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PEANUTS® By Charles Schultz Thursday, June 7, 2012 – Daily News 3B Today in History By The Associated Press DILBERT® By Scott Adams Today is Thursday, June 7, the 159th day of 2012. There are 207 days left in the year. Today's Highlights in History: On June 7, 1892, Homer Plessy, a "Creole of color," was arrested and fined for refusing to leave a whites-only car of the East Louisiana Railroad; his case went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which at the time upheld "separate but equal" racial segregation, a concept overturned in 1954 by Brown v. Board of Education. On this date: In 1654, King Louis XIV, age 15, was crowned in Rheims, 11 years after the start of his reign. In 1712, Pennsylvania's colonial assembly voted to ban the further importation of slaves. GARFIELD® By Jim Davis explore present-day Kentucky. In 1776, Richard Henry Lee of Virginia proposed to the Continental Congress a resolution stating "That these Unit- ed Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and indepen- dent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown." In 1929, the sovereign state of Vatican City came into In 1769, frontiersman Daniel Boone first began to existence as copies of the Lateran Treaty were exchanged in Rome. 26. decisive victory for American forces over the Imperial Japanese. In 1937, actress Jean Harlow died in Los Angeles at age In 1942, the World War II Battle of Midway ended in a In 1967, the Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic opened in San Francisco. In 1972, the musical "Grease" opened on Broadway, hav- ing already been performed in lower Manhattan. In 1998, in a crime that shocked the nation, James Byrd SHOE By Chris Cassatt and Gary Brookins Jr., a 49-year-old black man, was hooked by a chain to a pickup truck and dragged to his death in Jasper, Texas. (Two white men were later sentenced to death for the crime; a third received life with the possibility of parole.) Ten years ago: A yearlong hostage crisis in the Philip- BLONDIE® By Dean Young and Stan Drake BEETLE BAILEY® By Mort Walker face of the heaviest and most punishing NATO airstrikes to date, declaring in an audio address carried on Libyan state television, "We will not kneel!" Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, the al-Qaida mastermind behind the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, was killed at a security checkpoint in Mogadishu by Somali forces. NBC retained its hold on U.S. Olympic television rights in a four-games deal through 2020 worth nearly $4.4 billion, defeating rival bids from ESPN and Fox. Today's Birthdays: Movie director James Ivory is 84. Actress Virginia McKenna is 81. Singer Tom Jones is 72. Poet Nikki Giovanni is 69. Actor Ken Osmond ("Leave It to Beaver") is 69. Former talk show host Jenny Jones is 66. Actress Anne Twomey is 61. Actor Liam Neeson is 60. Actress Colleen Camp is 59. Singer-songwriter Johnny Clegg is 59. Author Louise Erdrich is 58. Actor William Forsythe is 57. Record producer L.A. Reid is 56. Latin pop singer Juan Luis Guerra is 55. Singer-songwriter Prince is 54. Rock singer-musician Gordon Gano (The Violent Femmes) is 49. Rapper Ecstasy (Whodini) is 48. Rock musician Eric Kretz (Stone Temple Pilots) is 46. Rock musi- cian Dave Navarro is 45. Actress Helen Baxendale is 42. Actor Karl Urban is 40. TV personality Bear Grylls is 38. Rock musician Eric Johnson (The Shins) is 36. Actress Adrienne Frantz is 34. Actor-comedian Bill Hader is 34. Thought for Today: "Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud and one the stars." — Freder- ick Langbridge, English clergyman and author (1849-1922). pines involving a U.S. missionary couple came to a bloody end as Filipino commandos managed to save only one of three captives, American Gracia Burnham. Five years ago: At the G-8 summit in Germany, Russian President Vladimir Putin, bitterly opposed to a U.S. missile shield in Europe, presented President George W. Bush with a surprise counterproposal built around a Soviet-era radar system in Azerbaijan; Bush promised to consider the idea, but ended up essentially rejecting it. One year ago: Moammar Gadhafi stood defiant in the HAGAR the Horrible® By Chris Browne RUBES® By Leigh Rubin ZITS BY JERRY SCOTT & JIM BORGMAN FRANK & ERNEST® By Bob Thaves ALLEY OOP