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California State Route 67 north of Poway Road

State Route 67 (SR 67) is a state highway in San Diego County, 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. (Full article...)

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In American football, the New England Patriots defeat the Seattle Seahawks to win the Super Bowl.
The Australian Open tennis tournament concludes with Serena Williams winning the women's singles and Novak Djokovic winning the men's singles.
Sergio Mattarella (pictured) is elected President of Italy.
In association football, the AFC Asian Cup concludes with host nation Australia defeating South Korea in the final.
Attacks by Islamist militants in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, kill 32 people.
Syriza (Coalition of the Radical Left) wins a plurality of seats in the Greek legislative election and forms a coalition government with the Independent Greeks.

Ongoing: Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – War in Ukraine
Recent deaths: Richard von Weizsäcker – Rod McKuen – Colleen McCullough

On this day...

February 3: Setsubun in Japan; Feast day of Dom Justo Takayama in Japan and the Philippines; Four Chaplains' Day in the United States

1781 – American Revolutionary War: British forces captured the Dutch island of Sint Eustatius with only two shots fired.
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.
1967 – Ronald Ryan became the last person to be legally executed in Australia, sparking public protests across the country.
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.
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.

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Mrs. Fiske Warren (Gretchen Osgood) and Her Daughter Rachel is an oil painting on canvas completed by John Singer Sargent in 1903. It depicts Gretchen Osgood Warren, an American actress, singer, and poet, sitting with her daughter Rachel Warren in a manner reminiscent of Renaissance portraits of nobility. The painting, measuring 152.4 × 102.55 cm (60.0 × 40.4 in), has been owned by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, since 1964.

Painting: John Singer Sargent

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