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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) 1954 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 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 1933 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 KUT-AM in Austin Texas changes call letters to KNOW 1926 Rainer Maria Rilke, poet, wrote, 'The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge', 'Letters to a Young Poet', dies at 51 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 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 1875 Rainer Maria Rilke, born in Prague, Austria-Hungary, poet, wrote, 'The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge', 'Letters to a Young Poet' 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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