State coordinate
Alabama's Admission Birth Card: The 4 of Clubs
Calendar coordinate only — month and day map to this card. Year is unused. Not a fortune-telling reading.
How the card is assigned
Alabama (AL) entered the Table 1 record on December 14, 1819. Card Blueprints uses December 14 — month and day only — and the public D1 birth-card rule (December 31 is the Joker). The year 1819 is unused.
Coordinate: the 4 of Clubs. Live card page (Next.js origin): /birth-card/4-of-clubs.
Alabama's place in the admission record
CRS R47747 Table 1 lists Alabama at number 22 of 50. 1 year after Illinois (number 21, 1818). Maine follows at number 23, in 1820. 1819 carries only this one date in Table 1.
- Order in Table 1
- 22 of 50
- Date kind
- Admission — admission became effective on this date
- Date used
- December 14, 1819
- Month and day used
- December 14 (the year 1819 is unused)
- Solar value
- 55 − (2 × 12 + 14) = 17
- Coordinate
- 4 of Clubs — Calendar coordinate only — month and day map to this card. Year is unused. Not a fortune-telling reading.
- States sharing December 14
- none
- Wikidata inception (P571)
- 1819-12-14
Alabama on the record
Alabama ( , AL-ə-BAM-ə) is a state in the Southeastern and Deep Southern regions of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west. Alabama is the 30th largest by area, and the 24th-most populous of the 50 U.S. states. Alabama is nicknamed the Yellowhammer State, after the state bird. Alabama is also known as the "Heart of Dixie" and the "Cotton State". The state has diverse geography, with the north dominated by the mountainous Tennessee Valley and the south by Mobile Bay. Alabama's capital is Montgomery, and its largest city by population and area is Huntsville. Its oldest city is Mobile, founded by French colonists (Alabama Creoles) in 1702 as the capital of French Louisiana. Greater Birmingham is Alabama's largest metropolitan area and its economic center. Politically, as part of the Deep South, or "Bible Belt", Alabama is a predominantly conservative state and is known for its Southern culture. Within Alabama, American football, particularly at the college level, is part of the state's culture. Originally the area of Alabama was home to many native tribes. It was a Spanish territory from the sixteenth century until the French acquired it in the early eighteenth century. The British won the territory in 1763 until losing it in the American Revolutionary War.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Alabama (CC BY-SA 4.0). Nothing here was written for this page beyond that article; the admission date itself comes from CRS R47747, not Wikipedia.
States that share December 14
No other state shares this month and day on the CRS table.
Other states on the 4 of Clubs
FAQ
- What date does Alabama use?
- December 14, 1819 — the CRS R47747 Table 1 admission date. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.
- What is Alabama's admission birth card?
- The 4 of Clubs. That is a coordinate on the Card Blueprints calendar, not a fortune-telling claim about the state.
- Where do the dates come from?
- Primary: CRS R47747 Table 1. Secondary: Wikipedia’s list of U.S. states by date of admission. Optional Wikidata P571 matched the CRS day for every state QID used here.
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Sources: CRS R47747 Table 1 (congress.gov, PDF R47747.16) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (List of U.S. states by date of admission to the Union). Optional Wikidata P571 cross-check via REST wbgetentities (no SPARQL).