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4B Daily News – Friday, January 13, 2012 PEANUTS® By Charles Schultz Today in History By The Associated Press Today is Friday, Jan. 13, the 13th day of 2012. There are 353 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: DILBERT® By Scott Adams On Jan. 13, 1982, an Air Florida 737 crashed into Wash- ington, D.C.'s 14th Street Bridge and fell into the Potomac River after taking off during a snowstorm, killing a total of 78 people; four passengers and a flight attendant survived. (Half an hour after the Air Florida crash, a Washington Metro train derailed during rush hour, killing three passen- gers.) On this date: In 1733, James Oglethorpe and some 120 English colonists arrived at Charleston, S.C., while en route to settle in present-day Georgia. In 1794, President George Washington approved a mea- sure adding two stars and two stripes to the American flag, following the admission of Vermont and Kentucky to the Union. (The number of stripes was later reduced to the orig- inal 13.) In 1864, composer Stephen Foster died impoverished in GARFIELD® By Jim Davis a New York hospital at age 37. (In his pocket: a note which read, ''Dear friends and gentle hearts.'') In 1898, Emile Zola's famous defense of Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, ''J'accuse,'' was published in Paris. In 1945, during World War II, Soviet forces began a huge, successful offensive against the Germans in Eastern Europe. In 1962, comedian Ernie Kovacs died in a car crash in west Los Angeles 10 days before his 43rd birthday. In 1966, Robert C. Weaver was named Secretary of Housing and Urban Development by President Lyndon B. Johnson; Weaver became the first black Cabinet member. In 1978, former Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey SHOE By Chris Cassatt and Gary Brookins died in Waverly, Minn., at age 66. In 1987, West German police arrested Mohammed Ali Hamadi, a suspect in the 1985 hijacking of a TWA jetliner. (Although convicted and sentenced to life, Hamadi was paroled by Germany in Dec. 2005; he is on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists list.) In 1990, L. Douglas Wilder of Virginia became the nation's first elected black governor as he took the oath of office in Richmond. In 1992, Japan apologized for forcing tens of thousands of Korean women to serve as sex slaves for its soldiers dur- ing World War II, citing newly uncovered documents that showed the Japanese army had had a role in abducting the so-called ''comfort women.'' In 2001, an earthquake estimated by the U.S. Geological BLONDIE® By Dean Young and Stan Drake Survey at magnitude 7.7 struck El Salvador; more than 840 people were killed. Ten years ago: Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and Commerce Secretary Don Evans said on the Sunday talk shows they had never considered intervening in Enron's spi- ral toward bankruptcy, nor did they inform President George W. Bush of requests for help from the fallen energy giant. Five years ago: Nine people were killed in an apartment building fire in Huntington, W.Va. Two miners were killed when a roof collapsed inside the Brooks Run Mining Co.'s Cucumber coal mine in McDowell County, W.Va. One year ago: Vice President Joe Biden became the BEETLE BAILEY® By Mort Walker first top U.S. official to visit Iraq since the country approved a new Cabinet; Biden emphasized to Iraqi leaders that the U.S. wanted nothing more than for Iraq to be free and democratic. Today's Birthdays: Actress Frances Sternhagen is 82. TV personality Nick Clooney is 78. Comedian Rip Taylor is 78. Actor Billy Gray is 74. Actor Richard Moll is 69. Rock musician Trevor Rabin is 58. Rhythm-and- blues musician Fred White is 57. Rock musician James Lomenzo (Megadeth) is 53. Actor Kevin Anderson is 52. Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus is 51. Rock singer Gra- ham ''Suggs'' McPherson (Madness) is 51. Country singer Trace Adkins is 50. Actress Penelope Ann Miller is 48. Actor Patrick Dempsey is 46. Thought for Today: ''Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others.'' — H. Jackson Brown Jr., American writer. HAGAR the Horrible® By Chris Browne RUBES® By Leigh Rubin ZITS BY JERRY SCOTT & JIM BORGMAN FRANK & ERNEST® By Bob Thaves ALLEY OOP