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4B – Daily News – Tuesday, January 4, 2011 PEANUTS® By Charles Schultz Today in History By The Associated Press Today is Tuesday, Jan. 4, the fourth day of 2011. There are 361 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 4, 1951, during the Korean War, North Korean and Communist Chinese forces recaptured the city of Seoul (sohl). DILBERT® By Scott Adams On this date: In 1821, the first native-born American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, died in Emmitsburg, Md. In 1861, Alabama seized a federal arsenal at Mount Ver- non near Mobile. In 1896, Utah was admitted as the 45th state. In 1904, the Supreme Court, in Gonzalez v. Williams, ruled that Puerto Ricans were not aliens and could enter the United States freely; however, the court stopped short of declaring them U.S. citizens. In 1948, Burma (now called Myanmar) became inde- pendent of British rule. GARFIELD® By Jim Davis In 1960, Algerian-born French author and philosopher Albert Camus (al-BEHR’ kah-MOO’) died in an automo- bile accident in Villeblevin, France at age 46. In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson outlined the goals of his ‘‘Great Society’’ in his State of the Union Address. Poet T.S. Eliot died in London at age 76. In 1974, President Richard M. Nixon refused to hand over tape recordings and documents subpoenaed by the Sen- ate Watergate Committee. In 1990, Charles Stuart, who’d claimed to have been wound- ed and his pregnant wife fatally shot by a robber, leapt to his death off a Boston bridge after he himself became a sus- pect. SHOE By Chris Cassatt and Gary Brookins BLONDIE® By Dean Young and Stan Drake BEETLE BAILEY® By Mort Walker In 2007, Nancy Pelosi was elected the first female speak- er of the House as Democrats took control of Congress. Ten years ago: It was announced that George, the pol- itics and lifestyle magazine founded by the late John F. Kennedy, Jr., would fold. Orchestra leader Les Brown, known for his ‘‘Band of Renown,’’ died at age 88. Five years ago: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suf- fered a significant stroke; his official powers were trans- ferred to his deputy, Ehud Olmert (EH’-hood OHL’-murt). (Sharon remains in a coma.) In a triple-overtime game that began Jan. 3 and finished after midnight, No. 3. Penn State beat No. 22 Florida State, 26-23, in the Orange Bowl. No. 2 Texas won college football’s championship, beating No. 1 Southern California 41-38 in the Rose Bowl. One year ago: Dubai opened the world’s tallest skyscraper, and in a surprise move renamed the 2,717-foot gleaming glass-and-metal tower Burj Khalifa in a nod to the leader of neighboring Abu Dhabi — the oil-rich sheikdom which had come to its financial rescue. The Secret Secret said that a third uninvited guest had made his way into the White House state dinner for India’s prime minister in Nov. 2009. Tsutomu Yamaguchi, the only person recognized by the Japan- ese government as a survivor of both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings at the end of World War II, died at age 93. Today’s Birthdays: Actress Barbara Rush is 84. Foot- ball Hall-of-Fame coach Don Shula is 81. Actress Dyan Cannon is 74. Opera singer Grace Bumbry is 74. Author- historian Doris Kearns Goodwin is 68. Country singer Kathy Forester (The Forester Sisters) is 56. Actress Ann Magnu- son is 55. Rock musician Bernard Sumner (New Order, Joy Division) is 55. Country singer Patty Loveless is 54. Rock singer Michael Stipe (R.E.M.) is 51. Actor Patrick Cassidy is 49. Actor Dave Foley is 48. Actor Rick Hearst (TV: ‘‘The Bold and the Beautiful’’) is 46. Singer-musician Cait O’Ri- ordan is 46. Actress Julia Ormond is 46. Tennis player Guy Forget (ghee fohr-ZHAY’) is 46. Country singer Deana Carter is 45. Rock musician Benjamin Darvill (Crash Test Dum- mies) is 44. Actor Jeremy Licht is 40. Actress-singer Jill Marie Jones is 36. Alt-country singer Justin Townes Earle is 29. Christian rock singer Spencer Chamberlain (Under- oath) is 28. Comedian-actress Charlyne Yi is 25. Thought for Today: ‘‘Lie down and listen to the crab- grass grow, the faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.’’ — Marya Mannes, American author-journalist (1904-1990). HAGAR the Horrible® By Chris Browne RUBES® By Leigh Rubin ZITS BY JERRY SCOTT & JIM BORGMAN FRANK & ERNEST® By Bob Thaves ALLEY OOP