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Tuesday, November 27, 2012 – Daily News PEANUTS® MONDAY COMICS By Charles Schultz Today in History The Associated Press DILBERT® By Scott Adams Today is Monday, Nov. 26, the 331st day of 2012. There are 35 days left in the year. Today's Highlights in History: On Nov. 26, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered nationwide gasoline rationing, beginning Dec. 1. The motion picture "Casablanca," starring Humphrey Bog- art and Ingrid Bergman, had its world premiere at the Hol- lywood Theater in New York. On this date: In 1789, Nov. 26 was a day of thanksgiving set aside by President George Washington to observe the adoption of the Constitution of the United States. In 1825, the first college social fraternity, the Kappa Alpha Society, was formed at Union College in Schenec- tady, N.Y. arrived at the school's present-day site near South Bend, Ind. In 1912, CBS newsman Eric Sevareid was born in Velva, In 1842, the founders of the University of Notre Dame N.D. GARFIELD® By Jim Davis In 1933, a judge in New York decided the James Joyce book "Ulysses" was not obscene and could be published in the United States. 3B In 1941, a Japanese naval task force consisting of six air- craft carriers left the Kuril Islands, headed toward Hawaii. In 1943, during World War II, the HMT Rohna, a British transport ship carrying American soldiers, was hit by a Ger- man missile off Algeria; 1,138 men were killed. In 1950, China entered the Korean War, launching a counteroffensive against soldiers from the United Nations, the U.S. and South Korea. In 1965, France launched its first satellite, sending a 92- pound capsule into orbit. SHOE By Chris Cassatt and Gary Brookins In 1973, President Richard Nixon's personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, told a federal court that she'd acciden- tally caused part of the 181⁄2-minute gap in a key Watergate tape. In 1986, President Ronald Reagan appointed a commis- sion headed by former Senator John Tower to investigate his National Security Council staff in the wake of the Iran-Con- tra affair. Ten years ago: WorldCom and the government settled a BLONDIE® By Dean Young and Stan Drake civil lawsuit over the company's $9 billion accounting scan- dal. A United Nations report said that for the first time in the 20-year history of the AIDS epidemic, about as many women as men were infected with HIV. Five years ago: President George W. Bush met separate- ly at the White House with the leaders of Israel and the Palestinian Authority a day ahead of a major Mideast peace conference in Annapolis, Md. Vice President Dick Cheney experienced an irregular heartbeat and was taken to George Washington University Hospital for evaluation. President Bush greeted the 2007 Nobel Prize winners — including former Vice President Al Gore — in the Oval Office. Mis- sissippi Sen. Trent Lott announced his retirement after a 35- year career in Congress. One year ago: NASA's Curiosity rover blasted off from BEETLE BAILEY® By Mort Walker the Kennedy Space Center on an 81⁄2-month, 354 million- mile journey to Mars. NBA players and owners reached a tentative agreement to end a 149-day lockout. Today's Birthdays: Actress Ellen Albertini Dow is 99. Impressionist Rich Little is 74. Singer Tina Turner is 73. Singer Jean Terrell is 68. Pop musician John McVie is 67. Actress Marianne Muellerleile is 64. Actor Scott Jacoby is 56. Actress Jamie Rose is 53. Country singer Linda Davis is 50. Blues singer-musician Bernard Allison is 47. Country singer-musician Steve Grisaffe is 47. Actress Kristin Bauer is 39. Actor Peter Facinelli is 39. Actress Tammy Lynn Michaels Etheridge is 38. Actress Maia Campbell is 36. Country singer Joe Nichols is 36. Contemporary Christian musicians Randy and Anthony Armstrong (Red) are 34. Actress Jessica Bowman is 32. Pop singer Natasha Beding- field is 31. Thought for Today: "The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something." — Eric Sevareid (1912-1992). HAGAR the Horrible® By Chris Browne RUBES® By Leigh Rubin ZITS BY JERRY SCOTT & JIM BORGMAN FRANK & ERNEST® By Bob Thaves ALLEY OOP