Pushing Buttons

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On this date in 1963 Bell Laboratories introduces theTouch-Tone or push-button telephone, replacing the rotary dial model.

Speaking of touch, today in 1906 opera tenor Enrico Caruso is charged with an indecent act after allegedly pinching a woman's bottom in the Monkey House of New York's Central Park Zoo.

This kid's T-shirt is imprinted with the American Sign Language chart for finger spelling numbers, nearly analogous to the Touch-Tone keypad layout. Liquid Arts sells other ASL products and more in their CafePress.com shop.

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