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 […]
It was on March 30th, 1867 that the treaty drawn up by the Russian minister to the U.S., Eduard Andreevich Stoeckl, and his friend, Secretary of State William H. Seward, the night before, was taken before the U.S. Congress. It was signed by both Seward and Stoeckl and presented to that body. Named the […]
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 […]