1959
U.S. Senator E.L. (Bob) Bartlett (D-Alaska) called for a full-scale investigation of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission's plans to take over 1,600 acres of land for a nuclear experiment.
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1969
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The Alaska State Senate passed an amendment to the State Constitution allowing 18-year olds to vote.
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1969
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A team of scientists from the University of Alaska's Geophysical Institute began their investigation of auroral radio noises, under contract with the U.S. Army.
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1929
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A Lockheed Vega plane piloted by Anscel Eckmann arrived at Juneau on the first non-stop flight from Seattle to Alaska.
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1929
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Nunivak Island National Wildlife Refuge was established.
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1939
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The Stevens Village School was closed all week due to an influenza epidemic which affected nearly 100% of the villagers.
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1959
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Governor William Egan resumed his duties in the aftermath of emergency gallbladder surgery.
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1971
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A bill authorizing the sale of the state ferry Wickersham was sent to Governor William Egan.
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1979
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Steve Cowper acknowledged he was leaning more towards running for the House because, "I would enjoy that kind of job instead of one where I would be constantly in the public eye - where you're forced to keep a high public profile all the time." He became Governor in 1986.
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16
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1747
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Alexander Baranof was born. He was the Chief Manager of the Russian-American Company, headquartered in Sitka, serving as Alaska's first Russian Governor from 1790 until his forced retirement in 1818.
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1911
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Mount Wrangell erupted with fire and smoke that could be seen for many miles.
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1917
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Joseph A. McLean, Juneau lawyer and member of the Territorial Legislature, was born in Juneau.
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1959
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An airplane trip from Anchorage to Fairbanks cost only $30.
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1959
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The first session of the First Alaska State Legislature adjourned at 9:54 p.m.
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1959
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Russia considered negotiations to land jets at Elmendorf Air Force Base, near Anchorage.
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1969
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Unification of the "home rule" cities of Juneau and Douglas and the greater Juneau Borough was flatly rejected by voters.
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17
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1824
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The U.S. and Russia signed the Treaty of St. Petersburg .
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1878
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Sheldon Jackson College opened its doors in Sitka.
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1912
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William A. Beltz, member of the Territorial and State legislatures, was born in Bear Creek, Alaska.
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1915
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Leonhard Seppala won the All-Alaska Sweepstakes Race at Nome.
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1924
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The Douglas Womens' Council decided to open a public library.
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1959
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John Rader was appointed as the state's first Attorney General.
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1959
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The Arctic Circle Chamber of Commerce endorsed the Atomic Energy Commission's plan to blast a harbor at Cape Thompson using nuclear explosives.
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1975
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For the first time, Alaskan residents were able to watch live national TV news, when NBC began sending its nightly news program via satellite to Juneau, Fairbanks, and Anchorage.
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1913
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John F. A. Strong , Alaska newspaperman, was appointed the second governor of the Territory of Alaska by President Woodrow Wilson. He was also the eighth Governor, as the previous seven were Governors of the District of Alaska before it gained Territorial status.
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1949
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The Bureau of Land Management announced temporary withdrawal from public settlement of 86,000 acres on the Chena River near Fairbanks and 17,000 acres on the Fritz Creek near Homer.
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1957
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The Chilkat, the first ferry in the Alaska Marine Highway system, was launched at Tacoma.
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1867
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The U.S. Senate approved the Alaska Purchase .
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1899
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The post office of Kotzebue was established with Robert Samms as postmaster.
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1933
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John W. Troy took office as the sixth Governor of the Territory of Alaska, appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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1979
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A majority of the State House sponsored a resolution to convene the Legislature in Willow in 1981, the site selected in 1976 as Alaska's new capital. (Voters disapproved appropriating money for the capital move in 1982)
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20
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1875
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Frank H. Waskey, the first delegate (non-voting) in Congress from Alaska, was born in Minnesota.
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1889
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Lyman E. Knapp took office as the third Governor of the District of Alaska, appointed by President Benjamin Harrison.
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1904
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Edward Lewis "Bob" Bartlett , who became one of the first two U.S. senators from the State of Alaska, was born in Seattle.
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1935
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The steamer North Sea, Northland Transportation Company, arrived in Juneau on her first Alaska voyage.
