Flag Day (United States) holiday. William T. Kerr, a native of Pittsburgh and later a resident of Yeadon, Pennsylvania, founded the American Flag Day Association of Western Pennsylvania in 1888, and became the national chairman of the American Flag Day Association one year later, serving as such for fifty years. He attended President Harry S. Truman's 1949 signing of the Act of Congress that formally established the observance. In 1889, the principal of a free kindergarten, George Bolch, celebrated the Revolution and celebrated Flag Day, as well. In 1893, Elizabeth Duane Gillespie, a descendant of Benjamin Franklin and the president of the Colonial Dames
Flag of São Paulo (state) similar colors to the previous imperial one of seven decades. Ribeiro's design then came over the subsequent decades to be considered the "flag of São Paulo". It was used to decorate building facades or as a decorative object but without any official status. It became a "de facto" symbol of the state of São Paulo after the 1932 Revolution that ended the Vargas Era in Brazil, during which President Getúlio Vargas had suspended the use of state symbols, including the flag of São Paulo. The flag finally achieved official status on November 27, 1946, under Decree-Law 16.349 of the new