Interstate 75 in Michigan is a part of the Interstate Highway System that runs 396 miles (637 km) generally northward from Ohio to the Canadian border in Sault Ste. Marie. It passes near Lake Erie and through Detroit, Pontiac and Bay City, Michigan, crossing the Mackinac Bridge (pictured) in the Straits of Mackinac between Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. Within the state, the Interstate shares parts of its route with circle tours around four of the five Great Lakes, and spawns four auxiliary Interstates. Native American trails spanned the state along the general path of the modern freeway; after statehood, several of these were converted into plank roads that later became some of the first state highways. Interstate construction in Michigan started in 1957, signs went up in 1959, and the last section was opened on November 1, 1973. South of Michigan, Interstate 75 continues for 1,391 miles (2,239 km), terminating in Miami, Florida.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1611:
The first recorded performance of William Shakespeare's play The Tempest was held at the Palace of Whitehall in London, exactly seven years after the first certainly known performance of his tragedy Othello was held in the same building. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Othello
1914:
World War I: The first contingent of the First Australian Imperial Force departed Albany. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Australian_Imperial_Force
1956:
The Indian states Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Karnataka were formally created under the States Reorganisation Act. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karnataka
1968:
The voluntary Motion Picture Association of America film rating system came into effect, affecting films released in the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association_of_America_film_rating_system
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
Indian summer: 1. A stretch of sunny and warm, often hazy, days during late autumn. 2. (figuratively) The late autumn of life; a late flowering of activity before old age. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Indian_summer
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
We belong to the Society of Friends, a community of love, a family of persons. In so far as we are not just another “denomination,” we know also that the salvation of our age is in our keeping; that is, that it lies in the divine-human society which is "rooted and grounded in love." This is the unity which alone can make one world out of "one world", and not one nightmare, one hell, one burned-out cinder. We know also and in a way we respond to the fact that we have a mission, we are "called to be saints". --A. J. Muste https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A._J._Muste