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| Anti-Hindi Agitation of 1965 |
1850: First German-language daily newspaper in the USA begins publication.
1884: Birthday of Edward Sapir.
1965: Rioting erupts in India after Hindi having been declared nation’s official language.
2005: In a refugee camp in southern Sweden, 20 Liberians riot on realizing that they have come to a country where English is not spoken natively. “We can’t learn Swedish”, they say, and demand being taken to the USA.
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