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1994 Brady Law, imposing a wait-period to buy a hand-gun, went into effect

1992 Americans with Disabilities Act went into effect

1983 Last hand-cranked telephones U.S. went out of service as 440 telephone customers in Bryant Pond, Maine, were switched over to direct-dial

1979 Charlie Daniels Band releases "Devil Went Down to Georgia"

1976 Superstation WTBS in Atlanta went national

1972 Republican convention (Miami Beach, Fla) renominates VP Agnew but not unanimous-1 vote went to NBC newsman David Brinkley)

1968 Country's 1st 911 phone system went into service in Haleyville, Ala

1958 Pete Runnels wins Comeback Player of Year (avg went from .230 to .322)

1936 Charlie Daniels, born in Wilmington, North Carolina, singer, Devil Went Down to Georgia

1933 Lala Amarnath scores century on Test Cricket debut (went on to 118)

1916 A bomb went off during a Preparedness Day parade in San Francisco killing 10

1914 Hank Snow, Nova Scotia, Canada, country singer, I Went to Your Wedding

1913 John Mitchell, Nixon's attorney general who went to jail

1894 In New York City, 12,000 tailors went on strike protesting sweat shops

1881 Charles J. Guiteau went on trial for President Garfield's assassination

1801 Johann Nepomuk Went, composer, dies at 56

1792 France's King Louis XVI went on trial, accused of treason

1790 Jeremiah Carlton, laziest man in history, heir to a large fortune at 19 went to bed and stayed there for next 70 yrs, dies at 89

1745 Johann Nepomuk Went, composer

1326 Reinald I, earl of Gelre/monarch, went insane, dies



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