begins for Joan of Arc, a peasant girl who, believing that she was acting under divine guidance, led the French army to a momentous victory that repulsed England’s attempt to conquer France. She is later accused of heresy and witchcraft (along with wearing men's clothing) by a church court sympathetic to the English.
- D) Englishman Philip Astley stages the first-ever modern circus at an event in London. Astley, a former cavalry sergeant major, had previously found that if he galloped in a tight circle, centrifugal force allowed him to perform seemingly impossible feats on a horse’s back.
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📜 Answers | | C, D, B, A - C) 1431 – The trial of Joan of Arc begins. She is eventually convicted and burned at the stake almost five months later.
- D) 1768 – Englishman Philip Astley stages the first modern circus in London.
- B) 1978 – Harvey Milk becomes the first openly gay person elected to public office in California. Milk is assassinated a year later by Dan White, a disgruntled former city supervisor.
- A) 2007 – Apple unveils the original iPhone. It goes on to sell over 1.4 million units by November 2007, catapulting Apple into one of the world’s most valuable corporations.
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