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Flag Day
In the United States, Flag Day (more formally, National Flag Day), is
celebrated on June 14. It commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United
States, which happened that day by resolution of the Second Continental
Congress in 1777.
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In 1916, Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation that officially established
June 14 as Flag Day; in August 1949, National Flag Day was established by an
Act of Congress.
Flag Day is not an official federal holiday, though on June 14, 1937,
Pennsylvania became the first (and only) U.S. state to celebrate Flag Day as
a state holiday. Flag day is also a major holiday in Massachusetts, marking
the end of the school year.
History of Flag Day
Several men are claimed to have played early instrumental roles in the
establishment of a National Flag Day.
Perhaps the most fervent claim dates to 1885, when a schoolteacher, Bernard
J. Cigrand, reportedly urged the students at the public school in Fredonia,
Wisconsin, to observe June 14 as "Flag Birthday." He moved to Chicago to
attend dental school, and in June 1886, wrote an article titled “The
Fourteenth of June” which was published in the Chicago Argus newspaper. He
continued to promote the idea and by June 1894 300,000 children gathered in
parks throughout Chicago to celebrate the day.
Another claim is made on behalf of William T. Kerr, a resident of Collier
Township, Pennsylvania for a number of years, who founded the American Flag
Day Association of Western Pennsylvania in 1888, became that organization's
national chairman one year later, and served as such for fifty years. He
attended Truman's 1949 signing of the Act of Congress which formally
established the holiday.
An older and less cited claim is in Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history,
published by Standard Publishing Company (Chicago) in 1912. It credits George
Morris of Hartford, Connecticut:
To George Morris of Hartford, Conn., is popularly given the credit of
suggesting "Flag Day," the occasion being in honor of the adoption of the
American flag on June 14, 1777. The city of Hartford observed the day in
1861, carrying out a program of a patriotic order, praying for the success of
the Federal arms and the preservation of the Union.
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