In Iowa, Interstate 80 (I-80) enters at the Missouri River in Council Bluffs, extends east through the southern Iowa drift plain, passes around Des Moines and through Iowa City, and crosses into Illinois at the Mississippi River near Le Claire. I-80 is an American transcontinental Interstate Highway stretching from San Francisco, California, to Teaneck, New Jersey. Before the Interstate was built, US Route 6 was the busiest highway in Iowa. In the early 1950s, a turnpike along the US 6 corridor was slated to be the first modern four-lane highway in the state, but those plans were shelved when the Interstate Highway System was created in 1956. The first section of I-80 opened in 1958 in the western suburbs of Des Moines, and new sections of the Interstate opened up regularly over the next twelve years. The final segment in Iowa, the Missouri River bridge to Omaha, Nebraska, opened in 1972. About one-third of Iowa's population lives along the I-80 corridor, most of which runs through farmland.

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_80_in_Iowa

_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

905:

Louis III, Holy Roman Emperor, was captured during his attempt to restore Carolingian power over Italy by King Berengar I and blinded. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_the_Blind

1925:

American high school biology teacher John T. Scopes was found guilty (trial pictured) of violating Tennessee's Butler Act by teaching evolution in class. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopes_Trial

1973:

Mossad agents mistakenly assassinated a Moroccan waiter in Lillehammer, Norway, whom they believed had been involved in the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillehammer_affair

2012:

Turkish adventurer Erden Eruç became the first person in history to complete a solo human-powered circumnavigation of the Earth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erden_Eru%C3%A7

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

bluff out: (transitive) To deceive (someone) in order to convince them to give up. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bluff_out

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

It's the people and the cause that matter and right now there's an important need, which is bridge-building. I wanted to support the cause of humanity, because that's what I always sang about. Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again. It's a big step for me but it's a natural step. I don't feel at all irked by the responsibility — I feel inspired.   --Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cat_Stevens