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January 22: The "Great Comet", observed by astronomers around the world, comes within 6.5 million miles of Earth, the closest approach in modern history of any comet (picture from the 1493 Nuremberg Chronicle).
Year 1472 (MCDLXXII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.