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- Events from the year 1964 in Michigan. The Associated Press (AP) and United Press International (UPI) each selected the top 10 news stories in Michigan as follows: 1.
* The November 3 re-election of Republican George W. Romney as Governor of Michigan, despite a Democratic landslide in the U.S. Presidential and legislative races (AP-1, UPI-1); 2.
* Reapportionment of state and federal legislative districts, requiring districts to be redrawn "as nearly as practicable" equal in population, resulting in Democrats seizing control of both houses of the Michigan Legislature and the Congressional delegation (AP-2, UPI-2 [reapportionment] and UPI-4 [Democratic control of legislature]); 3.
* New contracts between the United Auto Workers (UAW) and the automobile manufacturers providing a lower retirement age and providing for higher pensions, reached after costly strikes against General Motors and Ford Motor Company (AP-3, UPI-3); 4.
* A 134-day newspaper strike called by the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants Union that shut down both the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News from July 14 until November 25, the longest strike shutdown of metropolitan daily newspapers in American history (AP-5, UPI-5); 5.
* A May 8 tornado that struck Chesterfield Township in Macomb County, resulting in 13 deaths, injuries to at least 400 persons, and $14 million in damage (AP-4, UPI-7); 6.
* National Guard scandals arising out of questionable land sales at Camp Grayling and alleged mishandling of armory and liquor funds (AP-7, UPI-6); 7.
* A strike against Essex Wire Corp. in Hillsdale, Michigan, and the deployment of national guardsman when the company resumed operations with non-union workers (AP-8, UPI-8); 8.
* A booming economy in Michigan (AP-6); 9.
* Concern over the Great Lakes reaching their lowest water levels in 100 years (AP-9); 10.
* Revelation that Daniel West, a successful candidate for the Michigan House of Representatives, had lied about being an honors graduate of Yale Law School and concealed an extensive criminal record (UPI-9); 11.
* The success of University of Michigan sports teams with Big Ten Conference championships in football, indoor track, wrestling, and gymnastics, a co-championship in basketball, a national championship in men's ice hockey, and second-place finishes in outdoor track, tennis, and baseball (AP-10); and 12.
* The exposure of Thomas M. Novak as a fraud after four year practicing medicine without a license (UPI-10). The United Press International (UPI) picked the state's top sports stories as follows: 1.
* The success of the 1964 Michigan Wolverines football team in compiling an 8–1 record in the regular season, winning the Big Ten Conference championship, and receiving a bid to play in the 1965 Rose Bowl; 2.
* William Clay Ford Sr.'s firing of the Detroit Lions' five assistant coaches and the resignation two days later of head coach George Wilson; 3.
* Michigan athletes winning 11 medals at the Olympics; 4.
* The 1963–64 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team's Big Ten championship and advancing to the Final Four at the 1964 NCAA University Division basketball tournament; 5.
* The decision of the University of Detroit to terminate its football program; 6.
* Dave DeBusschere serving as player and head coach of the Detroit Pistons; 7.
* The return of Ted Lindsay to the Detroit Red Wings at age 39 and after four years of retirement; 8.
* The death of Eddie Sachs of Warren, Michigan, in a crash while competing in the Indianapolis 500 on May 30; 9.
* The 1963–64 Detroit Red Wings, after a mediocre regular season, advancing to the 1964 Stanley Cup Final and narrowly losing in seven games to the Toronto Maple Leafs; and 10.
* The Michigan high school basketball championships won by Benton Harbor (Class A), River Rouge (Class B), Grosse Pointe St. Paul (Class C), and Briton-Macon (Class D). (en)
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