The Ridge Route was the popular name given to an early 20th-century
road in the United States. The Ridge Route was California's first
highway, linking the Los Angeles Basin with the San Joaquin Valley;
it was particularly used to travel from the city of Los Angeles to
Bakersfield. Its official name was the Castaic-Tejon Route. In 1895,
the State Bureau of Highways was created by Governor James H. Budd
who appointed three highway commissioners: R.C. Irvine of Sacramento,
Marsden Manson of San Francisco and L. Maude of Riverside. Though a
great deal of the route had been daylighted (widened) and paved in
asphalt by the mid-1920s, much of the 1919 concrete pavement remains
intact. In some areas, Model T tire tracks can still be seen, left
decades ago in the still-soft concrete.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1399 The Duke of Lancaster deposed Richard II to become Henry IV
of England, merging the Duchy of Lancaster with the crown.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_IV_of_England)
1980 Ethernet specifications were published by Xerox, working
with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet)
1982 Cyanide-laced Tylenol killed six people in the Chicago,
Illinois area. Seven were killed in all. The incident is
known as the Tylenol scare.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tylenol)
1991 Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was overthrown in
a coup d'�tat and replaced by General Raoul C�dras. A
large-scale exodus of boat people ensued.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%2dBertrand_Aristide)
1999 Japan's worst nuclear accident took place at a uranium
reprocessing facility near Tokyo, exposing workers and
local residents to very high levels of radiation.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_accident)
Wikiquote of the day:
"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us
with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic
threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as
effects." ~ Herman Melville
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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Herman_Melville)