National flag day 2011

June 14, America celebrates the Day of the

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of the country. This tradition began in 1885 when Beejay Sigrand, a schoolteacher, first decided to celebrate with his disciples birthday of the American

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. The tradition of planting, and in 1916 President Wilson declared a special decree on June 14 flag day 2011. But only 3 August 1949 President Truman signed the law creating the National Flag Day as an official holiday of the country.

In 1776, the American colonists decided that it was time to separate from Great Britain. The reasons were many, and the result was the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America, proclaimed the creation of a new nation and country, and the war for independence, won by America in 1783.

One of the first flag day 2011 of independent colonists had 13 red and white stripes and a blue box in the upper left corner there is a red cross of St. George and the white – St. Andrew’s. However, after the Revolution, this flag day 2011 with its apparent binding to England (the crosses of England and Scotland) was the cause conflicting emotions, and it was decided to create a new flag.

I must say that the colonists had a lot of different versions for the flags. For example, a very popular flag day 2011 was: coiled into a ring rattlesnake on a yellow background with the inscription “Do not step on me.” But the design, which stopped the Congress and who in May 1776 was a seamstress Betsy Ross with George Washington, Robert Morris and George Ross, had 13 red and white stripes and a blue box on the left. Unlike the previous (pro-British) he fact that the blue field was located in a range of 13 white stars – a new constellation of independent states of America.

Who made the project design is unknown. According to some reports, he was a member of Congress, Francis Hopkinson, in any case, in 1780 he wrote a letter to the Admiralty, stating that he was the author of the design. Initially, six-pointed star was supposed to do, but the mistress Betsy Ross showed customers that cut the five-pointed stars are much easier – it can be done in one motion of scissors. Impressionable congressmen have agreed to this change, and at the end of May 1776 a new flag day 2011 was ready, and June 14, 1777 decision of the U.S. Congress, he was adopted as the official flag day 2011 of the new country.

In 1795, after the introduction of two new states (Vermont and Kentucky) in the Union flag day 2011 has acquired two more stripes and stars. It is this 15-band flag day 2011 flying above Fort McHenry in 1814 during the war with Great Britain, inspired Francis Scott Key to create the famous poem “Stars and Stripes” flag day 2011, which later (in 1931) became the anthem of the United States.

After joining Tennessee, Ohio, Mississippi, Louisiana and Indiana, in 1918 Congress returned the flag day 2011 have 13 original bands (in commemoration of 13 primary colonies) and added a new star. Since then, each new addition of the State of the Union marked a new star on the flag day 2011, which was added on July 4 in a year when the state entered the Union.