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PEANUTS® Tuesday, November 30, 2010 – Daily News – 5B By Charles Schultz Today in History By The Associated Press Today is Tuesday, Nov. 30, the 334th day of 2010. There are 31 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Nov. 30, 1782, the United States and Britain signed preliminary peace articles in Paris, ending the Revolutionary War. On this date: DILBERT® By Scott Adams In 1803, Spain completed the process of ceding Louisiana to France, which had sold it to the United States. In 1835, Samuel Langhorne Clemens — better known as Mark Twain — was born in Florida, Mo. In 1874, British statesman Sir Winston Churchill was born at Blenheim Palace. In 1900, Irish writer Oscar Wilde died in Paris at age 46. In 1936, London’s famed Crystal Palace, constructed for the Great Exhibition of 1851, was destroyed in a fire. In 1939, the Winter War began as Soviet troops invad- ed Finland. (The conflict ended the following March with a Soviet victory.) GARFIELD® By Jim Davis In 1960, the last DeSoto was built by Chrysler, which had decided to retire the brand after 32 years. In 1962, U Thant of Burma, who had been acting sec- retary-general of the United Nations following the death of Dag Hammarskjold the year before, was elected to a four-year term. In 1966, the former British colony of Barbados became independent. In 1981, the United States and the Soviet Union opened negotiations in Geneva aimed at reducing nuclear weapons in Europe. Ten years ago: Al Gore’s lawyers battled for his polit- SHOE By Chris Cassatt and Gary Brookins ical survival in the Florida and U.S. Supreme Courts; mean- while, GOP lawmakers in Tallahassee moved to award the presidency to George W. Bush in case the courts did not by appointing their own slate of electors. Five years ago: President George W. Bush gave an unflinch- ing defense of his Iraq war strategy in a speech at the U.S. Naval Academy, refusing to set a timetable for troop with- drawals and asserting that once-shaky Iraqi troops were proving increasingly capable. Shimon Peres quit Israel’s Labor Party, his political home of six decades, to cam- paign for Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s new orga- nization. Actress Jean Parker died in Woodland Hills, Calif. at age 90. BLONDIE® By Dean Young and Stan Drake BEETLE BAILEY® By Mort Walker One year ago: Retired Ohio auto worker John Dem- janjuk went on trial in Munich, Germany, accused of help- ing to kill 27,900 Jews as a Nazi death camp guard. In Geneva, the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest atom smasher, broke a world record for proton acceleration. Ser- ena Williams was fined a record $82,500 for her tirade at a U.S. Open line judge. Tiger Woods withdrew from his own golf tournament, citing injuries from a car crash near his Florida home. Today’s Birthdays: Historian Jacques Barzun is 103. Actor Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. is 92. Actor Robert Guillaume is 83. TV personality and producer Dick Clark is 81. Radio talk show host G. Gordon Liddy is 80. Country singer- recording executive Jimmy Bowen is 73. Movie director Ridley Scott is 73. Singer Rob Grill (The Grassroots) is 67. Movie writer-director Terrence Malick is 67. Rock musi- cian Roger Glover (Deep Purple) is 65. Playwright David Mamet (MA’-meht) is 63. Actress Margaret Whitton is 60. Actor Mandy Patinkin is 58. Musician Shuggie Otis is 57. Country singer Jeannie Kendall is 56. Singer Billy Idol is 55. Historian Michael Beschloss is 55. Rock musi- cian John Ashton (The Psychedelic Furs) is 53. Comedi- an Colin Mochrie is 53. Former football and baseball play- er Bo Jackson is 48. Rapper Jalil (Whodini) is 47. Actor- director Ben Stiller is 45. Rock musician Mike Stone is 41. Actress Sandra Oh is 40. Country singer Mindy McCready is 35. Singer Clay Aiken is 32. Actress Elisha Cuthbert is 28. Actress Kaley Cuoco (KWOH’-koh) is 25. Thought for Today: ‘‘The real problem is what to do with the problem solvers after the problems are solved.’’ — Gay Talese, American author and journalist. HAGAR the Horrible® By Chris Browne RUBES® By Leigh Rubin ZITS BY JERRY SCOTT & JIM BORGMAN FRANK & ERNEST® By Bob Thaves ALLEY OOP