In London, the Church of Scientology loses a court battle to prevent two of its members from being extradited...

Adolf Hitler arrives in Munich, Germany, after fleeing conscription in the army of the Habsburg Empire. He rents a...

Armenian Genocide: Large-scale deportations of Armenians begin in Turkey.

French philosopher Voltaire dies. Voltaire was one of the most famous of the French philosophers during the French Enlightenment...

Philosopher William K. Clifford is born in Exeter, England. A mathematician and philosopher who does not write a great...

Katharine Hepburn is born in Hartford, Connecticut. An American actress, Hepburn is outspoken about her atheism when the subject...

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....