I’ve spent some time in Basel. They seemed like such nice people. 
In keeping with the theme:
January 9, 1941: 6,000 Jews are exterminated in a pogrom in Bucharest, Romania.
January 10, 1860: The Pemberton Mill in Lawrence, Massachusetts collapses on the nearly 800 workers inside. Over 140 die, another 160+ injured. Shoddy construction and disregard for worker safety result in no one being held responsible.
January 10, 1863: The London Underground, the world’s oldest underground railway, opens between London Paddington station and Farringdon station.
January 10, 49 BC: Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war.
Jan 10th, 1976: “Convoy” reaches #1 on the US pop charts.
January 11, 1922: First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient.
January 12, 1888: The Schoolhouse Blizzard, also known as “The Children’s Blizzard,” hits the North Central United States. It had been a cold month, but temperatures in the morning rose above freezing for the first time in days. Many people were out and about. Schools were in session. The killer storm came quickly with little warning, dropping temperatures to as much as 40 below zero in a few hours. The blinding snow and wind leave over 200 dead, many of them children who became lost trying to get home.
January 12, 1967: Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation. To this day, he is still frozen.
Jan. 12, 1879: Pioneering aviator Cal Rodgers is born in Pittburgh. In 1911, he is the first to fly across America, “crash by crash” (which I always thought would make a great movie): Calbraith Perry Rodgers - Wikipedia
January 13, 1910: The first public radio broadcast takes place; a live performance of the operas Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci are sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.
January 13, 1840: The luxury passenger steamship *SS Lexington *catches fire and sinks in Long Island Sound, taking an estimated 139 of the143 passengers and crew. One of the 4 survivors stayed alive by riding atop a floating bale of cotton for 43 hours in the cold windy conditions until finally reaching shore 50 miles away from the accident. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow supposedly had a ticket for this voyage, but missed the boat.
January 13, 1898 – Émile Zola’s open letter “J’accuse…!” exposes the Dreyfus Affair.
13 January:
1794 - President George Washington approved adding 2 stars to the U.S. Flag, for Vermont and Kentucky.
1915 - A magnitude 7 earthquake hit Avezzano, Italy, killing 30,000 people.
1982 - an Air Florida 737 crashed into the 14th St. Bridge and the Potomac River in D.C. while trying to take off in a snowstorm, killing 78 of the 83 people on board. Lenny Skutnick heroically plunged into the ice clogged river to save a drowning woman.
January 14, 1967: The “Human Be-In” takes place in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love.
January 14:
1952 - NBCs ‘Today’ show premiered, with host Dave Garroway.
1954 - Marilyn Monroe’s 9-month marriage to Joe DiMaggio began.
1963 - George C. Wallace was sworn in as Alabama’s Governor, with the pledge, “Segregation forever!”
1969 - a rocket explosion and ensuing fires on the *USS Enterprise *killed 27 people
What’s with the four-fer?
January 14, 1641: The United East Indian Company conquers city of Malacca, 7,000 killed.
We spent a pleasant day and a half in that city once. Worth a visit. In Malaysia)
January 15, 1919: The Great Boston Molasses Flood kills 21.
January 15, 1870: A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the Democratic Party with a donkey (“A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion” by Thomas Nast for Harper’s Weekly).
And here.
January 15, 1943: The world’s largest office building, the Pentagon, is completed.
January 16, 1964: Hello, Dolly! opened on Broadway, beginning a run of 2,844 performances.
I saw it back then. It was memorable.