Portal:Freedom of speech/Selected anniversaries/June


 * 3 June 1926 – Birth of Allen Ginsberg (pictured); an American poet and one of the leading figures of the Beat Generation in the 1950s
 * 15 June 1917 – Passage of U.S. Espionage Act of 1917; originally prohibited any attempt to interfere with military operations, to support U.S. enemies during wartime, to promote insubordination in the military, or to interfere with military recruitment
 * 24 June 2010 – United States House of Representatives passed the DISCLOSE Act
 * 27 June 2011 – Decision reached by Supreme Court of the United States in case Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association