The Pakistani military maintained division and brigade strength presences in some of the Arab countries during the Arab-Israeli Wars, and the first Gulf War to help the Coalition as well as the Somalian and Bosnian conflicts.

* September 13 – Alija Izetbegović is elected president of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the country's first election since the Bosnian War.

* March 1 – The first victims of the Bosnian War are a Serb groom's father and an Orthodox Priest in a Sarajevo shooting.

* The Bosnian language is first mentioned in a document.

* The high academy of Bosnian religious organization in Moštre, Visoko, is first mentioned in Vatican archives.

Over 96 % of the people use Slovene as their first language ; among remaining 4 % of the people, major part speak Bosnian as their first language.

Storekeeper Louis Mikulich ( Mikulič ) became the first postmaster in July 1927 and renamed the town after the native Slovene village of many of the settlers, Travnik ( not to be confused with the Bosnian city of Travnik ).

In 1996, Croatia Airlines became the first airline to fly to Sarajevo after the Bosnian War.

Perry at first ruled out U. S. military action, but in April 1994 U. S. fighter planes participated in UN air strikes at Goražde, causing the Bosnian Serbs to retreat.

This is historically corroborated by the introduction and use of Arebica as a successor script for the Bosnian language, replacing Bosančica upon the introduction of Islam ; first amongst the elite, then amongst the public.

The first official dictionary in the Bosnian language was printed in the early 1630s, while the first dictionary in Serbian was printed only in the mid-19th century.

According to the Bosnian constitution, the first two candidates of each of the three constitutient nations would be elected to a seven-member multi-ethnic rotating presidency ( with two Croats, two Serbs, two Bosniaks and one Yugoslav ); a Croat took the post of prime minister and a Serb the presidency of the Assembly.

* Patriotic League ( Bosnian: Patriotska Liga ), a first military organisation of Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Lévy was one of the first French intellectuals to call for intervention in the Bosnian War in the 1990s, and spoke out early about the alleged Serbian concentration camps.

One of his first duties was to chair the London Summit on Bosnia which put much greater pressure on the Bosnian Serbs in the aftermath of the Srebrenica massacre and led, in due course, to the Dayton Accord which ended the fighting.

Basel were drawn against Bosnian minnows FK Sarajevo in the first qualifying round of the UEFA Cup, a tie that Basel won 8 – 1 on aggregate.

The Christian basilica are found throughout the country ( Zenica, Visoko, Mostar, Široki Brijeg ...), and their carved stone stonework influenced the first original medieval Bosnian art, found on tombstones – stećak.

The Charter of Kulin Ban is the symbolic birth certificate of Bosnia's statehood, as it is the first written document that refers to Bosnia's borders ( between the rivers of Drina, Sava and Una ) and the elements of the Bosnian state-the ruler, throne and political organization.

In 1991, just one year before the Bosnian War began, Zenica became the headquarters of one of the first private and independent radio stations in Eastern Europe, Radio CD-CEMP.

In the first issue where the journal was renamed LM, editor Mick Hume published an article by German journalist Thomas Deichmann which claimed that British Independent Television News ( ITN ) had misrepresented the Bosnian war in its coverage in 1992.

* September 5 – The Grumman F-14 Tomcat fighter is used as an attack aircraft for the first time when an F-14A operating from the aircraft carrier drops two 2, 000-pound ( 907-kg ) bombs on Bosnian Serb positions in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Stokoe used it for his 1965 A Dictionary of American Sign Language on Linguistic Principles, the first dictionary with entries in ASL — that is, the first dictionary which one could use to look up a sign without first knowing its conventional gloss in English.

* 1828 – Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary.

One particular contribution towards formalizing these differences came from Noah Webster, who wrote the first American dictionary ( published 1828 ) with the intention of showing that people in the United States spoke a different dialect from Britain, much like a regional accent.

Although the various Baltic tribes were mentioned by ancient historians as early as 98 B. C., the first attestation of a Baltic language was in about 1350, with the creation of the Elbing Prussian Vocabulary, a German to Prussian translation dictionary.

In Ó Duinnín's Irish dictionary ( 1904 ) it is referred to as Céadamh ( ain ) which it explains is short for Céad-shamh ( ain ) meaning " first ( of ) summer ".

