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1. In 1885, the town of Juneau was officially incorporated, becoming the capital of the Alaskan Territory just 10 years later.
2. In 1915, a devastating blizzard swept across the state, causing widespread damage and claiming numerous lives.
3. In 1942, the Japanese bombed Dutch Harbor on the Aleutian Islands, marking the first foreign attack on U.S. soil since the War of 1812.
4. In 1957, a magnitude 8.6 earthquake struck the Andreanof Islands, causing a tsunami that reached as far as Hawaii.
5. In 2002, the first Alaska Native to serve in the U.S. Senate, Ted Stevens, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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