Kwinana Freeway is a 72-kilometre (45 mi) freeway in and beyond the southern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia, linking central Perth with Mandurah to the south. It interchanges with several major roads, including Roe Highway and Mandjoogoordap Drive, and is the central section of State Route 2, which continues north as Mitchell Freeway to Joondalup, and south as Forrest Highway towards Bunbury. A 4-kilometre (2.5 mi) section between Canning and Leach highways is also part of National Route 1. The northern terminus of the Kwinana Freeway is at the Narrows Bridge, which crosses the Swan River, and the southern terminus is at Pinjarra Road, east of Mandurah. Planning began in the 1950s, and the first segment in South Perth was constructed between 1956 and 1959. The route has been progressively widened and extended south since then. The last extension was completed in 2009, with the section north of Pinjarra Road named as part of the Kwinana Freeway, and the remainder named Forrest Highway. The freeway has been adapted to cater for public transport: bus priority measures were introduced in 1987, and in 2007, the Mandurah railway line (pictured) opened, constructed in the freeway median strip.
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The warlord Zhu Quanzhong killed Emperor Zhaozong, the penultimate emperor of Tang Dynasty China, after seizing control of the imperial government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Zhaozong_of_Tang
1776:
Captain Nathan Hale, an American Revolutionary spy from the Continental Army, was hanged by British forces. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Hale
1792:
French Revolution: One day after the National Convention voted to abolish the monarchy, the French First Republic came into being. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_First_Republic
1957:
François "Papa Doc" Duvalier was elected President of Haiti as a populist before consolidating power and ruling as a dictator for the rest of his life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Duvalier
1965:
The United Nations Security Council unanimously passed a resolution calling for an unconditional ceasefire in the Indo-Pakistani War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Pakistani_War_of_1965
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