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| Ken Hale |
April 9
Death
of Michael Agricola (in 1557), the first to translate the Bible into
Finnish, is celebrated as the Finnish Language Day—a public holiday.
Elias Lönnrot, standardizer of this language, was also born this day in
1802.
1955: Ken Hale says “yes” to his Sara.
1981: Nature publishes a 207,000 letter description of the nucleotide links making up human mitochondrial DNA, which later makes it into the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest word there is.
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