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1997 FCC makes available 311 for non-emergency calls and 711 for hearing or speech-impaired emergency calls

1996 WYNY-FM in New York City changes calls to WKTU-FM

1995 "Inspector Calls" closes at Royale Theater New York City after 454 performances

1994 Replay shows A's Bobby Witt beat KC's Gagne to 1st in 6th but ump Gary Cedarstrom calls him safe, runing Witt's perfect game

1994 "Inspector Calls" opens at Royale Theater New York City for 454 performances

1993 President Lissouba calls emergency rule in Congo-Brazzaville

1992 President candidate Ross Perot at NAACP speech calls them "you people"

1992 "Crazy He Calls Me" closes at Walter Kerr Theater New York City after 7 performances

1992 "Crazy He Calls Me" opens at Walter Kerr Theater New York City for 7 performances

1991 U.S.S.R. announces Iraq agrees to a proposal to end Persian Gulf War U.S. calls the plan unacceptable

1990 Esther Canseco calls Oakland A's manager Tony La Russa a "punk" for not starting husband Jose in the World Series

1990 President Bush calls up military reserves

1989 Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze calls for total destruction of Soviet and U.S. chemical weapons

1989 U.K. physicist Stephen Hawking calls Star Wars a "deliberate fraud"

1988 WBMW-FM, Washington D.C. changes calls to WJFK and begins airing Howard Stern

1988 Consumer Reports calls for a ban on the Suzuki Samurai automobile

1988 New York City Mayor Koch calls Reagan a "WIMP" in the war on drugs

1986 RUN DMC calls for a day of peace among LA street gangs

1986 Bolivia president Victor Paz Estensoro calls state of siege

1983 Edmonton Oilers beat New Jersey Devils, 13-4, Wayne Gretzky calls the Devils "a Mickey Mouse organization"

1983 President Reagan calls the U.S.S.R. an "Evil Empire"

1982 Howard Cossell calls his last fight after being disgusted by Larry Holmes-Tex Cobb mismatch

1980 John Arlott calls his last game, England vs. Australia at Lord's

1980 U.N. Security Council calls for South Africa to free Nelson Mandela

1980 Tony Beckley, actor (Assault, When a Stranger Calls), dies at 51

1978 Iraqi Ayatollah Khomeini calls for uprising in Irani army

1974 European Economic Community calls for a European Parliament

1974 Ayatollah Khomeini calls for an Islamic Republic in Iran

1973 Greek regime calls emergency crisis due to mass protests

1973 The Family Station Inc buys shortwave Radio Station WNYW, changes calls to WYFR and moves station from New York City to Scituate Mass

1969 "Soviet Sport" calls Emile Zatopek a public enemy

1968 LIFE mag calls Jimi Hendrix "most spectacular guitarist in the world"

1966 Shortwave station Radio New York Worldwide changes calls from WRUL to WNYW

1965 U.N. Security council calls for boycott of Rhodesia

1962 French President de Gaulle calls for Algeria's independence

1960 Elijah Muhammad, leader of Nation of Islam, calls for a black state

1957 Governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, calls out National Guard to stop 9 black students from entering a Little Rock high school

1956 KYW-AM in Philadelphia Penn gives calls to WTAM (now WWWE) Cleveland

1950 French Foreign min Robert Schuman calls for European community EGKS

1950 WOL-AM in Washington D.C. swaps calls with WWDC

1946 Sukarno calls for anti colonial defiance in Indonesia

1945 Lord Haw-Haw calls for crusade against the bolsheviks

1945 Italy's Communist Party (CPI) calls for armed uprising in Italy

1945 Archbishop De Jong calls for help with war casualties

1944 KJR-AM in Seattle Washington swaps calls with KOMO

1943 Ray Buktenica, born in Greenwich Village, New York City, actor, Rhoda, House Calls

1943 "Manifesto of Algerian People" calls for equality and self-determination

1942 "Durham Manifesto" calls for fundamental changes in race relations

1942 Radio Orange calls to defy order to wear "Jewish star"

1942 Radio Orange calls for March 1 day of prayer in Dutch Indies

1940 All-India-Moslem League calls for a Moslem homeland

1939 Churchill calls Soviets "riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma"

1939 Hitler calls for extermination of European Jews

1938 Dutch Minister of Justice Goseling calls fugitives of nazi-Germany "undesired strangers"

1935 Betsy von Furstenberg, Nelheim Ger, actress, Machine Calls it Murder

1935 1st "Hawaii Calls" radio program is broadcast

1933 Wayne Rogers, born in Birmingham, Alabama, actor, M*A*S*H, House Calls, Chiefs

1931 Arkansas legislature passes motion to pray for soul of H L Mencken after he calls state "apex of moronia"

1925 Beirut sultan Pasja al-Atrasj calls Druzen for holy war against France

1923 Gen Otto von Lossow calls Reichswehr to Berlin to form a dictatorship

1923 Lenin's "Political Testament" calls for removal of Stalin

1922 Pope Pius XI calls on Belgian people to unite

1922 WAAB (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) becomes 1st U.S. radio station with "W" calls

1918 President Hoover calls for "wheatless" and "meatless" days for war effort

1917 M Gorki calls Lenin a blind fanatic/unthinking adventurer

1917 Pravda calls for killing all capitalists, priests and officers

1916 Gen Douglas Haig finally calls off 1st Battle of the Somme in Europe

1915 St. Louis 3rd base coach Miller Huggins, calls for ball Brooklyn rookie obliges, Huggins steps aside, and Card runner scores

1915 Alexander Graham Bell in New York calls Thomas Watson in SF

1914 Pope Benedict XV calls for peace

1913 Sun Yet San calls for revolt against President Yuan Shikai in China

1906 Belgian King Leopold II calls Congo his private possession

1903 Queen Wilhelmina calls railroad strikers "criminals"

1900 German Navy Law calls for massive increase in sea power

1875 Andrassy Note calls for Christian-Muslim religious freedoms

1865 US Confederate Congress calls on black slaves for field service

1863 President Davis calls for this to be a day of fasting and prayer

1862 U.S. Confederate Congress calls up all white males (18-35 years)

1861 Missouri Governor Claiborne Jackson calls for 50,000 volunteers to stop Federates from taking over his state

1800 Pope Pius VII calls on French bishops to return to Gospel principles

1791 President Washington calls the U.S. Senate into its 1st special session

1788 King Louis XVI calls French States and Generals together

1787 "Federalist Papers" published, calls for ratification of Constitution

1689 Prince Willem III calls English parliament together

1648 French premier cardinal Mazarin calls Saint Louis Chamber together

1581 Portugese Cortes calls Philip II king of Portugal

1559 Pope Paul IV calls for deposition of sovereigns supporting heresy

1420 Pope Martinus I calls for crusade against the hussieten

1347 Rienzo calls Rome for people's tribunal



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