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On June 14, 1777, in the Second Continental Congress:

"Resolved, That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation."
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Flag Day was made a national observation in the Truman Administration, 1949.

Got your flag flying?


 
Tom, When digging through some old stuff we had stored away, we came across a 49 star flag! I totally forgot that I bought it many years ago. I guess it could be classified as one of the rare ones, as there wasn't 49 states for long! :encouragement: PJ

 
PAUL161 said:
Tom, When digging through some old stuff we had stored away, we came across a 49 star flag! I totally forgot that I bought it many years ago. I guess it could be classified as one of the rare ones, as there wasn't 49 states for long! :encouragement: PJ

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Rare one indeed!

Trivia time: Which was the 49th state, what year was it admitted, and how long before the 50th? (No fair Googling!)
 
aeronca65t said:
I got a 50/50 chance here (pure guess...I didn't Google).

Alaska?
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Yep. Year it was admitted? I remember when it happened... :wink:
 
I want to say 59 but that seems kinda late.
 
I know Hawaii was only something like 5 or 6 months later.
 
IIRC from some history class many years ago, they tried for a short time to add a new stripe for each new state. It didn't take long to figure out that would quickly become totally impractical. But my memory may not be all that good.
 
I believe it was 1818 that they decided to stick with just 13 stripes.
 
Yep from 1795 to 181 the flag officially had 15 stripes, then Congress passed a law to revert to 13. And interestingly, to show how different things were, government use of 15 stripe flags with only 15 stars didn't end until a couple decades later when they next caught up with states that had been admitted. It wasn't until around the time of the civil war that they started adding them as states were admitted.
 
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