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4B – Daily News – Friday, August 27, 2010 PEANUTS® By Charles Schultz Today in History By The Associated Press Today is Friday, Aug. 27, the 239th day of 2010. There are 126 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Aug. 27, 1883, the island volcano Krakatoa blew up; the resulting tidal waves in Indonesia’s Sunda Strait claimed some 36,000 lives in Java and Sumatra. On this date: DILBERT® By Scott Adams In 1858, the second debate between senatorial candidates Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas took place in Freeport, Ill. In 1859, Edwin L. Drake drilled the first successful oil well in the United States, at Titusville, Pa. In 1892, fire seriously damaged New York’s original Met- ropolitan Opera House. In 1908, Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th president of the United States, was born near Stonewall, Texas. In 1928, the Kellogg-Briand Pact was signed in Paris, out- lawing war and providing for the peaceful settlement of dis- putes. GARFIELD® By Jim Davis In 1962, the United States launched the Mariner 2 space probe, which flew past Venus in December 1962. In 1975, Haile Selassie (HY’-lee sehl-AH’-see), the last emperor of Ethiopia’s 3,000-year-old monarchy, died in Addis Ababa at age 83 almost a year after being overthrown. In 1979, British war hero Lord Louis Mountbatten and three other people, including his 14-year-old grandson Nicholas, were killed off the coast of Ireland in a boat explosion claimed by the Irish Republican Army. In 1989, the first U.S. commercial satellite rocket was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla. — a Delta booster carrying a British communications satellite, the Marcopolo 1. In 2006, a Comair CRJ-100 crashed after trying to take SHOE By Chris Cassatt and Gary Brookins BLONDIE® By Dean Young and Stan Drake BEETLE BAILEY® By Mort Walker off from the wrong runway in Lexington, Ky., killing 49 peo- ple and leaving the co-pilot the sole survivor. Ten years ago: During a visit to Nigeria, President Bill Clin- ton said Africans had to ‘‘break the silence’’ about AIDS or risk losing hard-fought democratic and economic gains. Fire broke out in Moscow’s landmark Ostankino television tower, killing three people. A botched Israeli military raid on an Islam- ic militant hide-out in the West Bank ended with three Israeli soldiers being accidentally killed by their comrades. Five years ago: Coastal residents jammed freeways and gas stations as they rushed to get out of the way of Hurricane Katrina, which was headed toward New Orleans. President George W. Bush asked Americans in his weekly radio address to be patient with the U.S. military mission in Iraq as thou- sands of pro-Bush and anti-war demonstrators competed for attention in his tiny hometown of Crawford, Texas. One year ago: Mourners filed past the closed casket of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston. Jaycee Lee Dugard, kidnapped when she was 11, was reunited with her mother 18 years after her abduction in South Lake Tahoe, Calif. Today’s Birthdays: Cajun-country singer Jimmy C. New- man is 83. Author Antonia Fraser is 78. Actor Tommy Sands is 73. Bluegrass singer-musician J.D. Crowe is 73. Musician Daryl Dragon is 68. Actress Tuesday Weld is 67. Rock singer- musician Tim Bogert is 66. Actress Marianne Sagebrecht is 65. Actress Barbara Bach is 63. Ex-porn star Harry Reems is 63. Country musician Jeff Cook is 61. Actor Paul Reubens is 58. Rock musician Alex Lifeson (Rush) is 57. Actress Diana Scarwid is 55. Rock musician Glen Matlock (The Sex Pis- tols) is 54. Pro golfer Bernhard Langer is 53. Actor Peter Stor- mare is 52. Country singer Jeffrey Steele is 49. Gospel singer Yolanda Adams is 48. Country musician Matthew Basford (Yankee Grey) is 48. Writer-producer Dean Devlin is 48. Rock musician Mike Johnson is 45. Rap musician Bobo (Cypress Hill) is 42. Country singer Colt Ford is 41. Actress Chandra Wilson is 41. Rock musician Tony Kanal (No Doubt) is 40. Actress Sarah Chalke is 34. Actor RonReaco (correct) Lee is 34. Rapper Mase is 33. Actor Aaron Paul is 31. Rock musi- cian Jon Siebels (Eve 6) is 31. Contemporary Christian musi- cian Megan Garrett (Casting Crowns) is 30. Thought for Today: ‘‘What is everybody’s business is nobody’s business — except the journalist’s.’’ — Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-born American newspaper publisher (1847- 1911). HAGAR the Horrible® By Chris Browne RUBES® By Leigh Rubin ZITS BY JERRY SCOTT & JIM BORGMAN FRANK & ERNEST® By Bob Thaves ALLEY OOP