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| François Lenormant |
1883: Death of François Lenormant, the first (in quite some time, that is) to understand the Akkadian inscriptions from Mesopotamia.
1943: Lebanon launches a new constitution, in which both French and Arabic are recognized as co-official. The situation lasts for less than a month, when Arabic alone is declared the official language of the country.
1984: In the continuing debate on the need for a gender-neutral third-person singular pronoun in English-speaking, linguist Steven Schaufele of the University of Illinois suggests borrowing hann from Old Norse (which has already contributed they and them to English).
2003: Clinton Neakeahamuck “Lightning Foot” Wixon dies in Massachusetts. Wixon is thought to have been the last native speaker of Wampanoag.
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