The Creek Turnpike is a 33.22-mile-long (53.46 km) freeway-standard toll road that lies entirely in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The turnpike forms a partial beltway around the south and east sides of Tulsa, Oklahoma's second largest city. The western terminus is at the Turner Turnpike in Sapulpa, while the northeastern terminus is at the Will Rogers Turnpike in Fair Oaks; both ends of the Creek Turnpike connect with Interstate 44 (I-44). Along the way, the highway passes through the cities of Sapulpa, Jenks, Tulsa, and Broken Arrow, and the counties of Creek, Tulsa, Wagoner and Rogers. The first section of the Creek Turnpike, from US-75 in Jenks to US-64/US-169 in Tulsa, was first authorized in 1987. Its construction was controversial. Homeowners along the route of the highway formed a group called Tulsans Against Turnpikes to fight the highway in both the courtroom and the media, and the highway was also challenged on environmental grounds. Nevertheless, the highway opened to traffic in the first half of 1992. Further extensions to both the east and the west followed in later years after several years of false starts under the administrations of two different governors.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1830:
Tom Thumb (replica pictured), the first American-built steam locomotive, engaged in an impromptu race against a horse-drawn car in Maryland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Thumb_(locomotive)
1914:
In the first naval battle of the First World War, British ships defeated the German fleet in the Heligoland Bight area of the North Sea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Heligoland_Bight_(1914)
1924:
An unsuccessful insurrection against Soviet rule in the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, known as the August Uprising, began. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Uprising
1937:
Toyota Motors, now the world's largest automobile manufacturer, was spun off from Toyota Industries as an independent company. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota
1963:
The Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, the world's longest floating bridge, opened across Lake Washington in Washington, US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_Albert_D._Rosellini_Bridge%E2%80%94Evergreen_Point
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
battle of the sexes: (game theory) A situation in which two people want to do different things, but do them together. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/battle_of_the_sexes
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self- evident: that all men are created equal." I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state, sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.  --Martin Luther King, Jr. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.
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