TODAY IN HISTORY

TUESDAY JAN 10, 2023

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.