On this day in 1805, President Thomas Jefferson signed the act establishing the Michigan Territory. In 1955, the Society of Automotive Engineers reported on car exhaust creating smog. And in 1988, Dr. Lenny Hutton delivered the world’s first quintuplets conceived by In-Vitro Fertilization at Beaumont Hospital.

Jefferson's Act, Smog Research, & IVF Quintuplets | Jan 11

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