US states by date of statehood (with a map)

Each US state was admitted to the Union on a certain date. Given below is a list of the statehood days, and for each date you should guess the state admitted on that date. When you guess a state, it is colored in on the map. Can you match every statehood date with its state?

For the original 13 states, the date given is when the state ratified the Constitution.

If multiple states were admitted on the same date, you should guess them alphabetically.

Source: - List of U.S. states by date of admission to the Union (Wikipedia).

As a European, it felt painful writing in month-day-year, so you Americans better appreciate this.

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No.	Statehood date	State
1	December 7th, 1787	Delaware
2	December 12th, 1787	Pennsylvania
3	December 18th, 1787	New Jersey
4	January 2nd, 1788	Georgia
5	January 9th, 1788	Connecticut
6	February 6th, 1788	Massachusetts
7	April 28th, 1788	Maryland
8	May 23rd, 1788	South Carolina
9	June 21st, 1788	New Hampshire
10	June 25th, 1788	Virginia
11	July 26th, 1788	New York
12	November 21st, 1789	North Carolina
13	May 29th, 1790	Rhode Island
14	March 4th, 1791	Vermont
15	June 1st, 1792	Kentucky
16	June 1st, 1796	Tennessee
17	March 1st, 1803	Ohio
18	April 30th, 1812	Louisiana
19	December 11th, 1816	Indiana
20	December 10th, 1817	Mississippi
21	December 3rd, 1818	Illinois
22	December 14th, 1819	Alabama
23	March 15th, 1820	Maine
24	August 10th, 1821	Missouri
25	June 15th, 1836	Arkansas

No.	Statehood date	State
26	January 26th, 1837	Michigan
27	March 3rd, 1845	Florida
28	December 29th, 1845	Texas
29	December 28th, 1846	Iowa
30	May 29th, 1848	Wisconsin
31	September 9th, 1850	California
32	May 11th, 1858	Minnesota
33	February 14th, 1859	Oregon
34	January 29th, 1861	Kansas
35	June 20th, 1863	West Virginia
36	October 31st, 1864	Nevada
37	March 1st, 1867	Nebraska
38	August 1st, 1876	Colorado
39	November 2nd, 1889	North Dakota
40	November 2nd, 1889	South Dakota
41	November 8th, 1889	Montana
42	November 11th, 1889	Washington
43	July 3rd, 1890	Idaho
44	July 10th, 1890	Wyoming
45	January 4th, 1896	Utah
46	November 16th, 1907	Oklahoma
47	January 6th, 1912	New Mexico
48	February 14th, 1912	Arizona
49	January 3rd, 1959	Alaska
50	August 21st, 1959	Hawaii