Virginia's Admission Birth Card: The 5 of Clubs

How the card is assigned

Virginia (VA) entered the Table 1 record on June 25, 1788. Card Blueprints uses June 25 — 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 Clubs. Live card page (Next.js origin): /birth-card/5-of-clubs.

Virginia's place in the admission record

CRS R47747 Table 1 lists Virginia at number 10 of 50. New Hampshire entered the same year, at number 9. New York follows at number 11, in 1788. Georgia and Connecticut and Massachusetts and Maryland and South Carolina and New Hampshire and New York also enter the table in 1788, so 1788 carries 8 of the 50 dates.

Order in Table 1

10 of 50

Date kind

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

Date used

June 25, 1788

Month and day used

June 25 (the year 1788 is unused)

Solar value

55 − (2 × 6 + 25) = 18

Coordinate

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

States sharing June 25

none

Wikidata inception (P571)

1788-06-25

Virginia on the record

Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. It borders Kentucky to the west, Tennessee to the south-west, North Carolina to the south, West Virginia to the north-west, and Maryland to the north. The state's capital is Richmond and its most populous city is Virginia Beach. With a population of 8.8 million, it is the 12th-most populous and 15th-most densely populated state. More than one-third of Virginia's population lives in Northern Virginia, which includes the most populous jurisdiction in the state, Fairfax County. Eastern Virginia is part of the Atlantic Plain, and the Middle Peninsula forms the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. Central Virginia lies predominantly in the Piedmont, the foothill region of the Blue Ridge Mountains, which cross the western and southwestern parts of the state. The fertile Shenandoah Valley fosters the state's most productive agricultural counties, while the economy in Northern Virginia is driven by technology companies and U.S. federal government agencies. Hampton Roads is also the site of the region's main seaport and Naval Station Norfolk, the world's largest naval base. Virginian history begins with several Indigenous groups, including the Powhatan. In 1607, the London Company established the Colony of Virginia as the first permanent English colony in the New World, leading to Virginia's nickname as the Old Dominion. Slaves from Africa and land from displaced native tribes fueled the growing plantation economy, but also fueled conflicts both inside and outside the colony. Virginians fought for the independence of the Thirteen Colonies in the American Revolution, and helped establish the new national government. During the American Civil War, the state government in Richmond joined the Confederacy, while many northwestern counties remained loyal to the Union, which led to the separation of West Virginia in 1863.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Virginia (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

Virginia is one of the original 13. CRS R47747 Table 1 records the date this state ratified the Constitution (June 25, 1788), not an admission act.

States that share June 25

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

Other states on the 5 of Clubs

• Hawaii — 5 of Clubs

FAQ

What date does Virginia use?

June 25, 1788 — the CRS R47747 Table 1 ratification date. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.

What is Virginia's admission birth card?

The 5 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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