Today In History (June 22 1633)

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TODAY IN HISTORY

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1633: The Church in Rome forces Italian scientist Galileo Galilei to publicly recant his heliocentric view of the solar system. Galileo, a pioneer in physics, astronomy, and the scientific method itself, would spend the rest of his life under house arrest.