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The national flag of Curaçao represents the country of Curaçao as well as the island area within the Netherlands Antilles from 1984 until its dissolution in 2010. [1] The flag is a blue field with a horizontal yellow stripe slightly below the midline and two white, five-pointed stars in the canton. The blue symbolises the sea and sky (the ...
1 January – New Year's Day; 12 February – Carnival; 29 March – Good Friday; 31 March – Easter; 1 April - Easter Monday; 27 April - King's Day; 1 May – Labour Day; 9 May - Ascension Day; 24 May - Pentecost; 2 July – Curaçao National Flag and Anthem Day; 10 October – Curaçao Day; 25 December – Christmas Day; 26 December ...
1 January – New Year's Day; 3 March – Carnival; 18 April – Good Friday; 20 April – Easter; 21 April - Easter Monday; 27 April - King's Day; 1 May – Labour Day; 29 May - Ascension Day; 8 June - Pentecost; 2 July – Curaçao National Flag and Anthem Day; 10 October – Curaçao Day; 25 December – Christmas Day; 26 December – Boxing Day
King's Day: Koningsdag: May 1 (Fixed) Labor Day: Dag van de Arbeid: April 30 – June 3 (Special floating Thursday) Ascension Day: Hemelvaartsdag: Christian holiday: May 10 – June 13 (Special floating Sunday) Pentecost: Pinksteren: Christian holiday: July 2 (Fixed) Curaçao National Flag and Anthem Day: Curaçao Nationale Vlag en Volkslied ...
A flag day is a flag-related holiday, a day designated for flying a certain flag (such as a national flag) or a day set aside to celebrate a historical event such as a nation's adoption of its flag. Flag days are usually codified in national statutes passed by legislative bodies or parliaments ; however, in some countries a decree or ...
Flag Day 2024 is Friday, June 14. The date commemorates the adoption of the American flag's design, as well as the symbolism and history behind it.
Flag Day marks the day, 246 years ago, when Betsy Ross' creation of the Stars & Stripes as our national American flag. Here's how to display a U.S. flag.
Tomas brushed past Curaçao as a tropical storm, dropping as much as 265 mm (10.4 in) of rain on the island, nearly half its annual precipitation in a single day. [57] This made Tomas one of the wettest events in the island's history, [ 58 ] as well as one of the most devastating; its flooding killed two people and caused over NAƒ50 million ...