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| View of the city of Lviv (Lvov) |
1950: London van driver Timothy Evans is hanged for the murder of his wife and child. Linguistic evidence later suggests that he was in fact innocent.
1956: Hellenist and comparative linguist Paul Kretschmer dies in Vienna.
2000: Hundreds of nationalist protesters in the Ukrainian city of Lviv (Lvov) demand the closure of all Russian-language publications. Others in Kyiv (Kiev) urged that Russian be banned from television as well.
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