U.S. Flag and National Anthem

Our Flag in American History - Timeline

1777	U.S. Flag Resolution
1818	National Flag Act
1892	Pledge of Allegiance first published
1909	Robert Peary places U.S. Flag atop the North Pole
1916	U.S. Flag Day Proclamation by President W. Wilson
1931	Star-Spangled Banner officially recognized as National Anthem
1949	Flag Day Observance
1963	Barry Bishop places U.S. Flag on Mt. Everest
1969	Neil Armstrong places U.S. Flag on the moon
1999	Amendment hearing to prohibit physical desecration of flag
2000	U.S. Flag Day Proclamation by President W. Clinton

GS 4.113:9	U.S. Public Papers of the Presidents, Harry S. Truman, 1948, p.343
	U.S. Senate, 81st Congress, 1st session, Senate report 694
	U.S. Serial Set no. 11293
I 29.2:F77/mc	Svejda, George J. History of the Star Spangled Banner from 1814 to the Present, Washington, D.C., U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1969
	U.S. Dept. of Interior, National Park Service, Ft. McHenry, Amendment to the 1968 master plan and environmental assessment, U.S. GPO, 1988
	U.S. Dept. of Interior, National Park Service, Ft. McHenry, Home of the Star Spangled Banner, U.S. GPO, 1987
	U.S. Statutes at Large, v.46, pt.1, p.1508
I 29.21:F 77 mc/3/988	Fort McHenry Poster
LC 4.5:8	Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 8, p.464
	U.S. Annals of Congress, 15th Congress, 1st session, v.2, p.1458
	U.S. Code of Federal Regulations, Title 3, 1998, p.86
	U.S. Congressional Record, v.53, pt. 9, p.9258 and v.95, pt.8, p.10208
	U.S. President Proclamation 2795, 56 Stat 1074 and 7321, June, 2000
SI 1.28:21	Cooper, Grace Rogers, Thirteen-Star Flags, Washington, Smithsonian Insitution Press, 1973
Y 1.1/3:105-13	U.S. Senate, 105th Congress, 1st session, S.Doc.
	U.S. Statutes at Large, v.63, pt.1, p.1274

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