Portal:Freedom of speech/Selected anniversaries/April

• 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