1964
Plans for a "Great Society" are announced. President Lyndon B. Johnson told 85,000 people at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor to "join in the Great Society," his domestic program that included Medicare, Medicaid, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Source: Michigan History
1938
E.S. Votey of Detroit patented the world's first pneumatic player piano.
1972
Henry Ford II identified the 32-acre waterfront site including the Grand Trunk's Brush Street depot as the site for the Renaissance Center, a major attempt to revitalize downtown Detroit.
Source: Historical Society of Michigan