19371776 Club
Pennsylvania is the first state to make Flag Day a legal holiday
The June 14 date has carried a presidential proclamation for twenty years, but no state had put it on the books until Harrisburg acts today.
By 1937, Flag Day had been a presidential proclamation for twenty years and a proposed national holiday for decades longer — but no state had put it on the books. Pennsylvania changed that, becoming the first state in the union to designate June 14 as an official state holiday, a distinction it still holds alone. The move formalized what advocates like Pittsburgh native William T. Kerr and Wisconsin schoolteacher Bernard Cigrand had spent the better part of a lifetime pushing toward…
