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2012 Event - Israel launches four airstrikes in response to multiple rockets being fired across the border. The airstrikes kill two Salafist jihadist militants and wound one other in the northern Gaza strip

2011 Event - U.S. conductor Daniel Barenboim holds a 'Peace Concert' in the Gaza Strip; he is a supporter of Palestinian rights

2010 Event - Five Palestinians are wounded when Israel conducts four air raids in the Gaza Strip, a response to a fourth rocket attack in southern Israel from Gaza

2010 Event - Israel restricts a blacklist of weapons, construction materials and other items but drops all other restrictions on the free flow of consumer goods into the Gaza strip

2009 Event - Israel launches an invasion of the Gaza strip

1995 Event - Cartoonist Bill Watterson ends his "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip

1995 Death - Calvin/Hobbes, (comic strip), dies

1994 Event - Yassar Arafat returns to Gaza strip

1994 Death - Mitacq, Michel Tacq, Belgian comic strip artist (Beaver Patrol), dies

1994 Event - Israel withdraws from the Gaza Strip

1994 Death - Joe Layton, director (Richard Pryor Live on Sunset Strip), dies at 63

1994 Death - Keith Watson, British comic strip artist (Dan Dare), dies at 59

1992 Death - Bob the Moor, Flemish comic strip artist (Kuifje), dies

1991 Event - NFL owners strip Phoenix of 1993 Super Bowl game due to Arizona not recognizing Martin Luther King Day

1989 Event - Israel attacks border strip Taba near Egypt

1984 Event - Gary Trudeau's Doonesbury comic strip resumes after 2-year hiatus

1980 Event - Jim King completes riding Miracle Strip Roller coaster 368 hours

1980 Event - Jim King begins riding Miracle Strip Roller coaster 368 hours

1978 Event - Garfield, created by Jim Davis, 1st appears as a comic strip

1977 Event - Final Al Capp comic strip of "Li'l Abner" (1934-77)

1976 Event - Comic strip "Cathy," by Cathy Guisewhite, debuts

1973 Death - Walt Kelly, U.S. comic strip artist (Pogo), dies at 60

1973 Death - Murat B "Chic" Young, U.S. comic strip artist (Blondie), dies at 72

1973 Event - Comic strip "Hagar The Horrible" debuted

1970 Event - "Doonesbury" comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers

1970 Event - Dutch cartoonist Frans Piet ends "Sjors and Sjimmie" strip

1968 Death - Harold Gray, U.S. comic strip artist (Little Orphan Annie), dies at 74

1964 Event - Martin Kresses final comic strip of Eric the Viking

1960 Event - Bil Keane's "Family Circus" cartoon strip debuts

1958 Event - Northern strip of Spanish Sahara ceded to Morocco

1958 Event - Comic strip "BC" 1st appears

1957 Event - Comic strip "Andy Capp" made its debut

1957 Birthday - Ray Billingsley, comic strip cartoonist, Curtis

1956 Birthday - Lynda Barry, born in Richland Center, Wisconsin, cartoonist, author, known for comic strip, 'Ernie Pook's Comeek', wrote 'The Good Times are Killing Me', 'What It Is'

1954 Birthday - Adam Ant, Stuart Goddard, London, punk rocker, If I Strip For You

1950 Event - 1st strip of Charlie Brown, "Li'l Folks," later "Peanuts" in 9 papers

1950 Event - "Beetle Bailey" comic strip debuts

1950 Birthday - Gary Larson, born in Tacoma, Washington, cartoonist, created and published the single-panel comic strip, Far Side

1950 Event - 1st edition of British strip "Eagle"

1946 Event - Martin Kresses begins publishing "Eric the Viking" comic strip

1944 Event - Batman and Robin comic strip premieres in newspapers

1943 Event - "Archie" comic strip 1st broadcast on radio

1942 Birthday - Randy Boone, Fayetteville, North Carolina, actor, Cimarron Strip, Virginian

1941 Event - "Gordo" comic strip (by Gus Arriola) 1st appears in newspapers

1940 Event - "Brenda Starr" cartoon strip, by Dale Messick, 1st appears

1940 Event - "Brenda Starr," 1st cartoon strip by a woman, appears in Chicago

1939 Event - Comic strip "Superman" debuts

1938 Event - Comic strip "Dennis the Menace," 1st appears

1937 Event - "Prince Valiant" comic strip appears; known for historical detail

1936 Event - "Phantom" cartoon strip by Lee Falk debuts

1936 Birthday - Burt Reynolds, born in Michigan, actor, Evening Shade, Strip Tease, Cannonball

1934 Event - "Flash Gordon" comic strip (by Alex Raymond) debuts

1933 Birthday - Edd "Kookie" Byrnes, Louisiana, actor, 77 Sunset Strip, Jack the Ripper

1932 Birthday - Roger Smith, South Gate California, actor, 77 Sunset Strip

1932 Birthday - Paul Krassner, comic strip cartoonist, MAD Magazine, and founder, Yippies

1932 Event - "Pete the Tramp" cartoon strip by C D Russell debuts

1931 Event - Dick Tracy comic strip by Chester Gould debuts

1931 Birthday - Dick Tracy, comic strip crimestopper

1930 Event - 1st appearance of comic strip "Blondie"

1930 Event - "Mickey Mouse" comic strip 1st appears

1929 Event - Popeye makes 1st appearance, in comic strip "Thimble Theater"

1929 Event - "Buck Rogers," 1st sci-fi comic strip, premieres

1928 Birthday - Mickey Mouse, cartoon strip

1926 Birthday - Tom Ryan, comic strip cartoonist, Tumbleweeds

1926 Birthday - Stuart Whitman, born in San Francisco, California, actor, Captain Apache, Ransom, Cimarron Strip

1925 Birthday - Bob de Moor, Flemish comic strip artist, Kuifje, Lion of Flanders

1925 Birthday - Leonard Starr, comic strip cartoonist, Little Orphan Annie

1924 Event - "Little Orphan Annie" comic strip 1st published

1924 Event - Comic strip "Little Orphan Annie," by Harold Gray, debuts

1924 Birthday - Paul Conrad, comic strip cartoonist, LA Times

1923 Event - "Moon Mullins," Comic Strip, debuts

1922 Birthday - Little Orphan Annie, comic strip character

1921 Birthday - Allan Jaffee, comic strip cartoonist/illustrator, MAD Magazine

1919 Event - "Gasoline Alley" cartoon strip premieres in Chicago Tribune

1919 Event - "Barney Google" cartoon strip, by Billy De Beck, premieres

1918 Birthday - Efren Zimbalist, Jr., New York City, actor, 77 Sunset Strip, FBI, Scruples

1916 Event - 1st edition of Joseph Patterson/Sidney Smith strip "Gumps"

1910 Event - "Krazy Kat" comic strip by George Herriman debuts in New York Journal

1897 Event - Rudolph Dirks' 1st Katzenjammer cartoon strip in New York Journal

1895 Event - 1st cartoon comic strip is printed in a newspaper

1894 Event - 1st comic strip "Origin of a New Species," by Richard Outcault

1893 Event - Cherokee Strip, Oklahoma opens white settlement homesteaders

1875 Event - 1st newspaper cartoon strip

1790 Birthday - August Ferdinand Mobius, mathematician, inventor, Mobius strip













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