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January 18
1779: Birth of Peter Mark Roget, the author of Roget’s Thesaurus.
1965: Birth of Lucy, the chimp taught American Sign Language by Roger Fouts.
1968: In a letter to Noam Chomsky, Jim McCawley assures the addressee that “There is no truth to the nasty rumor going around that the CIA is subsidizing my research in hopes of thereby diverting your energies from [protesting against] the [Vietnam] war”.
2000: The commission on “Japan’s Goals in the 21st century,” a consultative body for the prime minister suggests that English be given official status in Japan. Not unexpectedly, the proposal turns out to be highly controversial.
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