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4B Daily News – Saturday, May 5, 2012 PEANUTS® By Charles Schultz Today in History By The Associated Press Today is Saturday, May 5, the 126th day of 2012. There are 240 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: DILBERT® By Scott Adams On May 5, 1862, the Battle of Puebla took place in Mex- ico as forces loyal to Benito Juarez defeated troops that had been sent by Napoleon III during the so-called French Inter- vention. (The Cinco de Mayo holiday commemorates Mex- ico's victory.) On this date: Hall'') had its official opening night. In 1922, construction began on the original Yankee Sta- dium in New York. Tennessee with violating a state law that prohibited teaching the theory of evolution. (Scopes was found guilty, but his conviction was later set aside.) In 1925, schoolteacher John T. Scopes was charged in ian invaders. GARFIELD® By Jim Davis In 1936, the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, fell to Ital- In 1941, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie returned to Addis Ababa after the Italians were driven out with the help of Allied forces. In 1942, wartime sugar rationing began in the United States. In 1955, West Germany became a fully sovereign state. The baseball musical ''Damn Yankees'' opened on Broad- way. In 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte, 51, died in exile on the island of St. Helena. In 1891, New York's Carnegie Hall (then named ''Music first space traveler as he made a 15-minute suborbital flight aboard Freedom 7, a Mercury capsule launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla. In 1961, astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. became America's SHOE By Chris Cassatt and Gary Brookins Palermo, Sicily, with the loss of all 115 people on board. In 1987, the congressional Iran-Contra hearings opened with former Air Force Maj. Gen. Richard V. Secord the lead-off witness. The federal government began a yearlong amnesty program, offering citizenship to illegal aliens who met certain conditions. Ten years ago: French President Jacques Chirac was re- elected in a landslide victory over extreme-right leader Jean- Marie Le Pen. Movie director George Sidney, who had directed dozens of musicals when the genre was at its peak, died in Las Vegas at age 85. Five years ago: A Kenya Airways jet crashed in southern Cameroon, killing all 114 people on board. Street Sense roared from next-to-last in a 20-horse field to win the Ken- tucky Derby. In 1972, an Alitalia DC-8 crashed into Mount Longa near BLONDIE® By Dean Young and Stan Drake BEETLE BAILEY® By Mort Walker One year ago: Solemnly honoring victims of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, President Barack Obama hugged survivors at ground zero in New York and declared that the killing of Osama bin Laden was an American message to the world: ''When we say we will never forget, we mean what we say.'' Pakistan broke its silence over the U.S. commando raid that killed bin Laden, acknowledging its ''shortcomings'' in finding him but threatening to review cooperation with Washington if there were another similar violation of Pak- istani sovereignty. Today's Birthdays: Actress Pat Carroll is 85. Former AFL-CIO president John J. Sweeney is 78. Saxophonist Ace Cannon is 78. Country singer-musician Roni Stoneman is 74. Actor Michael Murphy is 74. Actor Lance Henriksen is 72. Comedian-actor Michael Palin is 69. Actor John Rhys- Davies is 68. Actor Roger Rees is 68. Rock correspondent Kurt Loder is 67. Rock musician Bill Ward (Black Sabbath) is 64. Actor Richard E. Grant is 55. CBS News corespon- dent John Miller is 54. Rock singer Ian McCulloch (Echo and the Bunnymen) is 53. NBC News anchor Brian Williams is 53. Rock musician Shawn Drover (Megadeth) is 46. TV personality Kyan Douglas is 42. Actress Tina Yothers is 39. Rhythm and blues singer Raheem DeVaughn is 37. Actor Vincent Kartheiser is 33. Singer Adele is 24. Thought for Today: ''Great minds discuss ideas, aver- age minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.'' — Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, ''father'' of America's nuclear navy (1900-1986). HAGAR the Horrible® By Chris Browne RUBES® By Leigh Rubin ZITS BY JERRY SCOTT & JIM BORGMAN FRANK & ERNEST® By Bob Thaves ALLEY OOP