HISTORICAL EVENTS
1394 – 700 Jews of Basel Switzerland, were burned alive in their houses, having been blamed for the "black Plague".
1839 – Thomas James Henderson measures the first stellar parallax (Alpha_Centauri).
1941 – Joan Baez, folk singer/human rights advocate.
1944 – James Patrick (Jimmy) Page, rock guitarist (Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven).
FAMOUS DEATHS
1848 – Caroline Herschel , German-born astronomer (Born 1750).
1961 – Emily Greene Balch, American writer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate. See birth January 8.
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