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Ford was the first company to sign a contract with them, again showing the impact that the Ford Motor Company has had throughout Detroit's history. Detroit Tigers baseball team win 1935 World Series defeating the Chicago Cubs 4 games to 2. The season was their 35th since they entered the American League in 1901. It was the first World Series ...
1950 Detroit was the 4th largest city in the U.S., with 1.8 million people. 1957 The five-mile-long Mackinac Bridge opened on November 1. 1959 Motown began recording music in Detroit. 1960 Census results revealed a 1.45 million increase in state population, the largest in state history. 1967 Race riots struck the city of Detroit. After five ...
The University of Detroit 1877-1977: A Centennial History. University of Detroit. ASIN B0006CVJ4S. Sabourin, Mary Justine (1999). Risk & Hope: An Early History of Mercy College of Detroit, 1941-1966. Detroit, Mich.: Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, Regional Community of Detroit, in cooperation with University of Detroit Mercy.
The University of Michigan, founded in 1817–twenty years before Michigan's statehood–is the state's oldest university [1] [2] and remained the only university in the state until the 20th century, when Detroit College became the University of Detroit in 1911 and Wayne State University achieved "university" status in 1933 following the ...
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He was baptized at St. Mary Roman Catholic Church (1843), at the corner of St. Antoine and Croghan (Monroe), on February 18, 1866, attended St. Albertus for his primary education, and studied at Detroit College which is now the University of Detroit Mercy where he received a bachelor's degree in 1884; then, after attending St. Mary's in ...
Shortly after the Territory of Michigan was formed in 1805, several of its leading citizens recognized the need for a structured education. As early as 1806, Father Gabriel Richard, who ran several schools around the town of Detroit, had requested land for a college from the governor and judges appointed by the President to administer the territory.
The Detroit Observatory, located on the campus of the University of Michigan, is a two-story hip roof rectangular frame structure, 33 feet (10 m) on a side, flanked by two one-story wings, each 19 feet (5.8 m) by 29 feet (8.8 m). [2] [3] The design is typical of observatories built in the 19th century. [5]