State Route 75 (SR 75) is a 13-mile (21 km) expressway in San Diego
County, California. It is a loop route of Interstate 5 that begins near
Imperial Beach, heading west on Palm Avenue. The route continues north
along the Silver Strand, a thin strip of land bordering San Diego Bay,
through Silver Strand State Beach. SR 75 passes through the city of
Coronado as Orange Avenue (pictured) and continues onto the San
Diego–Coronado Bay Bridge over the bay, before joining back with
Interstate 5 near downtown San Diego at a freeway interchange. Orange
Avenue dates from the late 19th century, and the Silver Strand Highway
was open to the public by 1924. What would become SR 75 was added to
the state highway system in 1933 and designated Legislative Route 199 in
1935. SR 75 was not officially designated until the 1964 state highway
renumbering. The Coronado Bay Bridge opened in 1969, providing a direct
connection between San Diego and Coronado. SR 75 is marked as a scenic
route for nearly its entire length.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Route_75>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
284:
Diocletian became Roman emperor, eventually establishing reforms
that ended the Crisis of the Third Century.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diocletian>
1776:
American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Fort Lee marked the
invasion of New Jersey by British and Hessian forces and the subsequent
general retreat of the Continental Army.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Lee_Historic_Park>
1845:
Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata: The Argentine
Confederation were defeated in the Battle of Vuelta de Obligado, but the
losses ultimately made the United Kingdom and France give up the
blockade.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vuelta_de_Obligado>
1945:
The Nuremberg trials (defendants pictured) of 24 leading Nazis
involved in the Holocaust and various war crimes during World War II
began in Nuremberg, Germany.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials>
1979:
A group of armed insurgents attacked and took over the Masjid
al-Haram in Mecca, declaring that one of their leaders, Muhammad bin abd
Allah al-Qahtani, was the Mahdi, the prophesied redeemer of Islam.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Mosque_seizure>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
adoxography:
(rhetoric) Fine writing on a minor or trivial subject.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/adoxography>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
When you teach a man to hate and fear his brother, when you teach
that he is a lesser man because of his color or his beliefs or the
policies he pursues, when you teach that those who differ from you
threaten your freedom or your job or your family, then you also learn to
confront others not as fellow citizens but as enemies, to be met not
with cooperation but with conquest; to be subjugated and mastered. We
learn, at the last, to look at our brothers as aliens, men with whom we
share a city, but not a community; men bound to us in common dwelling,
but not in common effort. We learn to share only a common fear, only a
common desire to retreat from each other, only a common impulse to meet
disagreement with force.
--Robert F. Kennedy
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy>