H-58 is a county-designated highway in the US state of Michigan that runs east–west 69 miles (111 km) between the communities of Munising and Deer Park in the Upper Peninsula. The western section is routed through Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, a national park on Lake Superior that was created on October 15, 1966, and through the adjacent Lake Superior State Forest in Alger County. A roadway was present along parts of today's H-58 by the late 1920s; initially, this gravel and earth county road between Munising and Kingston Corners connected with other roads to Grand Marais. In the 1930s, another segment was built to connect to Deer Park and to fill in the gap between Kingston Corners and Grand Marais. The H-58 designation was created after the county- designated highway system itself was formed in 1970. Federal legislation from the 1990s allowed the National Park Service to fund improvements to H-58 as the main access road to the park. Paving projects were completed between 2006 and 2010 along the entire length of H-58 in Alger County; the segment in Luce County is still a gravel road.
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1529:
The Siege of Vienna ended as the Austrians repelled the invading Turks, turning the tide against almost a century of unchecked conquest throughout eastern and central Europe by the Ottoman Empire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Vienna
1894:
Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish artillery officer in the French military, was wrongly arrested for treason. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus_affair
1932:
Air India (aircraft pictured), the flag carrier airline of India, began operations under the name Tata Airlines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_India
1951:
Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes completed the first synthesis of norethisterone, the progestin that would later be used in one of the first two oral contraceptives. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_E._Miramontes
2006:
An offshore earthquake measuring 6.7 Mw occurred 10 km (6 miles) southwest of the Island of Hawaii. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Hawaii_earthquake
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