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Tuesday, June 25, 2013 – Daily News PEANUTS® 5B By Charles Schultz Today in History By 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 Tuesday, June 25, the 176th day of 2013. There are 189 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On June 25, 1973, former White House Counsel John W. Dean began testifying before the Senate Watergate Committee, implicating top administration officials, including President Richard Nixon as well as himself, in the Watergate scandal and cover-up. On this date: In 1788, Virginia ratified the U.S. Constitution. In 1876, Lt. Col. Colonel George A. Custer and his 7th Cavalry were wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana. In 1888, the Republican National Convention, meeting in Chicago, nominated Benjamin Harrison for the presidency. (Harrison went on to win the election, defeating President Grover Cleveland.) In 1938, the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 was enacted. In 1943, Congress passed, over President Franklin D. Roosevelt's veto, the Smith-Connally Anti-Strike Act, which allowed the federal government to seize and operate privately owned war plants facing labor strikes. In 1950, war broke out in Korea as forces from the communist North invaded the South. In 1962, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Engel v. Vitale, ruled 6-1 that recitation of a state-sponsored prayer in New York State public schools was unconstitutional. In 1993, Kim Campbell was sworn in as Canada's 19th prime minister, the first woman to hold the post. In 1998, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a line-item veto law as unconstitutional, and ruled that HIV-infected people are protected by the Americans with Disabilities Act. In 2009, death claimed Michael Jackson, the ''King of Pop,'' in Los Angeles at age 50 and actress Farrah Fawcett in Santa Monica, Calif. at age 62. Ten years ago: The Recording Industry Association of America threatened to sue hundreds of individual computer users who were illegally sharing music files online. Former Georgia Gov. Five years ago: A divided U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana law that allowed capital punishment for people convicted of raping children under 12; the ruling also invalidated laws in five other states that allowed executions for child rape that did not result in the death of the victim. A jury in Woburn, Mass., convicted Neil Entwistle of firstdegree murder in the deaths of his wife, Rachel, 27, and their 9-month-old baby, Lillian Rose. (Entwistle was sentenced the next day to two life prison terms without possibility of parole.) One year ago: A divided U.S. Supreme Court threw out major parts of Arizona's tough crackdown on people living in the U.S. without legal permission, while unanimously upholding the law's most-discussed provision: requiring police to check the immigration status of those they stop for other reasons, but limiting the legal consequences. Today's Birthdays: Actress June Lockhart is 88. Civil rights activist James Meredith is 80. Rhythm-and-blues singer Eddie Floyd is 76. Actress Barbara Montgomery is 74. Actress Mary Beth Peil (peel) (TV: ''The Good Wife'') is 73. Basketball Hall-of-Famer Willis Reed is 71. Writerproducer-director Gary David Goldberg is 69. Singer Carly Simon is 68. Rock musician Allen Lanier (Blue Oyster Cult) is 67. Rock musician Ian McDonald (Foreigner; King Crimson) is 67. Actor-comedian Jimmie Walker is 66. Actordirector Michael Lembeck is 65. TV personality Phyllis George is 64. Rock singer Tim Finn is 61. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is 59. Rock musician David Paich (Toto) is 59. Actor Michael Sabatino is 58. Actor-writerdirector Ricky Gervais is 52. Actor John Benjamin Hickey is 50. Rock singer George Michael is 50. Actress Erica Gimpel is 49. Thought for Today: ''Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.'' — Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821). RUBES® By Leigh Rubin