<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_the_press" id="mwhA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Freedom of the press">Freedom of the press</a>: <i id="mwhQ">New York Weekly Journal</i> writer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Peter_Zenger" id="mwhg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="John Peter Zenger">John Peter Zenger</a> is acquitted of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seditious_libel" id="mwhw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Seditious libel">seditious libel</a> against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he had published was true.