Interstate 296 (I-296) is a part of the Interstate Highway System in the US state of Michigan. It is a state trunkline highway that runs for 3.43 miles (5.52 km) parallel to the Grand River on the west bank, entirely within the Grand Rapids area. Its termini are I-196 near downtown Grand Rapids and I-96 on the north side of Grand Rapids in Walker. For most of its length, the Interstate runs concurrently with US Highway 131, which continues as a freeway built to Interstate Highway standards north and south of the shorter I-296. The highway was first proposed in the late 1950s and opened in December 1962. The Michigan Department of Transportation has since eliminated all signage for I-296 and removed the designation from their official state map, leaving it unsigned, but I-296 is still listed on the Interstate Highway System route log maintained by the Federal Highway Administration.

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_296

_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1790:

The Aztec sun stone, now a modern symbol of Mexican culture, was excavated in the Zócalo, the main square of Mexico City. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_sun_stone

1970:

Polish soldiers fired at workers (memorial pictured) emerging from trains in Gdynia, beginning the government's crackdown on mass anti-communist protests across the country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970_Polish_protests

2010:

Arab Spring: Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in protest against police harassment, triggering the Tunisian Revolution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Bouazizi

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

nithing: 1. (archaic) A coward, a dastard; a wretch. 2. (archaic) A wicked person; also, one who has acted immorally or unlawfully. 3. (archaic) Cowardly, dastardly. 4. (archaic) Notoriously evil or wicked; infamous. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nithing

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

The Son of God became incarnate to infuse into the human soul the feeling of brotherhood. All are brothers and all children of God. Abba, as he called the Father. I will show you the way, he said. Follow me and you will find the Father and you will all be his children and he will take delight in you. Agape, the love of each one of us for the other, from the closest to the furthest, is in fact the only way that Jesus has given us to find the way of salvation and of the Beatitudes.   --Pope Francis https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pope_Francis