Interstate 80 Business (BL-80) is a business loop of Interstate 80 that serves as the main street for the towns of West Wendover, Nevada, and Wendover, Utah, along a roadway named Wendover Boulevard. A line painted on the street marks the Nevada–Utah border. The road, which is 2.26 miles (3.64 km) long, passes West Wendover City Hall and the Peppermill, Montego Bay Resort and Wendover Nugget casinos. A portion of the Nevada segment of BL-80 is concurrent with U.S. Route 93 Alternate, and the entire portion in Utah is coterminous with Utah State Route 58. Wendover Boulevard was completed in 1925 as part of the Victory Highway across America, and was opened by governors George H. Dern of Utah and James G. Scrugham of Nevada and the Secretary of Agriculture, William M. Jardine. In 1926, it became part of U.S. Route 40, which connected California to New Jersey via Nevada and Utah. The Nevada Department of Transportation applied to the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials for the business loop designation in the early 1980s. The designation has never been approved, despite business loop signs being posted in both states, as Utah has not submitted a request as required by the association.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1826:
Swaminarayan wrote the Shikshapatri, a book of 212 verses that serves as the basis of Swaminarayan Hinduism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swaminarayan
1858:
Fourteen-year-old peasant girl Bernadette Soubirous reported the first of eighteen Marian apparitions in Lourdes, France, resulting in the town becoming a major site for pilgrimages by Catholics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lourdes_apparitions
1929:
To help settle the "Roman Question", Italy and the Holy See of the Roman Catholic Church signed the Lateran Treaty to establish Vatican City as an independent sovereign enclave within Italy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateran_Treaty
1938:
The BBC aired an adaptation of Karel Čapek's play R.U.R., the first science fiction television programme ever broadcast. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R.
2008:
Rebel East Timorese soldiers invaded the homes of President José Ramos-Horta and Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão, seriously wounding the former. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_East_Timorese_assassination_attempts
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
gourmandise: To eat food in a gluttonous manner; to gorge; to make a pig of oneself. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gourmandise
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
It is not necessary to succeed in order to persevere. As long as there is a margin of hope, however narrow, we have no choice but to base all our action on that margin. --Leó Szilárd https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Le%C3%B3_Szil%C3%A1rd