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Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....

Timeline of Events

1837

1.26.1837

Michigan is admitted as the 26th U.S. state.

1847

3.1.1847

The state of Michigan formally abolishes capital punishment.

1912

4.20.1912

Opening day for baseball stadiums Tiger Stadium in Detroit, Michigan, and Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.

1926

10.24.1926

Harry Houdini's last performance, which is at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit, Michigan.

1927

5.18.1927

The Bath School Disaster: forty-five people are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Michigan.

1966

8.7.1966

Race riots occur in Lansing, Michigan.

1971

1.31.1971

The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begin in Detroit, Michigan.

1992

5.7.1992

Michigan ratifies a 203-year-old proposed amendment to the United States Constitution making the 27th Amendment law. This amendment bars the U.S. Congress from giving itself a mid-term pay raise.

1999

3.26.1999

A jury in Michigan finds Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man.