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July 9, 1958: Surf’s Up, as 1,700-Foot Wave Scours Alaskan Bay
1958: The tallest wave ever recorded — splashing nearly 500 feet taller than the Empire State Building — explodes down Lituya Bay in the Gulf of Alaska. Lituya Bay is a T-shaped fjord on the coast of...
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Nov. 18, 1913: U.S. Pilot Loops the Loop
Lincoln Beachey's aviation acrobatics astound America. For a few years, anyway. The post Nov. 18, 1913: U.S. Pilot Loops the Loop appeared first on This Day In Tech.
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Oct. 29, 1942: Alaska Highway Built as Hedge Against Invasion
1942: The Alaska Highway officially opens to military traffic. Until the early 1940s, Alaska was a neglected U.S. territory. The Klondike gold rush of the 1880s and ’90s was a distant memory, and oil...
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Jan. 21, 2008: Chief Marie Dies; So Does Her Language
2008: Marie Smith Jones, a chief of the Eyak Indian tribe in Alaska, dies. With her dies the Eyak language. Chief Marie, 89, was the last person to speak this tribal tongue, which she learned from her...
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March 18, 1931: The Schick Hits the Fans
1931: The first practical, electric shavers go on sale. They’re definitely a cut above their clumsy predecessors. The gizmos were the brainchild of Jacob Schick. He served in the U.S. Army in the...
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March 24, 1989: Valdez Spill Causes Environmental Catastrophe
1989: The Exxon Valdez runs aground in Prince William Sound, spilling nearly 11 million gallons of crude oil across 1,300 miles of Alaskan coastline. In terms of environmental damage, it ranks among...
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Aug. 1, 1949: FCC Gets in on Cable TV
A secretary at the Federal Communications Commission sends a letter to cable pioneer Ed Parsons in Astoria, Oregon, asking him to explain his community-antenna television system. It's the first-known...
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