J. Wellington Wimpy (above), generally referred to as Wimpy, is one of the characters in the comic stripPopeye, by E. C. Segar and originally called Thimble Theatre, and in the Popeye cartoons based upon the strip. Wimpy debuted in the strip in 1931 and was one of the dominant characters in the newspaper strip, but when Popeye was adapted as an animated cartoon series by Fleischer Studios, Wimpy became a minor character.
DALLAS (AP) — Cartoonist Jim Davis (above) is offering up more than 11,000 “Garfield” comic strips hand-drawn on paper in an auction that will stretch into the coming years, with at least a couple of strips featuring the always- hungry orange cat with a sardonic sense of humor available weekly.
Dallas-based Heritage Auctions began offering up the strips in August. The auction house is selling two daily strips each week, along with longer Sunday strips being offered during the large-scale auctions throughout the year.
The strips span from the launch of “Garfield” in 1978 to 2011, when Davis began drawing the strip digitally. He says he still draws it by hand but now it’s with a stylus on a tablet instead of on paper with a pencil, pen and brush.
Musician and actor Sting (Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner) is 68 years old today. He was the principal songwriter, lead singer, and bassist for the new waverock band the Police from 1977 to 1984, and launched a solo career in 1985. He has included elements of rock, jazz, reggae, classical, new-age and worldbeat in his music.
Abraham Lincoln was a lawyer and politician. He served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the nation through the Civil War, its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. He preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the government, and modernized the economy.
On May 18, 1860, Abraham Lincoln was nominated as the Republican candidate for President of the United States.
On this day in 1999, the U.S. Senate voted on whether to remove President Bill Clinton from office following an impeachment trial which lasted five-weeks. Clinton was acquitted on both articles of impeachment. On the first charge of perjury, 45 Democrats and 10 Republicans voted “not guilty”and on the charge of obstruction of justice the Senate was split 50-50. .
After the trial concluded, President Clinton said he was “profoundly sorry” for the burden his behavior imposed on Congress and the American people.
President Clinton heads back to the Oval Office after making his statement to the press.
On this day in 1919, President Woodrow Wilson suffered a massive stroke that left himpartially paralyzed.
Final report on President Wilson’s condition written by Dr. Dercum.
It was on this day in 1985.
"Peanuts," the comic strip created by Charles M. Schulz, appeared for the first time in seven newspapers on this day in 1950.
Charles Monroe Schulz (November 26, 1922 – February 12, 2000)
Sting (Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner) is 67 years old today.
Multi-instrumentalist and singer for The Police, Sting is known for such hits as "Don’t Stand So Close to Me" and "Message in a Bottle." He also became a successful solo artist, releasing his first album The Dream of the Blue Turtles in 1985, followed by ten more albums within the next two decades.
