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

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

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

Congress passes the McCarran-Walter Immigration bill over President Truman's veto. It abolishes racial restrictions, but retains national quotas....

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

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

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

Joseph Lewis is born. An author and a teacher, Joseph Lewis will be a leading advocate of atheism and...