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PEANUTS® By Charles Schultz Wednesday, July 25, 2012 – Daily News 5B Today in History By The Associated Press DILBERT® By Scott Adams Today is Wednesday, July 25, the 207th day of 2012. There are 159 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On July 25, 1972, the notorious Tuskegee syphilis exper- iment came to light as The Associated Press reported that for the previous four decades, the U.S. Public Health Service, in conjunction with the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, had been allowing poor, rural black male patients with syphilis to go without treatment, even allowing them to die, as a way of studying the disease. On this date: In 1866, Ulysses S. Grant was named General of the Army of the United States, the first officer to hold the rank. In 1898, the United States invaded Puerto Rico during the Spanish-American War. In 1909, French aviator Louis Bleriot became the first person to fly an airplane across the English Channel, travel- ing from Calais to Dover in 37 minutes. In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt froze Japanese assets in the United States in retaliation for Japan's occupa- tion of southern Indochina. GARFIELD® By Jim Davis In 1952, Puerto Rico became a self-governing common- wealth of the United States. In 1946, the United States detonated an atomic bomb near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in the first underwater test of the device. In 1956, the Italian liner Andrea Doria collided with the Swedish passenger ship Stockholm off the New England coast late at night and began sinking; at least 51 people were killed. SHOE By Chris Cassatt and Gary Brookins In 1960, a Woolworth's store in Greensboro, N.C., that had been the scene of a sit-in protest against its whites-only lunch counter dropped its segregation policy. In 1962, the Bell System inaugurated Skyphone, an air- to-ground radiotelephone service, as American Airlines stewardess Hope Patterson placed a call to Associated Press writer Francis Stilley in New York while flying over Lake- hurst, N.J. the first woman to walk in space as she carried out more than three hours of experiments outside the orbiting space station Salyut 7. In 1984, Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became BLONDIE® By Dean Young and Stan Drake In 2000, a New York-bound Air France Concorde crashed outside Paris shortly after takeoff, killing all 109 people on board and four people on the ground; it was the first-ever crash of the supersonic jet. Ten years ago: Encouraged by a tapping sound coming up from the depths, rescuers in Somerset, Pa., brought in a huge drill in a race to save nine coal miners trapped 240 feet underground by a flooded shaft. Zacarias Moussaoui declared he was guilty of conspiracy in the September 11 attacks, then dramatically withdrew his plea at his arraign- ment in Alexandria, Va. Five years ago: A presidential commission urged broad changes to veterans' care that would boost benefits for fam- ily members helping the wounded, establish an easy-to-use Web site for medical records and overhaul the way disabili- ty pay was awarded. BEETLE BAILEY® By Mort Walker One year ago: In a prime-time address to the nation, Pres- ident Barack Obama made a last-ditch call for compromise on raising the government's borrowing ability before an Aug. 2 deadline; in a rebuttal, House Speaker John Boehner said negotiations with the White House had been futile. Today's Birthdays: Actress Barbara Harris is 77. Rock musician Jim McCarty (The Yardbirds) is 69. Rock musi- cian Verdine White (Earth, Wind & Fire) is 61. Singer-musi- cian Jem Finer (The Pogues) is 57. Model-actress Iman is 57. Cartoonist Ray Billingsley (''Curtis'') is 55. Rock musi- cian Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) is 54. Actress-singer Bobbie Eakes is 51. Actress Katherine Kelly Lang is 51. Actress Illeana Douglas is 47. Country singer Marty Brown is 47. Actor Matt LeBlanc is 45. Actress Wendy Raquel Robinson is 45. Rock musician Paavo Lotjonen (Apocalyp- tica) is 44. Actor D.B. Woodside is 43. Thought for Today: ''The truth is all things seen under the form of eternity.'' — George Santayana, Spanish-Amer- ican philosopher (1863-1952). HAGAR the Horrible® By Chris Browne RUBES® By Leigh Rubin ZITS BY JERRY SCOTT & JIM BORGMAN FRANK & ERNEST® By Bob Thaves ALLEY OOP