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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 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 Minister 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 1935 Renata Scotto, born in Savona, Italy, singer, soprano, performed La Traviata at age 18, received 15 curtain calls performing Walter in La Wally at La Scala, 1953, directs opera and teaches at her opera academy in Italy, New York 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 General 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 General 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 U.S. 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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