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PEANUTS® By Charles Schultz Tuesday, August 17, 2010 – Daily News – 5B Today in History By The Associated Press Today is Tuesday, Aug. 17, the 229th day of 2010. There are 136 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Aug. 17, 1960, the newly renamed Beatles (formerly DILBERT® By Scott Adams the Silver Beetles), consisting of John Lennon, Paul McCart- ney, George Harrison, Stuart Sutcliffe and just-hired drum- mer Pete Best, began their first gig in Hamburg, West Ger- many at the Indra Club. On this date: In 1807, Robert Fulton’s North River Steamboat began head- ing up the Hudson River on its successful round-trip between New York and Albany. In 1863, Federal batteries and ships began bombarding Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor during the Civil War, but the Con- federates managed to hold on despite several days of pound- ing. GARFIELD® By Jim Davis In 1915, a mob in Cobb County, Ga., lynched Jewish busi- nessman Leo Frank, whose death sentence for the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan had been commuted to life impris- onment. (Frank, who’d maintained his innocence, was par- doned by the state of Georgia in 1986.) In 1942, during World War II, U.S. 8th Air Force bombers attacked Rouen, France. In 1943, the Allied conquest of Sicily was completed as U.S. and British forces entered Messina. In 1960, the west African country of Gabon became inde- pendent of France. SHOE By Chris Cassatt and Gary Brookins In 1969, Hurricane Camille slammed into the Mississip- pi coast as a Category 5 storm that was blamed for 256 U.S. deaths, three in Cuba. In 1978, the first successful trans-Atlantic balloon flight ended as Maxie Anderson, Ben Abruzzo and Larry Newman landed their Double Eagle II outside Paris. In 1985, more than 1,400 meatpackers walked off the job at the Geo. A. Hormel and Co.’s main plant in Austin, Minn. in a bitter strike that lasted just over a year. Ten years ago: Al Gore accepted the Democratic nomi- nation for president, pledging a ‘‘better, fairer, more prosperous America’’ at the party’s convention in Los Angeles. Shortly before Gore spoke, his running mate, Joseph Lieberman, was nominated by acclamation. Word leaked out that Independent Counsel Robert Ray was assembling a new grand jury to inves- tigate President Bill Clinton’s conduct in the Monica Lewin- sky scandal. Five years ago: Israeli security forces poured into four Jew- ish settlements in the Gaza Strip, beginning the forcible removal of protesters who’d refused orders to leave the area ahead of a deadline. Three car bombs exploded in Baghdad, killing up to 43 people. BLONDIE® By Dean Young and Stan Drake One year ago: President Barack Obama, addressing the BEETLE BAILEY® By Mort Walker Veterans of Foreign Wars in Phoenix, chastised the defense industry and Congress for wasting tax dollars ‘‘with doctrine and weapons better suited to fight the Soviets on the plains of Europe than insurgents in the rugged terrain of Afghanistan.’’ Today’s Birthdays: Actress Maureen O’Hara is 90. For- mer Chinese president Jiang Zemin (jahng zuh-MEEN’) is 84. Author V.S. Naipaul is 78. Baseball All-Star Boog Pow- ell is 69. Actor Robert DeNiro is 67. Movie director Martha Coolidge is 64. Rock musician Gary Talley (The Box Tops) is 63. Rock musician Sib Hashian is 61. Actor Robert Joy is 59. Tennis Hall of Famer Guillermo Vilas is 58. Rock singer Kevin Rowland (Dexy’s Midnight Runners) is 57. Rock musi- cian Colin Moulding (XTC) is 55. Country singer-songwriter Kevin Welch is 55. Olympic gold medal figure skater Robin Cousins is 53. Singer Belinda Carlisle is 52. Author Jonathan Franzen is 51. Actor Sean Penn is 50. Jazz musi- cian Everette Harp is 49. Rock musician Gilby Clarke is 48. Singer Maria McKee is 46. Rock musician Steve Gorman (The Black Crowes) is 45. Rock musician Jill Cunniff (kuh-NIHF’) is 44. Actor David Conrad is 43. Singer Donnie Wahlberg is 41. Former basketball player Christian Laettner is 41. Rap- per Posdnuos (PAHS’-deh-noos) is 41. Tennis Hall of Famer Jim Courier is 40. Baseball player Jorge Posada is 39. Actor Bryton McClure is 24. Thought for Today: ‘‘A river has no politics.’’ — David E. Lilienthal, American public official (1899-1981). HAGAR the Horrible® By Chris Browne RUBES® By Leigh Rubin ZITS BY JERRY SCOTT & JIM BORGMAN FRANK & ERNEST® By Bob Thaves ALLEY OOP