1902
Detroit suffers its first automobile fatality. At about 9:00 A.M., eighty-one-year-old Detroit businessman George W. Bissell was guiding his horse-drawn carriage down Brooklyn Avenue when an automobile "scorched" by. The horses became frightened and jumped, causing one of the carriage’s wheels to fall off. Bissell was pitched forward, striking his head on the pavement. He was pronounced dead of a fractured skull at 11:15 A.M.
Source: Michigan History
1902
Michigan's first fatal automobile accident occurred when a car struck the carriage of well-to-do Detroit lumberman George W. Bissell.
1914
The last parade of the Grand Army of the Republic was held in Detroit.
1977
Mary Livingston of Manistique became the first woman U.S. Air Force jet pilot in a ceremony at Williams Air Force Base in Arizona.
Source: Historical Society of Michigan