The original 13-star version of the United
States Flag was adopted June 14, 1777. The fifty stars on the flag represent
the 50 states and the 13 stripes represent the original thirteen colonies
that rebelled against the British monarchy and became the first states in
the Union.
The flag has been changed 26 times since
the new, 13-state union adopted it. The 48-star version went unchanged for
47 years, until the 49-star version became official on July 4, 1959 (the
first July 4 following Alaska's admission to the union on January 3, 1959).
The 47-years of the 48-star version had been the longest time the flag went
unmodified until 1960, when the 50-star version of the Flag of the United
States broke the record.
For more Details on the Flag of the United
States of America please see these page at Wikipedia: Flag
of the United States.
For the United States Flag History Timeline
please see
Flag
Timeline at ushistory.org
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