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PEANUTS® By Charles Schultz Tuesday, May 15, 2012 – Daily News 5B Today in History By The Associated Press DILBERT® By Scott Adams Today is Tuesday, May 15, the 136th day of 2012. There are 230 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On May 15, 1972, Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace was shot and left paralyzed by Arthur H. Bremer while cam- paigning in Laurel, Md., for the Democratic presidential nomination. (Wallace died in 1998; Bremer was released from prison in November 2007 after serving 35 years of a 53- year sentence for attempted murder.) On this date: In 1602, English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold and his ship, the Concord, arrived at present-day Cape Cod, which he's credited with naming. In 1776, Virginia endorsed American independence from Britain. In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed an act estab- lishing the Department of Agriculture. Austrian author and playwright Arthur Schnitzler was born in Vienna. In 1911, the Supreme Court ruled that Standard Oil Co. GARFIELD® By Jim Davis was a monopoly in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act, and ordered its breakup. In 1930, registered nurse Ellen Church, the first airline stewardess, went on duty aboard an Oakland-to-Chicago flight operated by Boeing Air Transport (a forerunner of United Airlines). In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a mea- sure creating the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, whose members came to be known as WACs. Wartime gasoline rationing went into effect in 17 Eastern states, limiting sales to three gallons a week for non-essential vehicles. In 1963, astronaut L. Gordon Cooper blasted off aboard Faith 7 on the final mission of the Project Mercury space pro- gram. SHOE By Chris Cassatt and Gary Brookins In 1970, just after midnight, Phillip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green, two black students at Jackson State Col- lege in Mississippi, were killed as police opened fire during student protests. nawa to Japanese administration. In 1975, U.S. forces invaded the Cambodian island of In 1972, the United States returned the prefecture of Oki- Koh Tang and recaptured the American merchant ship Mayaguez. (All 40 crew members had already been released safely by Cambodia; some 40 U.S. servicemen were killed in the operation.) BLONDIE® By Dean Young and Stan Drake In 1991, Edith Cresson was appointed by French Presi- dent Francois Mitterrand to be France's first female prime minister. Ten years ago: The White House acknowledged that in the weeks before the Sept. 11 attacks, President George W. Bush was told by U.S. intelligence that Osama bin Laden's terrorist network might hijack American airplanes, but that officials did not know suicide hijackers were plotting to use planes as missiles. Five years ago: The Rev. Jerry Falwell, who'd built the Christian right into a political force, died in Lynchburg, Va., at age 73. BEETLE BAILEY® By Mort Walker Israel's borders with Syria, Lebanon and Gaza in an unprece- dented wave of demonstrations, sparking clashes that left at least 15 dead. Today's Birthdays: Playwright Sir Peter Shaffer is 86. Actress-singer Anna Maria Alberghetti is 76. Counterculture icon Wavy Gravy is 76. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is 75. Singer Trini Lopez is 75. Singer Lenny Welch is 74. Actress-singer Lainie Kazan is 72. Actress Gunilla Hutton is 70. Country singer K.T. Oslin is 70. Singer-song- writer Brian Eno is 64. Actor Nicholas Hammond (''The Sound of Music'') is 62. Actor Chazz Palminteri is 60. Base- ball Hall-of-Famer George Brett is 59. Musician-composer Mike Oldfield (''Tubular Bells'') is 59. Actor Lee Horsley is 57. TV personality Giselle Fernandez is 51. Football Hall-of- Famer Emmitt Smith is 43. Rock musician Ahmet Zappa is 38. Actress Jamie-Lynn Sigler is 31. Thought for Today: ''Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.'' — Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931). One year ago: Thousands of Arab protesters marched on HAGAR the Horrible® By Chris Browne RUBES® By Leigh Rubin ZITS BY JERRY SCOTT & JIM BORGMAN FRANK & ERNEST® By Bob Thaves ALLEY OOP