Butler Act prohibiting teaching of human evolution enacted

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21 March, 1925

The Butler Act which prohibited teaching of Human Evolution in the state of Tennessee was enacted on 21st March 1925. However, this did not stop John Scopes from teaching the same leading to the “Monkey Trial” (also known as “Scopes Trial”) later that year.