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4B Daily News – Thursday, October 18, 2012 PEANUTS® By Charles Schultz Today in History By The Associated Press DILBERT® By Scott Adams Today is Thursday, Oct. 18, the 292nd day of 2012. There are 74 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Oct. 18, 1962, James D. Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins were honored with the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology for determining the double-helix molecular structure of DNA. On this date: Fontainebleau, revoking the Edict of Nantes that had estab- lished legal toleration of France's Protestant population, the Huguenots. In 1685, King Louis XIV signed the Edict of In 1867, the United States took formal possession of Alaska from Russia. In 1892, the first long-distance telephone line between GARFIELD® By Jim Davis New York and Chicago was officially opened (it could only handle one call at a time). In 1912, black boxer Jack Johnson was arrested in Chicago, accused of violating the Mann Act because of his relationship with his white girlfriend, Lucille Cameron. In 1922, the British Broadcasting Co., Ltd. (later the British Broadcasting Corp.) was founded. In 1931, inventor Thomas Alva Edison died in West Orange, N.J., at age 84. In 1944, Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia during In 1961, the movie musical ''West Side Story,'' starring Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer, premiered in New York, the film's setting. World War II. In 1972, Congress passed the Clean Water Act, overrid- ing President Richard M. Nixon's veto. In 1977, West German commandos stormed a hijacked Lufthansa jetliner on the ground in Mogadishu, Somalia, freeing all 86 hostages and killing three of the four hijack- ers. SHOE By Chris Cassatt and Gary Brookins In 1982, former first lady Bess Truman died at her home in Independence, Mo., at age 97. Ten years ago: The Vatican demanded that America's Roman Catholic bishops revise their hard-line crackdown policy on sexually abusive priests, saying that elements con- flicted with universal church law. (In 2005, the U.S. bishops voted overwhelmingly to stick with the main points of the discipline plan.) Five years ago: Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan, ending eight years of self-imposed exile; a suicide bombing in a crowd welcoming her killed more than 140 people, but Bhutto escaped unhurt. (Howev- er, she was slain in December 2007.) BLONDIE® By Dean Young and Stan Drake BEETLE BAILEY® By Mort Walker owner of an eastern Ohio farm, Terry Thompson, who then committed suicide; authorities killed 48 of the creatures, while the remaining two were presumed eaten by other ani- mals. The Republican presidential candidates laced into each other in their latest debate, held in Las Vegas; Mitt Romney emerged as still the person to beat, even as he was called out on the issues of illegal immigration, health care and jobs. Today's Birthdays: Rock-and-roll performer Chuck Berry is 86. Sportscaster Keith Jackson is 84. Actress Dawn Wells is 74. College and Pro Football Hall-of-Famer Mike Ditka is 73. Singer-musician Russ Giguere is 69. Actor Joe Morton is 65. Actress Pam Dawber is 62. Author Terry McMillan is 61. Writer-producer Chuck Lorre is 60. Gospel singer Vickie Winans is 59. International Tennis Hall of Famer Martina Navratilova is 56. Boxer Thomas Hearns is 54. Actor Jean-Claude Van Damme is 52. Actress Erin Moran is 52. Jazz musician Wynton Marsalis is 51. Actor Vincent Spano is 50. Rock musician Tim Cross is 46. Ten- nis player Michael Stich (shteek) is 44. Singer Nonchalant is 39. Actress Joy Bryant is 38. Rock musician Peter Svenson (The Cardigans) is 38. Actor Wesley Jonathan is 34. Rhythm-and-blues singer-actor Ne-Yo is 33. Country singer Josh Gracin is 32. Thought for Today: ''Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast — you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.'' — Eddie Can- tor, American comedian-singer (1892-1964) One year ago: Fifty wild animals were released by the HAGAR the Horrible® By Chris Browne RUBES® By Leigh Rubin ZITS BY JERRY SCOTT & JIM BORGMAN FRANK & ERNEST® By Bob Thaves ALLEY OOP