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

Rev. Sun Myung Moon, founder and leader of the Unification Church, is found guilty in federal court of four...

Pope John Paul II issues a "motu proprio" entitled Sacramentorum Sanctitatis Tutela. With this, the pope assigns exclusive canonical...

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

Decided: Foucha v. Louisiana - In a 5-4 ruling the U.S. Supreme Court decides that a person acquitted of...

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

In Berlin, the Nazis convert Freethinkers Hall, the national headquarters of the German Freethinkers League, into office space for...

Anarchist and freethinker Emma Goldman dies. Goldman always believed that freethought and anarchism were connected because both involve challenging...

British philosopher Bertrand Russell is born in Ravenscroft, Wales. Along with A.N. Whitehead, Russell will write Principia Mathematica in...

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