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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 By The Associated Press Today is Thursday, Jan. 14, the 14th day of 2010. There are 351 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 14, 1784, the United States ratified a peace treaty with England, ending the Revolutionary War. On this date: In 1639, the first constitution of Connecticut — the Fun- damental Orders — was adopted. In 1858, Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, and his wife, Empress Eugenie, escaped an assassination attempt led by Italian revolutionary Felice Orsini, who was later cap- tured and executed. In 1898, author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson — better known as ''Alice in Wonderland'' creator Lewis Carroll — died in Guildford, Surrey, England, less than two weeks before his 66th birthday. In 1900, Puccini's opera ''Tosca'' had its world premiere in Rome. In 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and French Gen. Charles de Gaulle opened a wartime conference in Casablanca. In 1952, NBC's ''Today'' show premiered, with Dave Gar- roway as the host, or ''communicator,'' as he was official- ly known. In 1953, Josip Broz Tito was elected president of Yugoslavia by the country's Parliament. In 1963, George C. Wallace was sworn in as governor of Alabama with a pledge of ''segregation forever.'' In 1969, 27 people aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enter- prise, off Hawaii, were killed when a rocket warhead explod- ed, setting off a fire and additional explosions. In 1970, Diana Ross and the Supremes performed their last concert together, at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas. Ten years ago: In a massive demonstration demanding the return of Elian Gonzalez, tens of thousands of Cuban women marched to the U.S. mission in Havana. A U.N. tri- bunal sentenced five Bosnian Croat militiamen to up to 25 years in prison for a 1993 murder rampage that emptied a Bosnian village of every one of its Muslim inhabitants. Five years ago: Army Spc. Charles Graner Jr., the reput- ed ringleader of a band of rogue guards at the Abu Ghraib prison, was convicted at Fort Hood, Texas, of abusing Iraqi detainees. (He was later sentenced to 10 years in prison.) A European space probe sent back the first detailed pictures of the frozen surface of Saturn's moon, Titan. Mystery writer Charlotte MacLeod died in Lewiston, Maine, at 82. One year ago: Freshly returned from a tour of war zones and global hotspots, Vice President-elect Joe Biden told Pres- ident-elect Barack Obama that ''things are going to get tougher'' in Afghanistan. A French court acquitted six doctors and pharmacists in the deaths of at least 114 people who'd con- tracted brain-destroying Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease after being treated with tainted human growth hormones. Actor Ricar- do Montalban died in Los Angeles at 88. Today's Birthdays: CBS commentator Andy Rooney is 91. Blues singer Clarence Carter is 74. Country singer Bil- lie Jo Spears is 73. Singer Jack Jones is 72. Singer-song- writer Allen Toussaint is 72. NAACP Chairman Julian Bond is 70. Actress Faye Dunaway is 69. Actress Holland Tay- lor is 67. Actor Carl Weathers is 62. Singer-producer T-Bone Burnett is 62. Movie writer-director Lawrence Kasdan is 61. Newspaper columnist Maureen Dowd is 58. Rock singer Geoff Tate (Queensryche) is 51. Movie writer-director Steven Soder- bergh is 47. Actor Mark Addy is 46. Fox News Channel anchor- man Shepard Smith is 46. Rapper Slick Rick is 45. Actor Dan Schneider is 44. Actress Emily Watson is 43. Actor- comedian Tom Rhodes is 43. Rock musician Zakk Wylde (Ozzy Osbourne Band) is 43. Rapper-actor LL Cool J is 42. Actor Jason Bateman is 41. Rock singer-musician Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters) is 41. Actress Jordan Ladd is 35. Retro-soul singer-songwriter Marc Broussard is 28. Rock singer-musi- cian Caleb Followill (Kings of Leon) is 28. Rock musician Joe Guese (The Click Five) is 27. Thought for Today: ''If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much.'' — Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Car- roll), English author (1832-1898). Today in History ALLEY OOP Thursday, January 14, 2010 – Daily News – 3B