Today is Saturday, January 5, the fifth day of 2013. There are 360 days left in the year.
1709 ― Sudden extreme cold kills thousands of Europeans
1825 ― Alexandre Dumas pare fights his first duel; his pants fall down
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"
1956 ― Elvis Presley records ``Heartbreak Hotel"
1961 ― U.S. breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba
1971 ― U.S. heavyweight Sonny Liston's (36) corpse found
1976 ― Cambodia is renamed ``Democratic Kampuchea"
1988 ― Austrian President Waldheim's war record investigated
1998 ― Vandals decapitate Copenhagen's Little Mermaid