Happy Flag Day!
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. In
1916,
President 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.
