1935: After 88 days, 4 hours and a bit more, a walking competition in Jackson nets its winners $1000 amid the Great Depression. 1954: Detroit Metropolitan Airport launches its first passenger flight.

1835: Early fighting about the Michigan-Ohio border flares up between Michigan militia and Ohio surveyors. 2004: The final Oldsmobile Alero rolls off the line at GM's Lansing Car Assembly Plant, ending the historic brand of Oldsmobile.

1887: Political corruption leads to the first expelling of a member of the Michigan House of Representatives, Milo Dakin. 1896: Detroit Tigers have their first official game with the team name of the Tigers.

1764: Detroit branch of Masonic lodge chartered. 1833: Steamboat Michigan launches from Detroit and sails to ports along the Great Lakes during its 13-day maiden voyage.

1901: Free lunches in Kalamazoo saloons revoked as the practice had spiraled out of financial control. 1865: Two Lansing cousins found Lincoln Assassin, John Wilkes Booth and co-conspirator David Herold in a barn.

1838: Mary T. Lathrap, temperance evangelist and co-founder of MI's Women's Suffrage was born. She was also a poet, whose work inspired the aphorism "Before you judge someone, walk a mile in their shoes."

1941: Detroit produces first tank for World War II, and it is tested for military brass in Warren, MI. Ultimately, 22,000 tanks would be made for the war effort.

1918: First Fordson Tractor given to friend of Henry Ford. 1954: Controversial Oscar-winning documentarian Michael Moore born in Davison, MI.

1933: The Michigan and Huron Institute, later Kalamazoo College chartered in the Michigan Territory. 2017: Lois E. Holt, civil rights activist and Michigan's first Black school teacher passes away.

1948: Amid the start of the Cold War, MSU Student James Zarichny takes a stand and defies the Michigan Senate's Committee on Un-American Activities.