On This Day in 1959, Alaska—One of America’s Riskiest Investments—Became the 49th State in the Union
Nonetheless, Eisenhower signed legislation making Alaska a state on July 7, 1958. On January 3, 1959, Alaska was officially ...
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Former national security adviser Robert O’Brien said in a Sunday interview that Denmark should let the U.S. “buy” Greenland ...
While Greenland is currently not for sale, the U.S. has purchased land and territories from other countries in the past.
On October 18, 1867, the United States took possession of Alaska from Russia under the terms of a formal land transfer, in a ceremony in the town of Sitka. It took almost a century for the Congress to ...
One of his greatest achievements as president was the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, which created benefits ...
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