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PEANUTS® Thursday, October 4, 2012 – Daily News 3B By Charles Schultz Today in History By The Associated Press DILBERT® By Scott Adams Today is Thusday, Oct. 4, the 278th day of 2012. There are 88 days left in the year. Today's Highlights in History: On Oct. 4, 1957, the Space Age began as the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, into orbit. James R. Hoffa was elected president of the Interna- tional Brotherhood of Teamsters. The family comedy series "Leave It to Beaver" premiered on CBS. On this date: In 1777, Gen. George Washington's troops launched an assault on the British at Germantown, Pa., resulting in heavy American casualties. In 1822, the 19th president of the United States, Ruther- ford B. Hayes, was born in Delaware, Ohio. In 1861, during the Civil War, the United States Navy authorized construction of the first ironclad ship, the USS Monitor. In 1887, the International Herald Tribune had its begin- nings as the Paris Herald, a European edition of the New York Herald. GARFIELD® By Jim Davis In 1931, the comic strip "Dick Tracy," created by Chester Gould, made its debut. SHOE By Chris Cassatt and Gary Brookins In 1940, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini conferred at Brenner Pass in the Alps. In 1959, the Soviet Union launched Luna 3, a space probe which transmitted images of the far side of the moon. In 1960, an Eastern Air Lines Lockheed L-188A Electra crashed on takeoff from Boston's Logan International Air- port, killing all but 10 of the 72 people on board. In 1970, rock singer Janis Joplin, 27, was found dead in her Hollywood hotel room. In 1980, fire broke out aboard the Dutch cruise vessel Prinsendam in the Gulf of Alaska, forcing the 520 people aboard to abandon ship; no deaths or serious injury resulted. In 1991, 26 nations, including the United States, signed the Madrid Protocol, which imposed a 50-year ban on oil exploration and mining in Antarctica. Ten years ago: John Walker Lindh, the so-called "Amer- ican Taliban," received a 20-year sentence after a sobbing, halting plea for forgiveness before a federal judge in Alexan- dria, Va.. In a federal court in Boston, a laughing Richard Reid pleaded guilty to trying to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight with explosives hidden in his shoes as he declared his hatred for America and his loyalty to Osama bin Laden. Five years ago: Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, defiantly BLONDIE® By Dean Young and Stan Drake vowed to serve out his term in office despite losing a court attempt to rescind his guilty plea in a men's room sex sting. Former city maintenance worker John Ashley shot five peo- ple in a law office in Alexandria, La., killing two of them; Ashley was shot and killed by police following a standoff. One year ago: Three U.S.-born scientists, Saul Perlmut- BEETLE BAILEY® By Mort Walker ter, Brian Schmidt and Adam Riess, won the Nobel Prize in physics for discovering that the universe is expanding at an accelerating pace. Today's Birthdays: Country singer Leroy Van Dyke is 83. Pro and College Football Hall of Famer Sam Huff is 78. Actor Eddie Applegate is 77. Actress Felicia Farr is 77. Author Jackie Collins is 75. Author Roy Blount Jr. is 71. Author Anne Rice is 71. Actress Lori Saunders ("Petticoat Junction") is 71. Baseball manager Tony La Russa is 68. Actor Clifton Davis is 67. The former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, is 66. Actress Susan Sarandon is 66. Blues musician Duke Robillard is 64. Play- wright Lee Blessing is 63. Actor Armand Assante is 63. Actor Alan Rosenberg is 62. Actor Christoph Waltz is 56. Actor Bill Fagerbakke is 55. Music producer Russell Sim- mons is 55. Actress-singer Wendy Makkena is 54. Musician Chris Lowe (The Pet Shop Boys) is 53. Country musician Gregg "Hobie" Hubbard (Sawyer Brown) is 52. Actor David W. Harper is 51. Singer Jon Secada is 51. TV per- sonality John Melendez is 47. Actor Liev Schreiber is 45. Actor Abraham Benrubi is 43. Country singer-musician Heidi Newfield is 42. Actress Alicia Silverstone is 36. Actor Phillip Glasser is 34. Thought for Today: "He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid, ungenerous spir- it." — Demosthenes, Greek statesman (384 B.C.-322 B.C.). HAGAR the Horrible® By Chris Browne RUBES® By Leigh Rubin ZITS BY JERRY SCOTT & JIM BORGMAN FRANK & ERNEST® By Bob Thaves ALLEY OOP