On this day in 1912, the Titanic began to sink, with Michigan couple Dickinson and Helen Bishop among the first to board a lifeboat. In 1911, the Detroit Tigers played their famed "Blizzard Game," and in 2002, Byron 'Whizzer' White, former Detroit Lions star and US Supreme Court Justice, passed away.
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In the north Atlantic, shortly after midnight on the morning of April 15, 1912, the Titanic began to sink. One of the first two people to climb into the first lifeboat were a wealthy newly-wed couple from Dowagiac, Michigan. Dickinson and Helen Bishop were put into the first lifeboat as Helen was pregnant. Though the lifeboat could carry up to 60 people, only 28 were onboard.
In 1911, The Detroit Tigers’ famed “Blizzard Game” took place, when the snowfall was so thick that batters were making base hits on account of the ball getting lost in the snow. The game was finally called when players could no longer see the pitcher as they stepped up to the plate.
And in 2002, Byron ‘Whizzer’ White Died. He was a star running back who played for the Detroit Lions. After his retirement from football he went on to a legal career as well as historic tenure of over four decades as a justice of the US Supreme Court.