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1988 Soviet Union agrees to allow teaching of Hebrew

1987 Supreme Court rules school teaching evolution need not teach creation

1982 Arkansas judge rules against obligatory teaching of creation

1968 Supreme Court declares Arkansas law banning teaching evolution in public schools unconstitutional

1966 Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, Michigan begins teaching

1952 Orhan Pamuk, born in Istanbul, Turkey, novelist, professor in the Humanities, teaching comparative literature, writing, at Columbia University, received 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature

1947 Neil McIntosh, CEO, VSO, Center for British Teaching

1933 Edward de Bono, physician, inventor, consultant, author, invented term lateral thinking, promoted deliberate teaching of thinking as a subject in public schools, advanced applied psychology, making theories about creativity, perception into usable tools

1930 New York City public schools begin teaching Hebrew

1926 Teaching theory of evolution forbidden in Atlanta, Georgia schools

1925 Texas School Board prohibits teaching of evolution

1925 Scopes guilty of teaching evolution in a Tennessee High School, fined $100 and costs

1925 Monkey Trial ends-John Scopes found guilty of teaching Darwinism

1925 John T. Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee

1925 Tennessee becomes 1st state to outlaw teaching theory of evolution

1900 John T Scopes, Tennessee teacher convicted for teaching evolution

1890 President of Mormon Church in Salt Lake City issues a manifesto advising members that teaching and practice of polygamy should be abandoned

1887 Anne Sullivan begins teaching 6 year old blind-deaf Helen Keller

1519 University of Leuven convicts teaching of Luther


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