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Source: The 49th State | travel.nationalgeographic.com
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Alaska became a state January 3, 1959. It is now home to approximately 650,000.
The area that would later become Alaska was purchased from the Russian Empire on 03/30/1867. It became a state on 01/03/1959.
Alaska became the 49th state on January 3, 1959. ChaCha again!
1959, President Eisenhower signed the official declaration which made Alaska the 49th state. ...