TODAY IN HISTORY

On Jan. 10, 1776, Thomas Paine published his influential pamphlet “Common Sense.”

the Pemberton Mill in Lawrence, Massachusetts, collapsed and

In 1860,

caught fire, killing up to

145 people, mostly female workers from Scotland and Ireland.

In 1863, the London Underground had its beginnings as the Metropolitan, the world’s first underground passenger railway.

the United States and the Vatican established full diplomatic relations.

In 1984,

In 2003, North Korea withdrew from a global treaty barring it from making nuclear weapons.

In 2007, President George W. Bush said he took responsibility for any mistakes in Iraq and announced an increase in U.S. troops there.

The House voted to increase the federal minimum wage to $7.25 an hour.