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(CBS DETROIT) - On Jan. 3, 1959, Alaska was admitted as the 49th state. President Eisenhower signed a special proclamation admitting the territory as the largest state at 664,988 square miles.
On January 3, 1959, Alaska was officially admitted as the 49th state. That same year, Hawaii would become the 50th. As Smithsonian reported in 2017, “hundreds of billions of dollars in whale oil ...
On a cold winters day fitting for the occasion, Alaska became an official “United State” on January 3, 1959, however, you ...
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