Statehood - Alaska Timeline Project

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  • Good Friday earthquake

  • Statehood proclaimed

  • Sitka pulp mill opens

  • ANWR created

  • AFN organized

  • Alaska Standard Time is established

  • Fairbanks flood

  • Oil discovered in Prudhoe Bay

  • President Nixon meets Emperor Hirohito in Anchorage

  • passage of ANCSA

  • Richard Wilmarth wins first Iditarod race

  • trans-Alaskan pipeline construction begins

  • trans-Alaskan pipeline delivers first barrel of oil to Valdez

  • ANILCA passed

  • PFD established

  • Exxon Valdez spills 11 million gallons into Prince William Sound

  • Tommy Moe wins gold in the Olympics

  • BP buys ARCO

  • Katie John case decided

  • I was Born

  • Sarah Palin becomes first female governor of Alaska

  • HSGQE established by State legislature

  • Lisa Murkowski wins write-in vote to U.S. Senate

  • Alaska is locked down due to CoronaVirus