page_title: 1962 in Michigan
section_title: June
hierarchical_section_title: 1962 in Michigan / Chronology of events / June
caption_attribution_description: English: Detroit Institute of the Arts
context_page_description: Events from the year 1962 in Michigan.
  The Associated Press selected the top news stories of 1962 in Michigan as follows:
  George Romney's successful campaign to become Governor of Michigan;
  The end of the Michigan Constitutional Convention;
  The January 30 tragedy in which the Wallenda family, performing a high wire pyramid in front of 7,000 spectators at the Shrine Circus at Detroit's State Fair Coliseum, sustained two deaths and three other injuries when their human pyramid collapsed;
  Record profits and sales in the automobile business;
  Completion of the Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge connecting the twin cities of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario;
  The defeat of proposed tax reform in the Michigan Legislature;
  An order by the Michigan Supreme Court directing reapportionment
  The sinking of the freighter Montrose in the Detroit River after colliding with a barge;
  The dedication of Michigan's first atomic reactor at the Big Rock Point Nuclear Power Plant; and
  John F. Kennedy leading a Democratic onslaught of Cabinet members and party leaders in September.
context_section_description: June 1 - The Detroit Free Press reported on a split in the Wayne County Republican Party between a moderate faction and John Birch Society conservatives.
  June 1 - The U.S. Army's Mobility Command was created with its headquarters in Detroit. Maj. Gen. Alden Sibley called it "the most important peacetime military procurement activity ever centered in Detroit."
  June 4 - A Circuit Court Judge in Ingham County struck down Michigan's Rule 9 forbidding housing discrimination by real estate agents. Governor Swainson criticized the ruling, and Attorney General Frank Kelley vowed to appeal with dispatch.
  June 11 - Henry Ford II announced that Ford Motor would no longer abide by an Automobile Manufacturers Association resolution against advertising speed or horsepower of automobiles. The move was expected "to open the gates to another horsepower race by American auto makers."
  June 12 - Willis F. Woods was hired as the director of the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA).  The DIA also received a gift from Henry Ford II of a Picasso cubist painting of Picasso's friend Pallares.
  June 19 - The Michigan Fair Employment Practices Commission found Northwest Airlines guilty of discrimination and ordered it to hire African American clerk, Marlene White, as a stewardess.
  June 6–25 - A strike by 3,200 UAW members at Ford Motors' stamping plant in Walton Hills, Ohio, shut down all of the company's assembly plants and many of its manufacturing facilities. The strike lasted 1 days and ended on June 24.
  June 24 - The Detroit Tigers and New York Yankees played the longest game in elapsed time in Major League Baseball history—seven hours and 22 innings. The Yankees won, 9–7, on a Jack Reed home run off Phil Regan.
  June 28 - At a White House meeting with President Kennedy, Governor Swainson announced that Burroughs Corp. had been awarded an Air Force contract to build "BUIC"—an automated computer system to provide early warnings of the approach of enemy aircraft. The contract was expected to create 1,000 new jobs in Detroit.
caption: Detroit Institute of Arts
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