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Detroit, as seen from Windsor, Canada The following is a list of people from Detroit , Michigan. This list includes notable people who were born, have lived, or worked in and around Detroit as well as its metropolitan area .
On August 16, 1987, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, operating as Northwest Airlines Flight 255, crashed shortly after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, about 8:46 pm EDT (00:46 UTC August 17), resulting in the deaths of all six crew members and 148 of the 149 passengers, along with two people on the ground.
Pacific Air Lines Flight 773 was a Fairchild F27A Friendship airliner that crashed on May 7, 1964, near Danville, California, a suburb east of Oakland. [1] [2] The crash was most likely the first instance in the United States of an airliner's pilots being shot by a passenger as part of a murder–suicide.
Contributing: Andrea May Sahouri, Detroit Free Press; Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Suburban Detroit house fire: 3 dead in blaze with no working alarms
Mount Olivet Cemetery (usually abbreviated and stylized as Mt. Olivet Cemetery) is a cemetery at 17100 Van Dyke Avenue in the city of Detroit in Wayne County, Michigan.It is owned and operated by the Mt. Elliott Cemetery Association, a not-for-profit Catholic organization that is otherwise administered independently from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit and any of the various Catholic ...
H.G. Salsinger, sports editor of Detroit News (1909–1958) (born in Ohio, moved to Detroit) Jay Schadler, ABC television news correspondent (born and raised in St. Joseph) Serena Shim, Lebanese-American journalist for Press TV (born in Detroit) Watson Spoelstra, sportswriter for the Detroit News 1945–73 (born in Grand Rapids)
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First woman to broadcast news in Michigan [294] Agnes Mary Mansour (1931–2004) 1988 Roman Catholic nun, president of Mercy College of Detroit, 1982 candidate for Congress [295] Helen Martin (1889–1973) 1988 Michigan state geologist, prolific author [296] M. Jane Kay Nugent (1925–2021) 1988 Former Vice President of Administration at ...