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PEANUTS® By Charles Schultz Tuesday, April 12, 2011 – Daily News – 5B Today in History By The Associated Press Today is Tuesday, April 12, the 102nd day of 2011. There are 263 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On April 12, 1861, the American Civil War began as Con- federate forces opened fire on Fort Sumter in South Carolina. (The Union troops holding the fort surrendered the following day.) DILBERT® By Scott Adams On this date: In 1606, England’s King James I decreed the design of the original Union Flag, which combined the flags of England and Scotland. In 1811, fur traders employed by John Jacob Astor began building Fort Astoria in present-day Oregon. In 1877, the catcher’s mask was first used in a baseball game, by James Tyng of Harvard in a game against the Lynn Live Oaks. In 1934, ‘‘Tender Is the Night,’’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald, was first published in book form after being serialized in Scribn- er’s Magazine. GARFIELD® By Jim Davis In 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt died of a cere- bral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Ga., at age 63; he was suc- ceeded by Vice President Harry S. Truman. In 1955, the Salk vaccine against polio was declared safe and effective. In 1960, Candlestick Park in San Francisco first opened, with Vice President Richard Nixon throwing the ceremonial first pitch. (The San Francisco Giants went on to defeat the St. Louis Cardinals, 3-1.) In 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to fly in space, orbiting the earth once before making a safe landing. In 1981, the space shuttle Columbia blasted off from Cape Canaveral on its first test flight. Former world heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis died in Las Vegas, Nev., at age 66. SHOE By Chris Cassatt and Gary Brookins In 1985, Sen. Jake Garn, R-Utah, became the first sitting member of Congress to fly in space as the shuttle Discovery lifted off. Ten years ago: The 24 crew members of a U.S. spy plane arrived in Hawaii after being held for 11 days in China. Cincin- nati Mayor Charles Luken declared a state of emergency amid the worst outbreak of racial violence in the city since the after- math of the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968. Five years ago: Jurors in the Zacarias Moussaoui (zak-uh- REE’-uhs moo-SOW’-ee) trial listened to a recording of shouts and cries in the cockpit as desperate passengers twice charged panicked hijackers during the final half hour of doomed Unit- ed Flight 93 on 9/11. BLONDIE® By Dean Young and Stan Drake One year ago: President Barack Obama opened a 47-nation nuclear summit in Washington, boosted by Ukraine’s announcement that it will give up its weapons-grade uranium. Today’s Birthdays:Country singer Ned Miller is 86. Actress BEETLE BAILEY® By Mort Walker Jane Withers is 85. Actor Charles Napier is 75. Playwright Alan Ayckbourn is 72. Jazz musician Herbie Hancock is 71. Actor Frank Bank (‘‘Leave It to Beaver’’) is 69. Rock singer John Kay (Steppenwolf) is 67. Actor Ed O’Neill is 65. Author Tom Clancy is 64. Actor Dan Lauria is 64. Talk show host David Letterman is 64. Author Scott Turow is 62. Singer David Cas- sidy is 61. Actor-playwright Tom Noonan is 60. Rhythm-and- blues singer JD Nicholas (The Commodores) is 59. Singer Pat Travers is 57. Actor Andy Garcia is 55. Movie director Wal- ter Salles is 55. Country singer Vince Gill is 54. Actress Suz- zanne (cq) Douglas is 54. Rock musician Will Sergeant (Echo & the Bunnymen) is 53. Rock singer Art Alexakis (Everclear) is 49. Country singer Deryl Dodd is 47. Folk-pop singer Amy Ray (Indigo Girls) is 47. Actress Alicia Coppola is 43. Rock singer Nicholas Hexum (311) is 41. Actress Shannen Doher- ty is 40. Rock musician Guy Berryman (Coldplay) is 33. Actress Claire Danes is 32. Actress Jennifer Morrison is 32. Rock singer- musician Brendon Urie (Panic! at the Disco) is 24. Thought for Today: ‘‘Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background of countless minor scenes and interiors, (not the official surface courteousness of the Generals, not the few great battles) of the Secession war; and it is best they should not — the real war will never get in the books.’’ — Walt Whitman, American author and poet (1819- 1892). HAGAR the Horrible® By Chris Browne RUBES® By Leigh Rubin ZITS BY JERRY SCOTT & JIM BORGMAN FRANK & ERNEST® By Bob Thaves ALLEY OOP