Famagusta's former governor Marco Antonio Bragadin is executed by the Ottoman Turk invaders in an unusually gruesome way. He...
A mob in the state of Georgia lynches Leo Frank, a Jewish factory manager, for the sexual molestation and...
Rudolf Hess commits suicide by strangulation in Spandau Prison in Berlin at the age of 93. Hess, the former...
Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel of Louisiana gives a speech on racial integration to an audience of more than 500...
Norma McCorvey (the "Jane Roe" of Roe v. Wade) is confirmed as a full member of the Roman Catholic...
This Month in Atheist History
Decided: Society of Separationists v. Herman — A divided 5th Circuit Court of Appeals rules 2-1 that judges can't...
Pope Gregory XVI issues the encyclical Mirari vos in which he complains about the growth of the ideal of...
Friedrich Engels dies in London, England at the age of 74 from throat cancer. Along with Karl Marx,...
Madalyn Murray O'Hair, her son Jon Garth, and her granddaughter Robin O'Hair are most likely kidnapped by David Waters,...
Felix Adler is born in Alzey, Germany. Founder of the Society for Ethical Culture in New York City in...