TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 2010

Today is Tuesday, January 5, the fifth day of 2009. There are 360 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

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

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

1953 _ Samuel Beckett's ``En Attendant Godot" premieres in Paris

1956 _ Elvis Presley records ``Heartbreak Hotel"

1961 _ U.S. breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba

1971 _ U.S. heavyweight ``Sonny" Liston's (36) corpse found

1981 _ British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, a truck driver later convicted of ``Yorkshire Ripper" murders of 13 women

1988 _ Austrian President Waldheim's war record investigated