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FRANK & ERNEST® By Bob Thaves SHOE By Chris Cassatt and Gary Brookins PEANUTS® By Charles Schultz HAGAR the Horrible® By Chris Browne GARFIELD® By Jim Davis DILBERT® By Scott Adams RUBES® By Leigh Rubin By Mort Walker BEETLE BAILEY® ZITS BY JERRY SCOTT & JIM BORGMAN BLONDIE® By Dean Young and Stan Drake 6B – Daily News – Wednesday, January 13, 2010 By The Associated Press Today is Wednesday, Jan. 13, the 13th day of 2010. There are 352 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 13, 1794, President George Washington approved a measure adding two stars and two stripes to the American flag, following the admission of Ver- mont and Kentucky to the union. (The number of stripes was later reduced to the original 13.) 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 1864, composer Stephen Foster died in New York at age 37. In 1898, Emile Zola's famous defense of Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, ''J'accuse,'' was published in Paris. In 1910, opera was experimentally broadcast on radio for the first time as Lee De Forest transmitted a per- formance of ''Cavalleria Rusticana'' and ''Pagliacci'' from the stage of New York's Metropolitan Opera. In 1945, during World War II, Soviet forces began a huge, successful offensive against the Germans in East- ern 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 mem- ber. In 1978, former Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey died in Waverly, Minn., at age 66. In 1982, an Air Florida 737 crashed into Washing- ton, D.C.'s 14th Street Bridge after takeoff during a snow- storm and fell into the Potomac River, killing 78 peo- ple. In 1990, L. Douglas Wilder of Virginia became the nation's first elected black governor as he took the oath of office in Richmond. Ten years ago: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates stepped aside as chief executive and promoted company pres- ident Steve Ballmer to the position. Five years ago: Major League Baseball adopted a tougher steroid-testing program that suspended first-time offenders for 10 days and randomly tested players year- round. One year ago: President-elect Barack Obama's nom- inee for secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton, vowed during her Senate confirmation hearing to revitalize the mission of diplomacy in U.S. foreign policy. Obama's choice to run the Treasury Department, Timothy Gei- thner, disclosed that he had failed to pay $34,000 in taxes from 2001 to 2004. U.S. Marshals apprehended Mar- cus Schrenker, 38, in North Florida days after the busi- nessman and amateur daredevil pilot apparently tried to fake his own death in a plane crash. (Schrenker faces a March trial on charges of bilking investors of more than $1 million.) Actor-director Patrick McGoohan died in Los Angeles at 80. Author Hortense Calisher died in New York at 97. Today's Birthdays: Country singer Liz Anderson is 80. Actress Frances Sternhagen is 80. TV personal- ity Nick Clooney is 76. Comedian Rip Taylor is 76. Actor Billy Gray is 72. Actor Richard Moll is 67. Rock musi- cian Trevor Rabin is 56. R&B musician Fred White is 55. Rock musician James Lomenzo (Megadeth) is 51. Actor Kevin Anderson is 50. Actress Julia Louis-Drey- fus is 49. Rock singer Graham ''Suggs'' McPherson (Mad- ness) is 49. Country singer Trace Adkins is 48. Actress Penelope Ann Miller is 46. Actor Patrick Dempsey is 44. Actress Traci Bingham is 42. Actor Keith Coogan is 40. Actress Nicole Eggert is 38. Actor Orlando Bloom is 33. Thought for Today: ''The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.'' — Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, English author (1717-1797). Today in History ALLEY OOP