Today is Tuesday, Jan. 10, the 10th day of 2017. There are 355 days left in the year.

Today’s birthdays: Opera singer Sherrill Milnes is 82. Blues artist Eddy Clearwater is 82. Baseball Hall of Famer Willie McCovey is 79. Director Walter Hill is 77. Singer Rod Stewart is 72. Rock musician Donald Fagen is 69. Boxing Hall of Famer and entrepreneur George Foreman is 68. Singer Pat Benatar is 64. Hall of Fame race car driver Bobby Rahal is 64. Singer Shawn Colvin is 61.

In 1776, Thomas Paine anonymously published his pamphlet, ‘‘Common Sense,’’ which argued for American independence from British rule.

In 1870, John D. Rockefeller incorporated Standard Oil.

In 1946, the first General Assembly of the United Nations convened in London. The first manmade contact with the moon was made as radar signals transmitted by the US Army Signal Corps were bounced off the lunar surface.

In 1967, Massachusetts Republican Edward W. Brooke, the first black elected to the Senate by popular vote, took his seat.

In 1984, the United States and the Vatican established full diplomatic relations for the first time in a century.

In 2000, America Online announced it was buying Time Warner for $162 billion (the merger, which proved disastrous, ended in December 2009).

In 2007, President George W. Bush announced an increase in US troops there to quell violence in Iraq.

Last year, David Bowie, who transformed the sound and the look of rock with his audacious creativity, died.