Armenian Genocide: Large-scale deportations of Armenians begin in Turkey.

In London, the Church of Scientology loses a court battle to prevent two of its members from being extradited...

Adolf Hitler arrives in Munich, Germany, after fleeing conscription in the army of the Habsburg Empire. He rents a...

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

Friedrich Nietzsche's sister, Elisabeth, marries Bernhard Förster, a professional antisemite. In his writings, Förster describes Jews as a...

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

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

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