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| Giuseppe Mezzofanti |
1843: Italian cardinal and polyglot Giuseppe Gaspare Mezzofanti becomes an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
1882: Ferdinand de Saussure becomes assistant secretary of the Société de Linguistique de Paris.
1999: Andorra promulgates the Law on the organization of the usage of the Official Language, that is, Catalan.
2003: Joseph Mesa is arrested for two murders. He pleads insanity, blaming the murders on voices in his head. Since Mesa is deaf, these were not literally speaking voices, but gloved hands urging him to kill—in American Sign.
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