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4B Daily News – Tuesday, July 24, 2012 PEANUTS® MONDAY COMICS By Charles Schultz Today in History By The Associated Press Today is Monday, July 23, the 205th day of 2012. There are 161 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On July 23, 1962, the first public TV transmissions over Telstar 1 took place during a special program featuring live shots beamed from the United States to Europe, and vice versa. DILBERT® By Scott Adams In 1885, Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the Unit- ed States, died in Mount McGregor, N.Y., at age 63. In 1886, a legend was born as Steve Brodie claimed to On this date: have made a daredevil plunge from the Brooklyn Bridge into New York's East River. (However, there are doubts about whether the dive actually occurred.) In 1914, Austria-Hungary issued a list of demands to Serbia following the killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serb assassin; the dispute led to World War I. In 1942, Harry James and his Orchestra recorded ''I Had the Craziest Dream'' in Hollywood for Columbia Records. In 1945, French Marshal Henri Petain, who had headed GARFIELD® By Jim Davis SHOE By Chris Cassatt and Gary Brookins the Vichy (vee-shee) government during World War II, went on trial, charged with treason. (He was convicted and con- demned to death, but the sentence was commuted.) In 1951, Henri Petain died in prison. In 1952, Egyptian military officers led by Gamal Abdel Nasser launched a successful coup against King Farouk I. In 1967, a week of deadly race-related rioting that claimed 43 lives erupted in Detroit. In 1977, a jury in Washington, D.C., convicted 12 Hanafi Muslims of charges stemming from the hostage siege at three buildings the previous March. In 1982, actor Vic Morrow and two child actors, 7-year- old Myca Dinh Le and 6-year-old Renee Shin-Yi Chen, were killed when a helicopter crashed on top of them during filming of a Vietnam War scene for ''Twilight Zone: The Movie.'' (Director John Landis and four associates were later acquitted of manslaughter charges.) In 1986, Britain's Prince Andrew married Sarah Fergu- son at Westminster Abbey in London. (The couple divorced in 1996.) Ten years ago: Thousands of Palestinians marched to BLONDIE® By Dean Young and Stan Drake BEETLE BAILEY® By Mort Walker bury their dead after an Israeli airstrike killed a top Hamas leader and 14 civilians, including nine children. Welsh arch- bishop Rowan Williams was chosen to be the 104th Arch- bishop of Canterbury, spiritual leader of the world's Angli- cans. Five years ago: In the first political debate of its kind, all eight Democratic Party contenders, appearing on CNN, fielded questions submitted by the public on YouTube. One year ago: Singer Amy Winehouse, 27, was found dead in her London home from accidental alcohol poison- ing. Retired Army Gen. John Shalikashvili, the first foreign- born chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, died at Madigan Army Medical Center near Tacoma, Wash., at age 75. Today's Birthdays: Actress Gloria DeHaven is 87. Con- cert pianist Leon Fleisher is 84. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy is 76. Actor Ronny Cox is 74. Radio personality Don Imus is 72. Country singer Tony Joe White is 69. Rock singer David Essex is 65. Actor Larry Manetti is 65. Singer-songwriter John Hall is 64. Actress Belinda Montgomery is 62. Rock musician Blair Thornton (Bach- man Turner Overdrive) is 62. Actress Edie McClurg is 61. Actress-writer Lydia Cornell is 59. Actor Woody Harrelson is 51. Rock musician Martin Gore (Depeche Mode) is 51. Actor Eriq Lasalle is 50. Rock musician Yuval Gabay is 49. Rock musician Slash is 47. Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman is 45. Rock musician Nick Menza is 44. Model-actress Stephanie Seymour is 44. Actress Charisma Carpenter is 42. Rhythm-and-blues singer Sam Watters is 42. Country singer Alison Krauss is 41. Actor-comedian Marlon Wayans is 40. Country singer Shannon Brown is 39. Actress Kathryn Hahn is 39. Thought for Today: ''Science and technology revolu- tionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.'' — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., American histori- an. HAGAR the Horrible® By Chris Browne RUBES® By Leigh Rubin ZITS BY JERRY SCOTT & JIM BORGMAN FRANK & ERNEST® By Bob Thaves ALLEY OOP