Events from the year 1963 in Michigan. The Detroit Free Press and the Associated Press each selected the top 10 news stories in Michigan. The top stories included the following: 1. * The voters' adoption of a new Michigan Constitution (AP-1, DFP-1); 2. * Gov. George W. Romney's fiscal reform campaign, including a proposed state income tax that was defeated by the Legislature (AP-2, DFP-4); 3. * A boom year for the automobile industry (AP-6, DFP-2); 4. * Racial demonstrations, including the June 23 Detroit Walk to Freedom that drew an estimated crowd of 125,000 and was known as "the largest civil rights demonstration in the nation's history" up to that date (AP-7, DFP-3); 5. * A botulism outbreak that (i) killed two Grosse Ile women in March tied to canned tuna, (ii) resulted in t