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• In 1925, a fire in the executive offices on Fifth Street in Juneau caused Gov. Scott Bone to move to the Goldstein Building.

• In 1959, the Alaska Committee for Hawaiian Statehood held its first meeting.

• In 1959, licensing of fish traps was banned in Alaska.

• In 1968, Benjamin Strong, the first Anchorage police officer to be slain while on duty, died of a single bullet wound inflicted while trying to stop a liquor store robbery.

• In 1979, a Bethel business was charged with 93 counts of bootlegging. Bethel residents voted for a dry town in 1973.

• In 1979, General M.R. "Muktuk" Marston was given National guard Distinguished Service Medal for World War II service recruiting Eskimo Scout Battalions.

• In 1979, Gov. Hammond urged state unity to pass federal D-2 lands legislation.

• In 1985, the Alaska Railroad was sold by the federal government to the state of Alaska.

In the nation

• In 1925, Nellie T. Ross succeeded her late husband as governor of Wyoming, becoming the first female governor in U.S. history.

• In 1949, in his state of the union address, President Truman labeled his administration the Fair Deal.

• In 1970, Joseph A. Yablonski, an unsuccessful candidate for the presidency of the United Mine Workers of America, was found murdered with his wife and daughter at their Clarksville, Pa., home. UMWA President Anthony Boyle and three others were convicted of the killings.

• In 1995, an end to a 3-week-old partial government shutdown was in sight as the House acted to restore the jobs and wages of hundreds of thousands of federal workers. Lawyers for Hillary Rodham Clinton released sought-after billing records that were discovered the day before in a White House office.

• In 2000, in a blizzard of last-minute executive orders, President Clinton curtailed road building and logging on federal forest land.