State coordinate
Maryland's Admission Birth Card: The 6 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
Maryland (MD) entered the Table 1 record on April 28, 1788. Card Blueprints uses April 28 — month and day only — and the public D1 birth-card rule (December 31 is the Joker). The year 1788 is unused.
Coordinate: the 6 of Clubs. Live card page (Next.js origin): /birth-card/6-of-clubs.
Maryland's place in the admission record
CRS R47747 Table 1 lists Maryland at number 7 of 50. Massachusetts entered the same year, at number 6. South Carolina follows at number 8, in 1788. Georgia and Connecticut and Massachusetts 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
- 7 of 50
- Date kind
- Ratification — an original state, dated by its ratification of the Constitution
- Date used
- April 28, 1788
- Month and day used
- April 28 (the year 1788 is unused)
- Solar value
- 55 − (2 × 4 + 28) = 19
- Coordinate
- 6 of Clubs — Calendar coordinate only — month and day map to this card. Year is unused. Not a fortune-telling reading.
- States sharing April 28
- none
- Wikidata inception (P571)
- 1788-04-28
Maryland on the record
Maryland (US: ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States. It borders Virginia to its south, West Virginia to its west, Pennsylvania to its north, and Delaware to its east, as well as with the Atlantic Ocean to its east, and the national capital and federal district of Washington, D.C. to the southwest. With a total area of 12,407 square miles (32,130 km2), Maryland is the ninth-smallest state by land area, and its population of 6.1 million ranks it the 19th-most populous state and the fifth-most densely populated. Maryland's capital city is Annapolis, and the state's most populous city is Baltimore. Maryland's coastline was first explored by Europeans in the 16th century. Prior to that, it was inhabited by several Native American tribes, mostly the Algonquian peoples. One of the original Thirteen Colonies, the charter for the Province of Maryland was petitioned and secured in 1632 by George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore and Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, and the land first settled in 1634, primarily to provide a religious haven for Catholics persecuted in England. Religious strife was common in Maryland's early years, and Catholics remained a minority, albeit in greater numbers than in any other English colony. Its economy was heavily plantation-based and centered mostly on the cultivation of tobacco. Demand for cheap labor from Maryland colonists led to the importation of numerous indentured servants and enslaved Africans. In 1760, Maryland's current boundaries took form following the settlement of a long-running border dispute with Pennsylvania. Although it was a slave state, Maryland remained in the Union during the American Civil War due to Abraham Lincoln leaving the National Guard there. Its proximity to Washington D.C. and Virginia made it a significant strategic location. After the Civil War ended in 1865, Maryland took part in the Industrial Revolution, driven by its seaports, railroad networks, and mass immigration from Europe.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Maryland (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
Maryland is one of the original 13. CRS R47747 Table 1 records the date this state ratified the Constitution (April 28, 1788), not an admission act.
States that share April 28
No other state shares this month and day on the CRS table.
Other states on the 6 of Clubs
- Pennsylvania — 6 of Clubs
FAQ
- What date does Maryland use?
- April 28, 1788 — the CRS R47747 Table 1 ratification date. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.
- What is Maryland's admission birth card?
- The 6 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.
Get your own coordinate
The $9 Deep Dive is a written report for a birthday you enter — not a reading of Maryland.
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).