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1905
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Lester D. Bronson, who served in the Alaska Legislature from Nome, was born in California.
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1946
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The Auke Bay post office north of Juneau officially opened for business.
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1964
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Nine employees of the Alaska Communication System were awarded the "Declaration of Exceptional Service" by the Secretary of the Air Force.
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24
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1824
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The Afognak Forest and Fish Culture Reserve was established by President Benjamin Harrison.
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1906
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Telegraphic service via submarine cable was opened between Juneau and Ketchikan .
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1914
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The first ore train in the Juneau area operated from the Perseverance Mine to the mill at Thane, south of Juneau.
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1959
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A Reno, Nevada media group purchased the Alaska Daily Empire in Juneau. It is now the Juneau Empire and is owned by Morris Communications, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
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1959
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Bob Hope began a series of shows for Alaska's military personnel at Ladd Air Force Base in Fairbanks. Other shows were planned at Elmendorf, Eielson, and other Air Force bases in Alaska.
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25
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1923
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The Point Retreat Light Station near Juneau was placed in operation.
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1925
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The Sitka Progress, a weekly paper, published its first issue.
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1959
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Kodiak's water supply was exhausted as 64 million gallons of water leaked from the community's reservoir through a 5-foot crack in the dam's footings.
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1979
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A 740-foot Japanese freighter capsized off northern British Columbia. All 30 men perished.
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26
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1839
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Charles John Seghers, who became the Catholic Bishop of Vancouver Island, was born in Belgium.
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1935
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William Monroe, Klondike gold rusher and builder of a railroad from Nome to Anvil Creek, died at the age of 94. (He was also the founder of the city of Monrovia in California.)
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1967
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One hundred and fifty-seven technicians and clerks went on strike at the Ballistic Missile Early Warning Center site at Clear, Alaska. (The BMEWS remained in operation.)
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27
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1947
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A B-29 bomber missing from Ladd Field, Fairbanks for four days was sighted on the northern Seward Peninsula. Six out of eleven survived the crash.
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1955
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The eight crewmen of an Air Force C-119 "Flying Boxcar" escaped death as the aircraft crashed on takeoff at the Sparrevohn Radar Base in Western Alaska.
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1965
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Vice-President Hubert Humphrey stopped in Anchorage for 45 minutes enroute to the Far East.
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28
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1905
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The Daily Miner began publication in Ketchikan and absorbed the existing Ketchikan Mining Journal.
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1907
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Richard Harris, one of the founders of Juneau, was buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Juneau.
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1954
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The Alaska Railroad asked for bids from private operators to lease its stern-wheel riverboat Nenana which was operating on the Tanana and Yukon rivers.
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1954
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Three Eskimos and 9 dogs were enroute from Selawik to Nome with 800 reindeer to establish a new herd.
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29
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1878
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Richard E. Hardcastle, legislator and longtime Ketchikan businessman, was born in New Jersey.
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1879
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WWI flying ace Colonel "Billy" Mitchell, who established telegraph posts in Alaska in the early 1900's, was born in Nice, France. Mt. Billy Mitchell, near Valdez, was named after the famous Brigadier General of the U.S. Army Air Corps.
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1935
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The University of Alaska at Fairbanks Library was formally dedicated in its new location, the Library/Gymnasium Building.
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1964
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An Alaska State Trooper helicopter lost 600 pounds of radio gear south of Anchorage. A 330 watt repeater fell 2,000 feet into deep snow.
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1969
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Keith Miller took office as the third Governor of the State of Alaska, succeeding Walter Hickel , who took the position of U.S. Secretary of the Interior.
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1980
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The City of Anchorage filed suit in Federal Court claiming the Census Bureau under-counted the city's population, and sought to have the Census Bureau change its count.
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30
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1788
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Lt. Otto Von Kotzebue , Russian navigator, was born.
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1902
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Two men were killed in a snowslide near Cordova .
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1938
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E.W. Griffin, Secretary of Alaska, died of a heart attack while delivering a speech in Juneau.
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1960
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The Alaska Sled Dog and Racing Association called off the first race of the season (scheduled for January 1) because of no snow. This was the first cancellation in the Association's history, although the next year, it was also cancelled due to warm weather.
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1964
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A major fire in downtown Juneau gutted the J.B. Caro Building, including Alaska Transfer and Storage and the Chilkat Fuel Company.
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31
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1894
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The Juneau Ferry and Navigation Company began carrying passengers between Juneau and Douglas Island. The operation continued until the completion of the Douglas Bridge in 1935.
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1917
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All saloons in the Territory of Alaska closed their doors at midnight under a new Alaska law.
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1947
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The merger of Skinner and Eddy Corporation and the Alaska Steamship Company was announced.
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1975
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U.S. District Judge James Von der Heydt banned large-scale timbercutting throughout Alaska.
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