TODAY IN HISTORY

On Feb. 13, 1633, Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial, accused of defending the theory that the Earth revolved around the sun.

In 1965, during the Vietnam War, President

Lyndon B. Johnson authorized Operation Rolling Thunder, an extended bombing campaign against the North Vietnamese.

In 1980, the 13th Winter Olympics opened in Lake Placid, New York.

In 1991, during Operation Desert Storm, allied warplanes destroyed an underground shelter in Baghdad that had been

identified as a military command center; Iraqi officials said 500 civilians were killed.

In 2000, Charles Schulz’s final “Peanuts” strip ran in Sunday newspapers, the day after the cartoonist died in his sleep at his California home at age 77.

In 2016, Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead; he was 79.