Siege of Acre: Acre, the last territory in Palestine taken by the first Crusaders, falls to invading Muslim forces....

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

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

Crusaders massacre Jews in Worms, Germany, one of the most important communities of Ashkenazi Jews in Germany. The...

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

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

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

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

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

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