Code Adam logo Code Adam is a missing-child safety program in the United States and Canada, originally created by Wal-Mart retail stores in 1994. This type of alert is generally regarded as having been named in memory of Adam Walsh, the 6-year-old son of John Walsh (the host of Fox's America's Most Wanted).
When were Alaska and Hawaii added as states after? Both became US States in 1959, Hawaii as #50 and Alaska as #49 and they were preceded by Arizona as #48. Making the world better, one answer at a time.
Hawaii admitted as the 50th state of the United States. William F. Quinn becomes the first elected governor of the new state, and Hiram Fong and Oren E. Long are both elected to the U.S. Senate. (1959) A Boeing 707 lands in Hawaii, trumpeting the beginning of a massive increase in Island tourism. (1960)