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4D Daily News – Thursday, September 13, 2012 PEANUTS® By Charles Schultz Today in History By The Associated Press Today is Thursday, Sept. 13, the 257th day of 2012. There are 109 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Sept. 13, 1997, funeral services were held in Calcut- ta, India, for Nobel peace laureate Mother Teresa. On this date: DILBERT® By Scott Adams the first national election, and declared New York City the temporary national capital. In 1788, the Congress of the Confederation authorized the father of the American Navy, died in Philadelphia. In 1912, a state funeral was held in Japan for Emperor In 1803, Commodore John Barry, considered by many Meiji. GARFIELD® By Jim Davis was elected to the U.S. Senate; she became the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress. In 1959, Elvis Presley first met his future wife, 14-year- old Priscilla Beaulieu, while stationed in West Germany with the U.S. Army. (They married in 1967, but divorced in 1973.) In 1948, Republican Margaret Chase Smith of Maine In 1962, Mississippi Gov. Ross Barnett rejected the U.S. Supreme Court's order for the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, a black student, declaring in a tele- vised address, ''We will not drink from the cup of geno- cide.'' In 1759, during the final French and Indian War, the British defeated the French on the Plains of Abraham over- looking Quebec City. In 1970, the first New York City Marathon was held; winner Gary Muhrcke finished the 26.2-mile run, which took place entirely inside Central Park, in 2:31:38. In 1989, Fay Vincent was elected commissioner of Major League Baseball, succeeding the late A. Bartlett Giamatti. In 1993, at the White House, Israeli Prime Minister SHOE By Chris Cassatt and Gary Brookins Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat shook hands after signing an accord granting limited Palestinian autonomy. BLONDIE® By Dean Young and Stan Drake BEETLE BAILEY® By Mort Walker ''highly doubtful'' that Saddam Hussein would comply with demands that he disarm and avoid a confrontation with the world community. And Bush mocked Democrats and other lawmakers who wanted U.N. action before a congressional vote on confronting Saddam. Five years ago: President George W. Bush, addressing the nation, rejected calls to end the war in Iraq, but said he wanted gradual U.S. troop withdrawals from the country. One year ago: Teams of insurgents firing rocket-pro- pelled grenades and automatic weapons struck at the U.S. Embassy, NATO headquarters and other buildings in the heart of Afghanistan's capital, Kabul. Today's Birthdays: Actress Barbara Bain is 81. Actress Eileen Fulton (''As the World Turns'') is 79. TV producer Fred Silverman is 75. Former White House spokesman Larry Speakes is 73. Actor Richard Kiel is 73. Rock singer David Clayton-Thomas (Blood, Sweat & Tears) is 71. Actress Jacqueline Bisset is 68. Singer Peter Cetera is 68. Actress Christine Estabrook is 62. Actress Jean Smart is 61. Singer Randy Jones (The Village People) is 60. Record pro- ducer Don Was is 60. Actor Isiah Whitlock Jr. is 58. Actress- comedian Geri Jewell is 56. Country singer Bobbie Cryner is 51. Rock singer-musician Dave Mustaine (Megadeth) is 51. Radio-TV personality Tavis Smiley is 48. Rock musi- cian Zak Starkey is 47. Actor Louis Mandylor is 46. Olympic gold medal runner Michael Johnson is 45. Rock musician Steve Perkins is 45. Country singer Aaron Ben- ward (Blue County) is 39. Country musician Joe Don Rooney (Rascal Flatts) is 37. Contemporary Christian musi- cian Hector Cervantes (Casting Crowns) is 32. Thought for Today: ''Injustice, poverty, slavery, igno- rance — these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, sel- dom predictable, at times incompatible.'' — Isaiah Berlin, Russian-born British philosopher (1909-1997). In 1996, rapper Tupac Shakur died at a Las Vegas hospi- tal six days after he was wounded in a drive-by shooting; he was 25. Ten years ago: President George W. Bush said it was HAGAR the Horrible® By Chris Browne RUBES® By Leigh Rubin ZITS BY JERRY SCOTT & JIM BORGMAN FRANK & ERNEST® By Bob Thaves ALLEY OOP