The Department of Interior (DOI) is proposing to reopen up to 82%of the 23-million-acre National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska ...

975: Death of Edgar, King of England. 1497: Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama departs on his first voyage, becoming the first European to reach India by sea. 1538: Spanish conquistador of Chile and ...

On June 30, 1934, Adolf Hitler launched his “blood purge” of political and military rivals in Germany in what came to be ...

In 1921, President Warren G. Harding nominated former President William Howard Taft ... In 1958, the U.S. Senate passed the Alaska statehood bill. In 1971, the Supreme Court ruled, 6-3, that the ...

This 23-million acre area was set aside by former President Warren G. Harding as an emergency supply of oil for the Navy. It contains areas that have significance to tribes and that are home to ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — President Warren G. Harding drove a golden spike into the final coupling of the Alaska Railroad more than a century ago, a ceremonial act that marked the launch of a ...

Anna graduated from Warren G. Harding High School and was employed as a switchboard operator until the birth of her first child.

It was a ceremonial spike meant to symbolize the completion of the Alaska Railroad. In 1923, President Warren G. Harding opened the railroad in Nenana by driving the spike into the track.

The city of Anchorage thanked him for his work by presenting him the golden spike. He sent it back from Seattle for the ceremony featuring President Warren G. Harding.