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PEANUTS® By Charles Schultz Thursday, March 15, 2012 – Daily News 5B Today in History The Associated Press Today is Thursday, March 15, the 75th day of 2012. There are 291 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On March 15, 1972, "The Godfather," Francis Ford Cop- pola's epic gangster movie based on the Mario Puzo novel and starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino, premiered in New York. On this date: DILBERT® By Scott Adams In 44 B.C., Roman dictator Julius Caesar was assassinat- ed by a group of nobles that included Brutus and Cassius. In 1493, Christopher Columbus returned to Spain, con- cluding his first voyage to the Western Hemisphere. In 1767, the seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson, was born in Waxhaw, S.C. In 1820, Maine became the 23rd state. In 1919, members of the American Expeditionary Force from World War I convened in Paris for a three-day meeting to found the American Legion. In 1944, during World War II, Allied bombers again raid- ed German-held Monte Cassino. In 1956, the Lerner and Loewe musical play "My Fair GARFIELD® By Jim Davis Lady," based on Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion," opened on Broadway. In 1962, a chartered Flying Tiger Line airplane carrying 107 people, most of them U.S. Army personnel, disappeared while en route from Guam to the Philippines. In a speech to Congress, President John F. Kennedy called for legislation protecting consumers' rights. "No Strings," Richard Rodgers' first musical following the death of longtime col- laborator Oscar Hammerstein II, opened on Broadway. In 1964, actress Elizabeth Taylor married actor Richard Burton in Montreal; it was her fifth marriage, his second. In 1970, Expo '70, promoting "Progress and Harmony for Mankind," opened in Osaka, Japan. In 1975, Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis died SHOE By Chris Cassatt and Gary Brookins near Paris at age 69. In 1985, the first Internet domain name, symbolics.com, BLONDIE® By Dean Young and Stan Drake was registered by the Symbolics Computer Corp. of Massa- chusetts. Ten years ago: A Houston jury spared Andrea Yates' life after prosecutors stopped short of demanding the death penalty for the tormented mother who'd drowned her five children in the bathtub. (The 37-year-old Yates was sen- tenced to life in prison; however, she was later acquitted by reason of insanity in a retrial.) Five years ago: In the Senate, Republicans easily turned back Democratic legislation requiring a troop withdrawal from Iraq to begin within 120 days. Actress Angelina Jolie adopted a 3-year-old boy from an orphanage in Vietnam (Pax Thien was her fourth child with Brad Pitt). One year ago: Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's forces BEETLE BAILEY® By Mort Walker overwhelmed rebels in the strategic eastern city of Ajdabiya, hammering them with air strikes, missiles, tanks and artillery. William Melchert-Dinkel, a former nurse accused of seeking out depressed people online and encouraging two to kill themselves, was found guilty by a judge in Faribault, Minn., of aiding the suicides of an English man and Cana- dian woman. Today's Birthdays: Musician DJ Fontana is 81. Former astronaut Alan L. Bean is 80. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is 79. Actor Judd Hirsch is 77. Rock musi- cian Phil Lesh is 72. Singer Mike Love (The Beach Boys) is 71. Rock singer-musician Sly Stone is 69. Rock singer- musician Howard Scott (War; Lowrider Band) is 66. Rock singer Ry Cooder is 65. Actor Craig Wasson is 58. Rock singer Dee Snider (Twisted Sister) is 57. Actress Park Over- all is 55. Movie director Renny Harlin is 53. Model Fabio is 51. Singer Terence Trent D'Arby (AKA Sananda Maitreya) is 50. Rock singer Bret Michaels (Poison) is 49. Rhythm- and-blues singer Rockwell is 48. Rock singer Mark McGrath (Sugar Ray) is 44. Actress Kim Raver is 43. Rock musician Mark Hoppus is 40. Actress Eva Longoria is 37. Rapper-musician will.i.am (Black Eyed Peas) is 37. Thought for Today: "There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown helpless about them." — Clare Boothe Luce, American author, diplomat, member of Congress (1903-1987). HAGAR the Horrible® By Chris Browne RUBES® By Leigh Rubin ZITS BY JERRY SCOTT & JIM BORGMAN FRANK & ERNEST® By Bob Thaves ALLEY OOP