Alaska's Admission Birth Card: The Jack of Spades

How the card is assigned

Alaska (AK) entered the Table 1 record on January 3, 1959. Card Blueprints uses January 3 — month and day only — and the public D1 birth-card rule (December 31 is the Joker). The year 1959 is unused.

Coordinate: the Jack of Spades. Live card page (Next.js origin): /birth-card/jack-of-spades.

Alaska's place in the admission record

CRS R47747 Table 1 lists Alaska at number 49 of 50. 47 years after Arizona (number 48, 1912). Hawaii follows at number 50, in 1959. Hawaii also enters the table in 1959, so 1959 carries 2 of the 50 dates.

Order in Table 1

49 of 50

Date kind

Admission — admission became effective on this date

Date used

January 3, 1959

Month and day used

January 3 (the year 1959 is unused)

Solar value

55 − (2 × 1 + 3) = 50

Coordinate

Jack of Spades — Calendar coordinate only — month and day map to this card. Year is unused. Not a fortune-telling reading.

States sharing January 3

none

Wikidata inception (P571)

1959-01-03

Alaska on the record

Alaska ( , ə-LASS-kə) is a U.S. state located in the northwestern regions of North America. Part of the Western United States region, it is one of the two non-contiguous U.S. states, alongside Hawaii. Alaska is considered to be the northernmost, westernmost, and, longitudinally, the easternmost state in the United States. It is a semi-exclave of the U.S., bordering the Canadian territory of Yukon and the province of British Columbia to the east. It shares a western maritime border in the Bering Strait with Russia's Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, and is closer to another continent (Asia) than any other U.S. state. The Chukchi and Beaufort Seas of the Arctic Ocean lie to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the south. Alaska is the largest U.S. state by area—comprising more total area than the next three largest states of Texas, California, and Montana combined—and is the world's largest semi-exclave and seventh-largest subnational division. With a population of 740,133 in 2024, it is the third-least populous and most sparsely populated state in the U.S., but the most populous territory in North America located mostly north of the 60th parallel, with more than quadruple the combined populations of Northern Canada and Greenland. Alaska contains the four largest cities in the United States by area, including its capital, Juneau. Alaska's most populous city is Anchorage, and approximately half the state's residents live within its metropolitan area. Indigenous people have lived in Alaska for thousands of years, and it is widely believed that the region served as the entry point for the initial settlement of the Americas by way of the Bering land bridge. The Russian Empire was the first to actively colonize the area beginning in the 18th century, eventually establishing Russian America, which spanned most of the current state and promoted and maintained a native Alaskan Creole population. The expense and logistical difficulty of maintaining this distant possession prompted its sale to the U.S. in 1867 for US$7.2 million, equivalent to $166 million in 2025. The area went through several administrative changes before becoming organized as a territory on May 11, 1912.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Alaska (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 January 3

No other state shares this month and day on the CRS table.

Other states on the Jack of Spades

No other state maps to this card.

FAQ

What date does Alaska use?

January 3, 1959 — the CRS R47747 Table 1 admission date. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.

What is Alaska's admission birth card?

The Jack of Spades. 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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