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21
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1838
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John Muir , famed naturalist who explored much of Southeast Alaska, was born in Scotland.
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1925
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Morris W. Griffith, U.S. Marshall at Nome , died suddenly.
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1959
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Russia's Literary Gazette reported that Soviet engineers were studying the idea of building a bridge from Siberia to Alaska. The bridge could carry railroad tracks and atomic pumps to divert warm ocean currents toward the Arctic Ocean to warm up the area's climate.
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1979
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The Alaska House of Representatives failed to pass a bill by Anchorage Representative Terry Martin restricting abortions for the poor.
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22
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1917
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A major portion of the mining on Douglas Island - near Juneau - ended with the flooding of the Treadwell, 700, and Mexican mines.
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1930
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Deputy U.S. Marshall E. H. Sherman was shot and killed in Haines.
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1949
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Territorial Engineer Frank Metcalfe, announced that installation of recording speedometers will be required on all trucks to help remedy the problem of fast and reckless driving.
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1959
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The village of Unalakleet received its first lawn to go with the lawn mower they had previously received from the Federal Aviation Administration.
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1949
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President Harry Truman signed an Alaskan Housing Bill to set up a revolving fund for the Alaska Housing Authority.
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1959
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The National Education Association announced that Alaska was second in the nation in per pupil expenditures for public schools at $520 behind New York's $535.
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1965
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A top Alaska fisheries official stated that Alaska could lose 2 decades of conservation work if Japan does not stop depleting the Bristol Bay salmon run.
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1969
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Reports that the Walter Hickel Highway, otherwise known as the "Ice Road to the North Slope," was under "some 5-feet of water" prompted a resolution in the Alaska State Senate that it should become part of the Alaska Marine Highway system.
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24
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1827
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James Sheakley , the fourth Governor of the District of Alaska, was born in Pennsylvania.
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1912
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The Second Alaska Organic Act passed the U. S. House.
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1951
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The old herring reduction plant at Killisnoo was destroyed by fire.
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1956
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The proposed Constitution of the State of Alaska was ratified by the voters in a Primary election.
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1969
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A University of California engineer advised that building a 50-mile bridge from Alaska to Siberia across the Bering Strait was entirely feasible.
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1932
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Joe Crosson made the first landing on Muldrow Glacier on Mount McKinley.
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1939
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Frank Berry, Superintendent of Public Facilities, announced a campaign to decrease radio interference in Anchorage by having filters installed on all automotive ignition systems.
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1949
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President Harry Truman vetoed the compensation of 3 Alaskan milk farmers for harm done by low-flying U.S. military planes (in 1941).
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1969
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The Alaska House of Representatives approved a resolution calling on the Food and Drug Administration to designate the tanner crab as the "Queen Crab."
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1979
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The Alaska State Senate failed to pass a pro-capital move resolution by a vote of 10 to 7.
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1899
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A fire destroyed a major portion of Dawson City in Canada's Yukon Territory.
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1965
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A Bureau of Commercial Fisheries vessel began a 2-month voyage to explore potential bottom-fishing grounds along the Continental Shelf.
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1967
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The Civil Aeronautics Board gave Alaska Airlines temporary permission to serve Sitka .
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1979
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A Japanese barley specialist declared that Alaska barley was "inferior."
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1988
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The first expedition to cross the Arctic on foot reached the North Pole.
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1949
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U.S. Military officials announced plans for a permanent arctic equipment testing station at Big Delta.
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1949
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Anchorage set a new winter snowfall record of 104.3 inches.
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1958
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A Juneau man drove away a young black bear by kicking it in the rump.
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1970
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An apparent oil spill in Bristol Bay killed as many as 86,000 murres (a kind of seabird).
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1898
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The townsite of Council on the Seward Peninsula was staked and a mining district formed.
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1949
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Dr. James Ryan, the Territorial Commissioner of Education, told a Senate committee that Alaskan children were of superior intelligence because of the "high-grade" of the territorial pioneers.
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1959
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U.S. Senator Ernest Gruening revealed plans to authorize the Army Corps of Engineers to construct a hydro-electric dam at Rampart Canyon on the Yukon River.
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1975
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Fifteen Alaskan volunteers left on the first leg of a privately-funded airlift to bring Vietnamese orphans to the U.S.
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