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.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_80_Business_(West_Wendover,_Nevada%E2%80%93Wendover,_Utah)>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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