“Looking back in Fairbanks - Oct. 28”

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 12:43 AM PDT

Looking back in Fairbanks - Oct. 28

by Staff Report Fairbanks Daily News Miner

10 YEARS AGO

Oct. 28, 2000 — PHILADELPHIA — There is no way to know if hell has frozen over, but it's official — pigs can fly.

An embarrassed USAirways is promising it will never again allow barnyard animals onto its flights after a 300-pound hog accompanied 200 human passengers on a six-hour flight from Philadelphia to Seattle on Oct. 7.

25 YEARS AGO

Oct. 28, 1985 — People throughout Alaska probably gave their eyes a few extra rubs this morning if they happened to look out the window at the setting moon.

Half of it was gone.

Then three-quarters. By the time the moon set, there was only a sliver left.

A full lunar eclipse totally blocked the moon for about 45 minutes, from 8:20 to 9:05 a.m.

50 YEARS AGO

Oct. 28, 1960 — The state has filed applications for 6,206,445 acres of the land it is entitled to under the statehood bill and other acts of congress, Natural Resources Commissioner Phil Holdsworth said today.

75 YEARS AGO

Oct. 28, 1935 — Signalizing the completion of the new wing of St. Joseph's Hospital and the 25th anniversary of the founding of the institution, Fairbanks yesterday dedicated and threw open to the public with fitting ceremonies the doors of her magnificent new edifice for the care of the sick and injured.

100 YEARS AGO

Oct. 28, 1910 — Word was received from Salcha this morning that the inbound stage with 770 pounds of mail would arrive at

4 o'clock. This is believed to be a first class mail as the stage should have made connections with the Alameda that was due at Valdez on Oct. 16. The next stage thereafter should have connected with the Portland, due Oct. 19, but it is not thought she carried first class mail.

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