page_title: 1974 in Michigan
section_title: Chronology of events
hierarchical_section_title: 1974 in Michigan / Chronology of events
context_page_description: Events from the year 1974 in Michigan.
  The Associated Press selected the top news stories of 1974 in Michigan as follows:
  Gerald Ford's elevation to President of the United States after the resignation of Richard Nixon;
  The decline of the automobile industry tied to the 1973 oil crisis with layoffs of more than 200,000 automobile workers;
  The re-election of William Milliken as Governor of Michigan despite a general tide in favor of Democrats;
  The United States Supreme Court ruling in Milliken v. Bradley reversing a lower court order requiring cross-district busing of public school students among 53 school districts in metropolitan Detroit and instead directing the creation of a desegregation plan limited to the Detroit schools;
  Voters' repeal of the state sales tax on food and drugs;
  Gasoline shortage;
  Contaminated feed forces the slaughter of thousands of farm animals;
  Democrats take the Fifth and Eighth Congressional Districts and then hold them in post-Watergate elections resulting in Democrats taking control of the Michigan Legislature and the state's Congressional delegation;
  The worst snowstorm of the century hit southern Michigan; and
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