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March 27, 1959

Lucy's "Psychiatric Booth" makes its first appearance.

10381

May 26, 1959

Sally Brown's "birth" is announced.

10382

October 1959

Linus awaits the "Great Pumpkin" in a pumpkin patch for the first time.

10383

April 25, 1960

The phrase "Happiness is a Warm Puppy" first appears.

10384

Also in 1960, because Snoopy is now "thinking" and walking on two legs, the view of his doghouse is rotated from a 3/4 view, showing the name Snoopy across an arched entrance to the familiar "side on" view.

10385

Snoopy started typing atop his doghouse in July 1965.

10386

Snoopy "owned" a Van Gogh painting that was lost when his doghouse burned down, and replaced it with a painting by Andrew Wyeth.
Wyeth, of course, was tickled pink.

10387

"You're a Good Man Charlie Brown" premiered off Broadway in 1967, and finally made it to Broadway in a new, slightly updated version in 1999.
Cast albums to both version are out on CD.

10388

"Rerun" van Pelt got that name on May 31st, 1972. Until that day he was just the "new baby brother."

10389

The animator Bill Melendez has also provided the "voice" of Snoopy since the 1960s.

10390

Many of the strips caused some outcry, including a series where Peppermint Patty got tested for narcolepsy, placing Franklin (an African character) into a school with caucasian kids, Lucy's annual pulling the football away from Charlie Brown, using passages from the Bible (even in December, one of the holiest months in the Judeo-Christian calendar), and a 1980s cartoon where Woodstock is upset over Thanksgiving Turkeys.

10391

On June 6, 1993, Schulz used his cartoon to remember D-Day, which continued through 1999.

10392

In early 1997, a 12 minute piano concerto called Peanuts Gallery, composed by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich was performed at Carnegie Hall.

10393

52 straight posts!
That's it from me for now

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