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This Day in History
Posted: Tuesday, October 28, 2008
In Alaska, in the Nation and the World
In Alaska
• In 1949, amidst growing skepticism over the validity of the Fishwheel Gold Strike, 160 miles north of Fairbanks on the Yukon River, a University of Alaska geologist revealed one of the nuggets he examined from the strike was brass and two others were pocket worn.
• In 1988, two stranded gray whales left Barrow following an international rescue effort.