Today In History (December 28 1798)

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TODAY IN HISTORY

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1798: Thomas Henderson, Scottish astronomer and mathematician, who would be the first man to determine the parallax of a fixed star, and the first to measure the distance to Alpha Centauri, is born in Dundee.