Nonetheless, Eisenhower signed legislation making Alaska a state on July 7, 1958. On January 3, 1959, Alaska was officially admitted as the 49th state. That same year, Hawaii would become the 50th.
Here’s how it works. The Bering land bridge that spanned between Siberia and Alaska during the Ice Age was more of a Bering land bog, new research finds. The discovery could help explain why ...
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The remains of a 50,000-year-old baby mammoth uncovered by melting permafrost in Russia’s Siberia have ...