Previously, customs duties (tariffs) and excise taxes were the primary sources of federal revenue. In 1913, when he was merely 8 years old, ratified in February the 16th Amendment, establishing a Federal income tax, became law. Not such simple concepts that lead to the equation everyone now knows: E = mc2. In 1905, in the year that Rufus Teague was born, the German born physicist, Albert Einstein, proposed the Special Theory of Relativity: 1) that observers can never detect uniform motion except relative to other objects and that 2) unlike the velocity of massive objects, the speed of light is a constant and is the same for all observers independent of their constant velocity toward or away from the light source. Refresh this page to see various historical events that occurred during Rufus' lifetime.
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