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Will Rogers Highway
June 26, 1952, on this location, Route 66 was rededicated as the Will Rogers Highway. This was one of the many ceremonies that took place on the state lines of Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California as well as Oklahoma, when a booster caravan traveled from St. Louis, Mo. To Santa Monica, CA. The Caravan was organized by the Natl. U.S. Highway 66 Assoc., Warner Brothers Film Studio, Ford Motor Company, and the Rt. 66 Associations from those eight states. The original bronze plaque placed here to mark ...
Located in Beckham County, Oklahoma

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Today in Oklahoma History
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1990 - Operation Desert Storm (Gulf War)
On this day U.S. and a multi-national coalition force moved to liberate Kuwait from an Iraqi invasion. more...
Thursday, August 02, 1990

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Random Fact About Oklahoma

Oklahoma has more man-made lakes than any other state, with over one million surface acres of water and 2,000 more miles of shoreline than the Atlantic and Gulf coasts combined.

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