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Charles Monroe Schulz born.
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Schulz enrolls in Art Instruction Correspondence Course.
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"Sparky" Schulz's drawings are rejected from his high school yearbook.
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Schulz ships out for Army service, days after his mother dies of cancer.
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Schulz joins the evangelical Church of God, which promotes the universal brotherhood of Christians.
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The first Peanuts strip is published. Donna Wold, Sparky's red-haired first love, tells him she is going to marry someone else.
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Schulz marries Joyce Halverson.
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Schulz and family move from Minnesota to Northern California.
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Hallmark produces the first Peanuts greetings cards.
Peanuts is featured on the cover of Time Magazine. "A Charlie Brown Christmas" airs and wins an Emmy and a Peabody.
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Schulz's father dies while visiting him in California.
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Schulz and Joyce's Redwood Empire Ice Arena opens in Santa Rosa. Charlie Brown and Snoopy accompany astronauts to the moon on Apollo X.
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Schulz and Joyce divorce.
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Schulz marries Jeannie.
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Schulz has heart bypass surgery - hand is shaky thereafter.
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A Peanuts exhibit, "Snoopy in Fashion," opens at the Louvre, while in the same year the Smithsonian presents "This Is Your Childhood, Charlie Brown... Children in American Culture, 1945-1970."
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Schulz announces his retirement.
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Schulz dies from colon cancer, the same day his last strip runs in the papers.