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June 21
Greenland. Photo by Jens Buurgaard Nielsen “Our country, who’s become so old your head all covered with white hair. Always held us, your children, in your bosom providing the riches of your coasts.” — from Greenland’s National Anthem “And you: friendless, brainless, helpless, hopeless! Do you want me to send you back to where you were? Unemployed in Greenland!” —Vizzini, The Princess Bride 
June 14 “We meet to celebrate Flag Day because this flag which we honor and under which we serve is the emblem of our unity, our power, our thought and purpose as a nation… We celebrate the day of its birth; and from its birth until now it has witnessed a great history, has floated on high the symbol of great events, of a great plan of life worked out by a great people. “We are about …Read more 
A living flag, U.S. Naval training station, Great Lakes, IL, 1917. from Flag Day Part I A few weeks later, on June 4, 1917, Kimber presented the flag in a more somber ceremony, largely for the American Ambulance Corps volunteers who were already stationed near Treveray, France. “My instructions were to bring the flag as quickly as I could, and that I have done to the best of my ability. You know the history of this flag: how it …Read more 
February 24 Flag of Mexico! Legacy of our heroes, Symbol of the unity of our parents and of our siblings, We promise you to be always faithful To the principles of liberty and justice That make our Homeland The independent, humane and generous nation To which we dedicate our existence.
Flag Day is held on the anniversary of the creation of the Plan de Iguala in 1821, named for the city Iguala …Read more 
February 19 Turkmenistan’s Flag Day was established in 1997 to coincide with the birthday of then-President Saparmurat Niyazov (1940-2006).
Niyazov ruled the country for over twenty years. He became Secretary of the Turkmen Communist Party (ie. Head Honcho) in 1985 and remained in power after Turkmenistan declared its independence in October 1991. Turkmenistan prefers stability to change. One of the last of the Soviet Republics to formerly break from Russia, the country remained a one-party …Read more 
November 28
Albania, Albania, You border on the Adriatic Your land is mostly mountainous And your chief export is chrome — Albanian National Anthem Ok, the above lyrics are not from the Albanian national anthem. They’re from that episode of Cheers where Coach demonstrates how it’s easier to learn factoids when they’re set to music. (Sung to the tune of “When the Saints Go Marching In“.) Albania is one of the most …Read more 
August 22
They’re waving the red, white and blue over in Russia today, though not necessarily in that order. The white-blue-red Russian tri-color flag dates back to the 1660s when Czar Alexei Mikhailovich ordered ships to fly a similar banner for identification. Historians speculate it may have been inspired by the Dutch flag, the oldest remaining tri-color national flag. Dutch flag In the 1880s Czar Alexander III declared the tri-color flag the official flag …Read more 
August 3 (since 2006)
Up until 2006, Venezuelans celebrated El Día de la Bandera (Flag Day) on March 12th, in honor of the day in 1806 that Francisco de Miranda first hoisted the future flag of Venezuela on the ship Leander. Miranda was born in Caracas, Venezuela. During the American Revolutionary War, Miranda fought for Spain in Florida. In France he served in the French Revolutionary Army. And between those two revolutions he lived in …Read more |
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