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Feb
13
Galileo faces charges in the Roman Inquisition, Catherine Howard, Henry the 8th sixth wife loses her head, and Ray Charles wins his eighth Grammy in This Day in History video. The date is February 13th. Galileo faced charges because his theory of the planets orbits was deemed heresy by the Roman Catholic Church.
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