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

Affirmed: Freiler v. Tangipahoa — The Supreme Court lets stand a Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision that found...

Decided: Santa Fe School District v. Doe The Supreme Court ruled that official, student-led prayers before a school football...

Karl Marx marries Jenny von Westphalen (Baroness Johanna Bertha Julie "Jenny" von Westphalen) in the Kreuznacher Pauluskirche. Born into...

Decided: Metzl v. Leininger — According to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, Illinois' policy of making Good Friday...

L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology, is awarded an emergency divorce from his wife, Sara Northrup...

Madalyn Murray O'Hair broadcasts the first episode of "Atheist Point of View," an atheist radio program that will continue...

Decided: Coit v. Green Black families who had children attending public schools in Mississippi filed suit to have the...

Decided: Texas v Johnson — The Supreme Court rules 5-4 in the case of that the government cannot ban...

The Equal Rights Amendment fails. Approval from thirty-eight states is needed for ratification, but only thirty-five have voted for...