1st -
1963   Voters approve a new state constitution.

2nd -     Daylight Savings Time Begins
1881   J.L. Hudson opens a store in downtown Detroit.

3rd -
1933   Michigan says no to Prohibition.

4th -
1971   Gordie Howe plays his last game for the Detroit Red Wings.

5th -
1778   Captured by Native Americans, Daniel Boone arrives at Detroit as a prisoner. Detroit's British commandant, Lt. Colonel Henry Hamilton, tried unsuccessfully to ransom the already-famous frontiersman. After a short stay, Boone's captors took him to Ohio where he later escaped.

6th -
1971   Detroit Tigers have their largest oopening-day attendance.

7th -
1947   Henry Ford dies.

8th -
1931   The American robin becomes the official state bird.

9th -     Palm Sunday
1924   Watervliet is incorporated as a city.

10th -
1915   Harry Morgan is born. He has appeared on over one hundred films including starring roles in the television series Dragnet and M*A*S*H.

11th -     Mawlid al-Nabi
1936   The Detroit Red Wings win their first Stanley Cup.

12th -
1827   The village of Monroe is incorporated.

13th -     1st Day of Passover
1896   Baseball is played at Michigan and Trumbull for the first time.

14th -     Good Friday
1913   38th president of the United States, Gerald R. Ford is born.

15th -
1859   Luren D. Dickinson is born.

16th -     Easter
1996   General Motors buys the Renaissance Center.

17th -
1955   Al Kaline makes baseball history.

18th -
1955   Thousands of Detroit first- and second-graders get polio vaccines.

19th -
1973   Residents of the small town of Williamsburg, located northeast of Traverse City, discovered hundreds of mysterious craters, many of which spewed water, mud and volatile gas in three-foot geysers. Scientists theorized that natural gas from a nearby well turned the town into a moonscape.

20th -
1909   The nation's first mile of concrete highway was laid by the Wayne County Road Commission on Woodward Avenue between Six and Seven Mile roads.

21th -
1928   The nation's first airplane show is held in Detroit.

22th -
1938   Briggs Stadium is dedicated.

23th -     Orthodox Easter
1832   William Austin Burt joins the Macomb County Circuit Court.

24th -
1941   The Detroit tank Arsenal delivers its first tank.

25th -
1981   Louis Cramton is apointed to the Michigan Women's Commission.

26th -
1778   Detroit takes its census. Ordered by British commandant Henry Hamilton, population stood at 2, 133 people, excluding military personnel and prisoners.

27th -
1933   Michigan law lowers the state's drinking age allowing 18 to 20 years old to drink beer and wine, but not hard liquor.

28th -
1955   The white pine becomes the official state tree.

29th -
1911   Michigan adopts a new state flag.

30th -
1921   Annie Edson Taylor Niagara Falls daredevil dies. She was the first person, and the first and only woman to survive a ride over that falls in a specially designed beer barrel on October 24, 1901.