Timeline Monday 3 February 1913

Events on Monday 3 February 1913 1

• 1913 Sixteenth Amendment Ratified US Constitution authorizes a federal income tax The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, granting Congress the power to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states. It overturned earlier court rulings that had blocked a federal income tax. The amendment reshaped US federal finance for the century that followed.