Charlie Brown celebrates 65th birthday
(AGI) Rome, Oct. 1 - Friday marks the 65th anniversary of the"Peanuts" comic strip with Snoopy, Charlie Brown and Linus. Thecomic strip made by Charles Monroe Schultz made its debut inseven newspapers on Oct. 2, 1950: The Washington Post, TheChicago Tribune, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, The AllentownCall-Chronicle, The Bethlehem Globe-Times, The Denver Post andThe Seattle Times. It continued to be published until Feb. 13,2000, a day after Schultz died. When Schulz announced hisretirement in December 1999, Peanuts was syndicated in morethan 2,600 newspapers worldwide. It had over 355 millionreaders in 75