KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - August 2, 1956. What we now know as Interstate 44 and Interstate 70 were actually historic milestones for both Missouri and the greater United States.
The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on June 29 of that year, funded the Interstate Highway System. Joining this transcontinental system, the Interregional ...