The first Breton dictionary, the Catholicon, was also the first French dictionary.

The Oxford English dictionary cites a 1962 technical report as the first to use the term " data-base.

and deism is first found in a 1675 dictionary.

Jones had made an earlier notable attempt at a pronunciation dictionary but it was now that he produced the first edition of his famous English Pronouncing Dictionary, a work which in revised form is still in print.

Harris himself considered it a dictionary ; the work is one of the first technical dictionaries in any language.

According to Jan-Gustaf Ljunggren, in an article in the Swedish journal Läkartidningen ( 1983 ; No 32-33 ), in the 12th century, Zayn al-Din al-Jurjani, another Muslim physician, provided the first description of Graves ' disease after noting the association of goitre and exophthalmos in his Thesaurus of the Shah of Khwarazm, the major medical dictionary of its time.

His book is the first to list recipes alphabetically, perhaps a forerunner of the first culinary dictionary.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, institutionalisation of the word became complete with its first appearance in a dictionary ( 1848 ) and first appearance in an encyclopedia ( 1868 ).

Levita also compiled the first Hebrew-Yiddish dictionary.

The Merriam-Webster dictionary reports the etymology as from " the idea that the first month of marriage is the sweetest " ( 1546 ).

Adelaide Crapsey codified the couplet form into a two line rhymed verse of ten syllables per line with her image couplet poem On Seeing Weather-Beaten Trees, first published in 1915.

Before the 18th century the Kalevala poetry was common throughout Finland and Karelia but in the 18th century it began to disappear in Finland, first in western Finland, because European rhymed poetry became more common in Finland.

Melle Mel is cited as an Old School MC who epitomizes the Old School flow – Kool Moe Dee says, “ from 1970 to 1978 we rhymed one way Melle Mel, in 1978, gave us the new cadence we would use from 1978 to 1986 ... he ’ s the first emcee to explode in a new rhyme cadence, and change the way every emcee rhymed forever.

At the age of 25 he began to write professionally, translating works from German, his first publication being rhymed versions of ballads by Gottfried August Bürger in 1796.

Each episode in the first two seasons started with a country scene of faux-normal life in Olde England during which an introductory poem in rhymed cadence to the tune of the English folksong " Early One Morning ," which derived from a much later period than the series.

The oldest extant version of the anonymous Old French chanson de geste Quatre Fils Aymon dates from the late 12th century and comprises 18, 489 alexandrine ( 12 syllable ) verses grouped in assonanced and rhymed laisses ( the first 12, 120 verses use assonance ; critics suggest that the rhymed laisses derive from a different poet ).

* Wooter: the first vowel in the word water is rhymed with that of the verb put.

The four speakers represented, respectively, Sir William Davenant " ingenious " collaborator on their revision of The Tempest, Sir Robert Howard and Dryden's brother-in-law, the earl of Orrery Boyle, author of the first heroic play in rhymed couplets, and Dryden himself ( neander means " new man " and implies that Dryden, as a respected member of the gentry class, is entitled to join in this dialogue on an equal footing with the three older men who are his social superiors ).

Dukus horant is composed in four-line rhymed strophes, the first and second line of each strophe being distichal.

Ibsen adopted a contemporary setting ( for the first time since his St. John's Night of 1853 ) and a rhymed verse form for the play.

Tyrannick Love, or The Royal Martyr is a tragedy by John Dryden in rhymed couplets, first acted in June 1669, and published in 1670.

The longer first and third lines are rarely rhymed, although at times poets may use internal rhyme in these lines.

Although other women had translated or written dramas, her translation of Pompey broke new ground as the first rhymed version of a French tragedy in English and the first English play written by a woman to be performed on the professional stage.

Though his first book, a little volume of verse ( Romances ) published in 1596, and his last, a rhymed welcome to King Philip III, published in 1623, are written in Spanish he composed his eclogues and prose pastorals entirely in Portuguese, and thereby did a rare service to his country at a time when, owing to the Spanish domination, Castilian was the language preferred by " polite society " and by men of letters.

The first of these is the subject area of the chansons de geste (" songs of exploits " or " songs of ( heroic ) deeds "), epic poems typically composed in ten-syllable assonanced ( occasionally rhymed ) laisses.