THIS DAY IN HISTORY – JANUARY 8

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).

1945 –  US soldiers led by General Douglas MacArthur invades the Philippines.

1984 –  The Hillside Stranglers, Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi sentenced.

2007 –  Apple CEO Steve Jobs debuts the iPhone.



FAMOUS BIRTHS

1913 – Richard M. Nixon, 37th President of the United States.

1941 – Joan Baez, folk singer/human rights advocate.

1944 – James Patrick (Jimmy) Page, rock guitarist (Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven).

1982 – Catherine (Kate) Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge and wife of Prince William.

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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