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The Flag Act of 1777 ("Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789, 8:464".) was passed by the Second Continental Congress on June 14, 1777, in response to a petition made by a Native American nation on June 3 for "an American Flag." [2] As a result, June 14 is now celebrated as Flag Day in the United States.
The Continental Union Flag remained the national flag until June 14, 1777. [6] At the time of the Declaration of Independence in July 1776, there were no flags with any stars on them; the Continental Congress did not adopt flags with "stars, white in a blue field" for another year. It has historically been referred to as the first national flag ...
An earlier version of the American flag's current design was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on June 14, 1777, though the date wouldn't be celebrated until a hundred years later.
On June 14, 1777, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Stars and Stripes as the first official national flag of the newly independent United States (later celebrated as Flag Day). The resolution creating the flag came from the Continental Marine Committee. Hopkinson became a member of the committee in 1776.
1963 – American Flag placed on top of Mount Everest in the Himalayas in Nepal, by Barry Bishop. 1968 – Adoption of Federal Flag Desecration Law (18 U.S.C. 700 et seq.) – Congress approved the first federal flag desecration law in the wake of a highly publicized Central Park flag burning incident in New York City in protest of the Vietnam War.
The flag we fly today is not how it appeared two centuries ago. The original flag, created in 1776, was designed with 13 stars and 13 stripes to represent the 13 American colonies.
It commemorates the adoption of the U.S. Stars and Stripes flag on June 14, 1777. The number of stars on the flag has changed with the number of states. Flag Day observances were first reported in ...
Any flag maker in Philadelphia could have sewn the first American flag. Even according to Canby, there were other variations of the flag being made at the same time Ross was sewing the design that would carry her name. If true, there may not be one "first" flag, but many. The Marine Committee of the Second Continental Congress passed a Flag ...