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PEANUTS® MONDAY COMICS Tuesday, September 25, 2012 – Daily News 5B By Charles Schultz Today in History By The Associated Press Today is Monday, Sept. 24, the 268th day of 2012. There are 98 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: DILBERT® By Scott Adams On Sept. 24, 1890, the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Wilford Woodruff, wrote a manifesto renouncing the practice of polygamy, or plural marriage (the manifesto was formally accepted by the Mor- mon Church the following month). On this date: In 1789, Congress passed a Judiciary Act providing for an Attorney General and a Supreme Court. In 1869, thousands of businessmen were ruined in a Wall Street panic known as ''Black Friday'' after financiers Jay Gould and James Fisk attempted to corner the gold market. In 1929, Lt. James H. Doolittle guided a Consolidated NY-2 Biplane over Mitchel Field in New York in the first all- instrument flight. GARFIELD® By Jim Davis In 1948, Mildred Gillars, accused of being Nazi wartime radio propagandist ''Axis Sally,'' pleaded not guilty in Washington, D.C. to charges of treason. (Gillars, later con- victed, ended up serving 12 years in prison.) In 1955, President Dwight D. Eisenhower suffered a heart attack while on vacation in Denver. the Soviet Union limiting nuclear testing. In 1976, former hostage Patricia Hearst was sentenced to In 1963, the U.S. Senate ratified a treaty with Britain and In 1934, Babe Ruth made his farewell appearance as a player with the New York Yankees in a game against the Boston Red Sox. (The Sox won, 5-0.) In 1957, the Los Angeles-bound Brooklyn Dodgers played their last game at Ebbets Field, defeating the Pitts- burgh Pirates 2-0. SHOE By Chris Cassatt and Gary Brookins seven years in prison for her part in a 1974 bank robbery in San Francisco carried out by the Symbionese Liberation Army. (Hearst was released after 22 months after receiving clemency from President Jimmy Carter.) In 1981, four Armenian gunmen seized the Turkish con- sulate in Paris, killing a guard and holding 56 hostages for 15 hours before surrendering. BLONDIE® By Dean Young and Stan Drake In 1991, kidnappers in Lebanon freed British hostage Jack Mann after holding him captive for more than two years. Children's author Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as ''Dr. Seuss,'' died in La Jolla, Calif., at age 87. Ten years ago: British Prime Minister Tony Blair assert- ed that Iraq had a growing arsenal of chemical and biologi- cal weapons and planned to use them, as he unveiled an intelligence dossier to a special session of Parliament. Five years ago: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadine- jad questioned the official version of the September 11 attacks and defended the right to cast doubt on the Holocaust in a tense appearance at Columbia University in New York. United Auto Workers walked off the job at GM plants in the first nationwide strike during auto contract negotiations since 1976; a tentative pact ended the walkout two days later. BEETLE BAILEY® By Mort Walker One year ago: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev pro- posed Vladimir Putin as a presidential candidate for 2012, paving the way for Putin's return to office four years after he was legally forced to step aside. NASA's dead six-ton Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite fell to Earth, 20 years after being deployed from the space shuttle Discovery. Today's Birthdays: Actor-singer Herb Jeffries is 101. Actress Sheila MacRae is 88. Rhythm-and-blues singer Sonny Turner (The Platters) is 73. Singer Barbara Allbut (The Angels) is 72. Singer Phyllis ''Jiggs'' Allbut (The Angels) is 70. Singer Gerry Marsden (Gerry and the Pace- makers) is 70. News anchor Lou Dobbs is 67. Pro and Col- lege Football Hall of Famer Joe Greene is 66. Actor Gordon Clapp is 64. Former U.S. Rep. Joseph Kennedy II, D-Mass., is 60. Actor Kevin Sorbo is 54. Christian/jazz singer Cedric Dent (Take 6) is 50. Actress-writer Nia Vardalos is 50. Country musician Marty Mitchell is 43. Thought for Today: ''The easiest way to get a reputation is go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a vio- lent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.'' — F. Scott Fitzgerald (born this date in 1896, died 1940). HAGAR the Horrible® By Chris Browne RUBES® By Leigh Rubin ZITS BY JERRY SCOTT & JIM BORGMAN FRANK & ERNEST® By Bob Thaves ALLEY OOP