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Any idea what happened in Alaska 146 years ago? On this day in 1867, the American flag flew for the first time in Alaska, marking the formal transfer of this massive northern territory from Russia to the United States...William H. Seward, President Andrew Johnsons secretary of state, moved to arrange the purchase of Alaska. Agreeing to pay a mere $7 million for some 591,000 square miles of land-a territory twice the size of Texas and equal to nearly a fifth of the continental United States-Seward secured the purchase of Alaska at the ridiculously low rate of less than 2¢ an acre. history/this-day-in-history/the-united-states-formally-takes-possession-of-alaska-from-russia
Posted on: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 17:26:43 +0000

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