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2B Daily News – Tuesday, June 19, 2012 PEANUTS® MONDAY COMICS By Charles Schultz Today in History By The Associated Press Today is Monday, June 18, the 170th day of 2012. There are 196 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On June 18, 1812, the War of 1812 began as the United States Congress approved, and President James Madison signed, a declaration of war against Britain. On this date: DILBERT® By Scott Adams In 1778, American forces entered Philadelphia as the British withdrew during the Revolutionary War. In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte met his Waterloo as British and Prussian troops defeated the French in Belgium. In 1873, suffragist Susan B. Anthony was found guilty by a judge in Canandaigua, N.Y., of breaking the law by cast- ing a vote in the 1872 presidential election. (The judge fined Anthony $100, but she never paid the penalty.) In 1908, William Howard Taft was nominated for presi- dent by the Republican National Convention in Chicago. In 1912, the Republican National Convention, which would nominate President William Howard Taft for another term of office, opened in Chicago. In 1940, during World War II, British Prime Minister GARFIELD® By Jim Davis Winston Churchill urged his countrymen to conduct them- selves in a manner that would prompt future generations to say, ''This was their finest hour.'' Charles de Gaulle deliv- ered a speech on the BBC in which he rallied his country- men after the fall of France to Nazi Germany. In 1945, William Joyce, known as ''Lord Haw-Haw,'' was charged in London with high treason for his English- language wartime broadcasts on German radio. (He was hanged in January 1946.) In 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower expressed sup- port for his chief of staff, Sherman Adams, who was accused of improperly accepting gifts from a businessman. (Adams resigned in September 1958.) SHOE By Chris Cassatt and Gary Brookins In 1979, President Jimmy Carter and Soviet President Leonid I. Brezhnev signed the SALT II strategic arms limi- tation treaty in Vienna. BLONDIE® By Dean Young and Stan Drake woman in space as she and four colleagues blasted off aboard the space shuttle Challenger. In 1992, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Georgia v. McCol- lum, ruled that criminal defendants could not use race as a basis for excluding potential jurors from their trials. Ten years ago: A Palestinian detonated a nail-studded bomb in a Jerusalem bus, killing 19 passengers and himself. President George W. Bush sent to Congress his detailed pro- posal for creation of a new Homeland Security Department. Five years ago: Nine firefighters died in a fire at a furni- ture store and warehouse in Charleston, S.C. Yahoo Inc. Chairman Terry Semel ended his 6-year tenure as chief executive officer, handing over the reins to co-founder Jerry Yang. In 1983, astronaut Sally K. Ride became America's first One year ago: President Hamid Karzai acknowledged that the U.S. and Afghan governments had held talks with Taliban emissaries in a bid to end the nation's nearly 10-year war. British singer Amy Winehouse was heavily booed for being late and displaying erratic behavior on stage during a concert in Belgrade, Serbia. Yelena Bonner, 88, a Russian rights activist and widow of Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov, died in Boston. Today's Birthdays: Rock singer-composer-musician Sir BEETLE BAILEY® By Mort Walker Paul McCartney is 70. Movie critic Roger Ebert is 70. Actress Constance McCashin is 65. Actress Linda Thorson is 65. Rock musician John Evans (The Box Tops) is 64. Actress Isabella Rossellini is 60. Actress Carol Kane is 60. Actor Brian Benben is 56. Actress Andrea Evans is 55. Rock singer Alison Moyet is 51. Rock musician Dizzy Reed (Guns N' Roses) is 49. Country singer-musician Tim Hunt is 45. Rock singer-musician Sice (The Boo Radleys) is 43. Rhythm-and-blues singer Nathan Morris (Boyz II Men) is 41. Actress Mara Hobel is 41. Rapper Silkk the Shocker is 37. Country singer Blake Shelton is 36. Thought for Today: ''Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.'' — Bernard M. Baruch, American businessman and statesman (1870-1965). HAGAR the Horrible® By Chris Browne RUBES® By Leigh Rubin ZITS BY JERRY SCOTT & JIM BORGMAN FRANK & ERNEST® By Bob Thaves ALLEY OOP