Today in the history of the American comic strip: June 29

American cartoonists and writers may not have invented the comic strip, but some argue that the comics, as we know them today, are an American creation. Clearly, the United States has played an outsize role in the development of this underappreciated art form.

6.29.1940: The daily Flapper Fanny Says cartoon, launched by Ethel Hays in 1925, is discontinued five years after the Sunday page was dropped.
 

6.29.1964: George Fett debuts an all-animal strip, Sniffy. It was later renamed Little No-No and Sniffy. Still later, the name was changed once again, this time to Norbert. The comic ran until 1983.

Sniffy

Most of the information listed here from one day to the next comes from two online sites -- Wikipedia, and Don Markstein's Toonopedia -- as well as 100 Years of American Newspaper Comics, edited by Maurice Horn. Note that my focus is on American newspaper comic strips (and the occasional foreign strip that gained popularity in the United States). Thus, comic books and exclusively online comics are not included here.