
Coverage of the Alaska Legislature,
the Administration, and the Alaska Supreme Court
The day in Alaska history for
August 28: |
| 1893 | James Sheakley took office in Sitka as the fourth Governor of Alaska. | | 1903 | Two hundred passengers landed at Seward from the Santa Ana and the day became known as Founders Day . | | 1904 | The Seattle-Sitka submarine telegraph cable of the Army Signal Corps was completed. | | 1959 | Governor William Egan announced plans to build a road connection to Southeast Alaska via the Stikine River. | | 1959 | Loud blasts and mushroom clouds over Fort Richardson were only simulated nuclear explosions made with TNT as part of a troop training exercise. | | 1959 | Mount Redoubt, the highest mountain in the Aleutians, was climbed for the first time by Jon Gardey, Eugene Wescott, Charles Deehr, and Findley Dennel. | | 1959 | Mrs. A.A. Helda's 40-pound cabbage, an attraction for Anchorage tour buses, was stolen from her garden. | | 1970 | The formation of the Alyeska Pipeline Service Company, to build and operate the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, was formally announced by a consortium of oil companies. Those companies were Atlantic-Richfield, British Petroleum, Humble Oil and Refining, Mobil Oil, Phillips Petroleum, Union Oil, Amerada-Hess, and Home Oil. | | 1971 | The Russian Orthodox Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, in Kenai, was dedicated as a National Historic Landmark. |
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