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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 4B – Daily News – Wednesday, February 10, 2010 By The Associated Press Today is Wednesday, Feb. 10, the 41st day of 2010. There are 324 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 10, 1967, the 25th Amendment to the Constitu- tion, dealing with presidential disability and succession, was ratified as Minnesota and Nevada adopted it. On this date: In 1763, Britain, Spain and France signed the Treaty of Paris, ending the Seven Years' War. In 1840, Britain's Queen Victoria married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. In 1841, Upper Canada and Lower Canada were proclaimed united under an Act of Union passed by the British Parlia- ment. In 1942, the former French liner Normandie capsized in New York Harbor a day after it caught fire while being refit- ted for the U.S. Navy. In 1949, Arthur Miller's play ''Death of a Salesman'' opened at Broadway's Morosco Theater with Lee J. Cobb as Willy Loman. In 1959, a major tornado tore through the St. Louis, Mo., area, killing 21 people and causing heavy damage. In 1962, the Soviet Union exchanged captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for Rudolf Abel, a Soviet spy held by the United States. In 1968, U.S. figure skater Peggy Fleming won Ameri- ca's only gold medal of the Winter Olympic Games in Greno- ble, France. In 1981, eight people were killed when a fire set by a bus- boy broke out at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino. In 1989, Ron Brown was elected chairman of the Demo- cratic National Committee, becoming the first black to head a major U.S. political party. Ten years ago: The hijackers of an Afghan plane surren- dered, ending a four-day standoff at Stansted airport outside London. The Federal Aviation Administration ordered inspections of MD-80, MD-90, DC-9 and 717 series jetlin- ers after two Alaska Airlines planes were found to have equip- ment damage similar to that on Alaska Airlines Flight 261, which crashed off the California coast Jan. 31, killing all 88 people on board. Five years ago: Playwright Arthur Miller died in Roxbury, Conn. at age 89 on the 56th anniversary of the Broadway open- ing of his ''Death of a Salesman.'' Britain's Prince Charles announced he would marry his divorced lover, Camilla Park- er Bowles, in April. North Korea boasted publicly for the first time that it possessed nuclear weapons. New York civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart was convicted of smuggling messages of violence from one of her jailed clients, radical Egyptian sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, to his terrorist disciples on the outside. (Stewart began serving a two-year, four-month sen- tence in Nov. 2009.) One year ago: The Senate approved President Barack Obama's giant economic stimulus measure. U.S. and Russian com- munication satellites collided in the first-ever crash of its kind in orbit, shooting out a pair of massive debris clouds. Today's Birthdays: Opera singer Leontyne Price is 83. Actor Robert Wagner is 80. Rock musician Don Wilson (The Ventures) is 77. Singer Roberta Flack is 73. Singer Jimmy Merchant (Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers) is 70. Rock musi- cian Bob Spalding (The Ventures) is 63. Olympic gold-medal swimmer Mark Spitz is 60. Walt Disney Co. president and chief executive Robert Iger is 59. World Golf Hall of Famer Greg Norman is 55. Country singer Lionel Cartwright is 50. Movie director Alexander Payne (''Sideways'') is 49. ABC News correspondent George Stephanopoulos is 49. Political commentator Glenn Beck is 46. Actress Laura Dern is 43. Country singer Dude Mowrey is 38. Actress Elizabeth Banks is 36. Pop singer Rosanna Taverez (Eden's Crush) is 33. Coun- try musician Jeremy Baxter (Carolina Rain) is 30. Rock singer Eric Dill is 28. Rock musician Ben Romans (The Click Five) is 28. Actress Emma Roberts is 19. Actress Makenzie Vega is 16. Actress Chloe Moretz is 13. Thought for Today: ''Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.'' — Arthur Miller, American playwright (1915-2005). Today in History ALLEY OOP