Lucy, Linus, Schroeder, Snoopy, Pig-Pen, and of course, Good Ol' Charlie Brown are all celebrating a birthday.
The very first "Peanuts" comic strip appeared on October 2, 1950 in just seven newspapers including the Chicago Tribune.
Benjamin L. Clark, curator of the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, California, tells WBBM, "it was a completely new thing...Schulz was pretty unproven at that time."
And, Clark says, Charlie Brown's creator drew from his Midwestern roots, "It's something that a lot of Midwesterners will look at and identify with. It's still a very Midwestern piece of art and literature. Peanuts has probably never been so popular, globally, than it is right now which is just incredible! There are all kinds of things happening all around the world."
The final Peanuts strip appeared in newspapers on February 13, 2000. Charles M. Schulz had died the day before.