Portal:Freedom of speech/Selected anniversaries/August


 * 8 August 1942 – Passage of Quit India Resolution relating to Quit India Movement at the Bombay session of the All India Congress Committee (AICC)
 * 10 August 2010 – U.S. President Barack Obama (pictured) signed SPEECH Act into law
 * 11 August 1919 – Weimar Constitution signed into law by Republic's first President, Friedrich Ebert
 * 12 August 1998 – Death of C. Dickerman Williams; American lawyer who was known as a freedom of speech advocate