It was on this day in 1958 that White Alice, the United States Airforce telecommunications network came online in the Alaska territory. The network, with 31 original radio stations was switched on on March 26th, 1958, and the large parabolic, tropospheric scatter antennas and smaller microwave dishes began transmitting to and from remote sites […]
On March 23rd, 1989, the Exxon Valdez, a supertanker owned by the Exxon Shipping Company pulled away from the Valdez Marine Terminal at 9:12 pm bound for Long Beach California. At 12:04 am on March 24th, with Captain Hazelwood retired to his cabin and the Third Mate in control of the wheelhouse, the […]
15 years after the “Bone Dry” Act became law in the territory of Alaska in 1918, it was repealed on March 23rd, 1933, by Governor George A Parks. Alaskans passed the “BoneDry” law in 1916, and it took effect on January 1st, 1918, a full two years before the U.S. prohibition. It banned the […]
It was on March 22nd, ten days after the confirmation of the first COVID-19 case in Alaska, that Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz issued an “Emergency Hunker Down Order,” and it took effect in Alaska’s largest metropolitan area in Southcentral Alaska. While that was the first officially recognized order in the state, rural communities throughout […]