January 26, 1959 (Monday)
- Hearings opened in Congress on a bill to admit Hawaii as the 50th state. Secretary of the Interior Fred Seaton testified in favor of the legislation, endorsed by House Democratic Leader John McCormack.
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“and you undid the reins
and I undid the buttons,
the bones, the confusions,
The New England postcards,
the January ten o’clock night,
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