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2013 Event - In a speech directed at Japan's Self-Defense Forces, the Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, vows to defend the Senkaku Islands

2012 Event - In his first political speech, marking the five-year anniversary of his mother's death, ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's son, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, vows to maintain democracy and fight militancy

2012 Event - Queen Elizabeth II shares her Christmas Message with her Commonwealth subjects, referencing the 'humbling' experience of her diamond jubilee celebrations and the 2012 Summer Olympics;the speech is the first to be broadcast in 3D

2011 Event - In a speech outside of Potala Palace, Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping declares he will crush attempts for an Independent Tibet

2011 Event - The U.S. Department of Justice admits and defends it has probed WikiLeaks-related Twitter accounts, dismissing privacy and freedom of speech concerns

2010 Event - In a Potsdam speech, Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, claims multiculturalism has 'failed' in Germany

2010 Event - In China, 23 elder members of the Communist Party of China call for ending the country's restrictions on free speech

1996 Death - Mario Savio, activist, member of Berkeley Free Speech Movement, dies of heart attack at 53

1993 Event - Inkhata leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi begins 2 week speech

1990 Event - Iraq televises an 8 minute uncensored speech from George Bush

1990 Event - Hussein's Revolutionary Day speech claims Kuwait stole oil from Iraq

1989 Event - Romania's dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's final speech (executed 12/25)

1987 Event - Howard Stern holds a free speech rally at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza New York City

1986 Event - President Reagan gives speech defending his judicial appointments

1982 Event - President Reagan 1st United Nations General Assembly address, "evil empire" speech

1980 Death - Norman Shelley, English radio actor (Churchill's Speech), dies at 77

1978 Event - Former President Nixon makes 1st public speech since resigning in 1974

1974 Event - U.S. General George Brown's speech deplores Jewish influence in U.S. over his treatment during the 1973 World Series

1964 Event - Free Speech Movement launched at University of California, Berkley

1963 Event - Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream speech" at Lincoln Memorial

1962 Event - Bekkers of Bosch makes TV speech in Netherlands for birth control

1960 Event - Fidel Castro gives a very long speech at the United Nations, 4 hours, 29 minutes

1957 Event - President Eisenhower suffers a mild stroke, impairing his speech

1957 Event - Mao's speech "On Correct Handling of Contradictions Among People"

1956 Event - Speech by Khrushchev blasting Stalin made public

1952 Event - Richard Nixon makes his "Checker's" speech

1951 Event - Supreme Court rule "clear and present danger" of incitement to riot is not protected speech and can be a cause for arrest

1946 Birthday - Patricia K Kuhl, speech and hearing scientist

1946 Event - Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech in Fulton, Missouri

1942 Birthday - Mario Savio, born in New York, New York, activist, member of Berkeley Free Speech Movement, Sproul Plaza steps named Mario Savio Steps, taught mathematics, philosophy, logic at Sonoma State University

1941 Event - FDR's "4 Freedoms" speech (speech, worship, from want and from fear)

1939 Event - Lou Gehrig day; Gehrig makes "luckiest man" speech

1938 Event - Banning speech on anti-fascism demonstration in Amsterdam

1935 Event - Senator Huey Long of Louisiana spoke continually for 15 hours in Senate's longest speech on record (150,000 words)

1933 Event - Curom, Curacaose Broadcast System starts: Princess Juliana's speech

1932 Event - During King George V Christmas dinner speech, his chair collapes

1932 Event - Henry Ford gives his 1st radio speech

1932 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt makes 1st presidential nominating conventional acceptance speech

1929 Birthday - William Safire, political columnist, New York Times, speech writer, Nixon

1928 Event - Prussia forbids speech from Adolf Hitler

1924 Event - 1st coast-to-coast radio hookup: General John Joseph Carty speech in Chicago

1922 Event - Queen Wilhelmina's takes Dutch throne with 119 word speech

1922 Birthday - GMcC Kitson, British principal, Central School of Speech/Drama

1918 Event - Lenin, new leader of Soviet Russia, shot and wounded after speech

1915 Birthday - Aziz Nesin, born in Heybeliada, Istanbul, writer, humorist, author of over 100 books, political activist, championed free speech and human rights in Turkey

1901 Event - 1st advanced copy of inaugural speech (Jefferson-National Intelligencer)

1896 Event - William Jennings Bryan "cross of gold" speech at Dem convention

1871 Event - Jefferson Long of Georgia is 1st black to make an official speech in House of Representatives (opposing leniency to former Confederates)

1869 Event - Hiram R. Revels makes 1st official speech by a black in the Senate

1869 Event - John Menard is 1st black to make a speech in Congress

1862 Event - Bismarck's "Blood and Iron" speech

1858 Event - Lincoln makes a speech about when you can fool people

1854 Event - Abraham Lincoln made his 1st political speech at Illinois State Fair

1841 Event - Longest inauguration speech (8,443 words), William Henry Harrison

1824 Birthday - Paul Broca, France, brain surgeon/anthro, located speech center

1812 Event - Lord Byron makes his maiden speech in House of Lords

1793 Event - Washington's 2nd inauguration, shortest speech (133 words)

1765 Event - Patrick Henry historic speech against the Stamp Act, answering a cry of "Treason!" with, "If this be treason, make the most of it!"

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