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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.
See also: Flags of the U.S. states and territories A 2.00 m × 1.70 m oil painting showing historical US flags. This is a list of flags in the United States describing the evolution of the flag of the United States, as well as other flags used within the United States, such as the flags of governmental agencies. There are also separate flags for embassies and ships. National flags Main article ...
The national flag of the United States, often referred to as the American flag or the U.S. flag, consists of thirteen horizontal stripes, alternating red and white, with a blue rectangle in the canton bearing fifty small, white, five-pointed stars arranged in nine offset horizontal rows, where rows of six stars alternate with rows of five stars.
Barton then came up with another design, which the committee submitted back to Congress on May 9, 1782, just five days after being formed. This time, the figures on each side of the shield were the "Genius of the American Confederated Republic" represented by a maiden, and on the other side an American warrior. At the top is an eagle and on the ...
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Meetings followed in the autumn of that year. The formal organization of the AFA was completed at a mass meeting of all the state-based Flag Committees, held at New York City Hall, February 18, 1898. [1] The AFA was a union of the Flag Committees of all the patriotic societies in the country, and to the number of about sixty flag committees.
American Samoa: 1858 1873 1879 1887 1900 1908 1912 1959 1960 American Samoa: Guam: 1885 1898 1908 1912 1941 1944 1947 1948 Guam: Northern Mariana Islands: 1885 1899 1914 1919 1944 1947 1965 1972 1976 1989 Northern Mariana Islands: Puerto Rico: 1506 1701 1760 1785 1873 1895 1952 Puerto Rico: Virgin Islands: 1672 1917 1921 Virgin Islands ...
Fats Waller, African American jazz pianist and entertainer (died 1943) [45] June 2 – Johnny Weissmuller, swimmer and actor (Tarzan) (died 1984) [46] June 3 – Charles R. Drew, African American physician, pioneer in blood transfusion (died 1950) [47] June 24 – Phil Harris, bandleader and comic actor (died 1995)"Benny Show's Phil Harris Dies ...