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| Nikolai Yakovlevich Marr |
1912: Nikolai Yakovlevich Marr becomes an ordinary academy member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
1952: The BBC broadcasts Deciphering Europe’s earliest scripts, in which Michael Ventris’s cracking of the Linear B writing a month earlier is first announced to a wider audience.
1966: The department of linguistics at the University of California at Los Angeles is officially founded.
1990: Harvard University Press publishes Phil Lieberman’s The Biology and Evolution of Language.
1993: Ken Pike is awarded the Doctor of Philosophy, honoris causa from Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany
1997: Hong Kong University gets a linguistics department.
1999: The Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation begins the first regular televised news broadcast in Creole, the only language understood by the entire population.
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