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This date in Michigan History:   March 9, 1976
Hot-air balloons flights over the state are legalized. 

Governor William B. Milliken signed legislation that made manned hot-air balloon flights from and over Michigan legal. This law ended a ban over the sale and use of such balloons that had been in effect since 1931.

 
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