TUESDAY INHISTORY

By The Associated Press

Today is Tuesday, Jan. 10, the 10th day of 2017. There are 355 days left in the year.

Highlight in History:

On Jan. 10, 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson, in his State of the Union address, asked Congress to impose a surcharge on both corporate and individual income taxes to help pay for his “Great Society” programs as well as the war in Vietnam.

On this date:

In 1776, Thomas Paine anonymously published his influential pamphlet, “Common Sense,” which argued for American independence from British rule.

In 1861, Florida becamethe third state to secede from the Union.

In 1920, the League of Nations was established as the Treaty of Versailles went into effect.

In 1946, the first General Assembly of the United Nations convened in London. The first manmade contact with the moon was made as radar signals transmitted by the U.S. Army Signal Corps were bounced off the lunar surface.

In 1984, the U.S. and the Vatican established full diplomatic relations for the first time in more than a century.

In 1994, President Bill Clinton, attending a NATO summit meeting, announced completion of an agreement to remove all long-range nuclear missiles from the former Soviet republic of Ukraine.

In 2000, America Online announced it was buying Time Warner for $162 billion (the merger, which proved disastrous, ended in Dec. 2009).

Ten years ago: President George W. Bush said he took responsibility for any mistakes in Iraq and announced an increase in U.S. troops there to quell violence. The Democratic- controlled House voted 315-116 to increase the federal minimumwage to $7.25 an hour.

Five years ago: Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won the New Hampshire Republican primary.

One year ago: French President Francois Hollande and other dignitaries held a special ceremony to honor those killed in Islamic extremist attacks around Paris in 2015.

Today’s Birthdays: Baseball Hall of Famer Willie McCovey is 79. Actor William Sanderson is 73. Singer Rod Stewart is 72. Boxing Hall of Famer and entrepreneur George Foreman is 68. Singer Pat Benatar is 64. Hall of Fame race car driver and team owner Bobby Rahal is 64. Actress Trini Alvarado is 50.

Thought for Today: “In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.” — Hannah Arendt, American author and historian (1906-1975).