Portal:Freedom of speech/Selected anniversaries/October

• 3 October 1978 – Broadway theatre production of First Monday in October opens at Majestic Theatre
• 6 October 2009 – Oral arguments heard in the Supreme Court of the United States case of United States v. Stevens
• 16 October 2012 – Release by hip hop recording artist Freeway (pictured) of mixtape Freedom of Speech
• 17 October 1970 – Death of Pierre Laporte, Canadian lawyer, journalist and politician who was the Deputy Premier and Minister of Labour of the province of Quebec before being kidnapped and assassinated by members of the group Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) during the October Crisis