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| Paul Passy |
January 13
1795: In the USA, a parliamentary vote gives rise to the urban legend that German was about to become the country’s official language.
1859: Birth of Paul Passy, French linguist and phonetician, and—not least—the founder of the International Phonetic Association.
1877: A young Swiss linguist named Ferdinand de Saussure gives his first talk to the prestigious Société de linguistique de Paris.
1900: Emperor Franz Joseph decrees that German be the language of the Austro-Hungarian imperial army.
1926: Roman Jakobson makes his first presentation at the Prague Linguistics Circle on the subject of “sound laws and the teleological criterion”.
1943: Spanish Vasconist Koldo (Luís) Mitxelena is released on probation from his political imprisonment.
2000: Death of Alvin Liberman.
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