Create a new input source with a system identifier. Applications may use setPublicId to include a public identifier as well, or setEncoding to specify the character encoding, if known. If the system identifier is a URL, it must be fully resolved (it may not be a relative URL).
The Minnesota territorial legislature voted to become a state and submitted their request to the US Congress, who accepted Minnesota as the 32nd state on May 11, 1858.
In 1959, the United States added two more states to the Union: Alaska and Hawaii, the non-contiguous states. Alaska was admitted to the Union on January 3, 1959, becoming the 49th state, and Hawaii joined on August 21, 1959, becoming the 50th state.