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U.S. Flag and National Anthem

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Our Flag in American History
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-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