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

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...

Decided: Brown vs. Board of Education — The U.S. Supreme Court rules 9-0 to end the legality of "separate...

Persian poet Omar Khayyam (full name: Ghiyath al-Din Abu'l-Fath 'Umar ibn Ibrahim Al-Nishapuri al-Khayyami) is born in Nishapur. ...

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

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

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