Today in the history of the American comic strip: November 2

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.

11.2.1926: Howard Post, who debuted The Dropouts in 1968, is born in New York City. The strip remained in syndication until 1981.

11.2.1941: Fearless Fosdick, a comic strip within a comic strip, first appears in Al Capp’s Li’l Abner. The square-jawed Fosdick was a parody of Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy.
 
11.2.1946: Following the recent demise of the Sunday Batman and Robin strip, the daily strip is discontinued as well.

11.2.2008: Berkeley Breathed cancels Opus. The Sunday strip ran for only five years. It was Breathed's fourth strip, following The Academia Waltz, Bloom County and Outland.
 

Opus

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.