Monkey Trial

In 1925, the so-called “Monkey Trial” ended in Dayton, Tenn., with John T. Scopes convicted of violating state law for teaching Darwin’s Theory of Evolution, says the Associated Press in its Today in History report. The conviction was later overturned on a technicality.

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