< Portal:Freedom of speech < Selected anniversaries
- 3 April 1968 – "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech by Martin Luther King Jr.
- 17 April 1790 – Death of Benjamin Franklin (pictured), a strong proponent of freedom of speech
- 17 April 1982 – Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms signed into law by Queen Elizabeth II of Canada
- 26 April 1968 – 19-year old Paul Robert Cohen was arrested for wearing a jacket bearing the words "Fuck the Draft" inside the Los Angeles Courthouse, leading to Supreme Court of the United States case, Cohen v. California
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