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| Minsk, Belarus |
May 25
1917:
The town of Minsk in Belarus gives official recognition to Yiddish. The
special status of Yiddish in the republic is later manifested in the
coat of arms, which bears the inscription “Workers of the world, unite”
in Russian, Belarusan, Polish, and Yiddish.
1925: Otto Jespersen gives his last lecture at the University of Copenhagen.
1948:
Andrew Booth’s computer intended for machine translation experiments is
demonstrated to representatives of the Rockefeller foundation,
which finances the project.
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