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6B Daily News – Saturday, November 10, 2012 PEANUTS® By Charles Schultz Today in History By The Associated Press Today is Saturday, Nov. 10, the 315th day of 2012. There are 51 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Nov. 10, 1972, three armed men hijacked Southern DILBERT® By Scott Adams Airways Flight 49, a DC-9 with 24 other passengers on board during a stopover in Birmingham, Ala., and demand- ed $10 million in ransom. (The 30-hour ordeal, which involved landings in nine U.S. cities and Toronto, finally ended with a second landing in Cuba, where the hijackers were taken into custody by Cuban authorities.) On this date: In 1775, the U.S. Marines were organized under author- ity of the Continental Congress. In 1871, journalist-explorer Henry M. Stanley found Scottish missionary David Livingstone, who had not been heard from for years, near Lake Tanganyika in central Africa. In 1919, the American Legion opened its first national convention in Minneapolis. GARFIELD® By Jim Davis was formally enthroned, almost two years after his ascen- sion. In 1928, Japanese Emperor Hirohito (hee-roh-hee-toh) America'' on her CBS radio program. Turkish statesman Mustafa Kemal Ataturk died in Istanbul at age 57. In 1942, Winston Churchill delivered a speech in London in which he said, ''I have not become the King's First Min- ister to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.'' In 1954, the U.S. Marine Corps Memorial, depicting the raising of the American flag on Iwo Jima in 1945, was ded- icated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Arlington, Va. In 1961, the satirical war novel ''Catch-22'' by Joseph Heller was first published by Simon & Schuster. In 1969, the children's educational program ''Sesame SHOE By Chris Cassatt and Gary Brookins was opened to its first visitors in Washington, D.C., three days before its dedication. Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev died at age 75. Ten years ago: Bush administration officials promised Street'' made its debut on National Educational Television (later PBS). In 1982, the newly finished Vietnam Veterans Memorial In 1938, Kate Smith first sang Irving Berlin's ''God Bless ''zero tolerance'' if Saddam Hussein refused to comply with international calls to disarm. Five years ago: Six U.S. troops died in an insurgent BLONDIE® By Dean Young and Stan Drake ambush, making 2007 the deadliest year for American forces in Afghanistan since 2001. During an Ibero-Ameri- can summit in Santiago, Chile, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez kept interrupting Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero as he defended his predecessor, Jose Maria Aznar, whom Chavez had repeatedly referred to as a ''fascist''; Spain's King Juan Carlos finally told Chavez, ''Why don't you shut up?'' BEETLE BAILEY® By Mort Walker One year ago: The National Archives released a tran- script of former President Richard Nixon's 1975 grand jury testimony after a judge ordered the government to do so; in it, a feisty and cagey Nixon defended his legacy and Water- gate-era actions. Today's Birthdays: Actor Russell Johnson is 88. Film composer Ennio Morricone is 84. Blues singer Bobby Rush is 78. Actor Albert Hall is 75. Country singer Donna Fargo is 71. Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., is 69. Lyricist Tim Rice is 68. Rock singer-musician Greg Lake (Emerson, Lake and Palmer) is 65. Actress-dancer Ann Reinking is 63. Actor Jack Scalia is 62. Movie director Roland Emmerich is 57. Actor Matt Craven is 56. Actor-comedian Sinbad is 56. Actress Mackenzie Phillips is 53. Author Neil Gaiman is 52. Actress Vanessa Angel is 49. Actor Hugh Bonneville (TV: ''Downton Abbey'') is 49. Actor-comedian Tommy David- son is 49. Actor Michael Jai White is 48. Country singer Chris Cagle is 44. Actor-comedian Tracy Morgan is 44. Actress Ellen Pompeo (TV: ''Grey's Anatomy'') is 43. Rap- per-producer Warren G is 42. Actor Walton Goggins is 41. Thought for Today: ''Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?'' — Fanny Brice, American actress and singer (1891-1951). HAGAR the Horrible® By Chris Browne RUBES® By Leigh Rubin ZITS BY JERRY SCOTT & JIM BORGMAN FRANK & ERNEST® By Bob Thaves ALLEY OOP