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PEANUTS® Saturday, September 4, 2010 – Daily News – 3B By Charles Schultz Today in History By The Associated Press Today is Saturday, Sept. 4, the 247th day of 2010. There are 118 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Sept. 4, 1781, Los Angeles was founded by Span- ish settlers under the leadership of Governor Felipe de Neve. On this date: DILBERT® By Scott Adams In 1886, a group of Apache Indians led by Geronimo surrendered to Gen. Nelson Miles at Skeleton Canyon in Arizona. In 1888, George Eastman received a patent for his roll- film box camera, and registered his trademark: ‘‘Kodak.’’ In 1893, English author Beatrix Potter first told the story of Peter Rabbit in the form of a ‘‘picture letter’’ to Noel Moore, the son of Potter’s former governess. In 1917, the American Expeditionary Forces in France suffered their first fatalities during World War I when a German plane attacked a British-run base hospi- tal. GARFIELD® By Jim Davis SHOE By Chris Cassatt and Gary Brookins In 1948, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdi- cated after nearly six decades of rule for health reasons. In 1951, President Harry S. Truman addressed the nation from the Japanese peace treaty conference in San Fran- cisco in the first live, coast-to-coast television broadcast. In 1957, Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus used Arkansas National Guardsmen to prevent nine black students from entering all-white Central High School in Little Rock. Ford Motor Co. began selling its ill-fated Edsel. In 1969, the Food and Drug Administration issued a report calling birth control pills ‘‘safe,’’ despite a slight risk of fatal blood-clotting disorders linked to the pills. In 1971, an Alaska Airlines jet crashed near Juneau, killing all 111 people on board. In 1984, Canada’s Progressive Conservatives, led by Brian Mulroney (muhl-ROO’-nee), won a landslide vic- tory in general elections over the Liberal Party of Prime Minister John N. Turner and the New Democrats head- ed by Ed Broadbent. Ten years ago: French investigators announced that a stray length of metal which had gashed a tire of a super- sonic Concorde, leading to a fuel tank fire and the plane’s fatal crash the previous July, probably came from a Con- tinental Airlines plane that had taken off on the same run- way four minutes earlier. (Continental has denied any respon- sibility.) Five years ago: Six days after Hurricane Katrina left BLONDIE® By Dean Young and Stan Drake a devastated New Orleans in chaos, police stormed the Danziger Bridge, shooting and killing two people and wound- ing four others. (Four police officers are facing federal charges in the shooting; five former officers have plead- ed guilty to participating in a cover-up of the shootings; a sergeant and a retired sergeant also are accused in the cover-up.) One year ago: A German army colonel called in a U.S. airstrike on a pair of hijacked tanker trucks in northern Afghanistan, resulting in civilian casualties. (German offi- cials said up to 142 people were believed to have died or been injured; Afghan leaders estimated 30 to 40 civilians were killed.) Defense Secretary Robert Gates expressed disappointment at news outlets that had used a picture taken and distributed by The Associated Press depicting a U.S. Marine mortally wounded in combat in Afghanistan. Today’s Birthdays: Actress Mitzi Gaynor is 79. Singer BEETLE BAILEY® By Mort Walker Merald ‘‘Bubba’’ Knight (Gladys Knight & The Pips) is 68. World Golf Hall of Famer Raymond Floyd is 68. Actress Jennifer Salt is 66. World Golf Hall of Famer Tom Wat- son is 61. Rhythm-and-blues musician Ronald LaPread is 60. Actress Judith Ivey is 59. Rock musician Martin Chambers (The Pretenders) is 59. Actress Khandi Alexander is 53. Actor-comedian Damon Wayans is 50. Rock musician Kim Thayil is 50. Actor Noah Taylor is 41. Actress Ione Skye is 40. Rhythm-and-blues singer Richard Wingo (Jagged Edge) is 35. Actor Wes Bentley is 32. Singer Dan Miller (‘‘Making the Band’’) is 30. Singer Beyonce (bee-AHN’-say) Knowles is 29. Actor Carter Jenkins is 19. Actor Trevor Gagnon is 15. Thought for Today: ‘‘This moment contains all moments.’’ — C.S. Lewis, British author (1898-1963). HAGAR the Horrible® By Chris Browne RUBES® By Leigh Rubin ZITS BY JERRY SCOTT & JIM BORGMAN FRANK & ERNEST® By Bob Thaves ALLEY OOP