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