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AUTHORIZATION SIGNED ON THIS DAY IN 1973
President Richard Nixon signing the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Act into law
The federal law authorized the building of an oil pipeline connecting the North
Slope of Alaska to Port Valdez and halted all legal challenges that had been
filed primarily by environmental activists who were against construction of the
800 mile pipeline. Construction work began in March of 1974 and was finished
in 1977.
LOOKING BACK AT TODAY IN HISTORY ~
CLU GULAGER IS 85 TODAY
Clu Gulager (William Martin Gulager)
Gulager is noted for his co-starring role as William H. Bonney, Billy The Kid,
in the 1960–1962 NBC television series, The Tall Man and as Emmett Ryker
in another NBC western series, The Virginian (1962-1971). He served in the
United States Marine Corps before starting his acting career.
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