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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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