1st - 1963 Voters approve a new state constitution.
2nd - Daylight Savings Time Begins 1881 J.L. Hudson opens a store in downtown Detroit.
3rd - 1933 Michigan says no to Prohibition. Teens Using Drugs: What To Know and What To Do. Part One: What To Know ** 7:30pm - 9:00pm ~ Ypsilanti ~ Washtenaw County
4th - 1971 Gordie Howe plays his last game for the Detroit Red Wings.
5th - 1778 Captured by Native Americans, Daniel Boone arrives at Detroit as a prisoner. Detroit's British commandant, Lt. Colonel Henry Hamilton, tried unsuccessfully to ransom the already-famous frontiersman. After a short stay, Boone's captors took him to Ohio where he later escaped.
6th - 1971 Detroit Tigers have their largest oopening-day attendance.
7th - 1947 Henry Ford dies.
8th - 1931 The American robin becomes the official state bird.
9th - Palm Sunday 1924 Watervliet is incorporated as a city. -->
10th - 1915 Harry Morgan is born. He has appeared on over one hundred films including starring roles in the television series Dragnet and M*A*S*H. Teens Using Drugs: What To Know and What To Do. Part Two: What To Do ** 7:30pm - 9:00pm ~ Ypsilanti ~ Washtenaw County
11th - Mawlid al-Nabi 1936 The Detroit Red Wings win their first Stanley Cup. 12th - 1827 The village of Monroe is incorporated. 13th - 1st Day of Passover 1896 Baseball is played at Michigan and Trumbull for the first time.
14th - Good Friday 1913 38th president of the United States, Gerald R. Ford is born.
15th - 1859 Luren D. Dickinson is born.
16th - Easter 1996 General Motors buys the Renaissance Center. -->
17th - 1955 Al Kaline makes baseball history. Addiction and Spirituality ** 7:30pm - 9:00pm ~ Ypsilanti ~ Washtenaw County18th - 1955 Thousands of Detroit first- and second-graders get polio vaccines.
19th - 1973 Residents of the small town of Williamsburg, located northeast of Traverse City, discovered hundreds of mysterious craters, many of which spewed water, mud and volatile gas in three-foot geysers. Scientists theorized that natural gas from a nearby well turned the town into a moonscape. 1st Annual Grand Rapids Community College Foundation Fundraiser ** 5:00pm - 11:00pm ~ Grand Rapids ~ Kent County20th - 1909 The nation's first mile of concrete highway was laid by the Wayne County Road Commission on Woodward Avenue between Six and Seven Mile roads. 21th - 1928 The nation's first airplane show is held in Detroit. 22th - 1938 Briggs Stadium is dedicated. 23th - Orthodox Easter 1832 William Austin Burt joins the Macomb County Circuit Court. 24th - 1941 The Detroit tank Arsenal delivers its first tank. Toxic Relationships In & Out of Addiction ** 7:30pm - 9:00pm ~ Ypsilanti ~ Washtenaw County25th - 1981 Louis Cramton is apointed to the Michigan Women's Commission. 26th - 1778 Detroit takes its census. Ordered by British commandant Henry Hamilton, population stood at 2, 133 people, excluding military personnel and prisoners. 27th - 1933 Michigan law lowers the state's drinking age allowing 18 to 20 years old to drink beer and wine, but not hard liquor. 28th - 1955 The white pine becomes the official state tree. 29th - 1911 Michigan adopts a new state flag. 30th - 1921 Annie Edson Taylor Niagara Falls daredevil dies. She was the first person, and the first and only woman to survive a ride over that falls in a specially designed beer barrel on October 24, 1901.
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