1947
The first Golden North Salmon Derby was established by the Juneau Sportsmens' Association.
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1952
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The S.S. Princess Kathleen ran aground and sank 18 miles north of Juneau, eight miles from where the Princess Sophia went down in 1918.
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1969
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Alaska Airlines announced the acquisition of Alaska Co., a Denver-based firm with interests in 20,000 acres of Federal land on the North Slope.
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1979
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The State of Alaska ran ads costing $110,000 in 32 metropolitan newspapers nationwide urging readers to "FREE ALASKA" and to oppose the Udall-Anderson D-2 lands bill.
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1906
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The Office of the Governor of Alaska opened in Juneau after being moved from Sitka, six years after Congress authorized the move.
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1938
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Artist Eustace Ziegler arrived in Juneau to paint murals for the Baranof Hotel.
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1969
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Construction began on an access road connecting the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Terminal with the city of Valdez .
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1986
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The five billionth barrel of Alaskan oil left Pump Station #1 at Prudhoe Bay .
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1913
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The First Territorial Bank of Alaska opened in Douglas.
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1959
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Wrangell sought state help in finding a doctor for the town after their only doctor fell ill and could not practice.
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10
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1904
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Nome police chief Charles Jewett was suspended from his post, accused of accepting bribes from arrestees and "fallen women without due process of law." He was reinstated after 30 minutes.
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1907
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The Tongass National Forest was established in Southeast Alaska.
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1918
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The "golden spike" was driven in the railroad that connected Seward and Anchorage.
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1949
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The director of the Boston Museum proposed installing a cosmic ray laboratory at 18,000-foot Denali Pass on Mt. McKinley .
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1959
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The Kenai Unit #1 well, a joint venture between Union Oil Co. and Ohio Oil Co., set a new Alaska record depth of 14,415 feet. The previous record had been held by Humble Oil Co.
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1969
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Alaska's oil lease sale pumped nine hundred million dollars into Alaska's economy as 179 tracts of potentially oil-rich North Slope lands were leased.
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1969
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Former State Attorney General Edgar Paul Boyko filed suit to stop the awarding of 33 of the 179 state oil-lease tracts.
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1865
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Wilford B. Hoggatt , who became the sixth Governor of the District of Alaska, was born in Indiana.
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1958
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Poet Robert W. Service died in Monte Carlo at the age of 85.
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1979
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A patrol plane used by Rangers at the Wrangell-St. Elias National Monument was destroyed by fire. Arson was suspected.
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12
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1882
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Construction started on the first building on the campus of the Sheldon Jackson School in Sitka .
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1900
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A storm in Nome caused a million dollars in property losses along the waterfront.
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1940
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Artist Sydney Laurence announced he was going to die. After a shave, haircut, and a negotiation of a painting deal, he admitted himself to the Anchorage Hospital and fulfilled his prediction.
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1969
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Valdez celebrated as the Alaska Maru arrived with the first shipment of Trans-Alaska Pipeline pipe from Japan.
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13
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1905
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Fire destroyed 43 business buildings in Nome .
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1906
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The steamer Oregon was wrecked at Cape Hinchenbrook, at the entrance to Prince William Sound all 121 aboard were saved.
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1913
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Concrete is poured for the first story of Juneau's first City Hall. The Alaska Office Building now sits at that location.
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1955
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In a special election, Alaskans sent 55 delegates to a Constitutional Convention .
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1979
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Anchorage's teacher strike ended after a week when an acceptable negotiation plan was agreed to and signed by Judge Victor Carlson.
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1834
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Alfred P. Swineford , Alaska's second Governor, was born in Ohio.
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1871
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A 32-ship whaling fleet from New England was abandoned at Wainwright Inlet when ice cut it off from open water. The 1200 crewmembers used whale boats to reach safety at Icy Cape. No lives were lost.
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1884
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Alaska's first governor, John Kinkead , appointed by President Chester Arthur, arrived in Sitka to take up his duties.
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1884
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The first meeting of the Presbytery of Alaska was held in Wrangell .
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1885
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Alfred P. Swineford took office as the second Governor of the District of Alaska.
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1913
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Cordova residents formed the Alaska Good Roads Club with the goal of promoting a road from Fairbanks to Chitna.
