TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

Jan. 10, 2002

Marines began flying hundreds of al-Qaida prisoners in Afghanistan to a U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

ON THIS DATE

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.

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.

2003

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

2007

The Democratic-controlled House voted 315-116 to increase the federal minimum wage to $7.25 an hour.