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4B – Daily News – Thursday, September 30, 2010 PEANUTS® By Charles Schultz Today in History Today is Thursday, September 30, the 273rd day of 2010. There are 92 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date: 1399 - King Richard II of England abdicates in favor of Henry Bolingbroke, who led a rebellion of noble- men against him. 1568 - John III is proclaimed king of Sweden by the nobility after the deposition of Eric XIV. 1787 - Sailing ship Columbia leaves Boston on first DILBERT® By Scott Adams voyage around world by American vessel. 1791 - Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute" premieres in Vienna, Austria. 1846 - Dentist William Morton uses ether as an anes- thetic for the first time on a patient in his Boston office. 1868 - Spain's Queen Isabella flees to France and is declared deposed. GARFIELD® By Jim Davis 1938 - Britain, France, Germany and Italy agree at the Munich conference to transfer the Czech Sude- tenland to Germany while remaining frontiers of Czecho- slovakia are guaranteed. 1942 - The Nazis advance in Stalingard, Russia. Some 990 Russian planes are destroyed against 77 Ger- man losses. 1946 - International military tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, finds 22 top German Nazi leaders guilty of war crimes. Eleven are sentenced to death. 1949 - The Berlin Airlift, which delivers 2 million metric tons (2.3 million tons) of food and fuel to West Berliners while circumventing a Soviet blockade, comes to an end. SHOE By Chris Cassatt and Gary Brookins 1954 - The first atomic-powered vessel, the sub- marine Nautilus, is commissioned by the U.S. Navy. 1962 - Black American student James Meredith suc- ceeds on his fourth try to register for classes at the University of Mississippi. 1966 - Republic of Botswana gains independence from Britain. 1971 - United States and Soviet Union sign pacts designed to avoid accidental nuclear war. 1984 - Egyptian court sentences 107 Muslim extrem- ists to prison for attempting to set up Islamic regime after 1981 assassination of President Anwar Sadat. 1986 - The United States releases accused Soviet spy Gennadiy Zakharov, after the Soviets release U.S. journalist Nicholas Daniloff, whom the KGB accused of espionage. BLONDIE® By Dean Young and Stan Drake 1989 - Non-communist Cambodian guerrillas claim capture of three towns and 10 other positions from government forces. 1990 - Soviet Union and South Korea open full diplo- matic relations. 1991 - Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is ousted by the army. 1992 - Moscow banks distribute privatization vouch- ers as part of a reform program to turn millions of Russians into capitalists. 2006 - A Kurdish guerrilla group, the Kurdistan BEETLE BAILEY® By Mort Walker Workers Party, or PKK, declares a unilateral cease- fire in its more than 20-year fight for autonomy in Turkey's southeast, but does not immediately give up its weapons. 2009 - A powerful earthquake strikes western Indone- sia, triggering landslides and trapping thousands under collapsed buildings — including two hospitals. The temblor started fires, severed roads and cut off power and communications to Padang, a coastal city of 900,000 on Today's Birthdays: Jean Perrin, French Noble-prize winning physicist (1870-1942); Hans Geiger, German physicist (1882-1945); Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress (1921-2007); Truman Capote, U.S. author (1924-1984); Elie Wiesel, Romanian writer (1928--); Martina Hingis, Swiss tennis player (1980--); Eric Stolz, U.S. actor (1961--); Jenna Elfman, U.S. actress (1971--); Mar- ion Cotillard, French actress (1975--). Thought For Today: After three days without read- ing, talk becomes flavorless — Chinese proverb. HAGAR the Horrible® By Chris Browne RUBES® By Leigh Rubin ZITS BY JERRY SCOTT & JIM BORGMAN FRANK & ERNEST® By Bob Thaves ALLEY OOP