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The following events occurred in January 1909: ==January 1, 1909 (Friday)== *The Old-Age Pensions Act of 1908 went into effect in Great Britain, and the first payments were made to qualified persons at least 70 years old and whose income was less than 12 shillings per week.〔Keith Laybourn, ''Modern Britain Since 1906: A Reader'' (I.B. Tauris, 1999), p15〕 Roughly 490,000 persons received the pension during the first year.〔John Macnicol, ''The Politics of Retirement in Britain, 1878-1948'' (Cambridge University Press, 2002), p162〕 *The Disenfranchisement Act of 1908 took effect in Georgia, the last legislation designed to block African Americans from voting. The new law required a "literacy test", whereby a person had to explain the meaning of a section of the state constitution, if he owned less than of property. Descendants of U.S. or Confederate military veterans were exempt from the test.〔Arnold Fleischmann, Carol Pierannunzi, ''Politics in Georgia'' (University of Georgia Press, 2007), pp70-71〕 *The City of Honolulu and the County of Oahu were formally incorporated.〔''Reports of the Department of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1916'',p495〕 *Born: Barry Goldwater, U.S. Senator and presidential candidate, in Phoenix, Arizona (d. 1998) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「January 1909」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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