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The Housemans of Nidderdale
Database Pages
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| 1 | 1909 | - 1909—1909: Beveridge Report prompts creation of labour Exchanges
- 1909—1909: Peary reaches the north pole
- 1909—1909: First commercial manufacture of Bakelite - start of the plastic age
- 1 January 1909—1 January 1909: Old Age Pensions Act came into force
- 16 January 1909—16 January 1909: Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole
- 15 March 1909—15 March 1909: Selfridges department store opens in London
- 25 July 1909—25 July 1909: Bleriot flies across the Channel (36 minutes, Calais to Dover)
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