Today In History
Today is Monday, Jan. 10, the 10th day of 2022. There are 355 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
› 2002: Marines began flying hundreds of al-Qaida prisoners in Afghanistan to a U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
ON THIS DATE
› 1776: Thomas Paine anonymously published his influential pamphlet, “Common Sense,” which argued for American independence from British rule.
› 1860: The Pemberton Mill in Lawrence, Massachusetts, collapsed and caught fire, killing up to 145 people, mostly female workers from Scotland and Ireland.
› 1861: Florida became the third state to secede from the Union.
› 1863: The London Underground had its beginnings as the Metropolitan, the world’s first underground passenger railway, opened to the public with service between Paddington and Farringdon Street.
› 1870: John D. Rockefeller incorporated Standard Oil.
› 1920: The League of Nations was established as the Treaty of Versailles went into effect.
› 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. Massachusetts Republican Edward W. Brooke, the first Black person elected to the U.S. Senate by popular vote, took his seat.
› 1984: The United States and the Vatican established full diplomatic relations for the first time in more than a century.
› 2003: North Korea withdrew from a global treaty barring it from making nuclear weapons.
› 2007: 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 minimum wage to $7.25 an hour.
› 2011: No. 1 Auburn beat No. 2 Oregon 22-19 on a last-second field goal to win the BCS national title.
› 2017: President Barack Obama bid farewell to the nation in an emotional speech in Chicago.
› 2021: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House would proceed with legislation to impeach President Donald Trump, even as she pushed the vice president and the Cabinet to invoke constitutional authority to force him out in the aftermath of the deadly assault on the Capitol. A second Republican senator, Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, called on Trump to resign, joining Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
Opera singer Sherrill Milnes is 87. Rock singer-musician Ronnie Hawkins is 87. Movie director Walter Hill is 82. Actor William Sanderson is 78. Singer Rod Stewart is 77. Rock singer-musician Donald Fagen (Steely Dan) is 74. Boxing Hall of Famer and entrepreneur George Foreman is 73. Roots rock singer Alejandro Escovedo is
71. Rock musician Scott Thurston (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers) is 70. Singer Pat Benatar is 69. Hall of Fame race car driver and team owner Bobby Rahal is 69. Rock musician Michael Schenker is 67. Singer Shawn Colvin is 66. Rock singer-musician Curt Kirkwood (Meat Puppets) is
63. Rock singer Brad Roberts (Crash Test Dummies) is 58. Actor Trini Alvarado is 55. Rock singer Brent Smith (Shinedown) is 44. Rapper Chris Smith (Kris Kross) is 43. Actor Sarah Shahi is
42. American roots singer Valerie June is 40.