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| Edward Sapir |
Declared by UNESCO as the International Literacy Day.
1865: Mikhail Muraviev, governor-general of Vilnius officially outlaws the use of Latin characters in the printing of Lithuanian. In practice, this means a ban on Lithuanian print.
1914: In a letter to fellow lumper Edward Sapir, Alfred Kroeber wonders if there is no way of relating the extinct Beothuk to some existing family, so that the number of language families in North America can be reduced even further.
1945: The 26 500-page original draft of the Korean Big Joseon Language Dictionary resurfaces. It had been seized by the Japanese during World War II.
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