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MONDAY COMICS PEANUTS® By Charles Schultz Today in History The Associated Press DILBERT® GARFIELD® SHOE BLONDIE® BEETLE BAILEY® HAGAR the Horrible® ZITS FRANK & ERNEST® ALLEY OOP By Scott Adams By Jim Davis By Chris Cassatt and Gary Brookins By Dean Young and Stan Drake By Mort Walker By Chris Browne BY JERRY SCOTT & JIM BORGMAN By Bob Thaves Today is Monday, May 13, the 133rd day of 2013. There are 232 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On May 13, 1963, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Brady v. Maryland, upheld, 7-2, a lower court decision overturning the death sentence (but not the conviction) of John L. Brady for murder because the prosecution had withheld from the defense a statement by a separately tried accomplice, Charles D. Boblit, that he'd actually carried out the 1958 killing of William Brooks during a robbery. (Brady spent years in prison in legal limbo, declining his right to another sentencing hearing; he was eventually paroled. Boblit, 79, remains imprisoned in Maryland.) On this date: In 1607, English colonists arrived by ship at the site of what became the Jamestown settlement in Virginia (the colonists went ashore the next day). In 1846, the United States declared that a state of war already existed with Mexico. In 1917, three shepherd children near Fatima, Portugal, reported seeing a vision of the Virgin Mary. In 1918, the first U.S. airmail stamps, featuring a picture of a Curtiss JN-4 biplane, were issued to the public. (On a few of the stamps, the biplane was inadvertently printed upside-down, making them collector's items.) In 1940, Britain's new prime minister, Winston Churchill, told Parliament: "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat." In 1958, Vice President Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat, were spat upon and their limousine battered by rocks thrown by anti-U.S. demonstrators in Caracas, Venezuela. In 1968, a one-day general strike took place in France in support of student protesters. In 1972, 118 people died after fire broke out at the Sennichi Department Store in Osaka, Japan. In 1973, in tennis' first so-called "Battle of the Sexes," Bobby Riggs defeated Margaret Court 6-2, 6-1 in Ramona, Calif. (Riggs had his standing challenge to female players accepted by Billie Jean King, who soundly defeated Riggs at the Houston Astrodome in September.) In 1981, Pope John Paul II was shot and seriously wounded in St. Peter's Square by Turkish assailant Mehmet Ali Agca. In 1992, the Falun Gong movement had its beginnings in the northeastern Chinese city of Changchun. Ten years ago: A judge ruled that Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols should stand trial in state court on 160 counts of first-degree murder. (Nichols was later found guilty on 161 counts; the 161st count was for the fetus of a pregnant victim. Nichols was sentenced to life in prison.) The government unveiled a more colorful version of the new $20 bill. Five years ago: An embattled Hillary Rodham Clinton trounced Barack Obama in the West Virginia Democratic primary. Eighty people were killed in coordinated bomb attacks on crowded markets and streets outside Hindu temples in Jaipur, India. One year ago: The mutilated bodies of 49 people were found near Monterrey, Mexico, apparent victims of a drug cartel. A gunman assassinated Arsala Rahmani, a former high-ranking Taliban official working to end the decadelong war in Afghanistan. Today's Birthdays: Actor Buck Taylor is 75. Actor Harvey Keitel is 74. Author Charles Baxter is 66. Actor Franklyn Ajaye is 64. Actress Zoe Wanamaker is 64. Singer Stevie Wonder is 63. Producer-writer Alan Ball is 56. Basketball Hall of Famer Dennis Rodman is 52. Actor-comedian Stephen Colbert is 49. Rock musician John Richardson (The Gin Blossoms) is 49. Actor Tom Verica is 49. Country singer Lari White is 48. Singer Darius Rucker (Hootie and the Blowfish) is 47. Actress Susan Floyd is 45. Contemporary Christian musician Andy Williams (Casting Crowns) is 41. Actress Samantha Morton is 36. Thought for Today: "I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at." — Wilson Mizner, American playwright (1876-1933). RUBES® By Leigh Rubin