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First Ford Model T manufactured; General Motors founded
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Detroit-Windsor Tunnel opened
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Mackinac Bridge "Big Mac" opened
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New State Constitution ratified
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Ore freighter, Edmund Fitzgerald, sunk in Lake Superior during storm, all aboard were lost
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Detroit celebrated 300th anniversary; DaimlerChrysler announced job cuts
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General Motors (GM) announced cut of 21,000 US jobs, phasing out Pontiac brand; Chrysler filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy; incident on airliner on international flight arriving in Detroit from Amsterdam was failed bomb attack, Nigerian man arrested