T.E. Lawrence, better known internationally as Lawrence of Arabia, dies of injuries received in a motorcycle accident six days...

Newly revealed documents from the Pentagon reveal that military officials are investigating more than two dozen deaths and many...

An anonymous Catholic priest writing in the official Jesuit journal La Civilta Catholica explains why the organization Friends of...

In St. Peter's Basilica, the tomb of Pope Pius X is opened up so his coffin can be exhumed...

The Faculty of Theology at the University of Cologne endorses Heinrich Kramer and Johann Sprenger's book Malleus Maleficarum (The...

British philosopher Bertrand Russell is born in Ravenscroft, Wales. Along with A.N. Whitehead, Russell will write Principia Mathematica in...

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

Joseph Lewis, President of the Freethinkers' Society of New York, issues an appeal for donations to help fight a...

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

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