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1959
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The Bureau of Land Management paid Alaska nearly $4.4 million as the state's share of oil and gas lease revenue on public lands in Alaska.
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1959
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Everett Benson was convicted in Spokane, Washington on five counts of grand larceny in connection with the financing of an Alaskan mine venture.
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1986
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The five billionth barrel of oil to travel down the Trans-Alaska Pipeline arrived in Valdez .
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1901
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Professor Leonard , the aeronaut, performed acrobatic feats on a horizontal bar suspended from a large balloon over the Bering Sea near Nome .
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1925
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The Southeast Alaska Fair opened in the Arctic Brotherhood Hall in Juneau.
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1947
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Bidding was opened by the U.S. Forest Service on 1.5 billion cubic feet of timber in the Ketchikan area. This was part of a plan to establish 5 or 6 large paper mills in Alaska.
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1974
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The U.S. Army provided Kodiak with 3 emergency generators to give the Kodiak Electric Association a chance to repair broken equipment.
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1848
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Thomas Cale, who served as the second delegate in Congress from Alaska, was born in Vermont.
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1868
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The Alaska Commercial Company was incorporated in San Francisco, California.
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1873
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Thomas Riggs , Governor of the Territory of Alaska from 1918 to 1921, was born.
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1934
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Fire swept through Nome, virtually destroying the town.
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1964
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A $6 million contract was signed to reconstruct the Alaska Railroad facilities in Seward that were damaged by the Good Friday earthquake. It was the largest single earthquake reconstruction contract.
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1913
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Anthony J. Dimond was appointed U.S. Commissioner at Chisana, the start of a long career of public service.
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1922
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The University of Alaska - Fairbanks opened.
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1929
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Ground was broken in Juneau for the Federal and Territorial Building, now the State Capitol.
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1939
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The Book Cache Lending Library and Bookstore, run by Miss Honor Kempton, opened in Anchorage.
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1948
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Eielson Air Force Base , near Fairbanks, was formally dedicated.
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1903
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The daily Fairbanks News was established. It later combined with the Fairbanks Miner.
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1949
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Colonel Brent Balchen, an Arctic aviation pioneer and his crew flew a U.S. Air Force transport plane 3700 miles from Anchorage to Oslo, Norway in a record-breaking 22.5 hour non-stop flight.
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1963
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Shell Oil Company announced a major oil discovery in Cook Inlet.
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1969
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The U.S.S. Manhattan, an ice breaking tanker on an experimental voyage through the Northwest Passage from the east coast of the U.S., took delivery of one barrel of North Slope crude oil off Prudhoe Bay. Humble Oil hoped ice breaking oil tankers could take North Slope crude to market.
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1949
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Ketchikan residents were advised to boil their water because of bacterial contamination due to early September's heavy rains.
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1959
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Anchorage's 5-digit telephone number system changed to the metropolitan 7-digit system.
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1979
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The Department of Immigration announced that only 4,365 vehicles entered Alaska in August, the lowest number since record keeping began in 1966.
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1891
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The first Siberian reindeer were released on Unalaska and Amaknak Islands by the Revenue Cutter Bear.
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1949
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An Anchorage burglar with a sweet tooth broke into a car spurning everything except a box of candy.
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1959
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The commander of the Alaska Communication System called Alaskans "the talkingest people in the world," making more long distance calls and talking longer than people outside the state.
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1970
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Denali State Park was established.
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1979
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Three and one half pounds of cocaine were seized at the Anchorage International Airport in what was then the largest such seizure.
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1979
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The Federal Government OK'ed a plan to shift Juneau's time zone from Pacific to Yukon Time, effective April 27, 1980.
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22
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1898
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The Discovery claim was staked on Anvil Creek, touching off the Nome Gold Rush.
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1959
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David L. Luce, a California official, was named Administrative Director of the newly formed Alaska State Court System.
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1959
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The Matanuska Valley Chamber of Commerce asked the state's Planning Commission to study the proposed relocation of the state capital.
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1969
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The oldest Russian Church in Alaska, the Church of the Holy Resurrection, in Kodiak was rededicated.
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1969
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Hawaiian legislators voiced concern over a possible tidal wave caused by the Atomic Energy Commission's planned nuclear tests in the Aleutian Islands.
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