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
First Day of Summer First Day of Summer The First Day of Summer "(sumardagurinn fyrsti)" is an annual public holiday in Iceland held on the first Thursday after 18 April and between April 19th to April 25th. In former times, the Icelanders used the Old Norse calendar which divided the year into only two seasons, winter and summer. The people counted their age in winters rather than in years. It is not a religious holiday, but before 1744, mass was held on this day. Although the climate in late April cannot be considered to be summer-like, after the long winter, Icelanders still celebrate this