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PEANUTS® By Charles Schultz Saturday, August 13, 2011 – Daily News 3B Today in History The Associated Press Today is Saturday, August 13, the 225th day of 2011. There are 140 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date: 1521 - Spaniard Hernando Cortes captures Tenochti- tlan, completing the defeat of the Aztec Empire. 1624 - France's King Louis XIII names Cardinal Richelieu as first minister. DILBERT® By Scott Adams 1787 - The Northwest Ordinance is enacted by U.S. Congress, outlining how the territory north of the Ohio River would be governed and how the land would evolve into states. 1792 - French revolutionaries imprison France's royal family. 1898 - U.S. forces in Philippines capture Manila from Spaniards in Spanish-American War. 1937 - Japanese attack Chinese city of Shanghai. 1945 - World Zionist Congress demands admission of 1 million Jews to Palestine. 1961 - East Germany seals off border between East GARFIELD® By Jim Davis and West Berlin, closing Brandenburg Gate to halt peo- ple fleeing the country. 1976 - South Africa pledges support for U.S. effort to bring about negotiated settlement in Rhodesia, saying failure would invite Communist intervention. 1983 - The Indian government starts to erect a barbed-wire fence along the entire 2,500-mile (4,000- kilometer) border with Bangladesh to prevent the entry of illegal aliens. Resentment of Muslim immigrants from Bangladesh flared into weeks of violence in which 3,000 were killed. 1990 - President Mikhail S. Gorbachev issues a decree absolving of wrongdoing the millions of victims of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin who had not been formal- ly rehabilitated. SHOE By Chris Cassatt and Gary Brookins BLONDIE® By Dean Young and Stan Drake 1994 - Bosnian Serb leaders rebuff a top U.N. offi- cial's plea to accept an international peace plan that would give them 49 percent of Bosnia. 1998 - Rebels fighting Congolese President Laurent Kabila capture a power transformer in western Congo, sending the capital, Kinshasa, into darkness. 2002 - Iranian President Mohammed Khatami criti- cizes the U.S. campaign against terrorism, saying Wash- ington "misused" worldwide outrage over the Sept. 11 attacks in order to "use the fight against terrorism to impose its power on other countries." 2003 - Libya and families of victims of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland sign an agreement to pay as much as $2.7 billion in repa- rations. The agreement also called for Libya to acknowl- edge responsibility for the bombing. 2006 - On his 80th birthday, Fidel Castro cautions Cubans that he faces a long recovery from surgery. His younger brother, Raul, makes a first public appearance as Cuba's interim president. 2008 — Mexico announces it will build a US$1.27 billion tunnel that will be almost 39 miles (62 kilome- ters) long and 7 yards (meters) in diameter, to help solve the centuries-old drainage problem of the nation's capi- tal. BEETLE BAILEY® By Mort Walker 2009 - Helicopter gunships pummel a key Taliban commander's bases in Pakistan's northwest, killing at least 12 insurgents as government forces ratchet up pres- sure on the militants following their top leader's report- ed death. Today's Birthdays: Andes Angstroem, Swedish physicist (1814-1874); Albert Sorel, French historian (1824-1906); John Logie Baird, British inventor of television (1888-1946); Alfred Hitchcock, British film director (1899-1980); Makarios III, first president of Cyprus (1913-1977); Fidel Castro, Cuban leader (1926--); Kathleen Battle, U.S. soprano (1948--); Paul Greengrass, film director (1955--). Thought For Today: You should avoid making yourself too clear even in your explanations — Baltasar Gracian, Spanish philoso- pher (1601-1658). HAGAR the Horrible® By Chris Browne RUBES® By Leigh Rubin ZITS BY JERRY SCOTT & JIM BORGMAN FRANK & ERNEST® By Bob Thaves ALLEY OOP