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| Audrey Hepburn |
May 4
1904:
The Russian administration in Lithuania decides to allow the Lithuanian
alphabet (and in practice, the Lithuanian language itself) in print.
1919:
The so-called ‘May-fourth movement’ is founded among students in
Beijing. Its main goal is to protest against Japanese imperialism, but
the movement also plays a role in linguistic history in working for a
writing reform. As a result Bái-huà (‘colloquial language’) is
recognized as the standard written form of Chinese in 1992.
1929:
Birth of Audrey Hepburn, who played the role of Eliza in the film My Fair Lady, one of the all-too-few films featuring a linguist hero.
1943: Otto Jespersen is buried at the Lundehave cemetery.
1968:
American linguist Frederick Newmeyer presents his first public talk,
“Durative keep in English” at the University of Illinois.
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