It was on this day in 1964 that a massive 9.2 earthquake in Southcentral Alaska. The massive quake at 5:36 pm on March 27th caused much devastation throughout the region and generated a huge tsunami that inundated many communities in the region. The quake was the largest in the history of the United States […]
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 […]
