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1993 Inkhata leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi begins 2 week speech 1992 President candidate Ross Perot at NAACP speech calls them "you people" 1990 Iraq televises an 8 minute uncensored speech from George Bush 1990 Hussein's Revolutionary Day speech claims Kuwait stole oil from Iraq 1989 Romania's dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's final speech (executed 12/25) 1987 Howard Stern holds a free speech rally at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza New York City 1986 President Reagan gives speech defending his judicial appointments 1982 President Reagan 1st United Nations Gen Assembly address, "evil empire" speech 1980 Norman Shelley, English radio actor (Churchill's Speech), dies at 77 1978 Former President Nixon makes 1st public speech since resigning in 1974 1974 U.S. Gen George Brown's speech deplores Jewish influence in U.S. over his treatment during the 1973 World Series 1964 Free Speech Movement launched at University of California, Berkley 1963 Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream speech" at Lincoln Memorial 1963 Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his "I have a dream" speech 1962 Bekkers of Bosch makes TV speech in Netherlands for birth control 1960 Longest speech in United Nations history (4 hrs, 29 mins, by Fidel Castro) 1957 President Eisenhower suffers a mild stroke, impairing his speech 1957 Mao's speech "On Correct Handling of Contradictions Among People" 1956 Speech by Khrushchev blasting Stalin made public 1952 Richard Nixon makes his "Checker's" speech 1951 Supreme Court rule "clear and present danger" of incitement to riot is not protected speech and can be a cause for arrest 1948 F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speech record of 1080 kph 1947 Marion Carl in D-558-I sets world aircraft speech record, 1,047 kph 1946 Patricia K Kuhl, speech and hearing scientist 1946 Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech (Fulton Missouri) 1941 FDR's "4 Freedoms" speech (speech, worship, from want and from fear) 1939 Lou Gehrig day; Gehrig makes "luckiest man" speech 1938 Banning speech on anti-fascism demonstration in Amsterdam 1935 Senator Huey Long of Louisiana spoke continually for 15 hours in Senate's longest speech on record (150,000 words) 1933 Curom, Curacaose Broadcast System starts: Princess Juliana's speech 1932 During King George V Christmas dinner speech, his chair collapes 1932 Henry Ford gives his 1st radio speech 1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt makes 1st presidential nominating conventional acceptance speech 1929 William Safire, political columnist, New York Times, speech writer, Nixon 1928 Prussia forbids speech from Adolf Hitler 1924 President Calvin Coolidge makes 1st presidential radio speech 1924 1st coast-to-coast radio hookup: Gen John Joseph Carty speech in Chicago 1922 Queen Wilhelmina's takes Dutch throne with 119 word speech 1922 GMcC Kitson, British principal, Central School of Speech/Drama 1918 Lenin, new leader of Soviet Russia, shot and wounded after speech 1901 1st advanced copy of inaugural speech (Jefferson-Natl Intelligencer) 1896 William Jennings Bryan "cross of gold" speech at Dem convention 1871 Jefferson Long of Georgia is 1st black to make an official speech in House of Representatives (opposing leniency to former Confederates) 1869 Hiram R. Revels makes 1st official speech by a black in the Senate 1869 John Menard is 1st black to make a speech in Congress 1862 Bismarck's "Blood and Iron" speech 1858 Lincoln makes a speech about when you can fool people 1854 Abraham Lincoln made his 1st political speech at Illinois State Fair 1841 Longest inauguration speech (8,443 words), William Henry Harrison 1824 Paul Broca, France, brain surgeon/anthro, located speech center 1812 Lord Byron makes his maiden speech in House of Lords 1793 Washington's 2nd inauguration, shortest speech (133 words) 1765 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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