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Alfonso López Michelsen

Alfonso López Michelsen, Colombian lawyer and politician, 24th President of Colombia (died 2007)

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Born
June 30, 1913
Died
July 11, 2007
Zodiac sign
Cancer
Birth year
1913

About Alfonso López Michelsen

Alfonso López Michelsen was a Colombian politician and lawyer who served as the 25th President of Colombia from 1974 to 1978. He was nicknamed "El Pollo", a popular Colombian idiom for people with precocious careers. López Michelsen was then offered the leadership of the newly created MRL and he accepted, becoming a presidential candidate for the 1962 presidential elections. Settled in this town, López had his first experience of politics becoming a town councilman. He won the general election by a large margin against the Conservative Party candidate Álvaro Gómez Hurtado, and the ANAPO candidate, María Eugenia Rojas.

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The world when Alfonso López Michelsen was born

Alfonso López Michelsen was born in 1913. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1913

  • Best-selling book"The Inside of the Cup" – Winston Churchill

Headlines and milestones

  • Major sports momentJim Thorpe stripped of Olympic titles over amateurism rules
  • Top headline16th Amendment allows federal income tax
  • Technology milestoneFord assembly line begins — revolutionizes manufacturing
  • World population~1.73B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderWoodrow Wilson
  • U.S. population96.0M

1913 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Alfonso López Michelsen's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure19132026
Postage stamp$0.02$0.73
Population96.0M341 million

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