Snoopy turns 60

October 4, 1951, Snoopy first appeared in the Peanuts comic strip. 60 years later people(especially me) still love him.

This is a nice tribute in Time magazine:

http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,2022745,00.html

You're a Good Man Charlie Brown is one of the most performed musicals in American history.

Charles Schultz passed away from complications of colon cancer Feb 12, 2000, one day before his final Peanuts strip ran in the Sunday paper.