This Day in History: Feb. 13

On this day, Feb. 13 …

2016: Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, 79, is found dead at a private residence in the Big Bend area of West Texas.

Also on this day:

• 1633: Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for trial before the Inquisition, accused of defending the Copernican theory that Earth revolves around the sun instead of the other way around. 
• 1861: Abraham Lincoln is officially declared winner of the 1860 presidential election as electors cast their ballots.
• 1935: A jury in Flemington, N.J., finds Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty of first-degree murder in the kidnap-slaying of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh. (Hauptmann would be executed.)
• 1943: During World War II, the U.S. Marine Corps Women’s Reserve is officially established.
• 1974: Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn is expelled from the Soviet Union.
• 1996: The rock musical "Rent," by Jonathan Larson, opens off-Broadway in New York City.
• 1998: Dr. David Satcher is sworn in as the 16th surgeon general of the United States during an Oval Office ceremony.
• 2009: A $787 billion stimulus bill aimed at easing the worst economic crisis in decades clears both houses of Congress. 
• 2009: Peanut Corp. of America, the Lynchburg, Va.-based peanut processing company at the heart of a national salmonella outbreak, files for bankruptcy.

• 2017: President Trump’s embattled national security adviser, Michael Flynn, resigns following reports he had misled Vice President Mike Pence and other officials about his contacts with Russia. 

• 2018: President Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, says he has paid $130,000 out of his own pocket to porn actress Stormy Daniels, who claimed to have had a sexual relationship with Trump.