According to Father Gianfranco Ghirlanda, dean of the canon law department of Rome's Gregorian University, when a bishop decides...

Pope John Paul II is born Karol Józef Wojtyla in Poland. During the first part of his life Wojtyla...

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...

The General Court of the Massachusetts issues a decree banning non-Christians and anyone not a member of the church...

Joseph Lewis, President of the Freethinkers' Society of New York, issues an appeal for donations to help fight a...

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

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

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

Thomas Henry Huxley is born in Middlesex, England. A natural scientist and author, Huxley will become widely known as...