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1805 Michigan Territory is created.
1837 Michigan is the 26th state admitted to the United States of America
1847 The state of Michigan formally abolishes the death penalty.
1848 U.S. presidential election, 1848: Whig Zachary Taylor
of Louisiana
defeats Democrat Lewis Cass of Michigan in the first US presidential election held in every state on the same day.
1881 The Thumb Fire in the U.S. state
of Michigan destroys over a million acres (4,000 km²) and kills 282 people.
1936 Peak of July 1936 heat wave. The state
s of Wisconsin
, Michigan, and Indiana
all set new state records for high temperature. At Mio, in northern Michigan it soars to 113°F (45°C).
1954 Construction started on Michigan's Mackinac Bridge.
1957 Michigan's Mackinac Bridge opened.
1960 Writer James Finn Garner born in Detroit, Michigan.
1988 U.S. presidential candidate Jesse Jackson
defeats Michael Dukakis
in the Michigan Democratic caucuses, becoming the temporary front-runner for the party's nomination. Richard Gephardt withdraws his candidacy after his campaign speeches against imported automobiles fail to earn him much support in Detroit.
1991 A Michigan court bars Dr. Jack Kevorkian
from assisting in suicide
s.
1999 A Michigan jury finds Dr. Jack Kevorkian
guilty of second-degree murder
for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man (the incident was videotaped and aired on the September 17, 1998 edition of ''60 Minutes'').
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