Decided: Bob Jones University v. United States The U.S. Supreme Court upholds the IRS's policy of prohibiting tax exempt...

William Jennings Bryan, who will help prosecute John Scopes in Tennessee for violating the Butler Act prohibition against teaching...

Pope Pius VIII issues the encyclical Traditi humilitati in which he condemns the "foul contrivance of the sophists of...

Decided: ACLU v. Black Horse Regional Board of Education — The Third Circuit Court rules that a school cannot...

Buddhists believe that, on this date, the Buddha's spirit was freed when he attained enlightenment under a sacred Bodhi...

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

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...

George Carlin is born George Denis Patrick Carlin in Manhattan, New York City. Raised by his mother as...

In Afghanistan, the Taliban bans all women from driving — even including foreign women who are in Afghanistan as...