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What are the four major guilt groups according to the comic strip 'Cathy'? Cathy has said that the four major guilt groups are food, love, career and mothers. Cathy's creator, Cathy Guisewite, celebrates her birthday today. In August 2010, she announced that the final Cathy strip would run in newspapers on October 3, 2010. According to an AP article, after producing the comic strip for 34 years, Guisewite wants to channel her creativity elsewhere. She also looks forward to spending more time with her family. Cathy's story line was often based on events and mishaps in Guisewite's own life. She has said that the relationship between comic strip Cathy and her mother is taken straight from Guisewite's relationship with her own mother. Comic strip Cathy's mother always had a current copy of Bride magazine in her purse; Guisewite's mother began collecting wedding silver for her daughter when Guisewite was just a baby.

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"Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material." — Cathy Guisewite

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Today's History

Jack Kerouac

• Peter the Great: the Russian czar levied a tax on beards (1698)
• Continental Congress: delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies (Georgia did not attend) convened in Philadelphia to seek repeal of the British Intolerable Acts (1774)
• Sam Houston: was elected the first president of the Republic of Texas (1836)
• On the Road: Jack Kerouac's stream-of-consciousness novel, considered a defining work of the Beat Generation, was published (1957)
• Munich Massacre: Palestinian terrorists of the Black September group murdered 11 Israeli athletes at the Summer Olympics (1972)

Today's Birthdays

Raquel Welch

• Louis XIV (1638-1715): king of France and Navarre
• Jesse James (1847-1882): outlaw of the American Old West
• Werner Herzog (68): director, screenwriter and producer; filmmakers Darryl F. Zanuck (1902-1979) and Dennis Dugan (64) were also born on this date
• John Cage (1912-1992): avant garde composer; plus, musicians Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782), Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864), Loudon Wainwright III (64), Freddie Mercury (1946-1991) and Dweezil Zappa (41)
• Raquel Welch (70): actor, sex symbol; also, actors Bob Newhart (81), Carol Lawrence (78), William Devane (73), George Lazenby (71), Michael Keaton (59), Kristian Alfonso (47) and Rose McGowan (37)