The U.S. House of Representatives passes the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution with 42 votes to spare...

Roman emperors Theodosius II and Valentinian III issue a new law limiting where people can draw a cross....

In Greenville, South Carolina, an all-white jury of 12 men acquits 28 whites who had been charged with beating,...

Meeting in Des Moins, Iowa, the national convention of the United Presbyterian Church votes overwhelmingly — 527 to 313...

In a meeting of their General Assembly, the Presbyterian Church passes a resolution denouncing the theory of evolution....

Friedrich Nietzsche's sister, Elisabeth, marries Bernhard Förster, a professional antisemite. In his writings, Förster describes Jews as a...

George Carlin is born George Denis Patrick Carlin in Manhattan, New York City. Raised by his mother as...

Anarchist and freethinker Emma Goldman dies. Goldman always believed that freethought and anarchism were connected because both involve challenging...

Clarence Darrow, who will be part of the defense team for John Scopes in Dayton, Tennessee, explains in an...

Thomas Henry Huxley is born in Middlesex, England. A natural scientist and author, Huxley will become widely known as...