Cartoonist Charles M. Schulz dies in California. That summer, in St. Paul, his childhood home, 101 individually decorated, five-foot-tall statues of Snoopy are displayed in a celebration of Schulz's life. Later in the year, two auctions of Snoopy statues (including some from the celebration and some made specially for auction) are held with the announcement that the money raised will be used as memorial funds to create a bronze sculpture of Schulz characters for downtown St. Paul, as well as to benefit the College of Visual Arts in St. Paul and provide scholarships at the Art Instruction Schools, a Minneapolis-based correspondence school where Schulz studied and taught. Snoopy statutes not placed for auction, it is also announced, will be returned to the local businesses and organizations that originally sponsored them.