William Jennings Bryan, who will help prosecute John Scopes in Tennessee for violating the Butler Act prohibition against teaching...

Clarence Darrow, who will be part of the defense team for John Scopes in Dayton, Tennessee, explains in an...

Decided: Bob Jones University v. United States The U.S. Supreme Court upholds the IRS's policy of prohibiting tax exempt...

Pope Pius VIII issues the encyclical Traditi humilitati in which he condemns the "foul contrivance of the sophists of...

Buddhists believe that, on this date, the Buddha's spirit was freed when he attained enlightenment under a sacred Bodhi...

Joseph Lewis, President of the Freethinkers' Society, files a lawsuit to stop Bible reading and religious hymns in public...

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

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

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

Pope John Paul II admits that the Catholic Church made an error in 1663 when it condemned Galileo....