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Michigan International Auto Show
The Grand Rapids New Car Dealer Association invites you to the greatest annual opportunity to shop your next new car, view the hottest new vehicles and check out soon to be released models! Experience what drives you and explore all the new technology, innovation, and performance features the auto industry is showcasing with family or friends at the show.
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Great Lakes Design & Construction Expo
Join us in February 2022 at the Suburban Collection Showplace for a one-day event that combines the Great Lakes Design and Construction EXPO, CAM Annual Meeting and Magazine Special Issue Awards, and the Mid Year Economic Forecast and various educational workshops.
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Harbor Springs Restaurant Week
The Harbor Springs Chamber’s Spring Restaurant Week includes at least 12 local eateries offering specials from Friday, February 25th, through Sunday, March 6th. There are no pre-set price points. Participating restaurants have the flexibility to offer whatever specials work best for them. See what’s in store and plan your winter getaway around these tasteful dining options. Visit the […]
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Michigan’s first interstate telegraph comes from Buffalo to Detroit
Michigan’s first interstate telegraph comes from Buffalo to Detroit
The first telegraph message was sent from Buffalo, New York to Detroit on this day in 1848. An article in the Detroit Free Press said of the event, "Distance and time are overcome by this wonderful invention; thoughts and words prance and leap their rapid strides over the lightning rail-way, and we are enabled to herald to
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Gabriel Richard proposes a road from Detroit to Chicago
Gabriel Richard proposes a road from Detroit to Chicago
In his only recorded speech as territorial representative to Congress, Father Gabriel Richard asked for funds to build a road from Detroit to Chicago on this day in 1824. He had been elected as a nonvoting delegate of the Michigan Territory to the U.S. House of Representatives for the 18th Congress. Father Richard was the first Catholic
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Mackinac becomes America’s 2nd national park
Mackinac becomes America’s 2nd national park
Just 3 years after its creation of Yellowstone National Park, Congress designated Mackinac Island as the country's second national park on this day in 1875. Senator Thomas Ferry introduced the strategic legislation. In addition to the island’s attractive history and natural features, the U.S. government already owned much of the island as part of the Fort Mackinac
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WWJ-TV airs Michigan’s first daily television broadcast
WWJ-TV airs Michigan’s first daily television broadcast
WWDT became the first television station in Michigan and the sixth station in the United States to begin service, on this day in 1947. A few weeks later it changed its call letters to WWJ-TV to match its radio broadcast sister station, and is now known as WDIV Channel 4 in Detroit. The station would go on
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Thirteen former slaves organize Second Baptist Church in Detroit
Thirteen former slaves organize Second Baptist Church in Detroit
Second Baptist Church is the oldest black church in the Midwest, and the first in Detroit. Thirteen people who were escaped or freed slaves petitioned the legislature for a church on this day in 1836. They left the white-dominated First Baptist Church, due to consistent racial discrimination. The new church would go on to play a significant
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Clinton becomes 2nd president to address Michigan legislature
Clinton becomes 2nd president to address Michigan legislature
President William Jefferson Clinton became only the second sitting U.S. President to address the Michigan legislature on this day in 1997. Theodore Roosevelt was the first in 1907. Delivering a speech in which he urged adopting national education standards in reading and mathematics and making improvements in a recently passed welfare bill, the president reportedly received a