of Ontario linking Toronto with the Niagara Peninsula and Buffalo, New
York. The freeway begins at the Peace Bridge in Fort Erie and travels
139.1 kilometres (86.4 mi) around the western shore of Lake Ontario,
ending at Highway 427, where the roadway continues as the Gardiner
Expressway into downtown Toronto. The freeway's history dates back to
1931, when work began to widen the Middle Road as a relief project
during the Great Depression, to bring it up to the quality of the nearby
Dundas Highway and Lakeshore Road. In 1934, the design was modified to
resemble German autobahns. When it was initially opened in 1937, it was
the first intercity divided highway in North America and featured the
longest stretch of consistent illumination in the world. While not a
true freeway at the time, it was gradually upgraded, widened and
modernized beginning in the 1950s, taking on more or less its current
form by 1975. Since then, various projects have continued to widen the
route.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_Way>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1572:
The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, a wave of Catholic mob
violence against the Huguenots, began, lasting for several months and
resulting in an estimated tens of thousands deaths across France.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Bartholomew%27s_Day_massacre>
1650:
General George Monck founded "Monck's Regiment of Foot", the
predecessor to the Coldstream Guards, in England's New Model Army,
making the regiment the oldest one in the Regular Army in continuous
active service.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coldstream_Guards>
1896:
Andrés Bonifacio and his Katipunan comrades in modern-day
Quezon City rose up in revolt against Spanish rule, marking the
beginning of the Philippine Revolution.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cry_of_Pugad_Lawin>
1927:
After a controversial trial, and despite worldwide protests,
Italian-born American anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti (both pictured) were
executed via electrocution in Massachusetts for the charges of murder
and theft.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacco_and_Vanzetti>
1939:
Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agreed to the
Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, a 10-year, mutual non-aggression treaty,
which also included a secret protocol dividing Northern and Eastern
Europe into German and Soviet spheres of influence.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
budgie smugglers:
(Australia, New Zealand, informal, plural only) A style of tightfitting
men's swimming costume cut like underwear briefs that covers the
buttocks and groin but not the legs, especially worn in surf lifesaving
and in swimming races.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/budgie_smugglers>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I can not be a traitor, for I owe him no allegiance. He is not my
Sovereign; he never received my homage; and whilst life is in this
persecuted body, he never shall receive it. To the other points whereof
I am accused, I freely confess them all. As Governor of my country I
have been an enemy to its enemies; I have slain the English; I have
mortally opposed the English King; I have stormed and taken the towns
and castles which he unjustly claimed as his own. If I or my soldiers
have plundered or done injury to the houses or ministers of religion, I
repent me of my sin; but it is not of Edward of England I shall ask
pardon.
--William Wallace
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Wallace>
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