Events from the year 1979 in Michigan. The Associated Press (AP) selected the top Michigan news stories of 1979 as follows: Chrysler Corporation's financial troubles, including a loss for 1979 estimated to exceed $1 billion, a federal loan...
Michigan was admitted to the Union on January 26, 1837. Its current U.S. senators are Democrats Gary Peters and Elissa Slotkin. Carl Levin was Michigan's longest-serving senator (1979–2015).
The 1979 Central Michigan Chippewas football team was an American football team that represented Central Michigan University during the 1979 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their second season under head coach Herb Deromedi, the Chippewas...
The murder of Janet Chandler occurred on January 30–31, 1979, in Holland, Michigan, United States. Chandler, a 22-year-old senior at Hope College, was abducted from the Blue Mill Inn, where she worked the overnight front desk, and was gang-raped and...
The 1979 Michigan Wolverines football team was an American football team that represented the University of Michigan in the 1979 Big Ten Conference football season. In its 100th season of intercollegiate football, the 11th under head coach Bo...
TWA Flight 841 was a scheduled passenger flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York City, en route to Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport in Minneapolis, Minnesota. On the evening of April 4, 1979, while flying over...
M-10 is a state trunkline highway in the Metro Detroit area of Michigan in the United States. Nominally labeled north-south, the route follows a northwest-southeast alignment. The southernmost portion follows Jefferson Avenue in downtown Detroit,...
Michigan ( MISH-ig-ən) is a peninsular state in the Great Lakes and Upper Midwest regions of the United States. It shares water and land boundaries with Minnesota to the northwest, Wisconsin to the west, Indiana and Illinois to the southwest, Ohio...
The 1979–80 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team represented the University of Michigan in intercollegiate college basketball during the 1979–80 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team played its home games in the Crisler Arena in Ann...
The 1979 Eastern Michigan Hurons football team represented Eastern Michigan University in the 1979 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their second season under head coach Mike Stock, the Hurons compiled a 2–8–1 record (1–6–1 against conference...