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AK-47 assault rifle

1824 – Opening of Supreme Court in Tasmania.
1972 – Homosexual Law Professor George Duncan "drowns" in the Torrens River, Adelaide.
1996 – Prime Minister John Howard announces gun controls in the wake of the Port Arthur massacre.
1996 – Floods in southern Queensland & northern New South Wales kill 5 people & causes more than AUD$55 million in farm losses