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2A Daily News – Thursday, June 2, 2011 PEANUTS® By Charles Schultz Today in History By The Associated Press Today is Thursday, June 2, the 153rd day of 2011. There are 212 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On June 2, 1886, President Grover Cleveland, 49, married Frances Folsom, who at 21 became America’s youngest first lady, in the Blue Room of the White House. (To date, Cleve- land is the only president to marry in the executive mansion.) On this date: DILBERT® By Scott Adams In 1851, Maine became the first state to enact a total ban on the manufacture and sale of liquor. In 1855, rioting broke out in Portland, Maine, over rumors a stash of liquor (which would have been legal for ‘‘medici- nal and mechanical purposes’’ under the Maine Law) was being kept inside City Hall; one man was killed when militi- amen opened fire. In 1897, Mark Twain, 61, was quoted by the New York Journal as saying from London that ‘‘the report of my death was an exaggeration.’’ In 1941, baseball’s ‘‘Iron Horse,’’ Lou Gehrig, died in GARFIELD® By Jim Davis New York of a degenerative disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; he was 37. The chief justice of the United States, Charles Evans Hughes, announced his retirement effective July 1, 1941. In 1953, Queen Elizabeth II of Britain was crowned in Westminster Abbey, 16 months after the death of her father, King George VI. In 1961, during a state visit to France, President John F. Kennedy, noting the warm reception his wife had received, jocularly described himself as ‘‘the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.’’ Play- wright and director George S. Kaufman, 71, died in New York. In 1966, the U.S. space probe Surveyor 1 landed on the moon and began transmitting detailed photographs of the lunar surface. In 1979, Pope John Paul II arrived in his native Poland on SHOE By Chris Cassatt and Gary Brookins the first visit by a pope to a Communist country. In 1981, the Japanese video arcade game ‘‘Donkey BLONDIE® By Dean Young and Stan Drake BEETLE BAILEY® By Mort Walker Kong’’ made its U.S. debut. In 1986, for the first time, the public could watch the pro- ceedings of the U.S. Senate on television as a six-week experiment of televised sessions began. Ten years ago: Nepal’s Crown Prince Dipendra, on life support after shooting to death eight members of the royal family, including his parents, before turning the gun on him- self, was named king by Nepal’s State Council. . Five years ago: The United Nations General Assembly concluded a conference on AIDS by promising to set ‘‘ambi- tious national targets,’’ but falling short of setting exact finan- cial goals for the fight against the disease. One year ago: Amid the Deepwater Horizon oil spill cri- sis, BP chief executive Tony Hayward apologized for having told reporters, ‘‘I’d like my life back,’’ calling the remark hurtful and thoughtless in a statement posted on Facebook. A taxi driver went on a murderous rampage across a tranquil part of rural England, leaving 12 dead before committing sui- cide. Pitcher Armando Galarraga of the Detroit Tigers lost his bid for a perfect game against Cleveland with two outs in the ninth inning on a call that first base umpire Jim Joyce later admitted he’d blown. (The Tigers beat the Indians, 3-0.) Today’s Birthdays: Actor Milo O’Shea is 86. Actress- singer Sally Kellerman is 74. Actor Ron Ely is 73. Actor Stacy Keach is 70. Rock musician Charlie Watts is 70. Singer William Guest (Gladys Knight & The Pips) is 70. Actor Charles Haid is 68. Composer Marvin Hamlisch is 67. Movie director Lasse (LAH’-suh) Hallstrom is 65. Actor Jerry Mathers is 63. Actress Joanna Gleason is 61. Actor Dennis Haysbert is 57. Comedian Dana Carvey is 56. Singer Merril Bainbridge is 43. Rapper B-Real (Cypress Hill) is 41. Actor-comedian Wayne Brady is 39. Actress Nikki Cox is 33. Actor Justin Long is 33. Rock musician Fabrizio Moret- ti (The Strokes) is 31. Thought for Today: ‘‘Vox populi, vox humbug.’’ (The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.) — Gen. William T. Sherman, Union military leader (1820-1891), in a letter to his wife written on this date in 1863. HAGAR the Horrible® By Chris Browne RUBES® By Leigh Rubin ZITS BY JERRY SCOTT & JIM BORGMAN FRANK & ERNEST® By Bob Thaves ALLEY OOP