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.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_94_in_Michigan>
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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>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
slip-up:
(idiomatic) A (small) error or mistake; a (minor) misstep.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/slip-up>
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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>
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