One of Alaska’s foremost aviation pioneers, Carl Ben Eielson, and his mechanic Earl Borland, perished in a crash at North Cape in Siberia on November 9th 1929. At the time of the crash, they had been working to evacuate furs and personnel from the cargo vessel Nanook, which was trapped in the ice. During his […]
On November 8th 1955, fifty-five candidates consisting of 49 men and six women converged on the newly built Union Hall at the University of Alaska Fairbanks at the request of Territorial Governor B. Frank Heintzleman Their task was to draft a working constitution tthat was to be presented to Congress for statehood. Future first state […]
Measles, also known as the “Great Sickness” among the Native villages, broke out in Alaska in 1900 and tore through isolated Yup’ik, Iñupiat, and Iñupiaq communities that had little to no prior biological exposure, killing one-quarter to one-half of their populations as it moved through the towns. On November 7th 1913, news was transmitted to […]
In an example of migrant labor disputes in Alaska, on November 6th, 1907, 23 Alaskans as well as 23 Mexican laborers who had been brought to Alaska for railroad work, were arrested in Seattle as they returned from working on the railroad, laying track in treacherous terrain where they had faced severe weather, isolation, and […]