President Woodrow Wilson and President Calvin Coolidge each issued presidential proclamations asking for June 14 to be observed as Flag Day, according to the VA. On Aug. 3, 1949, Congress approved the ...

PHOTO PROVIDED The celebration of Flag Day is distinctively an Elks-originated holiday. In 1908, the Elks National Office ...

As the country prepares to salute the Army's 250th year with President Donald Trump's grand military parade in downtown Washington, D.C. this weekend, people will also be celebrating America's symbol ...

Flag Day was first celebrated in the late 1800s by educators around the U.S., according to the National Constitution Center, and in May 1916, President Woodrow Wilson declared that June 14 would ...

In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson issued a presidential proclamation establishing a national Flag Day on June 14, according to the Library of Congress. Both Wilson, in 1916, and President Coolidge, in ...

Flag Day, meanwhile, was declared a national holiday in 1949 by congressional legislation signed into law by President Harry Truman, who in a proclamation directed the U.S. flag to be displayed on ...

This Father's Day weekend brings another, more obscure holiday in the U.S.: Flag Day. Here's what the holiday is and how and when it started.

Corrections and clarifications: A previous version of this article misstated the flag position on Flag Day. They are at full staff. Flags in Arizona and across the United States were to fly full ...

EDENTON — One flag protested the Trump administration while another was waved in celebration of Flag Day.