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August 4

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In 1735, freedom of the press in America won an important victory as a jury acquitted John Peter Zenger of the New York Weekly Journal of a charge of seditious libel brought by the royal governor of New York.

In 1790, a U.S. naval task force known as the Revenue Cutter Service was formed.  It would later become the Coast Guard.

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Britian's Queen Mother Elizabeth  (1900)

Track star Mary Decker Slaney  (1958)

Baseball pitcher Roger Clemens  (1962)

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"Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newpapers or newpapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."
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Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)