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The creator of Charlie Brown, Charlie Schulz, was born.
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There isn't a set date of the end of the Great Depression. But Charles Schulz lived during it and the end of the Great Depression could have effected his dream to be a cartoonist.
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Charles Schulz lived throughout the second World War as well. The war could have made his career more difficult to pursue.
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Sometime in 1943 Schulz was drafted into the United States Army during WWII
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Charlie Brown first appeared in Charles Schulz comic strip, Lil' Folks in 1947. But the comic strip "Lil' Folks" only lasted until 1950.
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The first appearence of the comic strip "Peanuts" and the start of the most popular comic strip of all time.
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The first appearence of Lucy pulling away the football from Charlie Brown starting the most memorial moment in the Charlie Brown comics.
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In a comic in May had an icon that stated "Defend freedom, But US Savings Bonds".
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The Civil Rights act was around the same time as the comic strip and it was around the same time that Franklin appeared, an African American Peanut.
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The first animated TV special for the Peanuts aired on CBS for the first time.
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Charles Schulz gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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The creator of Charlie Brown and the Peanuts died. He worked on the Peanut strips up until his last day.
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The last strip of "Peanuts" was released in papers the day after Schulz death announcing the retirement of Peanuts within the strip with Snoopy on his type writer and a not from Charles Schulz.