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Emergency Number Day

Emergency Number Day is held on September 11. United States. This event in the second decade of the month September is annual. Help us Help us 
11 September - Emergency Number Day
In the United States, the first emergency number appeared in 1946. The number was 116, which was an emergency line for Los Angeles, California. The first 911 emergency phone service first went into use in Alabama in 1968 and 911 systems became widespread during the 1980s.
The number 999 was first used in the UK to contact emergency services in 1937.

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