State Patty's Day reflect the lack of unity on the subject. State Patty's Day State Patty's Day is a student-led holiday that acts as a Pennsylvania State University alternative to the traditional Saint Patrick's Day. It began on Friday, March 2, 2007, because Saint Patrick's Day fell during spring break, which would have left students unable to celebrate the holiday while at school and with friends. The first annual State Patty's Day (so named because the students replaced Saint with State in the name of the holiday) took place on March 2, 2007. Students began flocking the streets of downtown State College, and
Flag of Georgia (U.S. state) outside the state be provided with regimental flags including the state coat of arms and the name of the regiment. The state code gave no information about colors. The 1879 flag was introduced by Georgia state senator Herman H. Perry and was adopted to memorialize Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War. Perry was a former colonel in the Confederate army during the war, and he presumably based the design of the flag on the first national flag of the Confederacy, also known as the "Stars and Bars," which it resembled. Over the following decades, the flag was changed by