SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 2008

Today is Saturday, January 5, the fifth day of 2008. There are 361 days left in the year.

1531 _ Pope Clemens VII forbids English king Henry VIII to re-marry

1709 _ Sudden extreme cold kills thousands of Europeans

1822 _ Central America proclaims annexation to Mexican Empire

1896 _ German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen's discovers x-rays

1903 _ San Francisco-Hawaii telegraph cable opens for public use

1909 _ Colombia recognizes Panam's independence

1930 _ Mao Tse-tung writes ``A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire"

1933 _ Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins on Marin County side

1949 _ President Harry S Truman labels his administration the ``Fair Deal"

1956 _ Elvis Presley records ``Heartbreak Hotel"

1957 _ Eisenhower asks Congress to send troops to the Mideast

1976 _ Cambodia is renamed ``Democratic Kampuchea"

1998 _ Vandals decapitate Copenhagen's Little Mermaid