2012 Event Love letters written between poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning are published online by Wellesley College and Baylor University 2010 Event An important peer-reviewed study of the spatial memory of bumblebees published the Biology Letters journal of the Royal Society is written by two eight year-olds 1989 Event KHJ-TV in Los Angeles, California changes call letters to KCAL-TV 1989 Event AR Gurney's "Love Letters," premieres in New York City 1989 Event KSO-AM in Des Moines Iowa changes call letters to KGGO 1988 Event KWK-FM in St. Louis Missouri changes call letters to WKBG 1987 Event WHN-AM in New York City changes call letters to WFAN (now WEVD) replacing WHN's country music, WYNY-FM adopts country music format 1986 Event WIS-AM in Columbia South Carolina changes call letters to WVOC (now WOMG) 1986 Event KOB-AM in Albuquerque New Mexico changes call letters to KKOB 1986 Event KRE-AM in Berkeley, California changes call letters to KBLX (now KBFN) 1986 Event KXA-AM in Seattle, Washington changes call letters to KRPM 1986 Event KHJ-AM in Los Angeles, California changes call letters to KRTH 1985 Event WJW-AM/TV in Cleveland Ohio change call letters to WRMR 1985 Event KHQ-AM in Spokane WA changes call letters to KLSN (now KAQQ) 1984 Event KWK-AM in St. Louis MO changes call letters to KGLD 1984 Event KSD-AM in St. Louis MO changes call letters to KUSA 1984 Event WRC-AM in Washington D.C. changes call letters to WWRC 1983 Event KYA-AM in San Francisco, California changes call letters to KOIT 1983 Event WGH-AM in Newport News Virginia changes call letters to WNSY 1983 Event KMO-AM in Tacoma Washington changes call letters to KAMT (now KKMO) 1982 Event KGB-AM in San Diego, California changes call letters to KCNN (now KPOP) 1978 Event WRR-AM in Dallas Texas changes call letters to KAAM 1975 Event KOL-AM in Seattle Washington changes call letters to KMPS 1975 Event KTW-AM in Seattle Washington changes call letters to KYAC (now KKFX) 1973 Death Noel Coward, English playwright (Private Letters), dies at 73 1969 Event KAPN-AM in Santa Barbara, California changes call letters to KDB-AM 1969 Event KDB-AM in Santa Barbara, California changes call letters to KAPN 1969 Event "Letters To Laugh-In," debuts on NBC-TV 1969 Event 101st Belmont: Braulio Baeza aboard Arts and Letters wins in 2:28.8 1969 Event Black Academy of Arts and Letters forms in Boston 1965 Event KYW-AM in Cleveland Ohio returns call letters to Philadelphia 1965 Event Israel and West Germany exchange letters beginning diplomatic relations 1963 Event KRE-AM in Berkeley, California changes call letters to KPAT 1962 Event WMGM-AM in New York City changes call letters to WHN 1960 Event KDBQ-AM in San Francisco, California changes call letters to KYA 1960 Event KYA-AM in San Francisco changes call letters to KDBQ (for 2 weeks) 1960 Event WRCA radio changes call letters back to WNBC (New York City) 1959 Event WOV-AM in New York City changes call letters to WADO 1959 Birthday Ken Watanabe, born in Koide, Japan, actor, Academy-Award nominee, appeared in films, 'Letters from Iwo Jima', 'The Last Samurai' 1959 Event KLX-AM in Oakland California changes call letters to KEWB (now KNEW) 1954 Event WNBC radio changes call letters to WRCA (New York City) 1954 Birthday Tobias Picker, born in New York City, New York, composer, awarded Joseph H. Bearns Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, Award in Music from American Academy of Arts and Letters, composer-in-residence for Houston Symphony, 1985 - 1990, music publisher, Schott Music Corporation 1949 Event KQW-AM in San Francisco, California changes call letters to KCBS 1948 Event WHN-AM in New York City changes call letters to WMGM 