Flags of the Day

Today is Independence Day in Nauru. It is also the Memorial of St John Bosco.

Animated flags provided courtesy of Pascal Gross.

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Today is Women Peerage Day in England. It is also the birthday of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Animated flags provided courtesy of Pascal Gross.

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Today is the Birthday of Thomas Paine and of President William McKinley. It is also Holmens Hæderstegn in Denmark; and Statehood Day in Kansas.

Animated flags provided courtesy of Pascal Gross.

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Today is Democracy in Rwanda. It is also the Feast of St. Valerius and of St. Charlemagne, and the Memorial of St. Thomas Acquinas.

Animated flags provided courtesy of Pascal Gross.

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Today is Memorial Day for the Victims of National Socialism in Germany (half staff). It is also Flag Day in Indonesia; St. Devote's Day in Monaco; and the Feast of St. Julian. In addition, it is the birthday of the National Geographic Society (1888).

Animated flags provided courtesy of Pascal Gross; National Geographic Society flag courtesy of FOTW.

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Today is Australia Day. It is also Republic Day in India; Secession Day in Louisiana; Statehood Day in Michigan; and Robert Burn's Birthday in Scotland.

Animated flags provided courtesy of Pascal Gross.

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Today is Flag Day in the Republic of Korea; and 2nd Republic Day in Uganda. It is also the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul the Apostle.

Animated flags provided courtesy of Pascal Gross.

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Today is the birthday of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia.

Animated flag provided courtesy of Pascal Gross.

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Yesterday was Flag Day in Belgium; and Burning of the Bounty Day on Pitcairn Island.

Animated flags provided courtesy of Pascal Gross.

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Today is Ukraine Day. It is also Discovery Day on St. Vincent.

Animated flags provided courtesy of Pascal Gross.

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Today is the Birthday of Lt. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson and of US Vice President/CS General/CS Secretary of War John C. Breckinridge. It is also the feast of Nuestra Senora de Altagracia, the patron saint of the Domincan Republic; Flag Day in Quebec; and the Memorial of St Agnes.

Animated flags provided courtesy of Pascal Gross.

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Today is the 25th anniversary of the beginning of Ronald Reagan's presidency. It is also National Heroes Day in Cape Verde; Grandmothers Day in Bulgaria; and Army Day in Laos, Lesotho, and Mali.

Animated flags provided courtesy of Pascal Gross.

Flag ban challenged in Maryville, Tenn.

It seems that, at William Blount High School, student's aren't even allowed to have a copy of the Knoxville News-Sentinel if it contains a picture of a Confederate flag!

A new star on Venezuela's flag

"Legislation has been easily approved by Venezuela's National Assembly to modify the nation's Flag, Crest & National Anthem Law to add an eighth star in the middle blue field..."

"The added star is in recognition of the historic, economic and political role of the Guayana region in the birth of the Venezuelan nation and completes a thwarted decree issued by the Liberator Simon Bolivar in November 20, 1817 to add the star."

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Today is Robert E. Lee's Birthday. It is also Georgia Secession Day; and Confederate Heroes Day in Texas. (For you poetry lovers, today is also Edgar Allan Poe's birthday. Poe was born in 1809, two years after Lee was born.)


Yesterday was Flag Day in Honduras; and Revolution Day in Tunisia.

Animated flags provided courtesy of Pascal Gross.

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Today is Martin Luther King Day in the United States; and Lee/Jackson Day in Virginia.

Animated flags provided courtesy of Pascal Gross.

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Today is Esquipulas in Guatemala; Adults Day in Japan; Arbor Day in Jordan; and Teachers' Day in Venezuela.

Animated flags provided courtesy of Pascal Gross.

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Today is New Years Day on the Julian Calendar (still observed in parts of Russia). It was today in 1918 that Finland and the USSR made the change from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar. Today is also Ratification Day in Maryland.

Animated flags provided courtesy of Pascal Gross.

Flags of the Day (for Friday the 13th)

Yesterday was "Star Spangled Banner" Day, the anniversary of the Flag Act of 1794, which established that the US flag would have 15 stars and 15 stripes.

Yesterday was also Redemption day in Ghana; and Liberation Day in Togo

Photo of the Star Spangled Banner at Fort McHenry courtesy of Retropolis. Animated flags provided courtesy of Pascal Gross.

