1989 KHJ-TV in Los Angeles, California changes call letters to KCAL-TV
1989 AR Gurney's "Love Letters," premieres in New York City
1989 KSO-AM in Des Moines Iowa changes call letters to KGGO
1988 KWK-FM in St. Louis Missouri changes call letters to WKBG
1987 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 WIS-AM in Columbia South Carolina changes call letters to WVOC (now WOMG)
1986 KOB-AM in Albuquerque New Mexico changes call letters to KKOB
1986 KRE-AM in Berkeley, California changes call letters to KBLX (now KBFN)
1986 KXA-AM in Seattle, Washington changes call letters to KRPM
1986 KHJ-AM in Los Angeles, California changes call letters to KRTH
1985 WJW-AM/TV in Cleveland Ohio change call letters to WRMR
1985 KHQ-AM in Spokane WA changes call letters to KLSN (now KAQQ)
1984 KWK-AM in St. Louis MO changes call letters to KGLD
1984 KSD-AM in St. Louis MO changes call letters to KUSA
1984 WRC-AM in Washington D.C. changes call letters to WWRC
1983 KYA-AM in San Francisco, California changes call letters to KOIT
1983 WGH-AM in Newport News Virginia changes call letters to WNSY
1983 KMO-AM in Tacoma Washington changes call letters to KAMT (now KKMO)
1982 KGB-AM in San Diego, California changes call letters to KCNN (now KPOP)
1978 WRR-AM in Dallas Texas changes call letters to KAAM
1975 KOL-AM in Seattle Washington changes call letters to KMPS
1975 KTW-AM in Seattle Washington changes call letters to KYAC (now KKFX)
1973 Noel Coward, English playwright (Private Letters), dies at 73
1969 KAPN-AM in Santa Barbara, California changes call letters to KDB-AM
1969 KDB-AM in Santa Barbara, California changes call letters to KAPN
1969 "Letters To Laugh-In," debuts on NBC-TV
1969 101st Belmont: Braulio Baeza aboard Arts and Letters wins in 2:28.8
1969 Black Academy of Arts and Letters forms in Boston
1965 KYW-AM in Cleveland Ohio returns call letters to Philadelphia
1965 Israel and West Germany exchange letters beginning diplomatic relations
1963 KRE-AM in Berkeley, California changes call letters to KPAT
1962 WMGM-AM in New York City changes call letters to WHN
1960 KDBQ-AM in San Francisco, California changes call letters to KYA
1960 KYA-AM in San Francisco changes call letters to KDBQ (for 2 weeks)
1960 WRCA radio changes call letters back to WNBC (New York City)
1959 WOV-AM in New York City changes call letters to WADO
1959 KLX-AM in Oakland California changes call letters to KEWB (now KNEW)
1954 WNBC radio changes call letters to WRCA (New York City)
1949 KQW-AM in San Francisco, California changes call letters to KCBS
1948 WHN-AM in New York City changes call letters to WMGM
1947 KPO-AM in San Francisco, California changes call letters to KNBC (now KNBR)
1946 WEAF radio changes call letters to WNBC (New York City)
1945 KLS-AM in Oakland California changes call letters to KWBR (now KDIA)
1945 WLB-AM in Minneapolis Minnesota changes call letters to KUOM
1943 WEB Du Bois elected 1st black member, National Inst of Arts and Letters
1943 WEB DuBois becomes 1st Black member of National Institute of Letters
1941 WOV-AM and WNEW-AM in New York City swaps call letters
1936 KVL-AM in Seattle Washington changes call letters to KEEN (now KING)
1935 KTM-AM in Los Angeles California changes call letters to KEHE (now KABC)
1934 Ketty Lester, [Revoyda Frierson], U.S. singer and actress, Love Letters
1932 KUT-AM in Austin Texas changes call letters to KNOW
1926 Lee Hoiby, Madison Wisconsin, composer, 1957 Arts and Letters
1924 Mark Bucci, New York City, composer, 1959 Arts and Letters Award
1923 Joseph Heller, born in Brooklyn, New York, novelist, Catch-22, 1963 Arts and Letters Award
1922 Grace Paley, writer, 1970 Arts and Letters Award
1918 Madeleine L'Engle, [Franklin], U.S., sci-fi author, Ilsa, Love Letters
1917 Britain grants Royal Letters Patent to New Zealand
1916 Communist party "Spartacus Letters" 1st published in Berlin
1913 National Institute of Arts and Letters founded
1911 Hortense Calisher, New York City, novelist, Arts and Letters 1967
1910 National Institute of Arts and Letters incorporated by Congress
1907 Julia Ward Howe is 1st woman elected to National Inst of Arts and Letters
1905 Phyllis McGinley, U.S., poet, Pulitzer 1961, Love Letters
1904 American Academy of Arts and Letters forms
1904 1st athletic letters given (University of Chicago football team)
1904 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 Robert Gwathmey, artist, Arts and Letters
1902 Max Ophuls, Saarland, dir/writer, Letters From an Unknown Woman
1898 Ben Shahn, painter, 1964 Arts and Letters
1898 1st installment of William Dean Howell's "Life and Letters" appears
1896 Emile AH Seipgens, Dutch priest/beer brewer/man of letters, dies at 58
1890 Johann A H Scheler, Belgian man of letters/librarian, dies at 71
1890 Gerrit Engelke, German writer/poet, Love Letters
1883 Johannes van Vloten, Dutch man of letters/theologist, dies at 65
1861 Pony Express arrives in San Francisco with overland letters from New York
1846 Elizabeth Barrett and R Browning exchange last letters before eloping
1795 Willem de Clerq, Dutch merchant/man of letters
1787 Federalist letters start appearing in New York newspapers
1778 Ugo Foscolo, Italy, poet, Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis
1724 Jonathan Swift publishes last of Drapier's letters
1724 Jonathan Swift publishes Drapier's letters
1689 Charles de Montesquieu, France, philosopher and writer, Letters Persanes
1626 Marie de Sevigne, Paris, letter-writer, Portrait in Letters
1565 King Philip II's "Letters out Segovia" reaches Brussels
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