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2012 Event - Dallas, Texas Mayor Mike Rawlings declares a state of emergency after an outbreak of West Nile Virus kills at least 17 people; the city plans to combat the mosquitoes with aerial spraying of pyrethroid insecticides

2012 Event - The 'immediate and severe' fiscal emergency declared by the U.S. city San Bernardino, California, allows it to declare bankruptcy without negotiating with creditors

2012 Event - Clashes between Buddhists and Muslims occurs in western Burma, causing the area to declare a state of emergency

2011 Event - In Peru, protests over a mining project persist in four provinces, causing the country to declare a state of emergency

2011 Event - In Italy, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi resigns, as an emergency government takes his place to deal with the country's economic crisis

2011 Event - An emergency meeting to discuss the European sovereign debt crisis is held by leaders of the European Union

2011 Event - A state of emergency is declared by Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal after Tropical Storm Lee in the northern Gulf of Mexico

2011 Event - Over half of the country of Peru enters a state of emergency as a result of unusually cold weather

2011 Event - Tornadoes hit Joplin, Missouri, and a state of emergency is declared; more tornadoes hit Minneapolis, Minnesota and warnings are announced in states from Texas to Michigan

2011 Event - Newspapers report that Japan will issue over 10 trillion yen in emergency government bonds to help pay for their earthquake and tsunami recovery efforts

2011 Event - Analysts report a nuclear meltdown may be occurring at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant; a state of emergency is declared at five plants

2011 Event - A state of emergency due to snow is declared in St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota

2011 Event - Pakistan's President, Asif Ali Zardari, launched an emergency polio immunization programme targeting 32 million children under age 5

2010 Event - After facing heavy flooding and mudslides, the President of Venezuela declares a state of emergency in the state of Falcon

2010 Event - In Guatemala, heavy rains and landslides kill at least 18 people and a state of emergency is declared

2010 Event - The 2010 Canterbury earthquake leads the town of Christchurch, New Zealand, to declare a curfew and state of emergency

2010 Event - Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California, responds to a fiscal state of emergency by requiring most state employees to take three days of unpaid leave per month

2010 Event - John Holmes, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator announces Niger faces total crop failure worse than that of 2005

2000 Death - Julie London, singer/actress, Emergency!, dies at 74

1999 Death - Bobby Troup, actor/songwriter, Emergency!, dies at 80

1998 Event - Britain's Queen Mother, 97, gets an emergency hip replacement

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

1993 Event - Boris Yeltsin declares state of emergency in Moscow

1993 Event - President Lissouba calls emergency rule in Congo-Brazzaville

1990 Event - South Africa President F W de Klerk lifts 4 year of state of emergency

1986 Event - President Reagan criticizes South African state of emergency

1986 Event - P. W. Botha declares South African national emergency

1986 Event - South Africa emergency crisis in Brabant and Limburg ends

1975 Event - Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declares a state of emergency

1973 Event - Greek regime calls emergency crisis due to mass protests

1972 Event - President Marcos ends emergency crisis in Philippines

1972 Event - British premier Heath proclaims emergency crisis due to harbor strike

1972 Event - British Government declares state of emergency after month-long miners' strike

1972 Event - "Emergency" with Robert Fuller premieres on NBC TV

1971 Event - Mayor declares state of emergency in Columbus Ga, racial disturbance

1971 Event - National Emergency Center erroneously orders U.S. radio and TV stations to go off the air. Mistake wasn't resolved for 30 minutes

1969 Event - Spanish General Franco announces state of emergency

1968 Event - West German Parliament accepts emergency crisis law

1966 Event - Governor James Rhodes declares state of emergency in Cleveland, race riot

1965 Event - NL adopts emergency team replacement plan to restock any club struck by disaster

1964 Event - Emergency crisis proclaimed in Ceylon due to social unrest

1961 Event - Emergency crisis proclaimed in South Vietnam due to commun attack

1959 Event - State of emergency on Cyprus ends

1959 Event - President Somoza ends emergency crisis in Nicaragua

1959 Event - British government arrests Hastings Banda of Nyasaland, ends emergency crisis

1958 Event - Ceylon emergency crisis proclaimed

1958 Event - Emergency crisis proclaimed in Algeria

1956 Event - Emergency crisis in North Ireland proclaimed after IRA strikes

1955 Event - Emergency crisis proclaimed in Cyprus

1955 Event - Great Britain proclaims emergency crisis due to railroad strike

1954 Event - Egyptian President Naguib fired/state of emergency declared

1952 Event - Emergency crisis proclaimed in Kenya

1950 Event - Truman proclaims state of emergency against "Communist imperialism"

1950 Event - U.S. President Truman proclaims emergency crisis caused by communist threat

1950 Event - Philippines president Quirino ends emergency crisis

1950 Event - 4,000 attend National Emergency Civil Rights Conference in Washington D.C.

1946 Event - Minister Drees begins emergency rule of old age facilities

1945 Birthday - Randolph Mantooth, Sacramento California, actor, Emergency, Loving

1941 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt declares state of emergency due to Germany's sinking of Robin Moor

1940 Event - 2 German officers make emergency landing in Belgium

1939 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt declares "limited national emergency" due to war in Europe

1937 Event - Britian begins using an emergency phone number (999)

1933 Event - 2nd emergency Dutch government of Colijn forms

1933 Event - Federal Emergency Relief Administration and Agricultural Adjustment Administration form to help the needy and farmers

1925 Event - State of emergency crisis in Bayern ends, NSDAP re-allowed

1925 Event - Dogsleds reach Nome with emergency diphtheria serum after 1000-km

1918 Birthday - Bobby Troup, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, pianist/actor, Emergency, Acapulco

1886 Event - President Cleveland declares a state of emergency in Seattle because of anti-Chinese violence

1877 Birthday - Rene de Clerq, Flemish poet and author, Emergency Horn

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