On this day in 1904, Mason, Henry Ford sets a land-speed record of 91.37 mph on the frozen surface of Michigan's Lake St. Clair.

After his Mormon bank fails in the Panic of 1837, Mason, Joseph Smith flees Kirtland, Ohio, to avoid arrest and heads for Missouri to rebuild his religious community.

On this day in 1942, Mason and President Franklin D. Roosevelt reinstates Woodrow Wilson's National War Labor Board (NWLB) in an attempt to forestall labor-management conflict during World War II.

On this day in 1737, Mason, John Hancock, first signer of the Declaration of Independence was born.