Affirmed: Freiler v. Tangipahoa — The Supreme Court lets stand a Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision that found...

Decided: Metzl v. Leininger — According to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, Illinois' policy of making Good Friday...

Joe Louis is knocked out by Germany's Max Schmeling. This is treated as a vindication of Nazi racial beliefs,...

Indian author Salman Rushdie is born in Bombay (later Mumbai). He starts out as a copywriter for an...

Blaise Pascal is born in Clermont-Ferrand, France. A mathematician and theologian, Pascal will become well known for his work...

Five men with sophisticated eavesdropping and photographic equipment are arrested for burglary at the headquarters of the Democratic National...

Thomas Henry Huxley dies in Sussex, England. A natural scientist and author, Huxley has become so closely associated...

Decided: Abington Township School District v. Schempp — The Supreme Court rules 8-1 against the mandatory recitation of the...

Decided: Coit v. Green Black families who had children attending public schools in Mississippi filed suit to have the...

Anthony Collins is born in England. A philosopher and prominent deist, he will argue quite forcefully in defense of...