hawaii and alaska were admitted to the union in 1959.
hawaii and alaska were admitted to the union in 1959.
when were hawaii and alaska admitted to the union?
1959
the "news-miner" strongly supported the political campaign for statehood until 1959, when alaska became the 49th state of the united states. on the day the u.s. congress voted to have alaska admitted as a state, snedden arranged for a u.s. air force jet to fly copies of the "news-miner", the "anchorage times", and other alaska newspapers to washington, d.c. on the morning after the vote, each congressman had an alaska newspaper proclaiming statehood.
fairbanks daily news-miner
in 1893 w.w. rockhill stressed the strategic and commercial importance of the town:









































at that time, from one of the main tea trade centres in china's southwest, ya'an in sichuan, some 90,000 loads of tea bricks were carried annually to gyêgu. more than half of those, 50,000 loads, continued to be transported to lhasa and the tibet autonomous region (tar). the better qualities of tea were ordinarily taken on this "janglam", i.e. the northern route of the china trade route to lhasa leading from kangding via dawu and kardse to gyêgu.
gyêgu