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4B Daily News – Tuesday, July 10, 2012 PEANUTS® By Charles Schultz Today in History By The Associated Press DILBERT® By Scott Adams Today is Tuesday, July 10, the 192nd day of 2012. There are 174 days left in the year. Today's Highlights in History: On July 10, 1962, AT&T's Telstar 1 communications satellite, capable of relaying television signals and telephone calls, was launched by NASA from Cape Canaveral. Presi- dent John F. Kennedy signed the All-Channel Receiver Act, which required that new TV sets be capable of receiving UHF (ultra-high frequency) channels 14 through 83 in addi- tion to VHF (very high frequency) channels 2 through 13. On this date: In 1509, theologian John Calvin, a key figure of the Protestant Reformation, was born in Noyon, Picardy, France. the Treaty of Versailles to the Senate, and urged its ratifica- tion. (However, the Senate rejected it.) In 1929, American paper currency was reduced in size as In 1890, Wyoming became the 44th state. In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson personally delivered GARFIELD® By Jim Davis the government began issuing bills that were approximately 25 percent smaller. In 1940, during World War II, the Battle of Britain began as Nazi forces began attacking southern England by air. (The Royal Air Force was ultimately victorious.) In 1951, armistice talks aimed at ending the Korean War began at Kaesong. was paroled from a federal prison in West Virginia after serving 11 years for treason for her propaganda broadcasts from Nazi Germany during World War II. In 1961, Mildred E. Gillars, also known as ''Axis Sally,'' In 1973, the Bahamas became fully independent after three centuries of British colonial rule. In 1985, the Greenpeace protest ship Rainbow Warrior SHOE By Chris Cassatt and Gary Brookins was sunk with explosives in Auckland, New Zealand by French intelligence agents; one activist was killed. Bowing to pressure from irate customers, the Coca-Cola Co. said it would resume selling old-formula Coke, while continuing to sell New Coke. In 1992, a New York jury found Pan Am guilty of will- ful misconduct and responsible for allowing a terrorist bomb to destroy Flight 103 in 1988, killing 270 people, opening the way for civil lawsuits. Ten years ago: The House approved, 310-113, a measure BLONDIE® By Dean Young and Stan Drake to allow airline pilots to carry guns in the cockpit to defend their planes against terrorists (President George W. Bush later signed the measure into law). Five years ago: China executed the former head of its food and drug agency for approving untested medicine in exchange for cash. A judge in Los Angeles sentenced pizza deliveryman Chester Turner to death for murdering 10 women and a fetus during the 1980s and '90s. One year ago: The space shuttle Atlantis docked with the International Space Station, the final such hookup in orbit. An overloaded cruise vessel sank in Russia's Volga River, killing 122 people. Some 70 people were killed when a train derailed in northern India. Britain's best-selling Sunday tabloid the News of the World, brought down by a phone- hacking scandal, signed off with a simple front page mes- sage: ''THANK YOU & GOODBYE.'' Today's Birthdays: Former boxer Jake LaMotta is 91. BEETLE BAILEY® By Mort Walker Writer-producer Earl Hamner Jr. is 89. Former New York City Mayor David N. Dinkins is 85. Actor William Smithers is 85. Broadway composer Jerry Herman is 81. Director Ivan Passer is 79. Actor Lawrence Pressman is 73. Singer Mavis Staples is 73. Actor Mills Watson is 72. Actor Robert Pine is 71. Rock musician Jerry Miller (Moby Grape) is 69. International Tennis Hall of Famer Virginia Wade is 67. Actor Ron Glass is 67. Actress Sue Lyon is 66. Folk singer Arlo Guthrie is 65. Country-folk singer-songwriter Cheryl Wheeler is 61. Rock singer Neil Tennant (Pet Shop Boys) is 58. Banjo player Bela Fleck is 54. Country musician Shaw Wilson (BR549) is 52. Country singer-songwriter Ken Mel- lons is 47. Country singer Gary LeVox (Rascal Flatts) is 42. Singer-actress Jessica Simpson is 32. Thought for Today: ''One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.'' — Germaine de Stael, French author (1766-1817). HAGAR the Horrible® By Chris Browne RUBES® By Leigh Rubin ZITS BY JERRY SCOTT & JIM BORGMAN FRANK & ERNEST® By Bob Thaves ALLEY OOP