He also left pieces of another flag along the way. It is the only time a person has been honored for cutting the flag. Flags were placed on the lunar surface on each of six manned landings during the Apollo program. Displaying the Stars and Stripes The flag is usually displayed from sunrise to sunset. It should be raised briskly and lowered ceremoniously. In inclement weather, the flag should not be flown. The flag should be displayed daily and on all holidays, weather permitting, on or near the main administration buildings of all public institutions.
It should also be displayed in or near every polling place on election days and in or near every schoolhouse during school days. Six states were admitted to the Union when President Benjamin Harrison was president, more than any other president. Wyoming was the last of the six, boosting the number of stars on the flag to Wyoming was admitted on July 10, , even though it was 5,people short of the 60,person requirement to become a state.
Utah became a state on Jan. However, the area that would become Utah had been part of the United States since the nation received the territory as part of a treaty that ended the Mexican-American War in Mormons settled in the area, and their practice of polygamy prevented Utah from becoming a state until Mormons renounced polygamy in the state constitution.
Taft Oklahoma became the first state to be admitted to the Union in the 20th century, on Nov. The United States had used the Oklahoma territory to resettle Native American people, but by the late 19th century, Texas ranchers began moving northward and the federal government decided to open up the territory for homesteaders. Roosevelt , Harry S. Truman , Dwight D. Eisenhower The southwestern territories of New Mexico and Arizona were the last to join the 48 contiguous states. New Mexico became the 47th state on Jan.
The star flag flew longer than any other flag before it, 47 years, and eight presidents served under it. Alaska became the first non-contiguous territory to become a state on Jan. Alaska, which was purchased from Russia in , is 2. The star flag was the last of the nine flags to fly for just one year. Kennedy , Lyndon B. Johnson , Richard M. Nixon , Gerald R. Bush , William Clinton , George W.
Bush , Barack Obama , Donald Trump present. Hawaii is the 50th state, and joined the Union on Aug. The star flag has flown the longest of any U. In Kentucky and Vermont joined the US so the number of stripes and white stars was increased to The flag's design was retained for a few years even with new member states joining the Union.
On April 4, , the Congress decided to review the flag and it was decided, on the suggestion of Samuel C. Reid, that the stripes on the flag would be reduced to 13 to celebrate the 13 founding states, and a star to be added to the flag whenever a new state joins the Union. It was also decided that, following the admission of a new state, the new flag design would be raised on July 4 th.
The current flag with 50 stars is the US flag that has been in use for the longest time. Until the Executive Order of June 24, , neither the order of the stars nor the proportions of the flag was prescribed.
Consequently, flags dating before this period sometimes show unusual arrangements of the stars and odd proportions, these features being left to the discretion of the flag maker. In general, however, straight rows of stars and proportions similar to those later adopted officially were used.
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