Connecticut's Admission Birth Card: The 5 of Spades

How the card is assigned

Connecticut (CT) entered the Table 1 record on January 9, 1788. Card Blueprints uses January 9 — month and day only — and the public D1 birth-card rule (December 31 is the Joker). The year 1788 is unused.

Coordinate: the 5 of Spades. Live card page (Next.js origin): /birth-card/5-of-spades.

Connecticut's place in the admission record

CRS R47747 Table 1 lists Connecticut at number 5 of 50. Georgia entered the same year, at number 4. Massachusetts follows at number 6, in 1788. Georgia and Massachusetts and Maryland and South Carolina and New Hampshire and Virginia and New York also enter the table in 1788, so 1788 carries 8 of the 50 dates.

Order in Table 1

5 of 50

Date kind

Ratification — an original state, dated by its ratification of the Constitution

Date used

January 9, 1788

Month and day used

January 9 (the year 1788 is unused)

Solar value

55 − (2 × 1 + 9) = 44

Coordinate

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

States sharing January 9

none

Wikidata inception (P571)

1788-01-09

Connecticut on the record

Connecticut ( kə-NET-ih-kət) is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. Its capital is Hartford, and its most populous city is Bridgeport. Connecticut lies between the major hubs of New York City and Boston along the Northeast Corridor, where the New York metropolitan area, which includes four of Connecticut's seven largest cities, extends into the southwestern part of the state. Connecticut is the third-smallest state by area after Rhode Island and Delaware, and the 29th-most populous with more than 3.6 million residents as of 2024, ranking it fourth among the most densely populated U.S. states. The state is named after the Connecticut River, the longest in New England, which roughly bisects the state and drains into the Long Island Sound between the towns of Old Saybrook and Old Lyme. The name of the river is in turn derived from anglicized spellings of Quinnetuket, a Mohegan-Pequot word for "long tidal river". Before the arrival of the first European settlers, the region was inhabited by various Algonquian tribes. In 1633, the Dutch West India Company established a small, short-lived settlement called House of Hope in Hartford. Half of Connecticut was initially claimed by the Dutch colony New Netherland, which included much of the land between the Connecticut and Delaware Rivers, although the first major settlements were established by the English around the same time. Thomas Hooker led a band of followers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony to form the Connecticut Colony, while other settlers from Massachusetts founded the Saybrook Colony and the New Haven Colony; both had merged into the first by 1664. Connecticut's environmental history is shaped by Indigenous land stewardship, colonial displacement, industrial development, and modern environmental regulation. The Pequot and Mohegan peoples maintained sustainable relationships with the land prior to colonization, which were later disrupted by forced removal and legal restrictions on land and sovereignty. Industrial growth in the 19th and 20th centuries concentrated manufacturing along river systems, contributing to pollution and environmental inequality.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Connecticut (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.

Constitution ratification date

Connecticut is one of the original 13. CRS R47747 Table 1 records the date this state ratified the Constitution (January 9, 1788), not an admission act.

States that share January 9

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

Other states on the 5 of Spades

No other state maps to this card.

FAQ

What date does Connecticut use?

January 9, 1788 — the CRS R47747 Table 1 ratification date. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.

What is Connecticut's admission birth card?

The 5 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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