Interstate 69 in Michigan enters that state south of Coldwater and passes the cities of Lansing and Flint in the Lower Peninsula. I-69 is a part of the Interstate Highway System, and will eventually run from the Mexican border in Texas to the Canadian border at Port Huron, Michigan. A north–south freeway from the Indiana–Michigan border to the Lansing area, it changes direction to east–west after running concurrently with I-96. The freeway continues to Port Huron before terminating in the middle of the twin-span Blue Water Bridge while running concurrently with I-94 at the border. There are four related business loops for I-69 in the state, connecting the freeway to adjacent cities. Predecessors to I-69 include the first M-29, US Highway 27 (US 27), M-78 and M-21. The freeway was not included on the original Interstate Highway System planning maps in the mid-1950s, but it was added in 1958 along a shorter route. Michigan built segments of freeway for the future Interstate in the 1960s, and the state was granted additional Interstate mileage in 1968 to extend I-69 north and east to Flint. Later extensions in 1973 and 1987 resulted in the modern highway. The first freeway segment designated as I-69 in Michigan opened in 1967, and the last was completed in 1992, finishing Michigan's Interstate System. US 27 previously ran concurrently with I-69 from the Indiana–Michigan state line north to the Lansing area, but this designation was removed in 2002.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1628:

The Petition of Right, a major English constitutional document that set out specific liberties of individuals, received royal assent from King Charles I. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petition_of_Right

1965:

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Griswold v. Connecticut that a Connecticut law prohibiting the use of contraceptives violated the "right to marital privacy". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griswold_v._Connecticut

1975:

The inaugural edition of the Cricket World Cup, the premier international championship of men's One Day International cricket, began in England. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket_World_Cup

1981:

The Israeli Air Force attacked and disabled the Osirak nuclear reactor under the assumption that it was about to start producing plutonium to further an Iraqi nuclear-weapons program. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Opera

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

victual: 1. (archaic) Food fit for human (or occasionally animal) consumption. 2. (archaic, chiefly in the plural) Food supplies; provisions. 3. (specifically, obsolete) 4. Edible plants. 5. (Scotland) Grain of any kind. 6. (transitive, reflexive, chiefly military, nautical) To provide (military troops, a place, a ship, etc., or oneself) with a stock of victuals or food; to provision. 7. (intransitive, chiefly military, nautical) To lay in or procure food supplies. 8. (intransitive) To eat. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/victual

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Love... Thy will be done I can no longer hide, I can no longer run No longer can I resist Your guiding light That gives me the power 2 keep up the fight Oh Lord, Love... Thy will be done Since I have found you, my life has just begun And I see all of Your creations as one perfect complex No one less beautiful or more special than the next We are all blessed and so wise 2 accept Thy will, Love, be done.   --Prince https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Prince_%28musician%29