* 1925 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called " Monkey Trial " begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.

* 1925 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $ 100.

The trial drew intense national publicity, as national reporters flocked to the small town of Dayton, Tennessee, to cover the big-name lawyers representing each side.

The trial also brought publicity to the town of Dayton, Tennessee, and was hatched as a publicity stunt.

Overwhelmingly, the butt of these jokes was the prosecution and those aligned with it: Bryan, the city of Dayton, the state of Tennessee, and the entire South, as well as fundamentalist Christians and anti-evolutionists.

After Raulston ruled against the admission of scientific testimony, Mencken left Dayton, declaring in his last dispatch, " All that remains of the great cause of the State of Tennessee against the infidel Scopes is the formal business of bumping off the defendant.

* Text of the Closing Statement of William Jennings Bryan at the trial of John Scopes, Dayton, Tennessee, 1925

** Scopes Trial: Dayton, Tennessee, biology teacher John Scopes is arrested for teaching Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution.

** Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called " Monkey Trial " begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law.

* July 21 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $ 100.

The Christian right has not supported the teaching of evolution in the past, but it does not have the ability to stop it being taught in public schools as was done during the Scopes Trial in Dayton, Tennessee, in which a science teacher went on trial for teaching about the subject of evolution in a public school.

( The town in the play is really parallel to Dayton, Tennessee ).

Visitor to the Scopes Monkey Trial in Dayton, Tennessee in 1925.

The Board meets on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays at 7 P. M. at the Red Bank Hall located at 3117 Dayton Blvd., Red Bank, Tennessee.

Decatur is centered around the junction of Tennessee State Route 30, which connects the town to Athens to the east and Dayton to the west, and Tennessee State Route 58, which connects Decatur to Kingston to the north and Chattanooga to the south.

Dayton is a city and county seat in Rhea County, Tennessee, United States.

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Historically, Dayton has been the site for many patents and inventions since the 1870s.

At the site of the trial, the Rhea County Courthouse in Dayton, a $ 1-million restoration project was completed in 1979, which restored the second-floor courtroom to its original appearance during the Scopes trial.

Recently restored, the 1890 Dayton House is a community historic site and bed and breakfast.

The Mound Plant, built in 1947, was situated on a 306 – acre site in the city south of Dayton.

Dayton was the site of the Scopes Trial in 1925 dealing with the creation – evolution controversy.

Dayton was the site of a reported UFO incident on December 29, 1980 at 9 P. M. local time in which three people insist they were irradiated by a UFO.

The base is also notable for being the site of the Dayton Agreement, also known as the Dayton Accords, the peace agreement that put an end to the three and a half years of Bosnian war, one of the armed conflicts in the former Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia.

Dayton was reluctant to go along with the team's Arden Hills proposal because it would cost a total $ 1. 1 billion, including an additional $ 131 million for road improvements, and later tried to make a push to have the stadium built on the site of the Linden Hills farmers market in downtown Minneapolis.

On March 1, 2012, plans to build the stadium in either Arden Hills or the Linden Hills farmers market after an agreement was announced by Dayton for a new stadium to be built on the site of the Metrodome, pending approval by the state legislature and the Minneapolis city council.

In May 2012, the proposal to build the stadium on the Metrodome site was passed by the Minnesota Legislature and soon afterwards signed into law by Dayton ; On May 25, the proposal was officially finalized after receiving the approval of the Minneapolis City Council.

* Minnesota Office of Governor Mark Dayton official state site

* Mark Dayton for a Better Minnesota official campaign site

The Central Branch site as Dayton satisfied the powerful Ohio faction in Congress, as well as the numerous Union generals from Ohio, particularly William Tecumseh Sherman.

A memorial marker of the site of Fort Dayton can be found at the Historic Four Corners intersection on North Main Street in Herkimer.

* City of Dayton official site

On April 5, 1925, George Rappleyea, who worked as a local manager for the Cumberland Coal and Iron Company, happened to meet county superintendent of schools Walter White and local attorney Sue K. Hicks at Robinson's Drug Store and convinced them that the controversy of such a trial would give Dayton much needed publicity.

Downtown Dayton, 1925

In 1925, the famous Scopes Trial was held in Dayton and, for a period of time, filled the town with hucksters of every description and journalists from around the world.

On July 26, 1925, he drove from Chattanooga to Dayton to attend a church service, ate a meal, and died ( the result of diabetes and fatigue ) in his sleep that afternoon — just five days after the Scopes trial ended.

John Thomas Scopes ( August 3, 1900 – October 21, 1970 ) was a teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, who was charged on May 5, 1925 for violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in Tenneissee schools.

It included live music, political debates, comedy routines, and some of radio's first broadcasts of sporting events, including the Indianapolis 500 automobile race, and a live broadcast of the 1925 Scopes Trial from Dayton, Tennessee.

In 1925 – 1926, Dayton Miller performed interferometric observations at Mount Wilson, similar to the Michelson-Morley experiment, that appeared to reflect a measurable drift of the Earth through the luminiferous aether, in apparent contradiction with other experiments of that type and with relativity's prediction that no aether should be observable.

* Allais, Maurice, " The experiments of Dayton C. Miller ( 1925 – 1926 ) and the Theory of Relativity ".

** " The experiments by Dayton C Miller ( 1925 – 1926 ) and relativity theory ".

* Allais, Maurice, " Very significant regularities in the interferometric observations of Dayton C. Miller 1925 – 1926 ".

* Allais, Maurice, " New very significant regularities in the interferometric observations of Dayton C. Miller 1925 – 1926 ".

* Allais, Maurice, " The origin of the very significant regularities displayed in the interferometric observations of Dayton C. Miller 1925 – 1926: temperatures effects or space anisotropy ?".

Dayton, Ohio: National Historical Association, Inc., 1925 ?.

During the Scopes Trial in 1925, William Jennings Bryan expressed the wish that a school might be established in Dayton, " to teach truth from a Biblical perspective ".

It made its last flight from Dayton, Ohio to Washington, D. C. on 25 September 1925.