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JULY 21, 1925: SCOPES TRIAL RULING
In the case of John T. Scopes v. the State of Tennessee, the defendant, Scopes, was found guilty and fined $100 for teaching about evolution - which was illegal in the state at the time.
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July 21, 1925: Scopes Trial Ruling
In the case of John T. Scopes v. the State of Tennessee, the defendant, Scopes, was found guilty and fined $100 for teaching about evolution — which was illegal in the state at the time.Zinn Education Project
The original comic strip of one of the most recognisable and frequently replicated 'Peanuts' scenes, showing Charlie Brown and Snoopy sitting on a wooden dock and gazing at the sunset together, was published 36 years ago, on July 18, 1990. It's a single panel with a pretty basic scene, but it channels Schulz's distinct melancholy in such a simple, tender way that I think that's the reason it stuck.
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13 juillet 1927 : Naissance de Simone Veil, magistrate et femme d’État française.
Nommée Ministre de la Santé en 1974, elle fait adopter un an plus tard la loi dépénalisant en France le recours à l'interruption volontaire de grossesse (IVG).
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JUNE 27, 2015: BREE NEWSOME REMOVES CONFEDERATE FLAG
While politicians debated the implications of taking down the Confederate flag after the white supremacist murder of nine African Americans at Emmanuel AME Church, Bree Newsome scaled the South Carolina state flag pole and took the flag down.
