MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 2009

Today is Monday, January 5, the fifth of 2009. There are 360 days left in the year.

1709 _ Sudden extreme cold kills thousands of Europeans

1836 _ David Crockett arrives in Texas, just in time for the Alamo

1895 _ French Captain Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason, publicly stripped of his rank; later declared innocent

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

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

1956 _ Elvis Presley records ``Heartbreak Hotel"

1961 _ U.S. breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba

1972 _ NASA announces development of space shuttle

1988 _ Austrian President Waldheim's war record investigated

1998 _ Vandals decapitate Copenhagen's Little Mermaid