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PEANUTS® By Charles Schultz Thursday, March 1, 2012 – Daily News 3B Today in History By The Associated Press Today is Thursday, March 1, the 61st day of 2012. There are 305 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On March 1, 1932, Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., the 20- month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh, was kid- napped from the family home near Hopewell, N.J. (Remains identified as those of the child were found the following May.) DILBERT® By Scott Adams On this date: In 1565, the city of Rio de Janeiro was founded by Por- tuguese knight Estacio de Sa. In 1790, President George Washington signed a measure authorizing the first U.S. Census. In 1809, the Illinois Territory came into existence. In 1867, Nebraska became the 37th state. In 1872, President Ulysses S. Grant signed an act creat- ing Yellowstone National Park. In 1912, Isabella Goodwin of New York City was appointed the first female police detective. In 1940, ''Native Son'' by Richard Wright was first pub- lished by Harper & Brothers. GARFIELD® By Jim Davis In 1954, Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire from the gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives, wounding five congressmen. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed an executive order establishing the Peace Corps. In 1962, an American Airlines Boeing 707 on a sched- uled flight to Los Angeles crashed after taking off from New York's Idlewild Airport, killing all 95 people on board. The first Kmart store opened in Garden City, Mich. In 1971, a bomb went off inside a men's room at the U.S. Capitol; the radical group Weather Underground claimed responsibility for the pre-dawn blast. In 1981, Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands SHOE By Chris Cassatt and Gary Brookins began a hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ire- land; he died 65 days later. Ten years ago: Space shuttle Columbia blasted into orbit on a mission to renovate the Hubble Space Telescope. NASA said its Mars Odyssey spacecraft had found evidence that vast regions of Mars may abound in water. Under pres- sure from prosecutors, the Archdiocese of Boston agreed to turn over the names of people allegedly molested by priests. Five years ago: Tornadoes killed 20 people in the Mid- west and Southeast, including eight students at Enterprise High School in Alabama. Maj. Gen. George W. Weightman, who had been in charge of Walter Reed Army Medical Cen- ter, was relieved of command after disclosures about dilapi- dated buildings and inadequate treatment of wounded sol- diers. BLONDIE® By Dean Young and Stan Drake BEETLE BAILEY® By Mort Walker One year ago: Yemen's embattled president, Ali Abdul- lah Saleh, accused the U.S., his closest ally, of instigating the mounting protests against him, but the gambit failed to slow the momentum of his ouster (he later apologized to Wash- ington). The GOP-controlled House handily passed legisla- tion to cut the federal budget by $4 billion and avert a partial shutdown of the government for two weeks. (The Senate passed the stopgap funding bill the next day.) Today's Birthdays: Actor Robert Clary is 86. Singer Harry Belafonte is 85. Former U.S. Solicitor General Robert H. Bork is 85. Actor Robert Conrad is 77. Rock singer Mike D'Abo (Manfred Mann) is 68. Former Sen. John Breaux, D- La., is 68. Rock singer Roger Daltrey is 68. Actor Dirk Benedict is 67. Actor Alan Thicke is 65. Actor-director Ron Howard is 58. Actress Catherine Bach is 58. Country singer Janis Gill (aka Janis Oliver Cummins) (Sweethearts of the Rodeo) is 58. Actor Tim Daly is 56. Singer-musician Jon Carroll is 55. Rock musician Bill Leen is 50. Actor Maurice Bernard is 49. Actor Russell Wong is 49. Actor John David Cullum is 46. Actor George Eads is 45. Actor Javier Bardem is 43. Actor Jack Davenport is 39. Rock musician Ryan Peake (Nickelback) is 39. Actor Mark-Paul Gosselaar is 38. Actor Jensen Ackles is 34. Pop singer Justin Bieber is 18. Thought for Today: ''The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change — and we all instinc- tively avoid it.'' — E.B. White, American writer (1899- 1985). HAGAR the Horrible® By Chris Browne RUBES® By Leigh Rubin ZITS BY JERRY SCOTT & JIM BORGMAN FRANK & ERNEST® By Bob Thaves ALLEY OOP