A digitigrade is an animal that stands or walks on its digits, or toes. Digitigrades include walking birds (what many assume to be bird knees are actually ankles), cats, dogs, and many other mammals, but not plantigrades or unguligrades. Digitigrades generally move more quickly and quietly than other animals.
On 25 June 1788 Virginia became the 10th US State under New Hampshire. June 25, 1788.
Washington State became part of the USA without dispute in 1846 (before that, Britain and the USA with some Spanish arguments disputed the area), 56 years after the founding of Washington DC and became a state in 1889, 99 years after the founding of Washington DC.