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4B – Daily News – Saturday, March 20, 2010 PEANUTS® By Charles Schultz Today in History By The Associated Press Today is Saturday, March 20, the 79th day of 2010. There are 286 days left in the year. Spring arrives at 1:32 p.m. East- ern time. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 20, 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte returned to Paris after escaping his exile on Elba, beginning his ‘‘Hundred Days’’ rule. DILBERT® By Scott Adams On this date: In 1413, England’s King Henry IV died; he was succeeded by Henry V. In 1727, physicist, mathematician and astronomer Sir Isaac Newton died in London. In 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s influential novel about slavery, ‘‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin,’’ was first published in book form after being serialized. In 1899, Martha M. Place of Brooklyn, N.Y., became the first woman to be executed in the electric chair as she was put to death at Sing Sing for the murder of her stepdaughter. In 1956, union workers ended a 156-day strike at West- inghouse Electric Corp. GARFIELD® By Jim Davis In 1969, John Lennon married Yoko Ono in Gibraltar. In 1977, voters in Paris chose former French Prime Min- ister Jacques Chirac to be the French capital’s first mayor in more than a century. In 1985, Libby Riddles of Teller, Alaska, became the first woman to win the Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race. In 1995, in Tokyo, 12 people were killed, more than 5,500 others sickened when packages containing the poisonous gas sarin were leaked on five separate subway trains by Aum Shin- rikyo (ohm shin-ree-kyoh) cult members. SHOE By Chris Cassatt and Gary Brookins In 1999, Bertrand Piccard of Switzerland and Brian Jones of Britain became the first aviators to fly a hot-air balloon around the world nonstop. Ten years ago: Pope John Paul II embarked on a strenu- ous and spiritual tour of the Holy Land, beginning with a stop in Jordan. President Bill Clinton arrived in Bangladesh on the first such visit by an American president. Former Black Pan- ther Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, once known as H. Rap Brown, was captured in Alabama for the killing of a sheriff’s deputy. (Al-Amin was later convicted and sentenced to life in prison without parole.) Five years ago: A visibly frustrated Pope John Paul II made BLONDIE® By Dean Young and Stan Drake BEETLE BAILEY® By Mort Walker a brief but silent appearance at his Vatican apartment win- dow after missing his first Palm Sunday Mass in 26 years as pontiff. Liz Johnson became the first woman to advance to the championship match of a Professional Bowlers Associ- ation tour event, but lost by 27 pins to Tommy Jones in the final of the PBA Banquet Open in Wyoming, Mich. One year ago: President Barack Obama reached out to the Iranian people in a video with Farsi subtitles, saying the U.S. was prepared to end years of strained relations if Tehran toned down its bellicose rhetoric. Pope Benedict XVI, visiting Ango- la, condemned sexual violence against women in Africa and chided countries on the continent that approved abortion. Today’s Birthdays: British songstress Dame Vera Lynn is 93. Producer-director-comedian Carl Reiner is 88. Actor Hal Linden is 79. Former Canadian prime minister Brian Mul- roney is 71. Country singer Don Edwards is 71. TV produc- er Paul Junger Witt is 67. Country singer-musician Ranger Doug (Riders in the Sky) is 64. Hockey Hall-of-Famer Bobby Orr is 62. Blues singer Marva Wright is 62. Blues singer-musi- cian Marcia Ball is 61. Actor William Hurt is 60. Rock musi- cian Carl Palmer (Emerson, Lake and Palmer) is 60. Rock musician Jimmie Vaughan is 59. Country musician Jimmy Seales (Shenandoah) is 56. Actress Amy Aquino 53. Movie director Spike Lee is 53. Actress Theresa Russell is 53. Actress Vanessa Bell Calloway is 53. Actress Holly Hunter is 52. Rock musician Slim Jim Phantom (The Stray Cats) is 49. Actress- model-lifestyle designer Kathy Ireland is 47. Actor David Thewlis is 47. Rock musician Adrian Oxaal (James) is 45. Actress Liza Snyder is 42. Actor Michael Rapaport is 40. Actor Alexan- der Chaplin is 39. Rock singer Chester Bennington (Linkin Park) is 34. Actor Michael Genadry is 32. Actress Bianca Law- son is 31. Thought for Today: ‘‘Spring makes everything young again except man.’’ — Jean Paul Richter, German author (1763- 1825). HAGAR the Horrible® By Chris Browne RUBES® By Leigh Rubin ZITS BY JERRY SCOTT & JIM BORGMAN FRANK & ERNEST® By Bob Thaves ALLEY OOP