Interstate 94 (I-94) in Michigan is a part of the U.S. Interstate Highway System that runs east from the Indiana state line near Lake Michigan through the southern Lower Peninsula to Detroit, then northeast to Port Huron. I-94 extends west to Billings, Montana. In Michigan, it is a state trunkline highway serving Benton Harbor, St. Joseph, Kalamazoo, Battle Creek, Jackson, Ann Arbor, and The Thumb, terminating on the Blue Water Bridge at the Canadian border. By 1960, I-94 was completed from New Buffalo to Detroit, and most of the rest of the route was completed in the 1960s. The highway has one auxiliary route in Michigan, I-194 in Battle Creek, and eight business routes. In 1987, a plane crashed on the freeway during take-off from the airport in Detroit. The routing of I-94 contains the first full freeway-to-freeway interchange in the United States, and comprises the first complete border-to-border toll-free freeway in a U.S. state.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1861:

The Australian astronomer John Tebbutt discovered the Great Comet of 1861 (depicted), through the tail of which the Earth passed later that year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/1861_J1

1940:

Three days after becoming Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Winston Churchill gave his "blood, toil, tears, and sweat" speech to the House of Commons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood,_toil,_tears,_and_sweat

1995:

Alison Hargreaves became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest without the aid of Sherpas or bottled oxygen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison_Hargreaves

2014:

The worst mining disaster in Turkish history took place when an explosion caused an underground mine fire at a coal mine in Soma, Manisa, leaving 301 people dead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soma_mine_disaster

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

slip-up: (idiomatic) A (small) error or mistake; a (minor) misstep. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/slip-up

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

God willeth that we endlessly hate the sin and endlessly love the soul, as God loveth it.   --Julian of Norwich https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Julian_of_Norwich