The first call using the standard 911 emergency number system was made on this day in history, Feb. 16, 1968. It came years after a murder proved the need for the system.
Fox News senior correspondent Laura Ingle provides details from 911 calls the night New Jersey Councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour was shot and killed.The landmark moment came four years after the shocking unreported murder of awoman proved to many Americans the need for a standard and easy-to-use system to call for emergency assistance.
or a firehouse, most likely after sifting through the pages of the phone book — a large tome in major metropolitan areas. Kitty Genovese, 28, was attacked with a knife on the night of March 13, 1964. She bled to death in the stairwell of her Queens apartment, PBS documentary"Independent Lens" reported in 2017.
"While the history is a little more complex than that," PBS reports,"it’s true that the tragedy was one of the inspirations for the system we know today."
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