What does it do? Flex is a powerful, open source application framework that allows you to easily build mobile applications for iOS, Androidâ¢, and BlackBerryÂ® Tablet OS devices, as well as traditional applications for browser and desktop using the same programming model, tool, and codebase.
Alaska admitted into Union. On January 3, 1959, President Eisenhower signs a special proclamation admitting the territory of Alaska into the Union as the 49th and largest state. The European discovery of Alaska came in 1741, when a Russian expedition led by Danish navigator Vitus Bering sighted the Alaskan mainland.
On January 29, 1861, just before the start of the Civil War, K â¦ ansas was admitted to the Union as a free state. Kansas-Nebraska Act, bill that became law on May 30, 1854, by which the U.S. Congress established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska.