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PEANUTS® By Charles Schultz Saturday, July 14, 2012 – Daily News 5B Today in History By The Associated Press Today is Saturday, July 14, the 196th day of 2012. There are 170 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: Woody Guthrie (''This Land Is Your Land'') was born in Okemah, Okla. On this date: On July 14, 1912, American folk singer-songwriter DILBERT® By Scott Adams In 1789, during the French Revolution, citizens of Paris stormed the Bastille prison and released the seven prisoners inside. officials a letter from President Millard Fillmore requesting trade relations. (Fillmore's term of office had already expired by the time the letter was delivered.) In 1881, outlaw William H. Bonney Jr., alias ''Billy the In 1853, Commodore Matthew Perry relayed to Japanese GARFIELD® By Jim Davis In 1902, the original, centuries-old Campanile di San Marco in Venice, Italy, collapsed. (The bell tower was rebuilt within a decade.) In 1911, Harry N. Atwood became the first pilot to land an airplane (a Wright Model B biplane) on the grounds of the White House after flying in from Boston; he was greet- ed by President William Howard Taft. In 1913, Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr., the 38th president of the United States, was born Leslie Lynch King Jr. in Omaha, Neb. Kid,'' was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sum- ner, N.M. SHOE By Chris Cassatt and Gary Brookins In 1960, British researcher Jane Goodall arrived at the Gombe Stream Reserve in the Tanganyika Territory (in pre- sent-day Tanzania) to begin her famous study of chim- panzees in the wild. In 1921, Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bar- tolomeo Vanzetti were convicted in Dedham, Mass., of mur- dering a shoe company paymaster and his guard. (Sacco and Vanzetti were executed six years later.) In 1933, all German political parties, except the Nazi Party, were outlawed. In 1966, eight student nurses were murdered by Richard Speck in a Chicago dormitory. Fonda for making antiwar radio broadcasts in Hanoi, calling them ''distressing.'' In 1972, the State Department criticized actress Jane In 1976, Jimmy Carter won the Democratic presidential nomination at the party's convention in New York. Ten years ago: A gunman tried but failed to assassinate French President Jacques Chirac during a Bastille Day parade. Five years ago: North Korea told the United States it had BLONDIE® By Dean Young and Stan Drake shut down its nuclear reactor, hours after a ship cruised into port loaded with oil promised in return for the country's pledge to disarm. Former presidents, fellow first ladies and about 1,800 other people attended a private funeral in Austin, Texas, for Lady Bird Johnson, the widow of Presi- dent Lyndon B. Johnson. BEETLE BAILEY® By Mort Walker One year ago: A federal judge in Washington, D.C. declared a mistrial in baseball star Roger Clemens' perjury trial over inadmissible evidence shown to jurors. (Clemens was acquitted in a retrial.) Today's Birthdays: Actor Dale Robertson is 89. Actor Harry Dean Stanton is 86. Actress Nancy Olson is 84. Actress Polly Bergen is 82. Former football player and actor Rosey Grier is 80. Actor Vincent Pastore is 66. Rock musi- cian Chris Cross (Ultravox) is 60. Singer-guitarist Kyle Gass is 52. Country musician Ray Herndon (McBride and the Ride) is 52. Actress Jane Lynch (TV: ''Glee'') is 52. Actor Matthew Fox is 46. Rock musician Ellen Reid (Crash Test Dummies) is 46. Rock singer-musician Tanya Donelly is 46. Actress Missy Gold is 42. Olympic gold medal snowboard- er Ross Rebagliati is 41. Rhythm-and-blues singer Tameka Cottle (Xscape) is 37. Country singer Jamey Johnson is 37. Hip-hop musician taboo (Black Eyed Peas) is 37. Actor Scott Porter is 33. Thought for Today: ''Life has got a habit of not stand- ing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.'' — Woody Guthrie (1912-1967). HAGAR the Horrible® By Chris Browne RUBES® By Leigh Rubin ZITS BY JERRY SCOTT & JIM BORGMAN FRANK & ERNEST® By Bob Thaves ALLEY OOP