off US 41/M-28 in Marquette, Michigan, along Washington and Front
streets. Serving the downtown area, the two streets originated with the
founding of the city in the mid-19th century. The original city hall was
built in 1895 on Washington Street. In 1910 the city started paving its
streets, replacing wooden planks with asphalt; later that decade,
Washington and Front streets were included in the state highway system.
In 1926 they were included in the United States Numbered Highway System.
When US 41/M-28 was moved to bypass the downtown in 1963, Washington
and Front streets were redesignated as a business loop. The highway was
also co-designated Business M-28 on state maps between 1975 and 1981,
mirroring a similar business loop designation in the neighboring cities
of Ishpeming and Negaunee. Jurisdiction over the two streets was
transferred to the city as part of a highway swap that resulted in the
decommissioning of the trunkline in 2005.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_41_Business_(Marquette,_Michigan)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1780:
One of the deadliest Atlantic hurricanes on record struck the
Caribbean Sea, killing at least 22,000 people over the next several
days.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hurricane_of_1780>
1897:
German chemist Felix Hoffman discovered an improved way of
synthesizing acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin) (pills pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_aspirin>
1933:
In the first proven act of air sabotage in the history of
commercial aviation, a United Airlines Boeing 247 exploded in mid-air
near Chesterton, Indiana, US, killing all seven people aboard.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933_United_Airlines_Boeing_247_mid-air_explosion>
1967:
The Outer Space Treaty, a treaty that forms the basis of
international space law, entered into force.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty>
1982:
Maximilian Kolbe, who had volunteered to die in place of a
stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz in Poland, was
canonized by the Catholic Church.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilian_Kolbe>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
yonic:
In the shape of a vulva or a vagina; in the shape of a yoni.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yonic>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it
isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up.
That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He
has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of
his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the
courage to do it.
--Helen Hayes
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Helen_Hayes>
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