National Flag Day is celebrated in America on June 14, commemorating the day the first flag resolution was passed. 

According to legend, in 1776, George Washington commissioned Philadelphia seamstress Betsy Ross to create a flag for the new nation. Scholars, however, credit the flag’s design to Francis Hopkinson, who also designed the Great Seal and the first coin of the United States. The first national observance of Flag Day was June 14, 1877, 100 years after the Continental Congress adopted the flag resolution.

To date, there have been 27 official versions of the flag. Still, the arrangement of the stars varied according to the flag-makers’ preferences until 1912, when President Taft standardized the then-new flag’s forty-eight stars into six rows of eight. The forty-nine-star flag (1959-60), as well as the fifty-star flag, also have standardized star patterns. The current version of the flag dates to July 4, 1960, after Hawaii became the fiftieth state on August 21, 1959.