WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 2011

Today is Wednesday, January 5, the fifth day of 2011. There are 300 days left in the year.

1709 ― Sudden extreme cold kills 1000s of Europeans

1892 ― First successful auroral photograph made

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

1911 ― Portuguese expel Jesuits

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

1943 ― Teams agrees to start season later due to WWII

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

1988 ― Austrian President Waldheim's war record investigated