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PEANUTS® By Charles Schultz Saturday, August 20, 2011 – Daily News 5B Today in History By The Associated Press DILBERT® By Scott Adams Today is Saturday, Aug. 20, the 232nd day of 2011. There are 133 days left in the year. Today's Highlights in History: On Aug. 20, 1911, The New York Times sent a message around the world by regular commercial cable to see how long it would take; the dispatch, which said simply, ''Times, New York: This message sent around world. Times,'' was filed at 7 p.m. and returned to its point of origin 16 1/2 min- utes later. On this date: In 1833, Benjamin Harrison, 23rd president of the United States, was born in North Bend, Ohio. In 1866, President Andrew Johnson formally declared the Civil War over, months after fighting had stopped. In 1882, Tchaikovsky's ''1812 Overture'' had its premiere in Moscow. In 1910, a series of forest fires swept through parts of Idaho, Montana and Washington, killing at least 85 people and burning some 3 million acres. GARFIELD® By Jim Davis In 1920, pioneering American radio station 8MK in Detroit (later WWJ) began daily broadcasting. In 1940, during World War II, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill paid tribute to the Royal Air Force before the House of Commons, saying, ''Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.'' In 1955, hundreds of people were killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco and Algeria. In 1968, the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations SHOE By Chris Cassatt and Gary Brookins began invading Czechoslovakia to crush the ''Prague Spring'' liberalization drive. In 1977, the U.S. launched Voyager 2, an unmanned spacecraft carrying a 12-inch copper phonograph record con- taining greetings in dozens of languages, samples of music and sounds of nature. In 1981, Michael Devine, a member of the Irish National Liberation Army, died after a 60-day hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland; he was the tenth and last hunger-striker to die that year. Ten years ago: Nikolay Soltys (NIK'-oh-ly SOHL'-tihs), a 27-year-old Ukrainian immigrant in Sacramento, Calif., fled after killing his wife and five other relatives. (Soltys was later captured, but ended up committing suicide in his jail cell.) Sir Fred Hoyle, the astronomer who coined the term ''Big Bang'' but never accepted that theory for the origin of the universe, died in Bournemouth, England, at age 86. Actress Kim Stanley died in Santa Fe, N.M., at age 76. Five years ago: John Mark Karr, the suspect in the death BLONDIE® By Dean Young and Stan Drake of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey, sipped champagne and dined on fried king prawns in business class of Thai Airways as he was flown to the U.S. (Although he'd implicated him- self in JonBenet's slaying, Karr was later cleared.) Former Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal, who'd taken the iconic Iwo Jima flag-raising picture during World War II, died in Novato, Calif., at age 94. One year ago: President Barack Obama invited Israel and BEETLE BAILEY® By Mort Walker the Palestinians to meet face-to-face in Washington for talks aimed at achieving a historic agreement to establish an inde- pendent Palestinian state and secure peace for Israel. Today's Birthdays: Writer-producer-director Walter Bernstein is 92. U.S. special envoy George Mitchell is 78. U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, is 76. Former MLB All-Star Graig Nettles is 67. Broadcast journalist Connie Chung is 65. Musician Jimmy Pankow (Chicago) is 64. Actor John Noble is 63. Rock singer Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin) is 63. Coun- try singer Rudy Gatlin is 59. Singer-songwriter John Hiatt is 59. Actor-director Peter Horton is 58. TV weatherman Al Roker is 57. Actor Jay Acovone is 56. Actress Joan Allen is 55. TV personality Asha Blake is 50. Actor James Marsters is 49. Rapper KRS-One is 46. Actor Colin Cunningham is 45. Rock singer Fred Durst (Limp Bizkit) is 41. Rock musi- cian Brad Avery is 40. Actor Jonathan Ke Quan is 40. Rock singer Monique Powell (Save Ferris) is 36. Actor Ben Barnes is 30. Actor Andrew Garfield is 28. Thought for Today: ''Justice is conscience, not a per- sonal conscience but the conscience of the whole of human- ity.'' — Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian author (1918- 2008). HAGAR the Horrible® By Chris Browne RUBES® By Leigh Rubin ZITS BY JERRY SCOTT & JIM BORGMAN FRANK & ERNEST® By Bob Thaves ALLEY OOP