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PEANUTS® Saturday, September 22, 2012 – Daily News 5B By Charles Schultz Today in History By The Associated Press Today is Saturday, Sept. 22, the 266th day of 2012. There are 100 days left in the year. Autumn arrives at 10:49 a.m. Eastern time. Today's Highlight in History: DILBERT® By Scott Adams On Sept. 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all slaves in rebel states should be free as of Jan. 1, 1863. On this date: In 1761, Britain's King George III and his wife, Charlotte, were crowned in Westminster Abbey. In 1776, during the Revolutionary War, Capt. Nathan Hale, 21, was hanged as a spy by the British in New York. von Bismarck, whom he decided to appoint minister president, or premier. In 1911, pitcher Cy Young, 44, gained his 511th and In 1862, King Wilhelm I of Prussia met with Otto final career victory as he hurled a 1-0 shutout for the Boston Rustlers against the Pittsburgh Pirates at Forbes Field. GARFIELD® By Jim Davis In 1922, Congress passed, and President Warren Harding signed, the Cable Act, which allowed an Amer- ican woman to keep her U.S. citizenship following mar- riage to a foreigner, provided the husband was consid- ered eligible for American citizenship. In 1927, Gene Tunney successfully defended his heavyweight boxing title against Jack Dempsey in the famous "long-count" fight in Chicago. In 1938, the musical comedy revue "Hellzapoppin'," starring Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson, began a three-year run on Broadway. SHOE By Chris Cassatt and Gary Brookins In 1961, the Interstate Commerce Commission issued rules prohibiting racial discrimination on inter- state buses. Actress Marion Davies died in Los Angeles at age 64. In 1964, the musical "Fiddler on the Roof" opened on Broadway, beginning a run of 3,242 performances. In 1975, Sara Jane Moore attempted to shoot Presi- dent Gerald R. Ford outside a San Francisco hotel, but missed. (Moore served 32 years in prison before being paroled on Dec. 31, 2007.) Ten years ago: Thousands of Palestinians marched to protest Israel's siege of Yasser Arafat's headquarters, and Israeli soldiers opened fire on Palestinians who defied curfews. Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats won one of Germany's closest postwar elec- tions. Five years ago: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice BLONDIE® By Dean Young and Stan Drake spoke briefly with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki at the United Nations, but they did not discuss a Bagh- dad shootout involving guards from a U.S. company protecting American diplomats that claimed civilian lives. the world's biggest physics lab in Switzerland claimed to have measured a subatomic particle, a neutrino, trav- eling faster than the speed of light, a finding that chal- lenged Einstein's theory of relativity (however, the results have since been refuted by other scientists). Today's Birthdays: Baseball Hall of Fame manager One year ago: A group of European researchers at BEETLE BAILEY® By Mort Walker Tommy Lasorda is 85. NBA Commissioner David Stern is 70. Musician King Sunny Ade is 66. Actor Paul Le Mat is 66. Capt. Mark Phillips is 64. Rock singer David Coverdale (Deep Purple, Whitesnake) is 61. Actress Shari Belafonte is 58. Singer Debby Boone is 56. Coun- try singer June Forester (The Forester Sisters) is 56. Singer Nick Cave is 55. Rock singer Johnette Napoli- tano is 55. Classical crossover singer Andrea Bocelli is 54. Singer-musician Joan Jett is 54. Actor Scott Baio is 52. Actress Catherine Oxenberg is 51. Actor Rob Stone is 50. Rock musician Matt Sharp is 43. Thought for Today: "I cannot endure to waste any- thing as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air." — Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author (1804-1864). HAGAR the Horrible® By Chris Browne RUBES® By Leigh Rubin ZITS BY JERRY SCOTT & JIM BORGMAN FRANK & ERNEST® By Bob Thaves ALLEY OOP