Today is the 275th day of 2013. There are 90 days left in the year.TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

1950: The comic strip “Peanuts,” created by Charles M Schulz, is first published in

nine US newspapers.

OTHER EVENTS

1187: Besieged Crusader forces in Jerusalem capitulate to Muslim commander Saladin.

The Christians retake the holy city in 1229.

1780: British spy John Andre is hung in Tappan, New York.

1804: England’s populace is mobilised to resist possible invasion by France.

1836: Charles Darwin returns to England from a trip to South America, where he documented animal and plant life for his book, On the Origin of Species.

1870: Rome becomes the capital of Italy.

1919: US President Woodrow Wilson suffers a stroke; leaving him partially paralysed.

1924: League of Nations adopts Geneva Protocol for peaceful settlement of international disputes.

1940: HMS Empress of Britain, carrying child war refugees to Can-ada, is sunk during World War II.

1967: Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as an associate justice of the US Supreme Court; becoming the first African-American appointed to the highest US court.

1972: Denmark’s entrance into the European Economic Community is approved by

almost two-thirds of voters

in a referendum.

1991: Haiti’s military chief advises ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to remain in exile.

1995: Director of Russia’s famed Kirov Ballet, Anatoly Malkov, is arrested for corruption and bribery running into millions of dollars. He later resigns.

1997: Canada recalls ambassador to Israel to protest use of forged Canadian passports by suspected Israel agents.

2001: Seeking the full backing of its 18 NATO allies, the United States provides “clear and compelling” evidence of Osama bin Laden’s involvement in the September 11 attacks.

2002: US President George W Bush reaches an agreement with the leaders of the US House of Representatives on a resolution authorising military action against Iraq.

2007: North Korean leader Kim Jong Il welcomes South Korea’s president to Pyongyang for the start of the second-ever summit between the divided Koreas since World War II.

2008: After extensive repairs and improvements, the World War II aircraft carrier Intrepid returns to the Manhattan pier where it has served for 24 years as a military and space museum.

2009: In a vote of high drama, the bustling Brazilian carnival city of Rio de Janeiro gets the 2016 Olympics, a first for South America.

2011: Syrian dissidents formally establish a broad-based national council designed to overthrow President Bashar Assad’s regime, which they accused of pushing the country to the brink of civil war.

— AP