Marquis Who's Who Millennium Magazine

6 MILLENNIUM 1 9 1 0 Congressmen Stephen Benton Elkins and James Robert Mann create legislation about interstate trade that is signed into law: The Mann-Elkins Act 1910 Calbraith Perry Rodgers makes the first transcontinental airplane flight 1911 George Herman "Babe" Ruth makes his debut in Major League Baseball, eventually becoming a famed slugger of the New York Yankees 1914 Henry Ford introduces the first moving assembly line at the Ford factory in Highland Park, Michigan 1913 W.C. Handy, "Father of the Blues," publishes "Memphis Blues" 1912