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The Twenty-fourth Amendment (Amendment XXIV) of the United States Constitution prohibits both Congress and the states from requiring the payment of a poll tax or any other tax to vote in federal elections. The amendment was proposed by Congress to the states on August 27, 1962, and was ratified by the states on January 23, 1964.
January 24 is the 24th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; ... 1907 – Ismail Nasiruddin of Terengganu, fourth Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia (d. 1979)
Twenty-five people are killed and six others are injured in a crash involving a truck and a tourist minibus on a highway near São José do Jacuípe, Bahia, Brazil. Law and crime. A two-year-long investigation conducted by the BBC accuses Synagogue Church of All Nations founder T. B. Joshua of rape and torture.
An opening is seen in the fuselage of an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-9 MAX on January 7, 2024 in Portland, Oregon. A door-sized section near the rear of the plane blew off 10 minutes after Flight ...
January 31. Backward Day. Inspire Your Heart With Art Day. Week-Long Observances. Good Housekeeping. Diet Resolution Week – First Week. National Silent Record Week – First Week.
As it was adopted on January 23, 1933, Section 1 shortened the terms of representatives elected to the 73rd Congress (1933–1935), as well as those of senators elected for terms ending in 1935, 1937, and 1939, by 60 days, by ending those terms on January 3 of each odd-numbered year rather than the March 4 date on which those terms originally ...
The South Dakota Senate voted, 34–0, to ratify the Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, prohibiting the use of poll taxes in elections for federal office. In so doing, South Dakota became the necessary 38th of the 50 states to make the amendment effective, since approval by at least three-fourths of the states was ...
January 5, 2022 at 4:00 AM. Supporters of President Trump gather outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)