page_title: 1974 in Michigan
section_title: November
hierarchical_section_title: 1974 in Michigan / Chronology of events / November
caption_attribution_description: English: Official portrait of Congressman Sander Levin
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
context_section_description: November 2 - UAW vice president and civil rights leader Nelson "Jack" Edwards was killed by a stray bullet in a Detroit bar.
  November 3 - Dearborn Mayor and segregationist Orville L. Hubbard suffered a stroke and underwent brain surgery the following day. Officially, Hubbard remained mayor until 1978, but the City Council president served as mayor pro tem, running the city on a day-to-day basis, for the rest of Hubbard's final term.
  November 5
  William Milliken was re-elected as Governor with 51.07% of the vote over Sander Levin who garnered 46.75% of the vote and Zolton Ferency who garnered 1.08% of the vote.
  In elections for the U. S. House of Representatives, Democrats gained ground. Democrat James Blanchard (59.0%) unseated Republican incumbent Robert J. Huber (40.4%). Democrat Milton Robert Carr also won in a previously Republican district. Democrat William M. Brodhead won the seat previously held by Martha Griffiths. Donald W. Riegle Jr. was reelected after changing his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat. Democrats Richard Vander Veen and J. Bob Traxler were reelected in historically Republican district which they had won earlier in the year in special elections.
  Attorney General Frank J. Kelley (D) and Secretary of State Richard H. Austin (D) were reelected by two-to-one margins.
  The Democratic Party also won control over the Michigan legislature for the first time since  the early 1960s, winning control of the Senate and retaining control of the House of Representatives.
  Proposition C, a statewide ballot initiative to repeal the state sales tax on food and drugs, was approved by a margin of 56% to 44%.
  November 9 - The Michigan State Spartans football team upset Ohio State (ranked No. 1 in the AP Poll) by a score of 16 to 13 in East Lansing. The Spartans held Ohio State at its own one-yard line as the game ended.
  November 19 - Chrysler announced plans to close four of its five automobile assembly plants due to slow sales of its automobiles.
  November 21 - Ford Motor announced that it was indefinitely laying off 3,000 white collar workers.
  November 22 - Ford Motor announced that it would temporarily lay off an additional 35,000 workers as part of a December production cut back. Ford's announcement raised the total planned layoffs in the automobile industry to more than 200,000 workers.
  November 23 - The undefeated Michigan Wolverines football team (ranked No. 2 in the UPI Poll) lost to Ohio State (ranked No. 3 in the UPI Poll) by a score of 12 to 10. With 18 second remaining, Michigan kicker Mike Lantry attempted a 33-yard field goal which was called wide left by the officials.
  November 27 - Ford Motor announced plans to lay off an addition 7,950 workers, 2,300 of them indefinitely.
  November 28 - An estimated 500,000 persons lined the route of the Hudson's Thanksgiving Day Parade along Woodward Avenue in Detroit.
  November 29 - General Motors announced plans to place an additional 24,000 hourly workers on indefinite layoff in January. The decision brought the total of General Motors layoffs to 41,000.
caption: Sander Levin
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