Topic: John Scopes

On May 5, 2019, Thailand officially crowned a new king for the first time in nearly seven decades -- Maha Vajiralongkorn.

On August 3, 1923, Calvin Coolidge took the oath of office as president of the United States following the unexpected death of President Warren G. Harding.

On May 25, 2008, NASA's Phoenix spacecraft made a smooth landing on Mars, completing a nine-month, 422 million-mile journey.

On May 5, 2003, authorities said a two-day wave of tornadoes killed about 40 people in Kansas, Missouri and Tennessee.

On July 10, 1992, former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega was sentenced to 40 years in prison for cocaine racketeering.

On May 5, 1925, biology teacher John Scopes was arrested for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in violation of Tennessee state laws.

On Aug. 3, 1981, U.S. air traffic controllers went on strike. The strikers were fired within one week.

On July 10, 1925, the so-called Monkey Trial, in which John Scopes was accused of teaching evolution in school, a violation of state law, began in Dayton, Tenn.

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