Home Page
 
Prev Period Home Page
Alaska Timeline
1959 - Alaska becomes 49th US State
1962 - Tundra Times established to represent Native views
1966 - AK Federation of Natives formed in Anchorage
1968 - Oil discovered at Prudhoe Bay
1969 - North Slope oil ease sale brings $900 million
1971 - AK Native Claims Settlement Act
1976 - AK Permanent Fund established
1977 - Trans-Alaska Pipeline completed
1980 - Personal income tax repealed
1983 - AK moves to AK Standard Time
1985 - State purchases AK Railroad from federal government
1989 - Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound
1990 - Population reaches 550,000. Over 800,000 visitors. Mining is fastest growing industry. Permanent Fund investments outside the U.S.
1992 - Alaska Highway and Denali National Park are 50 yrs old
1995 - 1 million plus visitors come to Alaska
1996 - Permanent Fund celebrates its 20th anniversary
1999 - Senator Ted Stevens named 'Alaskan of the Century'
2000 - US Census - Alaska population 626,932
2002 - Fort Greely becomes missile defense site
2006 - FBI investigates legislative corruption
2009 - 50th Anniversary of Statehood
National Timeline
1963 - President Kennedy assassinated
1964 - Civil Rights Act passes
1969 - US lands on the moon
1975 - Vietnam War ends
1975 - Personal computers available
1978 - President Carter proclaims 17 national monuments
1979 - Congress passes Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA)
1983 - CDs invented
1986 - Space shuttle Challenger explodes
1991 - Persian Gulf War
1991 - Congress closes Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil development
2001 - 9/11 attacks
2003 - Space Shuttle Columbia Explodes
2003 - U.S.-led coalition invades Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein
2006 - US population reaches 300 million
2007 - Virginia Tech massacre
2009 - Barack Obama becomes first African American President
International Timeline
1962 - Cuban missile crisis
1965-1975 - Vietnam War
1973 - Arab oil embargo
1979 - Soviets invade Afghanistan
1985 - Famine in Ethiopia
1989 - Fall of the Berlin Wall
1989 - Tiananmen Square protests, China
1990 - Rwandan Civil War
1991 - Break-up of Soviet Union
1994 - South African apartheid ends
1997 - Hong Kong returned to China
2000 - Human genome deciphered
2001 - Irish Republican army dismantles arsenal
2001 - U.S. & NATO forces invade Afghanistan
2002 - Queen Elizabeth II of England marks 50 years as monarch
2003 - African Aids Conference
2004 - North Atlantic treaty organization admits 7 new countries
2004 - Tsunami devastates Asia, 225,000 killed
2005 - Kyoto Protocol binding re global warming
2008 - Global financial crisis