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.
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.