Interstate 69 in Michigan enters that state south of Coldwater and
passes the cities of Lansing and Flint in the Lower Peninsula. I-69 is a
part of the Interstate Highway System, and will eventually run from the
Mexican border in Texas to the Canadian border at Port Huron, Michigan.
A north–south freeway from the Indiana–Michigan border to the
Lansing area, it changes direction to east–west after running
concurrently with I-96. The freeway continues to Port Huron before
terminating in the middle of the twin-span Blue Water Bridge while
running concurrently with I-94 at the border. There are four related
business loops for I-69 in the state, connecting the freeway to adjacent
cities. Predecessors to I-69 include the first M-29, US Highway 27
(US 27), M-78 and M-21. The freeway was not included on the original
Interstate Highway System planning maps in the mid-1950s, but it was
added in 1958 along a shorter route. Michigan built segments of freeway
for the future Interstate in the 1960s, and the state was granted
additional Interstate mileage in 1968 to extend I-69 north and east to
Flint. Later extensions in 1973 and 1987 resulted in the modern highway.
The first freeway segment designated as I-69 in Michigan opened in 1967,
and the last was completed in 1992, finishing Michigan's Interstate
System. US 27 previously ran concurrently with I-69 from the
Indiana–Michigan state line north to the Lansing area, but this
designation was removed in 2002.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_69_in_Michigan>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1628:
The Petition of Right, a major English constitutional document
that set out specific liberties of individuals, received royal assent
from King Charles I.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petition_of_Right>
1965:
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Griswold v. Connecticut that a
Connecticut law prohibiting the use of contraceptives violated the
"right to marital privacy".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griswold_v._Connecticut>
1975:
The inaugural edition of the Cricket World Cup, the premier
international championship of men's One Day International cricket, began
in England.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket_World_Cup>
1981:
The Israeli Air Force attacked and disabled the Osirak nuclear
reactor under the assumption that it was about to start producing
plutonium to further an Iraqi nuclear-weapons program.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Opera>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
victual:
1. (archaic) Food fit for human (or occasionally animal) consumption.
2. (archaic, chiefly in the plural) Food supplies; provisions.
3. (specifically, obsolete)
4. Edible plants.
5. (Scotland) Grain of any kind.
6. (transitive, reflexive, chiefly military, nautical) To provide
(military troops, a place, a ship, etc., or oneself) with a stock of
victuals or food; to provision.
7. (intransitive, chiefly military, nautical) To lay in or procure food
supplies.
8. (intransitive) To eat.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/victual>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Love... Thy will be done I can no longer hide, I can no longer
run No longer can I resist Your guiding light That gives me the power
2 keep up the fight Oh Lord, Love... Thy will be done Since I have
found you, my life has just begun And I see all of Your creations as
one perfect complex No one less beautiful or more special than the next
We are all blessed and so wise 2 accept Thy will, Love, be done.
--Prince
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Prince_%28musician%29>