Briefly, Happy 217th Birthday Kentucky

Today marks the 217th birthday of our Commonwealth, having been admitted to the Union as agreed to by a vote of the Commonwealth of Virginia on December 18, 1789; a vote of the Ninth Enabling Convention on July 29, 1790; a vote of the United States Congress on February 4, 1791; and the adoption of the Constitution of Kentucky by the Tenth Enabling Convention on April 19, 1792; all of which declared that on June 1, 1792, the Commonwealth of Virginia would cede its lands in Kentucky and the Commonwealth of Kentucky would therefore be the fifteenth state entered into the United States of America.