2015 Event The Vatican ends a five-year investigation into a key organization of U.S. nuns two years ahead of schedule and recommends no major changes; the group was under scrutiny for practices considered out of line with Catholic Church teaching 1988 Event Soviet Union agrees to allow teaching of Hebrew 1987 Event Supreme Court rules school teaching evolution need not teach creation 1982 Event Arkansas judge rules against obligatory teaching of creation 1968 Event Supreme Court declares Arkansas law banning teaching evolution in public schools unconstitutional 1966 Event Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, Michigan begins teaching 1952 Birthday 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 Birthday Neil McIntosh, CEO, VSO, Center for British Teaching 1933 Birthday 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 Event New York City public schools begin teaching Hebrew 1926 Event Teaching theory of evolution forbidden in Atlanta, Georgia schools 1925 Event Texas School Board prohibits teaching of evolution 1925 Event Scopes guilty of teaching evolution in a Tennessee High School, fined $100 and costs 1925 Event Monkey Trial ends-John Scopes found guilty of teaching Darwinism 1925 Event John T. Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee 1925 Event Tennessee becomes 1st state to outlaw teaching theory of evolution 1900 Birthday John T Scopes, Tennessee teacher convicted for teaching evolution 1890 Event President of Mormon Church in Salt Lake City issues a manifesto advising members that teaching and practice of polygamy should be abandoned 1887 Event Anne Sullivan begins teaching 6 year old blind-deaf Helen Keller 1519 Event University of Leuven convicts teaching of Luther
