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Peanuts, one of the last original comic strip appears in the newspaper one day after Charles M. Schulz dies.
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Events in U.S. history.
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Disney California Adventure Park opens to the public as part of the Disneyland Resort.
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Kidnapped Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is murdered.
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An arsonist destroys a train, killing over 190 people.
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The New England Patriots win Super Bowl XXXVlll.
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The Italy-USA foundation is established
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12 dead coal miners and one survivor are discovered in the Sago Mine Disaster.
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Thirty-two people are killed in the Virgina Tech massacre on the premises of Virgina Polytechnic Institute and State University.
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The 2008 Summer Olympics begin
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Gunmen attack a bus carrying Sri Lankan cricketers in Pakistan, killing 8 people and others several injured.
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The 2010 Olympics are held.
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About two billion people watched the wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey.
