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Fifty million people were affected, including residents of New York, Cleveland and Detroit, as Japan formally surrendered in writing two weeks later, on September 2, On August 14, , St. Louis Cardinals ace Bob Gibson throws the first no-hitter of his storied career. Gibson overcame numerous childhood ailments—including rickets, asthma and a heart President Franklin D.
Supreme Court in case No. How Do I? English version of the treaty for the sale of Alaska Vitus Bering sails through Bering Strait. Bering embarks on his second expedition, with George Wilhelm Steller aboard, the first naturalist to visit Alaska. First scientific report on the North Pacific fur seal. Concentrated hunting of sea otter by Russia begins. Captain James Cook leads an expedition to search for Northwest Passage. Gerassim Pribilof discovers the rookeries on the islands now known as the Pribilofs.
Baranov builds the first vessel in northwestern America at Voskres-senski on Kenai. The first Russian Orthodox Church is established at Kodiak. Tlingits drive Russians from Old Sitka; few Russians survive.
Yurii Lisianski sails to Canton with the first Russian cargo of furs to be sent directly to China. No foreigners are allowed in Russian-American waters except at regular ports of call. Russians begin exploration of mainland Alaska that leads to discovery of the Nushagak, Kuskokwim, Yukon, and Koyukuk Rivers. Father Veniaminov moves to Sitka and is consecrated Bishop Innokenty in Russian Orthodox diocese formed. Edward de Stoeckl assigned to the secretariat of the Russian legation in U.
Cathedral of St. Russian explorer -trappers find oil seeps in Cook Inlet. Coal mining begins at Coal Harbor on the Kenai Peninsula. De Stoeckl returns to U. Gold discovered on the Stikine River near Telegraph Creek. The Sitka Times , Alaska's first newspaper is published. Gold is discovered near Sitka and in British Columbia Cassiar. George Halt, said to be the first white man to cross the Chilkoot Pass, searches for gold.
Gold discovered south of Juneau at Windham Bay. Parris Lode claim staked which by is part of the most prominent mine in Alaska; the Treadwell Mine. The first commercial herring fishery begins at Killisnoo; near Angoon and the first two canneries are built in Central Alaska. Boundary survey start by Dr.
Large corporate salmon canneries begin to appear. First oil claims staked in the Cook Inlet area. Gold discovery on Mastadon Creek, founding Circle City. Today Alaska is one of the richest U. So what prompted Russia to withdraw from its American beachhead? And how did it come to possess it in the first place? As a descendant of Inupiaq Eskimos, I have been living and studying this history all my life.
In a way, there are two histories of how Alaska came to be American — and two perspectives. The other is from the perspective of my people, who have lived in Alaska for thousands of years, and for whom the anniversary of the cession brings mixed emotions, including immense loss but also optimism. The lust for new lands that brought Russia to Alaska and eventually California began in the 16th century, when the country was a fraction of its current size.
That began to change in , when Russia overran a Siberian territory known as the Khanate of Sibir, which was controlled by a grandson of Genghis Khan. This key victory opened up Siberia, and within 60 years the Russians were at the Pacific. The Siberian city of Okhotsk became the staging point for two explorations he ordered.
And in , Vitus Bering successfully crossed the strait that bears his name and sighted Mt. Saint Elias, near what is now the village of Yakutat, Alaska. The surviving crew fixed the ship, stocked it full of hundreds of the sea otters, foxes and fur seals that were abundant there and returned to Siberia, impressing Russian fur hunters with their valuable cargo. This prompted something akin to the Klondike gold rush years later.
Russians in Alaska — who numbered no more than at their peak — faced the reality of being half a globe away from St. Russians in Alaska — who numbered no more than at their peak — faced the reality of being half a globe away from St.
Petersburg, then the capital of the empire, making communications a key problem. Also, Alaska was too far north to allow for significant agriculture and therefore unfavorable as a place to send large numbers of settlers.
They sent ships to what is now California, established trade relations with the Spaniards there and eventually set up their own settlement at Fort Ross in Not long after, the Russians began to seriously question whether they could continue their Alaskan colony as well. For starters, the colony was no longer profitable after the sea otter population was decimated. Then there was the fact that Alaska was difficult to defend and Russia was short on cash due to the costs of the war in Crimea.
In the s, the United States had expanded its interests to Oregon, annexed Texas, fought a war with Mexico and acquired California. Afterward, Secretary of State Seward wrote in March Almost 20 years after expressing his thoughts about expansion into the Arctic, Seward accomplished his goal. In Alaska, the Americans foresaw a potential for gold, fur and fisheries, as well as more trade with China and Japan. The Americans worried that England might try to establish a presence in the territory, and the acquisition of Alaska — it was believed — would help the U.
Just in terms of wealth, the U. Hundreds of billions of dollars in whale oil, fur, copper, gold, timber, fish, platinum, zinc, lead and petroleum have been produced in Alaska over the years — allowing the state to do without a sales or income tax and give every resident an annual stipend.
Alaska still likely has billions of barrels of oil reserves.
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