Today is Saturday, Jan. 10, the 10th day of 2026. There are 355 days left in the year.<\/p>\n
Today in history:<\/p>\n
On Jan. 10, 2013, a series of bomb blasts in Pakistan killed more than 100 people, including dozens who died in a sectarian attack in the southwest city of Quetta. Hundreds of others were injured.<\/p>\n
Also on this date:<\/p>\n
In 1776, Thomas Paine anonymously published his influential pamphlet, \u201cCommon Sense,\u201d which argued for American independence from British rule.<\/p>\n
In 1860, the Pemberton Mill in Lawrence, Massachusetts, collapsed and caught fire, killing as many as 145 people.<\/p>\n
In 1861, Florida became the third state to secede from the Union prior to the Civil War.<\/p>\n
In 1863, the London Underground was born when the Metropolitan Railway, the world\u2019s first underground passenger railway, opened to the public with service between Paddington and Farringdon Street.<\/p>\n
In 1920, the League of Nations was established as the Treaty of Versailles (vehr-SY\u2019) went into effect.<\/p>\n
In 1946, the United Nations convened its first General Assembly session in London with 51 nations represented. The proceedings defined the scope and purpose of the world body.<\/p>\n
In 1982, San Francisco 49ers receiver Dwight Clark caught a touchdown pass from Joe Montana with 58 seconds left in the NFC Championship Game; one of the most famous plays in NFL history, \u201cThe Catch\u201d led the 49ers to a 28-27 victory over the Dallas Cowboys and a berth in Super Bowl XVI, where they defeated the Cincinnati Bengals for their first Super Bowl victory.<\/p>\n
In 2017, President Barack Obama delivered his farewell address in Chicago, in which the two-term Democrat urged national unity and highlighted achievements of his presidency including the Affordable Care Act. Republican Donald Trump took office days later after a 2016 election in which Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton.<\/p>\n
Today\u2019s birthdays:<\/p>\n
Olympic decathlon gold medalist Bill Toomey is 87.
\nSinger Rod Stewart is 81.
\nRock singer-musician Donald Fagen (Steely Dan) is 78.
\nSinger Pat Benatar is 73.
\nHall of Fame racing driver and team owner Bobby Rahal is 73.
\nActor-comedian Jemaine Clement is 52.
\nActor Sarah Shahi is 46.
\nBusiness owner Jared Kushner is 45.
\nActor and singer Rene\u00e9 Rapp is 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today is Saturday, Jan. 10, the 10th day of 2026. There are 355 days left in the year.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[44603,9,24,63,44604,134,136,135,3646],"class_list":{"0":"post-95659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-january-10-history","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-pakistan-bomb-blasts-in-quetta","13":"tag-staten-island","14":"tag-staten-island-headlines","15":"tag-staten-island-news","16":"tag-today-in-history"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}