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Back to EpisodesPacification Ball & Robert Mahoney's Legacy | Mar 29
Episode 1487
Published 1 week, 2 days ago
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On this day in 1815, Detroiters and Canadians celebrated the end of the War of 1812 with the Pacification Ball, mending fences and hoping to leave the previous year's famine behind. In 2017, Michigan mourned the loss of Robert Daniel Mahoney, the first blind person elected to the Michigan House of Representatives, who showed the world what differently abled people could achieve.