(MSC News) June 14 is National Flag Day, held each year as a reminder to fly both the flag of the nation and of the state.

According to the Secretary of State’s Office, Flag Day originated in 1885 to observe June 14th as the anniversary of official adoption of the stars and stripes as the flag of the United States on June 14, 1777 by resolution of the Second Continental Congress.

Enthusiastically called “Flag Birthday,” Flag Day was celebrated by school children who would assemble to be given a small flag. 

President Woodrow Wilson, in 1916, issued a proclamation that officially established June 14 as Flag Day, while National Flag Day was established by an act of Congress in 1949.