This Day in Alaskan History-April 4th,1911
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This Day in Alaska History-April 3rd, 1898
April 3rd of 1898 would go down in Alaska History as the deadliest day in the Klondike Gold Rush. It was a day of multiple avalanches caused by the heavy snowfalls that occurred in February and March of that year, as well as warm southerly winds occurring in the area. On the morning of […]
This Day in Alaska History-April 2nd
Disney’s 25th episode of season 13 aired in a salute to Alaska’s 100th anniversary on April 2nd, 1967. The animated episode, named just that, “A Salute to Alaska,” aired a brief history of the state. It also aired the final episode that Walt Disney opened and introduced, he had died five months earlier. The […]
This Day in Alaska History-April 1st, 1869
The first school in Alaska opened in Sitka on this date in 1869. While the territory of Alaska was purchased in 1867, the U.S. government had made no moves to open any schools in Alaska, so Sitka took it upon itself to begin its own. The school was housed in a log cabin, and […]