California. It begins at Interstate 8 in El Cajon and continues to
Lakeside as the San Vicente Freeway before becoming an undivided highway
through the eastern part of Poway. The route ends in Ramona at SR 78
west of Julian. SR 67 provides direct access from the city of San Diego
to the East County region of San Diego County. Julian was accessible
from San Diego by stagecoach in 1872, and by railroad (to Foster) and
stagecoach in 1896. A highway known as the Julian road was built by
1913, and was designated as Legislative Route 198 in the state highway
system by 1935. This route was renumbered SR 67 in the 1964 state
highway renumbering. A freeway south of Lakeside was built in the late
1960s and opened to traffic in 1970. Since then, the undivided portion
of the highway north of Lakeside has become known for a high number of
traffic accidents and fatalities. The California Department of
Transportation has made several attempts to make the road safer.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Route_67>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1781:
American Revolutionary War: British forces captured the Dutch
island of Sint Eustatius with only two shots fired.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_Sint_Eustatius>
1813:
Argentine War of Independence: José de San Martín and his
Regiment of Mounted Grenadiers gained a largely symbolic victory against
a royalist army in the Battle of San Lorenzo.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_San_Lorenzo>
1967:
Ronald Ryan became the last person to be legally executed in
Australia, sparking public protests across the country.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Ryan>
1989:
Alfredo Stroessner (pictured), whose rule as President of
Paraguay for 35 years was marked by an uninterrupted period of
repression in his country, was overthrown in a military coup by Andrés
Rodríguez.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfredo_Stroessner>
2010:
A cast of L'Homme qui marche I by Swiss sculptor Alberto
Giacometti sold for £65 million (US$103.7 million), setting the record
for most expensive sculpture sold at a public auction.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Homme_qui_marche_I>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
proppant:
Sand or similar particulate material suspended in water or other fluid
and used in hydraulic fracturing (fracking) to keep fissures open.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/proppant>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
To anyone who does actually consent to directing his attention
and love beyond the world, towards the reality that exists outside the
reach of all human faculties, it is given to succeed in doing so. In
that case, sooner or later, there descends upon him a part of the good,
which shines through him upon all that surrounds him.
--Simone Weil
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Simone_Weil>
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