Timeline of Detroit

The following is a timeline of the history of the U.S. city of Detroit, Michigan.

18th century

19th century

20th century

1900s-1950s

- Diego Rivera paints Detroit Industry Murals in the Institute of Arts.

  • 1934: Formation of the Federal Housing Authority. The FHA is responsible for setting standards for construction and insuring and underwriting loans made by various lenders.
  • 1935: The United Auto Workers labor union was founded. 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 championship for the Tigers.

  • 1936: 239 maps wre commissioned by FHLB for the HOLC and the FHA.

The FHLB determined which neighborhoods were safe for loans and which were not. This resulted in redlining and Blacks found it very difficult to get loans.

- Citizen's housing and planning council formed in Detroit

  • 1939 - Future film director Francis Ford Coppola born.
  • 1940 - Population: 1,623,452.
  • 1941: - A lot of war production was occurring

- The Davidson Freeway was built (the first urban one ever built in the U.S). - Exec Order 8802 (FEPC) - mandated non discrimination in the workplace (factories) - Electric streetcars run on Woodward Avenue every 60 seconds at peak times.

  • 1942: Pickets at Sojourner Truth Housing
  • 1943: - The Detroit riot. A race riot, spurred by competition among black and white residents for wartime factory jobs, resulted in 34 deaths.
  • 1944: GI Bill was passed.

-Blacks had trouble buying property outside redline areas and couldn't get loans to buy within red line areas. - Future singer Diana Ross born.

  • 1945 - Detroit Tigers won the 1945 World Series.
  • 1946 - Russell Kelly Office Service
  • 1948: Shelley v Kraemer. The decision ruled that restrictive covenants cannot be enforced. However, it was ineffective to get people to stop using them because they didn't want their neighborhood to get a poor rating.
  • 1949: Taft Ellender Wagner Act is passed. This resulted in more funding for public housing.

1950s-1990s

21st century

  • 2002 - Detroit Lions football team begin play in the new, state-of-the-art Ford Field, returning to downtown Detroit after 27 years in suburban Pontiac.
  • 2003
  • 2004
    • "Restored" Campus Martius Park opens in downtown Detroit. Featuring an ice-skating rink, it is the focal point of the city's new Winter Blast festival.
    • The Detroit Pistons win the NBA Finals.
  • 2005 - Comerica Park hosts Major League Baseball's All-Star Game.
  • 2006 - February: city hosts Super Bowl XL, and in October, the Detroit Tigers, only three years after having a 119-loss season, defeat the Oakland A's in the American League Championship Series, winning the Penant. They then play in their first World Series since 1984, losing to their 1968 series rivals, the St. Louis Cardinals, in five games.
  • 2008 - Kwame Kilpatrick resigned his office as mayor effective September 19, 2008, after pleading guilty to two counts of obstruction of justice and no contest to one count of assaulting and obstructing a police officer.[37][38] Kilpatrick was succeeded in office on an interim basis by City Council President Kenneth Cockrel, Jr..
  • 2009 - Following a special election in May 2009, businessman and former Detroit Pistons star Dave Bing became the Mayor and was subsequently re-elected to a full term of office.
  • 2010 - Population: 713,777.[39]
  • 2013
  • 2014 - Mike Duggan becomes mayor.
    • December: Governor Rick Snyder announced that Detroit had emerged from bankruptcy, and that he had accepted Orr's resignation as emergency manager, returning control of Detroit to its elected government.
  • 2016 - June: CNU24, the 24th Congress for the New Urbanism, is held in Detroit. Congress focuses on the city's resurgence and legacy projects.
  • 2017 - October: National Women's Convention held.[45]
  • 2018 - Bedrock Detroit, owned by Dan Gilbert, announces a $900 million, two building project on the site of the former J.L. Hudson store (which once had the tallest retail tower in the world), including a 58-story tower.[46]

See also

References

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  8. Burton 1922.
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  38. Monica Davey; Nick Bunkley (March 25, 2008). "Mayor of Detroit Faces 8 Counts in Perjury Case". New York Times.
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  40. Richard Blackden (April 1, 2013), "Kevyn Orr - the man who must fix Detroit", The Telegraph
  41. Bankrupt Detroit goes on trial, Politico.Com, Associated Press, 2013-10-22
  42. "Detroit bankruptcy eligibility case goes to trial", PBS NewsHour, October 23, 2013
  43. Isidore, Chris (November 7, 2013). "Detroit is broke. Who's going to pay?". Money.cnn.com.
  44. "Federal grant to hire 150 Detroit firefighters", Detroit News, November 29, 2013
  45. "At Women's Convention in Detroit, a Test of Momentum and Focus", New York Times, October 28, 2017
  46. Detroit breaks ground on tallest tower, symbol of resurgence Retrieved May 26, 2018

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