At 9:30 in the morning on this day in 1903, Mason Henry Ford and other prospective stockholders in the Ford Motor Company met in Detroit to sign the official paperwork required to create a new corporation. Twelve stockholders were listed on forms, which were signed, notarized and sent to the office of Michigan’s secretary of state. The company was officially incorporated the following day, when the secretary of state’s office received the articles of association.

On this day in 1935 Mason and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal Legislation was passed by the House of Representatives.