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| Nikolai Miliutin |
1755: Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language is published.
1817:
The first American school for the deaf opens at Hartford, Connecticut.
Thomas Gallaudet is its principal, and Laurent Clerc its only teacher.
It is through this school that French Sign is introduced into the New
World, where it eventually morphs into American Sign Language.
1864:
The Russian administration in Lithuania plans to introduce the Cyrillic
alphabet. In a letter to the governor-general of Vilnius, statesman
Nikolai Miliutin writes that “Our alphabet will finish what our sword
has begun”.
1958:
The European Community decides that all the official languages of the
member states shall also be official languages of the Community.
1966: As one of the last institutions to surrender, the Swedish supreme court opts to no longer use plural forms of verbs, a feature which has been absent from spoken Swedish for centuries.
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