State coordinate
California's Admission Birth Card: The 2 of Diamonds
Calendar coordinate only — month and day map to this card. Year is unused. Not a fortune-telling reading.
How the card is assigned
California (CA) entered the Table 1 record on September 9, 1850. Card Blueprints uses September 9 — month and day only — and the public D1 birth-card rule (December 31 is the Joker). The year 1850 is unused.
Coordinate: the 2 of Diamonds. Live card page (Next.js origin): /birth-card/2-of-diamonds.
California's place in the admission record
CRS R47747 Table 1 lists California at number 31 of 50. 2 years after Wisconsin (number 30, 1848). Minnesota follows at number 32, in 1858. 1850 carries only this one date in Table 1.
- Order in Table 1
- 31 of 50
- Date kind
- Admission — admission became effective on this date
- Date used
- September 9, 1850
- Month and day used
- September 9 (the year 1850 is unused)
- Solar value
- 55 − (2 × 9 + 9) = 28
- Coordinate
- 2 of Diamonds — Calendar coordinate only — month and day map to this card. Year is unused. Not a fortune-telling reading.
- States sharing September 9
- none
- Wikidata inception (P571)
- 1850-09-09
California on the record
California is a state in the Western United States that lies on the Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, and Nevada and Arizona to the east; it also shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California to the south. With over 39 million residents across an area of 163,696 square miles (423,970 km2), it is the largest U.S. state by population and third-largest by area. Prior to European colonization, California was one of the most culturally and linguistically diverse areas in pre-Columbian North America. European exploration in the 16th and 17th centuries led to the colonization by the Spanish Empire. The area became a part of Mexico in 1821, as a result of its successful war for independence. Following the U.S. conquest of California, part of the Mexican-American War, California was ceded to the United States in 1848. The California gold rush started in 1848 and led to social and demographic changes, including the California genocide. It organized itself and was admitted as the 31st state in 1850 as a free state, following the Compromise of 1850. Greater Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nation's second and fifth most populous combined statistical areas. Los Angeles is the state's most populous city and is ranked second in population in the nation. California's capital is Sacramento. Part of the Californias region of North America, the state's diverse geography ranges from the Pacific Coast and metropolitan areas in the west to the Sierra Nevada mountains in the east, and from the redwood and Douglas fir forests in the northwest to the Mojave Desert in the southeast. Two-thirds of the nation's earthquake risk lies in California.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article California (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 September 9
No other state shares this month and day on the CRS table.
Other states on the 2 of Diamonds
FAQ
- What date does California use?
- September 9, 1850 — the CRS R47747 Table 1 admission date. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.
- What is California's admission birth card?
- The 2 of Diamonds. 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.
Get your own coordinate
The $9 Deep Dive is a written report for a birthday you enter — not a reading of California.
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).