State Route 94 (SR 94) is a 63.3-mile (101.9 km) highway in the U.S. state of California. The western portion, known as the Martin Luther King Jr. Freeway, begins at Interstate 5 (I-5) in downtown San Diego and continues to the end of the freeway portion past SR 125 in Spring Valley. The non-freeway segment of SR 94 that continues east through the mountains to I-8 near Boulevard is known as Campo Road. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, this section was a wagon road providing access to eastern San Diego County. The Campo road was often the only road through the Peninsular Ranges to stay open for the entire winter; other roads, at higher elevations, were closed due to snow, leading to increased traffic along this road. It was added to the state highway system in 1933, and signs for Route 94 were posted along local roads later that decade. Efforts to convert the western half of the route to a freeway got underway in the 1950s, and the freeway was complete by 1962 west of the road that became SR 125.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1900:

Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca (audio featured), based on the play La Tosca by French dramatist Victorien Sardou, premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tosca

1933:

Harold Larwood, of the England cricket team, employing the controversial tactic known as Bodyline, bowled a ball into the chest of the Australian cricket captain, Bill Woodfull, during play, in an image that became one of the defining symbols of the series. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodyline

1943:

Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Charles de Gaulle, and Henri Giraud met in Casablanca to plan the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casablanca_Conference

1953:

Josip Broz Tito was inaugurated as the first President of Yugoslavia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josip_Broz_Tito

1978:

Austrian logician Kurt Gödel, who suffered from an obsessive fear of being poisoned, died of starvation after his wife was hospitalized and unable to cook for him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_G%C3%B6del

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

windsucker: 1. A horse with the habit of windsucking. 2. (archaic) […] 3. The common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus). 4. (derogatory) A term of abuse. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/windsucker

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

The thinking man must … oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. True manhood is too precious a spiritual good for us to surrender any part of it to thoughtlessness.   --Albert Schweitzer https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Schweitzer