3 January - Wednesday
Birthday straws for cocktails.
Prokopyev's day.
1959 Alaska received the status of the 49th state of the USA. As early as 1812, the merchant Ivan Kuskov founded Fort Ross, the first Russian settlement in Alaska. For several decades, the fort served as a stronghold of the Russian-American Company engaged in the fur trade and trade in the American continent. March 30, 1867 signed an agreement on the sale of Russia by Alaska and the Aleutian Islands to the United States of America, and in October this year, Alaska was transferred to the United States. Russia received for the peninsula with a length of about 700 km 7 million 200 thousand dollars. 1959 Alaska received the status of the state, becoming the 49th and the largest state in the US.