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PEANUTS® Tuesday, February 22, 2011 – Daily News – 5B By Charles Schultz Today in History By The Associated Press Today is Tuesday, Feb. 22, the 53rd day of 2011. There are 312 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 22, 1732 (New Style date), the first president of the United States, George Washington, was born in Westmoreland County in the Virginia Colony. On this date: In 1784, a U.S. merchant ship, the Empress of China, left DILBERT® By Scott Adams New York for the Far East to trade goods with China. In 1810, according to some sources, Polish composer Fred- eric Chopin was born. (Chopin, however, claimed March 1 as his birthday.) In 1862, Jefferson Davis, already the provisional president of the Confederacy, was inaugurated for a six-year term fol- lowing his election in Nov. 1861. In 1909, the Great White Fleet, a naval task force sent on a round-the-world voyage by President Theodore Roosevelt, returned after more than a year at sea. In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge delivered the first radio broadcast from the White House as he addressed the coun- try over 42 stations. GARFIELD® By Jim Davis In 1940, the 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso) was enthroned at age four in Lhasa, Tibet. In 1959, the inaugural Daytona 500 race was held; although Johnny Beauchamp was initially declared the winner, the vic- tory was later awarded to Lee Petty. In 1973, the United States and China agreed to establish liaison offices. In 1980, the ‘‘Miracle on Ice’’ took place in Lake Placid, SHOE By Chris Cassatt and Gary Brookins BLONDIE® By Dean Young and Stan Drake N.Y., as the United States Olympic hockey team upset the Soviets, 4-3. (The U.S. team went on to win the gold medal.) In 1984, 12-year-old David Vetter, who’d spent most of his life in a plastic bubble because he had no immunity to disease, died 15 days after being removed from the bubble for a bone-marrow transplant. Ten years ago: President George W. Bush held his first full- fledged presidential news conference, in which he defended his tax-cutting and budget-tightening plans and gave FBI direc- tor Louis Freeh a vote of confidence following the arrest of veteran agent Robert Hanssen on spying charges. A U.N. war crimes tribunal convicted three Bosnian Serbs standing trial on charges of rape and torture in the first case of wartime sex- ual enslavement to go before an international court. Five years ago: Insurgents destroyed the golden dome of one of Iraq’s holiest Shiite shrines, the Askariya mosque in Samarra, setting off an unprecedented spasm of sectarian vio- lence. Thieves stole $96 million from a Bank of England cash depot 30 miles southeast of London in Britain’s largest cash robbery. (Six men were later convicted and almost half of the money was recovered.) Eight workers at a Nebraska meat- packing plant came forward to claim a $365 million Power- ball jackpot. One year ago: Najibullah Zazi (nah-jee-BOO’-lah ZAH’- zee), accused of buying beauty supplies to make bombs for an attack on New York City subways, pleaded guilty to con- spiring to use weapons of mass destruction, conspiring to com- mit murder in a foreign country and providing material sup- port for a terrorist organization. Today’s Birthdays: Announcer Don Pardo is 93. Actor BEETLE BAILEY® By Mort Walker Paul Dooley is 83. Hollywood ‘‘ghost singer’’ Marni Nixon is 81. Movie director Jonathan Demme (DEH’-mee) is 67. Actor John Ashton is 63. Actress Miou-Miou is 61. Actress Julie Walters is 61. Basketball Hall of Famer Julius Erving is 61. Actress Ellen Greene is 60. Former Sen. Bill Frist, R- Tenn., is 59. White House adviser David Axelrod is 56. Actor Kyle MacLachlan is 52. World Golf Hall of Famer Vijay Singh is 48. Actress-comedian Rachel Dratch is 45. Actor Paul Lieber- stein (TV: ‘‘The Office’’) is 44. Actress Jeri Ryan is 43. Actor Thomas Jane is 42. Actress Tamara Mello is 41. Actress-singer Lea Salonga (LAY’-uh suh-LONG’-guh) is 40. Actor Jose Solano is 40. International Tennis Hall-of-Famer Michael Chang is 39. Rock musician Scott Phillips is 38. Actress Drew Bar- rymore is 36. Actress Liza Huber is 36. Singer James Blunt is 34. Rock singer Tom Higgenson (Plain White T’s) is 32. Thought for Today: ‘‘Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.’’ — Anne Bradstreet, American poet (1612-1672). HAGAR the Horrible® By Chris Browne RUBES® By Leigh Rubin ZITS BY JERRY SCOTT & JIM BORGMAN FRANK & ERNEST® By Bob Thaves ALLEY OOP