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1934 - G.A. Richards
purchased the Portsmouth, OH Spartans, for less than $8,000 and renamed it the
Detroit Lions.
1948 - First night baseball game in
Detroit the Detroit Tigers beat
the Philadelphia Athletics at
Briggs Stadium.
1950 - Detroit Red Wings win the Stanley Cup.
1952 - Detroit Lions win the NFL championship by beating the Cleveland
Browns 17-7.
1952 - Detroit Red Wings win the Stanley Cup.
1953 - Detroit Lions
win the NFL championship by beating the Cleveland
Browns 17-16.
1954 - Detroit Red Wings win the Stanley Cup.
1955 - Detroit Red Wings win the Stanley Cup.
1957 - Detroit Lions
win the NFL championship by beating the Cleveland
Browns 59-14.
1957 - Detroit Pistons move to Detroit changing their name from the Fort
Wayne Pistons.
1958 - Ozzie Virgil, the first Black player on the
Detroit Tigers, played his first home game.
1961 - Detroit Pistons move to
Cobo Arena in downtown
Detroit for their home games.
1961 - Briggs Stadium
renamed Tiger Stadium.
1961 - Norm Cash, iagainst the Washington Senators, became
the first Detroit Tiger to hit a ball out of
Tiger Stadium.
1964 - Detroit Lions
purchased by
William Clay Ford for
$4.5 million.
1968 - Detroit Tigers
win the World Series by beating the St. Louis
Cardinals.
1975 - Detroit Lions
leave Tiger Stadium and move
to the Pontiac Silverdome.
1978 - Detroit Pistons
leave Cobo Arena and move to
the Pontiac Silverdome.
1979 - Detroit Red Wings move from Olympia Stadium to
Joe Louis Arena.
1982 - Detroit Red Wings
purchased by
Mike and Marian Ilitch,
who own Little Caesars Pizza.
1983 - Detroit Lions
win the NFC Central Title. (Lions have won three
championships; 1952, 1953, 1957....no superbowls)
1984 - Detroit Tigers sold by
John Fetzer to
Tom Monoghan
who owns Dominos Pizza.
1984 - Detroit Tigers
win the World Series by beating the San Diego
Padres.
1988 - Detroit Pistons leave the
Pontiac Silverdome and
move to the Palace of Auburn Hills.
1989 - Detroit Pistons win the 1988-1989 NBA Championship.
1990 - Detroit Pistons win the 1989-1990 NBA Championship.
1992 - Detroit Tigers
purchased by
Mike Ilitch, who own
Little Caesars Pizza.
1997 - Detroit Red Wings win the Stanley Cup.
1998 - Detroit Red Wings win the Stanley Cup.
1999 - Detroit Tigers leave Tiger Stadium
(September 27, 1999, a sad and momentous day for all Tiger fans.
Detroit Tiger
played the last game at "The Corner" after 87 years and 6,783 games.
2000 - Detroit Tigers
play first game at
Comerica Park.
2001 - Detroit Lions
play last game at
Pontiac Silver Dome.
2002 - Detroit Red Wings win 10th Stanley Cup.
2002 -
Detroit Red Wings
coach Scotty Bowman retires
after the team won the Stanley Cup for a third time in six years.
(7/17/2002)
2002 - Detroit Lions
play first game (preseason) at
Ford Field, lose to Pittsburgh Steelers 34-22 in exhibition game.
2004 - Detroit Pistons
defeat the L.A. Lakers on June 15 by 100-87 and win the NBA championship
in five games
2006 -
Detroit Tigers
win the American League Championship.
2008 -
Detroit Red Wings
win 11th Stanley Cup
(Previous wins: 1935-36; 1936-37; 1942-43; 1949-50; 1951-52; 1953-54;
1954-55; 1996-97; 1997-98, 2001-02.
2008 -
Tiger Stadium demolition begins.
2008 - Detroit Tigers finish in last place.
2008 - Detroit Lions
finish in last place
and become the first NFL team to go 0-16 in a regular season.
Lions lose to the Green Bay Packers 37-31 in their
inaugural game at Ford Field on September 22, 2002
2009 - Detroit Red
Wings
fail in their Stanley Cup bid, losing the series in seven games.
2009 - Tiger Stadium demolition is completed.
2009 - Detroit Tigers blow one game playoff and
lose the divisional championship to the Twins.
2009 - Detroit Shock announce that they are moving
the team to Tulsa, OK.
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