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PEANUTS® By Charles Schultz Tuesday, July 24, 2012 – Daily News 5B Today in History By The Associated Press DILBERT® By Scott Adams Today is Tuesday, July 24, the 206th day of 2012. There are 160 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On July 24, 1862, Martin Van Buren, the eighth president of the United States, and the first to have been born a U.S. citizen, died at age 79 in Kinderhook, N.Y., the town where he was born in 1782. On this date: ers arrived in the Great Salt Lake Valley in present-day Utah. In 1866, Tennessee became the first state to be readmit- ted to the Union after the Civil War. In 1911, Yale University history professor Hiram Bing- ham III found the ''Lost City of the Incas,'' Machu Picchu, in Peru. In 1847, Mormon leader Brigham Young and his follow- In 1923, the Treaty of Lausanne, which settled the boundaries of modern Turkey, was concluded in Switzer- land. GARFIELD® By Jim Davis In 1937, the state of Alabama dropped charges against four of the nine young black men accused of raping two white women in the ''Scottsboro Case.'' In 1952, President Harry S. Truman announced a settle- ment in a 53-day steel strike. In 1783, Latin American revolutionary Simon Bolivar was born in Caracas. In 1959, during a visit to Moscow, Vice President Richard Nixon engaged in his famous ''Kitchen Debate'' with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. In 1969, the Apollo 11 astronauts — two of whom had been the first men to set foot on the moon — splashed down safely in the Pacific. In 1974, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Pres- ident Richard Nixon had to turn over subpoenaed White House tape recordings to the Watergate special prosecutor. In 1983, a two-run homer by George Brett of the Kansas SHOE By Chris Cassatt and Gary Brookins BLONDIE® By Dean Young and Stan Drake City Royals was disallowed after New York Yankees man- ager Billy Martin pointed out there was too much pine tar on Brett's bat. However, American League president Lee MacPhail reinstated the home run. In 1987, Hulda Crooks, a 91-year-old mountaineer from California, became the oldest woman to conquer Mount Fuji, Japan's highest peak. Ten years ago: Nine coal miners became trapped in a flooded tunnel of the Quecreek Mine in western Pennsylva- nia; the story ended happily 77 hours later with the rescue of all nine. The House, by a vote of 420-1, expelled Rep. James Traficant, D-Ohio, who'd been convicted of bribery, racke- teering and tax evasion; it was only the second time a sitting member had been banished since the Civil War. Five years ago: President George W. Bush, speaking at Charleston Air Force Base in South Carolina, sought to jus- tify the Iraq war by citing intelligence reports he said showed a link between al-Qaida's operation in Iraq and the terror group that attacked the United States on Sept. 11, 2001. BEETLE BAILEY® By Mort Walker Spain's brutal economic woes once again filled Madrid's downtown Sol square after many had spent weeks marching hundreds of miles from far-flung cities across the country. Cadel Evans won the Tour de France, becoming the first Australian champion in cycling's greatest race. Today's Birthdays: Actress Jacqueline Brookes is 82. Actor John Aniston (TV: ''Days of Our Lives'') is 79. Polit- ical cartoonist Pat Oliphant is 77. Comedian Ruth Buzzi is 76. Actor Mark Goddard is 76. Actor Dan Hedaya is 72. Actor Chris Sarandon is 70. Comedian Gallagher is 66. Actor Robert Hays is 65. Former Republican national chair- man Marc Racicot is 64. Actor Michael Richards is 63. Actress Lynda Carter is 61. Movie director Gus Van Sant is 60. Country singer Pam Tillis is 55. Actor Paul Ben-Victor is 50. Actor Kadeem Hardison is 47. Actress-singer Kristin Chenoweth is 44. Actress Laura Leighton is 44. Actor John P. Navin Jr. is 44. Actress-singer Jennifer Lopez is 43. Bas- ketball player-turned-actor Rick Fox is 43. Thought for Today: ''It is easier to do a job right than to One year ago: Thousands of protesters angry about explain why you didn't.'' — Attributed to President Martin Van Buren (1782-1862). HAGAR the Horrible® By Chris Browne RUBES® By Leigh Rubin ZITS BY JERRY SCOTT & JIM BORGMAN FRANK & ERNEST® By Bob Thaves ALLEY OOP