English philosopher John Stuart Mill is born in London, England. John Stuart Mill will be best remembered for...

Adolf Hitler chooses the right-handed (counter-clockwise) swastika as the symbol for the NSDAP. This was the swastika form which...

Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist, dies. Stephen Jay Gould was one of the best known and most popular writers...

Germany's Nuremberg Race Laws are officially imposed on Austria. These laws deny Jews full citizenship for the "protection...

In Kabul, Afghanistan, the Taliban force an Italian-funded surgical hospital to close because it violates Muslim religious bans on...

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

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

Pope John Paul II admits that the Catholic Church made an error in 1663 when it condemned Galileo....

Clarence Darrow, who has volunteered to help defend John Scopes in his trial for violating the Butler Act prohibition...

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