DAILY ALMANAC
Today is Monday, Jan. 10, the 10th day of 2022. There are 355 days left in the year.
On this date in:
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.
1971: French fashion designer Coco Chanel died in Paris at age 87.
1984: The United States and the Vatican established full diplomatic relations for the first time in more than a century.
2002: Marines began flying hundreds of al-qaida prisoners in Afghanistan to a U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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: A judge in Austin, Texas, ordered former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom Delay to serve three years in prison for his money laundering conviction. (Delay’s conviction was ultimately overturned.) No. 1 Auburn beat No. 2 Oregon 22-19 on a last-second field goal to win the BCS national title.
Singer Ronnie Hawkins of Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks is 87. Actor
William Sanderson (“Deadwood,” “Newhart”) is 78. Singer Rod Stewart is 77. Singer-keyboardist Donald Fagen of Steely Dan is 74. Singer
Pat Benatar is 69. Guitarist Michael Schenker (Scorpions) is 67. Singer
Shawn Colvin is 66. Singer-guitarist Curt Kirkwood of Meat Puppets is 63. Actor Evan Handler (“Sex and the City”) is 61. Singer Brad Roberts of Crash Test Dummies is 58. Actor Trini Alvarado is 55. Singer Brent Smith of Shinedown is 44. Rapper Chris Smith of Kris Kross is 43.