Battle of the Catalaunian Plains: The combined forces of the Romans, Visigoths, and other vassal tribes attempt to stop...

The Southern Baptist Convention, meeting in Atlanta, formally apologizes to African-Americans for "condoning and/or perpetuating individual and systemic racism...

Kazimierz Piechowski and three other prisoners in Auschwitz dress up as members of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, complete with sidearms, then...

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

American philosopher and educator John Dewey dies at the age of 92 in New York. A promoter of...

An article about Madalyn Murray O'Hair appears in Life magazine. Written by Jane Howard, this is one of the...

Originally created by Pope Paul IV in 1557, the 'Index of Prohibited Books' (Index Librorum Prohibitorum) is abolished by...

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