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6B – Daily News – Monday, September 6, 2010 PEANUTS® By Charles Schultz Today in History By The Associated Press DILBERT® By Scott Adams Today is Monday, Sept. 6, the 249th day of 2010. There are 116 days left in the year. This is Labor Day. Today’s Highlight in History: On Sept. 6, 1970, Palestinian guerrillas seized control of three U.S.-bound jetliners. Two were later blown up on the ground in Jordan, along with a London-bound plane hijacked on Sept. 9; the fourth plane was destroyed on the ground in Egypt. (In all cases, the hostages were removed prior to the blasts, and there was no loss of life.) On this date: In 1837, the Oberlin Collegiate Institute of Ohio went co- educational. In 1860, social activist Jane Addams, who became the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, was born in Cedarville, Ill. In 1901, President William McKinley was shot and mor- GARFIELD® By Jim Davis tally wounded by anarchist Leon Czolgosz (CHAWL’-gawsh) at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y. (McKinley died eight days later; he was succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt. Czolgosz was executed in Oct. 1901.) In 1909, American explorer Robert Peary sent a telegram from Indian Harbor, Labrador, announcing that he had reached the North Pole five months earlier. In 1916, the first self-service grocery store, Piggly Wig- gly, was opened in Memphis, Tenn., by Clarence Saunders. In 1948, Princess Juliana of the Netherlands was inaugu- rated as queen, two days after the abdication of her mother, Queen Wilhelmina. In 1966, South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwo- erd (fehr-FOORT’) was stabbed to death by an apparently deranged page during a parliamentary session in Cape Town. In 1978, James Wickwire and Louis Reichardt became the SHOE By Chris Cassatt and Gary Brookins first Americans to reach the summit of Pakistan’s K2, the world’s second-highest mountain (after Mount Everest). In 1985, all 31 people aboard a Midwest Express Airlines DC-9 were killed when the Atlanta-bound jetliner crashed just after takeoff from Milwaukee’s Mitchell Field. Ten years ago: The Millennium Summit, the largest gath- ering of world leaders to that time, convened at the United Nations. Five years ago: The California Legislature became the first BLONDIE® By Dean Young and Stan Drake BEETLE BAILEY® By Mort Walker legislative body in the nation to approve same-sex marriages, but Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger later vetoed the bill. Pres- ident George W. Bush and Congress pledged to open sepa- rate investigations into the sluggish federal response to Hur- ricane Katrina and New Orleans’ broken levees. One year ago: The White House announced the resigna- tion of President Barack Obama’s environmental adviser Van Jones, who’d become embroiled in a controversy over past inflammatory statements; Jones cited what he called a ‘‘vicious smear campaign’’ against him. Today’s Birthdays: Comedian JoAnne Worley is 73. Country singer David Allan Coe is 71. Country singer Mel McDaniel is 68. Rock singer-musician Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) is 67. Actress Swoosie Kurtz is 66. Comedian-actress Jane Curtin is 63. Country singer-songwriter Buddy Miller is 58. Country musician Joe Smyth (Sawyer Brown) is 53. Actor-comedian Jeff Foxworthy is 52. Actor- comedian Michael Winslow is 52. Rock musician Perry Bamonte is 50. Actor Steven Eckholdt is 49. Rock musi- cian Scott Travis (Judas Priest) is 49. Pop musician Pal Waak- taar (a-ha) is 49. Rock musician Kevin Miller is 48. ABC News correspondent Elizabeth Vargas is 48. Country singer Mark Chesnutt is 47. Actress Betsy Russell is 47. Actress Rosie Perez is 46. Rhythm and blues singer Macy Gray is 43. Singer CeCe Peniston is 41. Rhythm-and-blues singer Darryl Anthony (Az Yet) is 41. Actress Daniele Gaither (TV: ‘‘MADtv’’) is 40. Rock singer Dolores O’Riordan (The Cran- berries) is 39. Actor Dylan Bruno (TV: ‘‘Numb3ers’’) is 38. Actor Idris Elba (TV: ‘‘The Wire’’) is 38. Actress Justi- na Machado is 38. Actress Anika Noni (ah-NEE’-kuh NOH’- nee) Rose is 38. Rock singer Nina Persson (The Cardigans) is 36. Actor Justin Whalin is 36. Thought for Today: ‘‘The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.’’ — Ernest Dimnet, French priest, lecturer and author (1866-1954). HAGAR the Horrible® By Chris Browne RUBES® By Leigh Rubin ZITS BY JERRY SCOTT & JIM BORGMAN FRANK & ERNEST® By Bob Thaves ALLEY OOP