State Route 67 (SR 67) is a state highway in San Diego County, California. It begins at Interstate 8 in El Cajon and continues to Lakeside as the San Vicente Freeway before becoming an undivided highway through the eastern part of Poway. The route ends in Ramona at SR 78 west of Julian. SR 67 provides direct access from the city of San Diego to the East County region of San Diego County. Julian was accessible from San Diego by stagecoach in 1872, and by railroad (to Foster) and stagecoach in 1896. A highway known as the Julian road was built by 1913, and was designated as Legislative Route 198 in the state highway system by 1935. This route was renumbered SR 67 in the 1964 state highway renumbering. A freeway south of Lakeside was built in the late 1960s and opened to traffic in 1970. Since then, the undivided portion of the highway north of Lakeside has become known for a high number of traffic accidents and fatalities. The California Department of Transportation has made several attempts to make the road safer.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1781:
American Revolutionary War: British forces captured the Dutch island of Sint Eustatius with only two shots fired. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_Sint_Eustatius
1813:
Argentine War of Independence: José de San Martín and his Regiment of Mounted Grenadiers gained a largely symbolic victory against a royalist army in the Battle of San Lorenzo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_San_Lorenzo
1967:
Ronald Ryan became the last person to be legally executed in Australia, sparking public protests across the country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Ryan
1989:
Alfredo Stroessner (pictured), whose rule as President of Paraguay for 35 years was marked by an uninterrupted period of repression in his country, was overthrown in a military coup by Andrés Rodríguez. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfredo_Stroessner
2010:
A cast of L'Homme qui marche I by Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti sold for £65 million (US$103.7 million), setting the record for most expensive sculpture sold at a public auction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Homme_qui_marche_I
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
proppant: Sand or similar particulate material suspended in water or other fluid and used in hydraulic fracturing (fracking) to keep fissures open. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/proppant
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
To anyone who does actually consent to directing his attention and love beyond the world, towards the reality that exists outside the reach of all human faculties, it is given to succeed in doing so. In that case, sooner or later, there descends upon him a part of the good, which shines through him upon all that surrounds him. --Simone Weil https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Simone_Weil