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On this day in … 1959
Sunday, January 3, 2016 13:16
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Alaska is admitted to the Union as the 49th state.
On 3 January 1959, President Eisenhower signed a special proclamation admitting the territory of Alaska as the 49th state in the Union. Alaska was the first of two non-contiguous states. Hawaii would complete today’s set of 50 states and two non-contiguous states with its admission to the Union just under eight months later.
![State Seal of Alaska By U.S. Government [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons](/r2/?url=http://www.vaguelyinteresting.co.uk//https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alaska-StateSeal.svg)
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