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

Decided: Stromberg v. California — The U.S. Supreme Court rules that laws banning the use of particular emblems or...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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