most of its length, is a north–south state highway in the Greater Los
Angeles Area. It connects the interchange of Interstate 5 (I-5) and SR
22 near downtown Orange, locally known as the Orange Crush, to the
Glendora Curve interchange with I-210 and SR 210 in Glendora. The
highway provides a route across several spurs of the Peninsular Ranges,
linking the Los Angeles Basin with the Pomona Valley and San Gabriel
Valley. An oiled-dirt predecessor to this road ran through Brea Canyon
by the late 1910s; it was paved in concrete in 1923 and added to the
state highway system in 1931. The freeway, including the Brea Canyon
Freeway segment, was built in stages during the 1950s, becoming SR 57
in the 1964 state highway renumbering. The final portion of the present-
day Orange Freeway was not completed until the mid 1970s. The last piece
of SR 57 to be added was formerly part of I-210, after SR 210 was
extended to San Bernardino in 1998. An unconstructed extension of SR 57
from Santa Ana south to Huntington Beach has been studied as a proposed
toll road above the Santa Ana River.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Route_57>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
868:
A copy of the Diamond Sutra was printed in China, making it the
world's oldest dated printed book.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_Sutra>
1812:
In the lobby of the British House of Commons, Spencer Perceval
became the only British Prime Minister to be assassinated.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_Perceval>
1880:
A land dispute between the Southern Pacific Railroad and
settlers in Hanford, California, turned deadly when a gun battle broke
out, leaving seven dead.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mussel_Slough_Tragedy>
1985:
During an association football match between Bradford City and
Lincoln City in Bradford, England, a flash fire consumed one side of the
Valley Parade stadium, killing 56 attendees.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradford_City_stadium_fire>
1998:
India began conducting the Pokhran-II nuclear weapons test, its
first since the Smiling Buddha test 24 years earlier.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokhran-II>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
atheophobia:
Fear or hatred of atheism or atheists.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/atheophobia>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It is easy to kill someone with a slash of a sword. It is
hard to be impossible for others to cut down.
--Yagyū Munenori
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yagy%C5%AB_Munenori>
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