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On December 1, 1913, Ford Motor Company extended its moving line at the Highland Park plant to assemble a complete Model T chassis start to finish, cutting build time from over 12 hours to about 93 minutes.

At Ann Arbor, Thomas Francis Jr announced the results of the largest medical field trial ever run - 1.8 million children - and pronounced Jonas Salk's polio vaccine safe, effective and potent. Church bells rang across the United States; within two years American cases had fallen by almost 90 per cent.

Eddie Vargas opens his first restaurant in Southwest Detroit, building a menu around his father's birria and Mexican-American home cooking.

Molly Mitchell turns her East Side diner into a dinner restaurant with a Polish-leaning menu of pierogi, kluski and kielbasa, keeping its sourdough burger.

The Chicago Transit Authority started building the $5.7 billion, 5.5-mile extension of the Red Line south from 95th/Dan Ryan, with a ceremony at the site of the future Michigan Avenue station. Four new accessible stations near 103rd Street, 111th Street, Michigan Avenue and 130th Street will bring rapid transit to the Far South Side for the first time.

A 853-metre cable-stayed span over the Detroit River, the longest in North America, carrying the busiest US-Canada trade corridor. Estimated date.

Abbott will pay about $385 million ($384,999,040) to resolve Justice Department, state and whistleblower claims over powdered infant formula made at its Sturgis, Michigan, plant, the site of the 2022 recall. Abbott admits no liability, and the government has closed its criminal investigation.

The championship game of the 88th NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament is played at Ford Field in Detroit, ending a tournament that begins on 16 March and is expanded to 76 teams.

The UAW's contracts with General Motors, Ford and Stellantis run out on 30 April 2028 - a date the union chose so members could strike on May Day.