John Thomas Scopes, a substitute science teacher in Tennessee, was found guilty of teaching evolution in school.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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John Thomas Scopes, a substitute science teacher in Tennessee, was found guilty of teaching evolution in school.
Eichmann was known as the architect of the Final Solution, the man who coordinated the transportation of Jews from across Europe to Death Camps in the East.
On the 5th August 1962, Nelson Mandela was arrested near the South African town of Howick and imprisoned facing charges of inciting workers’ strikes and leaving the country without a passport.
On the 20th November 1945 the first, and best known, of the Nuremberg Trials began.
On the 18th August 1612, the trials of nine Lancashire women and two men known as the Pendle Witches began.
On the 11th April 1961, the trial of Nazi SS Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann began in Israel.
On the 7th April 1498, a group of Franciscan monks met their Dominican rivals in the Piazza della Signoria in Florence to take part in the first trial by fire in 400 years.
On the 9th March 1841, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that captive Africans who had seized control of the Amistad ship had been taken into slavery illegally and were therefore free under American law.
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