1947 Event KPO-AM in San Francisco, California changes call letters to KNBC (now KNBR) 1946 Event WEAF radio changes call letters to WNBC (New York City) 1945 Event KLS-AM in Oakland California changes call letters to KWBR (now KDIA) 1945 Event WLB-AM in Minneapolis Minnesota changes call letters to KUOM 1943 Event WEB Du Bois elected 1st black member, National Inst of Arts and Letters 1943 Event WEB DuBois becomes 1st Black member of National Institute of Letters 1941 Event WOV-AM and WNEW-AM in New York City swaps call letters 1936 Event KVL-AM in Seattle Washington changes call letters to KEEN (now KING) 1935 Event KTM-AM in Los Angeles California changes call letters to KEHE (now KABC) 1934 Birthday Ketty Lester, Revoyda Frierson, U.S. singer and actress, Love Letters 1933 Birthday Susan Sontag, born in New York City, Susan Rosenblatt, New York, writer, author, filmmaker, philosopher, political activist, 'Against Interpretation' established reputation as 'the Dark Lady of American Letters' 1932 Event KUT-AM in Austin Texas changes call letters to KNOW 1926 Death Rainer Maria Rilke, poet, wrote, 'The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge', 'Letters to a Young Poet', dies at 51 1926 Birthday Lee Hoiby, Madison Wisconsin, composer, 1957 Arts and Letters 1924 Birthday Mark Bucci, New York City, composer, 1959 Arts and Letters Award 1923 Birthday Joseph Heller, born in Brooklyn, New York, novelist, Catch-22, 1963 Arts and Letters Award 1917 Event Britain grants Royal Letters Patent to New Zealand 1916 Event Communist party "Spartacus Letters" 1st published in Berlin 1913 Event National Institute of Arts and Letters founded 1911 Birthday Hortense Calisher, New York City, novelist, Arts and Letters 1967 1910 Event National Institute of Arts and Letters incorporated by Congress 1907 Event Julia Ward Howe is 1st woman elected to National Inst of Arts and Letters 1905 Birthday Phyllis McGinley, U.S., poet, Pulitzer 1961, Love Letters 1904 Event American Academy of Arts and Letters forms 1904 Event 1st athletic letters given (University of Chicago football team) 1904 Event 1st college sports letters given to Seniors who played on University of Chicago's football team are awarded blankets with letter "C" on them 1903 Birthday Robert Gwathmey, artist, Arts and Letters 1902 Birthday Max Ophuls, Saarland, dir/writer, Letters From an Unknown Woman 1898 Birthday Ben Shahn, painter, 1964 Arts and Letters 1898 Event 1st installment of William Dean Howell's "Life and Letters" appears 1896 Death Emile AH Seipgens, Dutch priest/beer brewer/man of letters, dies at 58 1890 Death Johann A H Scheler, Belgian man of letters/librarian, dies at 71 1890 Birthday Gerrit Engelke, German writer/poet, Love Letters 1883 Death Johannes van Vloten, Dutch man of letters/theologist, dies at 65 1875 Birthday Rainer Maria Rilke, born in Prague, Austria-Hungary, poet, wrote, 'The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge', 'Letters to a Young Poet' 1861 Event Pony Express arrives in San Francisco with overland letters from New York 1846 Event Elizabeth Barrett and R Browning exchange last letters before eloping 1795 Birthday Willem de Clerq, Dutch merchant/man of letters 1787 Event Federalist letters start appearing in New York newspapers 1778 Birthday Ugo Foscolo, Italy, poet, Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis 1724 Event Jonathan Swift publishes last of Drapier's letters 1724 Event Jonathan Swift publishes Drapier's letters 1689 Birthday Charles de Montesquieu, France, philosopher and writer, Letters Persanes 1626 Birthday Marie de Sevigne, Paris, letter-writer, Portrait in Letters 1565 Event King Philip II's "Letters out Segovia" reaches Brussels
