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1. In 1914, the first airplane in Alaska was flown by pilot Roy Jones between Fairbanks and McGrath.
2. In 1933, the Alaska Road Commission completed the first ice road for vehicles to cross the Tanana River near Fairbanks.
3. In 1945, the Alaska Territorial legislature passed a law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race in public accommodations.
4. In 1978, the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System was completed, which transports crude oil from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez.
5. In 2002, the last known person to have spoken the Eyak language, Marie Smith Jones, passed away in Anchorage, marking the extinction of the Eyak language.
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