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PEANUTS® By Charles Schultz Monday, June 7, 2010 – Daily News – 5B Today in History By The Associated Press Today is Monday, June 7, the 158th day of 2010. There are 207 days left in the year. Today’s Highlights in History: On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee of Virginia proposed to the Continental Congress a resolution calling for Ameri- can independence from Britain. On this date: In 1753, Britain’s King George II gave his assent to an Act DILBERT® By Scott Adams of Parliament establishing the British Museum. In 1769, frontiersman Daniel Boone first began to explore present-day Kentucky. In 1929, the sovereign state of Vatican City came into exis- tence as copies of the Lateran Treaty were exchanged in Rome. In 1937, actress Jean Harlow died in Los Angeles at age 26. In 1939, King George VI and his wife, Queen Elizabeth, arrived at Niagara Falls, N.Y., from Canada on the first visit to the United States by a reigning British monarch. In 1948, the Communists completed their takeover of Czecho- slovakia with the resignation of President Edvard Benes (BEH’- nesh). GARFIELD® By Jim Davis In 1967, the Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic opened in San Francisco. In 1970, English author E.M. Forster died in Coventry at 91. In 1981, Israeli military planes destroyed a nuclear power plant in Iraq, a facility the Israelis charged could have been used to make nuclear weapons. In 1998, in a crime that shocked the nation, James Byrd SHOE By Chris Cassatt and Gary Brookins Jr., a 49-year-old black man, was chained to a pickup truck and dragged to his death in Jasper, Texas. (Two white men were later sentenced to death for the crime; a third received life.) Ten years ago: U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jack- son ordered the breakup of Microsoft Corp., declaring the soft- ware giant should be split into two because it had ‘‘proved untrustworthy in the past’’; Microsoft vowed to appeal. (An appeals court later threw out the breakup order; the Justice Department, under the Bush administration, said it would no longer seek a breakup of Microsoft.) Five years ago: President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, meeting at the White House, embraced a tentative plan to forgive the debt of poor African nations. General Motors chairman Rick Wagoner announced plans to close plants and eliminate 25,000 manufacturing jobs in the United States by 2008. BLONDIE® By Dean Young and Stan Drake One year ago: Extreme-right parties gained in European parliamentary elections, including the first seats won by the all-white British National Party. Roger Federer completed a career Grand Slam, winning his first French Open title by sweep- ing surprise finalist Robin Soderling 6-1, 7-6 (1), 6-4. The British musical ‘‘Billy Elliot’’ won 10 Tony Awards, includ- ing best musical and a unique best actor prize for the three young performers who shared the title character: David Alvarez, Trent Kowalik and Kiril Kulish. Pop vocalist, musician, song- writer Kenny Rankin died in Los Angeles at 69. Today’s Birthdays:Movie director James Ivory is 82. Actress BEETLE BAILEY® By Mort Walker Virginia McKenna is 79. Singer Tom Jones is 70. Poet Nikki Giovanni is 67. Actor Ken Osmond (‘‘Leave It to Beaver’’) is 67. Former talk show host Jenny Jones is 64. Actress Anne Twomey is 59. Actor Liam Neeson is 58. Actress Colleen Camp is 57. Singer-songwriter Johnny Clegg is 57. Author Louise Erdrich (UR’-drihk) is 56. Actor William Forsythe is 55. Record producer L.A. Reid is 54. Latin pop singer Juan Luis Guer- ra is 53. Singer-songwriter Prince is 52. Rock singer-musi- cian Gordon Gano (The Violent Femmes) is 47. Rapper Ecsta- sy (Whodini) is 46. Rock musician Eric Kretz (Stone Tem- ple Pilots) is 44. Rock musician Dave Navarro is 43. Actress Helen Baxendale is 40. Actor Karl Urban is 38. Rock musi- cian Eric Johnson (The Shins) is 34. Actor-comedian Bill Hader is 32. Actress Anna Torv (TV: ‘‘Fringe’’) is 31. Actress Lar- isa Oleynik (oh-LAY’-nihk) is 29. Tennis player Anna Kourniko- va is 29. Actor Michael Cera is 22. Thought for Today: ‘‘The history of the world shows that when a mean thing was done, man did it; when a good thing was done, man did it.’’ — Robert G. Ingersoll, American lawyer and statesman (1833-1899). HAGAR the Horrible® By Chris Browne RUBES® By Leigh Rubin ZITS BY JERRY SCOTT & JIM BORGMAN FRANK & ERNEST® By Bob Thaves ALLEY OOP