CalendarZ

  1. Home
  2. On This Day
  3. August
  4. 2
  5. Viktor Zhirmunsky

Births on August 2

1891Aug, 2

Viktor Zhirmunsky

Viktor Zhirmunsky, Russian linguist and historian (d. 1971)
Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky (Russian: Ви́ктор Макси́мович Жирму́нский; 2 August 1891 – 31 January 1971; also Wiktor Maximowitsch Schirmunski, Zirmunskij, Schirmunski, Zhirmunskii; Russian: Ви́ктор Макси́мович Жирму́нский) was a Russian literary historian and linguist.

References

Choose Another Date

Events on 1891

  • 10Mar

    Strowger switch

    Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
  • 15May

    Rerum novarum

    Pope Leo XIII defends workers' rights and property rights in the encyclical Rerum novarum, the beginning of modern Catholic social teaching.
  • 20May

    Kinetoscope

    History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.