Leesburg overreacts to SCV sign request

The Town of Leesburg, Virginia, removed all civic organization signs that adorned the town's entrances rather than put up one bearing the Confederate flag logo of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

Westmount rises again

Six years after Quebec first started implementing Westmount?s forced merger with the City of Montreal, followed by an intense anti-merger campaign and a successful demerger vote last year, the day of municipal reconstitution finally came.

On New Year's Day Westmount?s flag was raised on a stainless steel mast in front of City Hall. Mayor Karin Marks, assisted by former mayor Peter Trent, ran up the banner, which features a setting sun, the crenellations of City Hall and the Raven of St. Anthony, representing the original name (Côte St. Antoine) of Westmount.

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Today is Zanzibar Revolution Day. Today is also the Birthday of Edmund Burke.

Animated flags provided courtesy of Pascal Gross.

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Today is Secession Day in Alabama, and Republic Day in Albania. Today is also Independence Day in Chad; National Unity Day in Nepal; Flag Day on Norfolk Island; and Eugenio de Hosto's Birthday in Puerto Rico.

Animated flags provided courtesy of Pascal Gross.

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Today is Secession Day in Florida. Today is also Martyrs' Day in Panama; and the Birthday of George Washington Carver.

Animated flags provided courtesy of Pascal Gross.

Bulgarian Drivers Confused over License Plate Changes

Bulgaria's drivers are now confused over the mixed reports regarding the fate of their license plates upon the country's EU accession.

The plates would have to be changed once more when Bulgaria enters the EU, some media reported, while traffic police officials negated it.

The confusion comes out from the fact that all the licence plates of the EU country members are required to have the Union's starred flag on the blue band in the right side, along with their country's flag and abbreviation. Currently Bulgaria's licence plates are up to all EU requirements, except for the flag, as the country is still not a member.

Southern school girls harassed about their purses

Two Burleson, Texas, high school students who were kicked out of class for displaying Confederate flags vow to take their fight to court.

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Today is Ratification Day in the Connectocut, and Secession Day in Mississippi. Today is also Martyrs' Day in Panama; and the Birthday of President Richard Nixon (1913).

Animated flags provided courtesy of Pascal Gross.

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Today is Commonwealth Day in the Northern Marianas. Today is also Meitlisunntig Festival in Switzerland; the anniversay of the Battle of New Orleans in the United States; and the Birthday of Lt. Gen. James Longstreet, CSA (1821) and Elvis Presley (1935).

Animated flags provided courtesy of Pascal Gross.

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MERRY CHRISTMAS!


Today is December 25th on the Julian Calendar. Russia did not switch from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar until 1918, and the Russian Orthodox Church still celebrates Christmas according to the old calendar.
Today (on the Gregorian calendar) is also the Birthday of Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States; Flag Day in Italy; and Pioneers Day in Liberia.

Animated flags provided courtesy of Pascal Gross.

Flags of the Day

Today is the Feast of the Epiphany. Today is also Army Day in Iraq; Statehood Day in New Mexico; and Children's Day in Uruguay.

Animated flags provided courtesy of Pascal Gross.

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Today is Glastonbury Thorn Day in England. Today is also the birthday of His Catholic Majesty Juan Carlos, King of Spain.

Animated flags provided courtesy of Pascal Gross.

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Yesterday was Statehood Day in Alaska. Today is Independence Day in Myanmar (Burma); Tamil Thai Pongal Day in Sri Lanka; and Statehhod Day in Utah.

Animated flags provided courtesy of Pascal Gross.

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Today is Ratification Day in the State of Georgia. It is also Ancestor/Hero's Day in Haiti; Kakizome in Japan; Handsel Monday in Scotland; Granada Day in Spain; and Berchtold's Tag in Switzerland.

Animated flags provided courtesy of Pascal Gross.

Australian flag declared racist, banned from Australian beach

A SYDNEY council voted against flying the Australian flag at Bondi Beach because of fears it would incite more race-fuelled violence on the city's beaches.

Flags of the Day

Today is New Year's Day. It is also Independence Day in Cameroon, Haiti, Samoa and Sudan.

Animated flags provided courtesy of Pascal Gross.