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22nd June 1942: The words of the Pledge of Allegiance formally adopted by Congress

22nd June 2021
Tagged as: America, Congress, Education, Flag, Patriotism, Politics, United States, USA

Congress formally recognized the Pledge when it was included in the U.S. Flag Code.

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3rd December 1775: The first national US Grand Union Flag flown for the first time on the ship ‘Alfred’

3rd December 2020
Tagged as: America, American Revolution, Flag, Revolutionary War, United States, USA

Also known as the Continental Colors, the Grand Union Flag remained in use until the Flag Resolution of 14 June 1777.

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14th June 1777: Stars and Stripes adopted as the flag of the USA by the Second Continental Congress

14th June 2020
Tagged as: America, Flag, USA

On the 14^th June 1777, the Second Continental Congress passed the so-called Flag Resolution and adopted the stars and stripes as the flag of the United States.

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22nd June 1942: The words of the Pledge of Allegiance formally adopted by Congress

3rd December 1775: The first national US Grand Union Flag flown for the first time on the ship ‘Alfred’

14th June 1777: Stars and Stripes adopted as the flag of the USA by the Second Continental Congress

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

20th January 1850: Robert McClure departs on the first expedition to transit the Northwest Passage

19th January 1915: Two German Zeppelin airships drop bombs on the Norfolk towns of Great Yarmouth and Kings Lynn in Britain’s first experience of an air raid

18th January 1871: Wilhelm I of Prussia proclaimed the first German Emperor

17th January 1944: Allies launch the Battle of Monte Cassino during the Second World War

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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