TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT Feb. 12, 1999

The Senate voted to acquit President Bill Clinton of perjury and obstruction of justice.

ON THIS DATE 1909

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded.

1959

The redesigned Lincoln penny — with an image of the Lincoln Memorial replacing two ears of wheat on the reverse side — went into circulation.

1973

Operation Homecoming began as the first release of American prisoners of war from the Vietnam conflict took place.

2000

Charles M. Schulz, creator of the “Peanuts” comic strip, died in Santa Rosa, Calif. at age 77.