Flag Day, which is celebrated annually on June 14, commemorates the day the stars and stripes flag was officially adopted as the official U.S. flag in 1777 ... Day and the American flag, including ...
"WHEREAS on June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress adopted the flag which we cherish as the flag of the United States of ...
“The flag was really an afterthought,” says Scot Guenter, author of “The American Flag, 1777-1924” and a professor emeritus of American Studies at San Jose State University. In the ...
on the 100th anniversary of the Flag Resolution of 1777. However, it is believed that the first annual recognition of the flag's birthday dates to 1885 when schoolteacher BJ Cigrand organized a ...