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PEANUTS® By Charles Schultz Monday, July 19, 2010 – Daily News – 5B Today in History By The Associated Press Today is Monday, July 19, the 200th day of 2010. There are 165 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On July 19, 1553, King Henry VIII’s daughter Mary was proclaimed Queen of England after teenage pretender Lady Jane Grey, who had claimed the monarchy for nine days, was deposed. (Lady Jane Grey was later executed for high trea- son.) DILBERT® By Scott Adams On this date: In 1848, a pioneer women’s rights convention convened in Seneca Falls, N.Y. In 1870, the Franco-Prussian war began. In 1943, allied air forces raided Rome during World War II. In 1969, Apollo 11 and its astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Edwin ‘‘Buzz’’ Aldrin and Michael Collins, went into orbit around the moon. GARFIELD® By Jim Davis SHOE By Chris Cassatt and Gary Brookins BLONDIE® By Dean Young and Stan Drake BEETLE BAILEY® By Mort Walker In 1979, the Nicaraguan capital of Managua fell to San- dinista guerrillas, two days after President Anastasio Somoza fled the country. In 1980, the Moscow Summer Olympics began, minus dozens of nations that were boycotting the games because of the Sovi- et military intervention in Afghanistan. In 1984, U.S. Rep. Geraldine A. Ferraro of New York won the Democratic nomination for vice president by acclama- tion at the party’s convention in San Francisco. In 1985, Christa McAuliffe of New Hampshire was cho- sen to be the first schoolteacher to ride aboard the space shut- tle. (McAuliffe and six other crew members died when the Challenger exploded shortly after liftoff in Jan. 1986.) In 1989, 111 people were killed when a United Air Lines DC-10 crashed while making an emergency landing at Sioux City, Iowa; 185 other people survived. In 1990, President George H.W. Bush joined former pres- idents Ronald Reagan, Gerald R. Ford and Richard M. Nixon at ceremonies dedicating the Nixon Library and Birthplace (since redesignated the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum) in Yorba Linda, Calif. Baseball’s all-time hits leader, Pete Rose, was sentenced in Cincinnati to five months in prison for tax evasion. Ten years ago: President Bill Clinton shuttled between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and his own experts during peace talks at Camp David after delaying his departure for an economic summit in Japan. Five years ago: President George W. Bush announced his choice of federal appeals court judge John G. Roberts Jr. to replace Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. (Roberts ended up succeeding Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who died in Sept. 2005; Samuel Alito followed O’Connor.) One year ago: A Russian-owned civilian helicopter crashed shortly after takeoff from southern Afghanistan’s largest NATO base, killing 16 civilians. Israel rejected a U.S. demand to sus- pend a planned housing project in east Jerusalem. Stewart Cink won the British Open in a four-hole playoff with Tom Wat- son. Eighty-one-year-old Hershel McGriff became the old- est driver to take part in a national NASCAR series race, fin- ishing 13th in a Camping World West Series event at Port- land International Raceway. Author Frank McCourt, who’d won the Pulitzer Prize for his memoir ‘‘Angela’s Ashes,’’ died in New York at 78. Today’s Birthdays:Former Sen. George McGovern is 88. Actress Helen Gallagher is 84. Country singer Sue Thomp- son is 84. Country singer George Hamilton IV is 73. Actor Dennis Cole is 70. Singer Vikki Carr is 70. Country singer- musician Commander Cody is 66. Actor George Dzundza is 65. Rock singer-musician Alan Gorrie (Average White Band) is 64. Rock musician Brian May is 63. Rock musician Bernie Leadon is 63. Actress Beverly Archer is 62. Movie director Abel Ferrara is 59. Actor Peter Barton is 54. Rock musician Kevin Haskins (Love and Rockets; Bauhaus) is 50. Movie director Atom Egoyan is 50. Actor Campbell Scott is 49. Actor Anthony Edwards is 48. Country singer Kelly Shiver is 47. Actress Clea Lewis is 45. Country musician Jeremy Patter- son is 40. Thought for Today: ‘‘No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opin- ion.’’ — Carrie Chapman Catt, American feminist (1859-1947). HAGAR the Horrible® By Chris Browne RUBES® By Leigh Rubin ZITS BY JERRY SCOTT & JIM BORGMAN FRANK & ERNEST® By Bob Thaves ALLEY OOP